Hugo Lloris is the best goalkeeper in the Premier League... he's played with some s*** players at Tottenham Hotspur and still done well, says Neville Southall

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Former Everton and Wales goalkeeper Neville Southall has hailed Tottenham Hotspur's Hugo Lloris as the Premier League's best goalkeeper.

Lloris, 28, has been linked with Manchester United and Paris-Saint Germain and Spurs are understood to have slapped a £35 million price tag on the French goalkeeper to ward off his potential suitors.

In an interview with The Set Pieces, Southall said: 'I think he’s probably the best Spurs goalie since Pat Jennings.

Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Hugo Lloris has been hailed as the best in the league by Neville Southall

Lloris gathers the ball during Spurs' clash with Manchester City at White Hart Lane on Sunday

Former Everton and Wales goalkeeper Southall says Lloris is the best Spurs keeper since Pat Jennings

'When I look at him, he plays the way I like a goalie to play. He’s always positive, he’s always looking for things, he’s always proactive, he wants things to happen and he makes things happen.

'He’s played in a changing club with changing players. He’s played with some absolutely s*** players and some good ones and he’s managed to get on with both.

'If they’ve played with a high line... well, you’ve watched Tottenham. Some of them players, they don’t know what they’re doing. If there’s going to be a slip, Lloris knows.

'He’s brave on the pitch physically, he’s brave mentally, he comes out and he does stuff that other goalkeepers won’t do. I’d say he was the best in the league.'

Southall, 56, is not so convinced, however, by Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet.

He said: 'I just don’t think he’s a Liverpool goalie. He doesn’t look arrogant. He doesn’t look as if he’s in command of everyone. He doesn’t look as if he can go a full game without making a mistake.

'I think at times he makes great saves, but at times he can’t and he’s nowhere near it. I look at Mignolet and I think he can have all the coaching he wants, he hasn’t improved.

'His fundamental thing, his decision making, is bad.'

Southall was speaking at an event in Birkenhead to promote his autobiography The Binman Chronicles 

Lloris dives high to his right to make a save against City in Sunday's Premier League match

Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet did not receive the same praise from Southall