Everton manager Ronald Koeman says Ross Barkley could stay at the club, with no offers currently on the table for the England midfielder.
Sources have told ESPN FC that Tottenham would like to sign Barkley this summer and Danny Rose, Spurs' left-back, urged them to do so in a controversial interview on Thursday.
Koeman has previously said that Barkley, who has one year remaining on his contract, would 100 percent leave the club this summer but, speaking ahead of Everton's Premier League opener against Stoke, he stressed that the 23-year-old is going nowhere if the situation remains the same.
"There is no offer on the table for Ross -- that means he will stay at Everton," Koeman told a news conference. "The player has one year [left on his] contract and there is no offer. Maybe the club will not accept the offer [if and when it comes] because he is a good, young, English player.
"If somebody wants to buy Ross it's a big deal. If there is no interest then he will stay and be part of the team.
"I respect every personal ambition of every player. Still he is training with Everton, he is part of the team and training in a good way."
Meanwhile, former Spurs manager Harry Redknapp has said Rose should stay out of the club's transfer business, after the left-back urged the club to sign players.
Rose claimed Spurs, who are yet to make a summer signing, had a better squad under Redknapp and claimed the club need to sign quality -- rather than player he needs to "Google."
"I'm surprised at Danny," Birmingham manager Redknapp said. "Danny is a great lad, an outstanding player, the best left-back in the country in my opinion. I don't know why he's said that really, it's up to the manager and the owners whether they spend money really, and buy players.
"It's a difficult club to buy players at because their starting XI is so good I don't know if you were trying to sign a player what you would say to him? 'Come to Tottenham,' and the player says 'I'm a striker where do you see me playing,' and you say 'on the bench really because we've got Harry Kane.'
"A No. 10? 'We've got Dele Alli.' I don't know where they can improve the team so all they can do is bring squad players in.
"When everyone is fit I think they're the best starting XI in the country. Man for man I wouldn't swap them with anyone, that starting XI is a top, top team."