Tottenham captain Hugo Lloris: Winning Champions League with Mauricio Pochettino would mean more

Hugo Lloris says winning the Champions League under Mauricio Pochettino would "mean more" than with another coach.

The pair are extremely close and Pochettino has described Lloris as like a fifth member of his coaching staff, while the goalkeeper has said his future is "tied" to the Argentine's.

Lloris underlined their bond by presenting Pochettino with the replica Jules Rimet Trophy at the start of the season after captaining France to World Cup glory over the summer.

"I didn’t give it to him, it’s just in his office!" the Spurs captain told Standard Sport. "It’s about sharing. I’m really grateful to him. I think in life, there are always some amazing meetings in terms of people, and it’s been the case with Mauricio.

"We have a fantastic opportunity in the Champions League – it’s the biggest trophy that you can win and when it’s in front of you, you must do everything to get it.

"And it’s even more when you do it with people that you really want to. With Mauricio, it means even more.

"Winning is even better when the relationship is stronger and that is the case with my teammates and with the manager. We want to do it together."

Lloris will turn 33 this year, still relatively young for a goalkeeper, and his contract runs until 2022. He laughed off the suggestion that he could take shock retirement, having won the two biggest trophies in football, if Spurs beat Liverpool on Saturday.

"It would not be the case because you love, too much, football and there is always something better in front of you," he said. "It’s the biggest trophy, both, and this is what you are working for every day.

"But you never know what will be the next opportunity in front of you. It was the case after the final of the [2016] Euros when we lost. We were so bad because we lost at home in France and at this moment we could not expect that two years later we would win the World Cup.

"Even after the World Cup, I could not expect to be involved in the Champions League Final one year later. This is the beauty of football. Sometimes it can be cruel and sometimes it can be the best."

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