Tottenham defender Micky van de Ven has labelled talk that members of the squad are talking and thinking about their next club as "nonsense".
Various reports in recent weeks, including in the BBC Sport gossip column, have linked first-team players with summer exits, while our fan writer Ali Speechley wrote earlier in March that, "some of the squad has mentally checked out â unbothered by the badge us fans love so dearly, and instead dreaming about their next club".
"I've seen things going by, it's not something I look at a lot, to be honest," Van de Ven said in the news conference before Wednesday's Champions League second leg against Atletico Madrid.
"It's reporters just saying something. So we're just like, how do you even come up with this? Like players are switched off or don't care about the situation. What's happening right now?
"And the only thing I can say about it is it's not true. It will be strange if a player will be in a dressing room now and saying 'Oh, I'm going to leave either way or I don't focus about the situation'.
"It doesn't affect me. And I think it's just nonsense. It's the biggest nonsense. Everybody's just focused on what's going ahead and what's in front of us.
"The other day when we read that one guy told the rest of the team that he doesn't care because he's leaving anyway. It's like how does this come out? It's just made up. And the fans will believe it. It's just frustrating for us guys.
"It brings so much more trouble as well, because fans are starting to believe this, but trust me, all the people involved on the pitch, the staff, the players, everyone, they care so much about the situation we're in right now, and we just want to turn things around.
"If there are some reports saying the guys don't care anymore, it's frustrating for our guys."