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Some players stay at one club throughout their ­careers and I completely understand the reasons why.

Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard carved out their legends at their hometown club, Liverpool, and Gary Neville did the same at Manchester United.

They’ll be revered in their ­cities for the rest of their lives.

I had a different mindset and always liked to move on, largely because the challenge of proving myself at a new club kept me fresh and hungry.

Add in the fact careers in ­professional football span only 10 to 15 years, if you’re lucky, and that means opportunities to live in different countries or ­cities, to sample new cultures and new leagues, can be limited.

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So I completely understand it when someone says, ‘I want something new now, I want to see where life, and football, takes me.’

And it’s why you won’t hear me questioning Christian Eriksen’s desire to move on from Tottenham .

I know there are some people who can’t ­understand why he’d leave an upwardly mobile club, the Champions League finalists, a club with a bright young manager at the helm, when they seem so close to ­winning a trophy.

But I don’t think any of us can really blame him for wanting to test himself in one of Europe’s other great cities for the next few years of his career.

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We’ll know by tomorrow night whether or not Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid or Juventus have come for the Dane and, crucially, whether or not Daniel Levy has decided to cash in.

It’s an intriguing situation for the Spurs supremo to find ­himself in given he could cash in now but lose a wonderful player, or get another year out of him and then lose him for nothing next summer.

I wonder if Levy and manager Mauricio Pochettino might ask Eriksen for a compromise that would see him stick around until January.

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Because from what I’m ­hearing, on-loan signing Giovani Lo Celso isn’t Premier League-fit yet. So, if Eriksen stays for six months, Pochettino can ­introduce the new boy gradually.

I’m actually surprised it has taken this long for things to come to a head at Tottenham because I’ve felt for a while that one of Pochettino, Eriksen, Harry Kane and Dele Alli would leave sooner rather than later if they didn’t win a trophy.

I had a bet with a Spurs fan that one of them would be gone within two years – time’s running out for me because we’re closing in on 18 months since it was made.

The fact I might have to pay up is credit to Tottenham for the way they have gone about things behind the scenes.

If Eriksen does leave ­tomorrow, then I do hope fans won’t judge him too harshly ­because he has given them great value for money.

And there would not be a better way to sign off than settling a north London derby.

The prospect of seeing two attacking sides go for it is very exciting for us former strikers.

And I have to say that Arsenal’s new-look front three, with two out-and-out strikers in Alex Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, and Nicolas Pepe bringing incredible pace on the wing, is a tantalising prospect.

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But, even so, I’d go with Tottenham’s front three of Kane, Heung-min Son and Eriksen or Lucas Moura if I had to hang my hat on one of those attacks.

Kane guarantees goals, Eriksen is like a conductor, Moura has outrageous pace, and Son can settle games even when his team isn’t playing well.

Mind you, with David Luiz and Davinson Sanchez in opposing defences, both sets of strikers will fancy themselves to get on the scoresheet.