Pochettino, PSG “optimistic” Dele could sign on loan in January
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After last week’s story that Tottenham Hotspur have no intention of letting out-of-favor midfielder Dele leave the club this January, did you think that the story was over?
Buddy, we’re just getting started.
Yesterday, Matt Law in the Telegraph wrote that PSG, which recently hired former Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino as their new boss, is ready to test Daniel Levy’s resolve by making another attempt to sign Dele on loan for the rest of the season.
It’s not a crazy idea, which is why people keep talking about it. Dele is obviously not getting minutes under Jose Mourinho and is way, way down the pecking order at Spurs. At PSG he’d reunite with the manager who gave him his big chance and helped develop him into one of the most exciting young English players of his generation, and one with whom Dele is still very friendly.
But the
Daily Telegraph have shed further light on the plight in north London, revealing that Arsenal ‘have planned for the doomsday scenario’ of dropping into the Championship.
It is claimed that Arsenal inserted clauses into the contracts of ‘several players’ for an automatic 25 per cent wage cut to come into effect in the event of relegation.
‘It is unclear whether or not the 25 per cent reduction figure, which some players would face, is a squad-wide policy or whether any of the higher earners could be hit by even bigger cuts,’ Matt Law writes.
Such clauses are common practice throughout the Premier League but it is stressed that the bigger clubs – Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham – have never gone to such lengths in the modern era.
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