Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino has said that he found negotiating with club chairman Daniel Levy much easier than others have in the past.
Pochettino does not have an agent and negotiated his own contract - a lucrative £8.5m-per-year deal.
And the Argentine joked that he found the talks easy to conduct, despite Levy's reputation for being difficult to do business with, summed up by Sir Alex Ferguson's famous quote that bartering with him was “more painful than my hip replacement”.
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“For me, it’s the opposite," Pochettino said.
"For me, if there was one person that was easy to do business with, it was Daniel.