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Marseille star Taye Taiwo welcomes Tottenham interest

Olympique Marseille fullback Taye Taiwo would welcome a move to Tottenham.

The 25-year-old Nigeria international is contracted to the French club until 2012 but is keen to leave after six years at Stade Velodrome.

Spanish outfit Atletico Madrid have had a €5million bid for the player turned down, and Taiwo now wants to secure regular first-team football.

"If I stay in Marseille I want to play week in week out. I am a football player not someone to sit on the bench and get paid," he told skysports.com.

"My ambition has always been to play at the top level. Spurs are a fantastic team in the best league.

"Atletico Madrid is a very good team as well in the Champions League, so I would be interested by those two teams.

"Marseille is my team at the moment and I have a contract with them, so let's wait and see. In the next two weeks things might move on."

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