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Chris Sutton believes Tottenham Hotspur can win the Premier League title this season.

Spurs currently find themselves six points off the pace after a testing first half of the campaign under Ange Postecoglou.

The Aussie boss had Tottenham sitting top of the table up until November and was yet to taste defeat in his opening 10 league games.

But Spurs lost several key players in the 4-1 home defeat to Chelsea and picked up just a point in four games thereafter.

Yet, Postecoglou has kept Spurs within touching distance of league leaders Liverpool, despite being without the likes of James Maddison, Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero.

And Chris Sutton believes Postecoglou’s men do have a chance of lifting the title come May.

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Sutton thinks Tottenham can win the Premier League

Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Monday Night Club, Sutton refused to rule both Tottenham and Aston Villa out of the title race.

“We all aren’t giving Villa or Spurs a real chance but their form has been that good at the start of the season that I wouldn’t totally rule them out,” he said.

“It’s what happens at Manchester City. We are expecting them to put the foot down and leave everybody in their wake but maybe with the evidence we have seen, and I am clutching here, but maybe they just won’t get going for whatever reason and it’s law of averages and somebody comes from nowhere and does go on a run and really find form and nicks the Premier League.

“I think everybody is thinking the same thing disappointing at the moment but I hope Man City don’t win it because they have been that dominant it’s got boring.”

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While Spurs aren’t regularly being mentioned as title contenders at the moment, it would be foolish to completely rule them out.

We’ve already seen what Postecoglou is capable of when he has all of his best players available.

If Tottenham can get to February within touching distance of the top, it could be an exciting end to the campaign.

Postecoglou will welcome back the likes of Maddison, Van de Ven, Romero, Sarr and Bissouma by this time.

Of course, it feels like a bit of a long shot from Tottenham’s point of view as they are very much in the early stages of a project under Postecoglou. But Sutton makes a great point that Postecoglou’s men can’t be ruled out at this stage.