There is a joke going around in north London that when the Tottenham medics arrive to sign off Gareth Bale’s loan move from Real Madrid, they might want to check Daniel Levy’s head as well.
The Spurs chairman has spent much of the summer stressing the effect Covid-19 has had on his club’s finances.
Even Jose Mourinho meekly conceded that there would be no jaw-dropping signings, no “Galacticos” swanning through the doors of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Then along came a former Lilywhite hero, whose relationship with Zinedine Zidane has broken down so badly that Real Madrid are willing to pay up to 50 per cent of his £600,000-a-week wages.
Bale to overtake Kane as Tottenham’s highest earner
That leaves Tottenham with a bill of around £300,000-a-week, or roughly £15.6m a year.
When you consider that Levy has not had to fork out for a loan fee either, it looks an exceptional bit of business even for a player who turned 31 this summer.
There is no way around Bale’s wages. Even his former suitors in the Chinese Super League baulked when a move was discussed last summer.
The Welshman is currently the Spanish champions’ highest earner, no doubt another reason they are so keen to get him off the books.
Indeed, there are only seven players on the planet who earn more.
Those kind of figures are staggering anywhere in the world of football, but particularly at Tottenham.
As recently as 2016, Levy made it a policy that no player would smash the £100,000-a-week ceiling. Kane was the first to do so and doubled his salary when he signed another new contract in 2018.
Tottenham’s top 10 earners’ weekly wages:
- Harry Kane – £200,000
- Tanguy Ndombele – £200,000
- Toby Alderweireld – £150,000
- Son Heung-min – £140,000
- Dele Alli – £100,000
- Hugo Lloris – £100,000
- Erik Lamela – £80,000
- Lucas Moura – £80,000
- Moussa Sissoko – £80,000
- Serge Aurier – £70,000
Tanguy Ndombele is the only other player who earns close to what Bale will be paid by Tottenham alone.
Toby Alderweireld, Son Heung-min, Dele Alli and Hugo Lloris are the other members of a select clique who have breached the six-figure weekly sum.
Alderweireld only joined his teammates in that bracket when he signed a new contract at the beginning of this year.
It was once feared that dismantling Spurs’ carefully thought-out wage structure would lead to discontent in the dressing room.
Since then, there have already been rumblings of discontent. From Danny Rose, mainly, but also from the likes of Kane and Hugo Lloris who have lamented an apparent lack of ambition.
With a helping hand from Florentino Perez, those criticisms will be quietened for now.
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