Source: Daily_Mail
Stifled Huddlestone may look away from Spurs to secure first team football
Frustrated Fulham target Tom Huddlestone has warned Spurs boss Harry Redknapp he is not prepared to wait forever to be granted the regular first team action he craves at White Hart Lane.
Huddlestone made only his 11th league start of the season in the victory over West Ham on Saturday.
And with Newcastle, Everton and Aston Villa also linked with the imposing midfielder it seems he will have no shortage of suitors come the summer.
Redknapp recently compared Huddlestone to Spurs legend Glenn Hoddle,but the former Derby youth team product is clearly more interested inhow many minutes he gets on the pitch rather than compliments.
Huddlestone said: 'The manager has his own ideas. I guess it is a case of proving to him that I should be playing as much as possible. It has been very frustrating as the last league game I started [before West Ham] was on Boxing Day. That is pushing four months. Every player wants to play in every game and I am not different so it has been very frustrating.
'When Juande Ramos was in charge I played one game in the first 13 so obviously you have to look at things. But as long I am at Tottenham I have to give 100 per cent and try to win as many games as possible. I just want to be playing, hopefully at Tottenham, but if not then I will have to have a think.'
The fact that England manager Fabio Capello has earmarked Huddlestone as a player capable of making the step up from the Under 21s to full international level has only served to unsettle him further. And Huddlestone, 22, admitted the time has come for him to realise his youthful potential by playing regularly in the Barclays Premier League.
He said: 'Everyone's main aim is to play for the country but if I am sat on the bench week in week out I am not going to be able to do that. That just adds to the frustration. I have played 220 games now, 23 this year, and I am not young any more I need to be playing week in and week out.
'I am not the sort of person to moan to the manager every week. It is not in my nature to be fair. Everything should be chosen on how you perform on the training pitch and how you are playing. I have to show him that I should be playing. I just need to stay in the team at Tottenham. If the club decided that they want to get rid of me then, so to be, but it is out of my hands.'
