Tottenham defender Eric Dier feels he's in the best form of his career.

Dier failed to earn a recall when he was left out of Gareth Southgate's squad last week for the upcoming friendlies against Switzerland and Ivory Coast.

Dier, initially a holding midfielder at Spurs before settling at centre-back, said: "I feel for me this is consistently my best season I have had so far at Tottenham. Overall [not just as a centre-back]

"I don't think I've ever shown the consistency in the performances that I have shown this season and I feel like my football is the best it has been in my opinion.

"It is always very nice when a manager, especially one like him, says those things, it gives me a lot of confidence, but the thing I pay most attention to from his words are that I have a lot of space for improvement and I think that is really the thing he says that I focus on the most.

"I want to fill that space, fill that potential, as much as possible, as much as he thinks possible."