Leicester ace Winks: I wasn't enjoying Spurs

Former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Harry Winks admits he is enjoying the sport again.

The midfielder signed for Championship side Leicester City in the summer to resurrect his career.

Winks, who was on loan at Sampdoria last season, has been instrumental for Leicester as they push for promotion back to the Premier League.

"Maybe the last two or three years of my time at Spurs was tough, but before that it was amazing and I loved every minute," he told BBC East Midlands Today.

"I learned a lot from that as well, it definitely develops your character when you don't play as regularly and you don't feel as important. But again I wouldn't want to change it for anything, I've learned so much along the way in my career and it makes you enjoy the highs more when you've been through that.

"I probably did lose a little bit of love for it in the last couple of years when I wasn't playing and left out of squads and things like that.

It's difficult to find that love for it, but once you make the brave decision to leave and go to Italy and try to find it there, which I did, and to come here (Leicester)... now it is probably the most I've ever enjoyed football in my career."