SPEAKING to former colleagues of Christian Eriksen at Tottenham, including two teammates, no one is surprised he wants to return to professional football.
Eriksen is as down to earth a player as you could hope to find, someone who genuinely does not seem like an elite footballer but loves playing the game.
One of his ex-team-mates even thought he might have chosen to play at semi-professional or amateur level if a return to the top was not possible.
Eriksen is also a brilliant athlete and supremely fit, even among pros. He has barely suffered from injuries and would regularly cover more ground than anyone else in Mauricio Pochettino’s hard-running Tottenham side.
The 29-year-old is training with Ajax’s youth team until he finds a new club and is said to have surprised everyone with his fitness levels, despite having not played competitively since suffering a cardiac arrest on the pitch during Denmark’s Euro 2020 match against Finland in June.
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