Wednesday, 12th September, 2012
FC Porto midfielder Joao Moutinho is focusing on life with the Portuguese champions and not his failed transfer to Tottenham Hotspur.
Spurs were keen to take the playmaker to White Hart Lane and pushed hard to do the deal before the summer window slammed shut.
However, the Premier League side were unable to come to terms and, with time running out, turned instead to American international Clint Dempsey, bringing in the forward, in addition to Moussa Dembele, from Fulham.
Moutinho has long been rated by Spurs boss Andre Villas-Boas, who managed the midfielder at Porto and tried to buy him when in charge of Chelsea last season.
Now the 26-year-old is ready to turn out in a Porto shirt once again for the 2012/13 campaign and is banishing thoughts of what might have been at White Hart Lane from his mind.
"The market has closed. It is not worth talking about it any more", insisted Moutinho to Portuguese daily A Bola.
"I’m just focused on FC Porto and not on speculation", he added.
"This club gives me all the stability to show my best football."
Moutinho is a product of Sporting Lisbon’s esteemed youth academy. He left the Portuguese capital to head north to Porto in 2010.
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