Published: 10 November, 2011
by DAN CARRIER

INJURY-prone defender Ledley King has said he plans to play his way to a new contract at White Hart Lane.

The Tottenham skipper is in the last year of his current deal and has been told that he needs to get more games under his belt if he is to stay at the club.

Speaking after the 3-1 victory away at Fulham on Sunday, the 31-year-old said: “I always go out to play as many games as I can.

“I don’t like talking too much about what’s going to happen.  I feel OK and I just want to keep doing the right things and put myself in a position to play in the next game. Hopefully I can keep grinding out the games and get stronger as I go along.”

King also revealed that he believes the current crop at the Lane is one of the best Spurs teams he has played in since he made his debut at the club in May, 1999.

“I hope we can become the biggest challenger to the Manchester teams,” he said. “We’re still learning and we’re still taking one game at a time, but at the moment we feel we can win every game we go into.”

King added that he was proud of how Spurs stood up to a second-half battering by Fulham, saying it showed that the team can dig in when things are not going well.

“We didn’t play well in the second half, but when that’s happening you have to dig deep, and we did that.

“What they say about the old Spurs sides is that when it gets tough they weren’t able to stick it out. This is a different team. We’re managing to grind out results.”