Tottenham's Roman Pavlyuchenko is keen to quit the club in a bid to secure more regular first team football.

The Russian striker will hold talks with Spurs manager Harry Redknapp where he will insist in being allowed to leave White Hart Lane in January.

27-year old Pavlyuchenko has become Tottenham's fourth striker behind Jermain Defoe, Robbie Keane and Peter Crouch and has made just over a handful of appearances in all competitions this season.

The alarm bells rang for Pavlyuchenko this week when Russian national team coach Guus Hiddink said he wanted to see the striker playing more regularly and basically said his World Cup chances were in jeopardy if Russia were to beat Slovenia in a play-off.

Pavlyuchenko confirmed he wanted to leave the club, citing game time as the major reason.

"I want to leave the club," said Pavlyuchenko.

"It is impossible to remain there under the circumstances I find myself in. I have been sitting on the subs' bench for half a year and as a result lost a place in the starting 11 of the national team.

"And now hopefully we will get to the World Cup - who will rely on a forward who does not play?

"I want to play and not just warm the bench.

"Immediately after the games with Slovenia, my agent and I are flying to London for purposeful negotiations and I want to take part in them personally," Pavlyuchenko added in an interview with Russia's Sport Express newspaper.

"I will ask the management to quote a reasonable price for me.

"Our manager Harry Redknapp does not talk to me on the matter. At the start of the season our manager said that four forwards is exactly the optimal number, but now he states that three is enough.

"And I am the fourth one so it is obvious that I should part with the club.

"The only thing that can stand in the way is unmanageable price. But I will insist on leaving.

"The important thing now is to reach a compromise that will be suitable for the club and me, and my future club."