If Barca was to terminate his contract, they'd have to pay him off. We could then sign him as a free agent and would be negotiating his contract from scratch, rather than needing to match what he currently earns - which is more than anyone would offer him now.
He still has three years on his Barca contract. If the internet is to be believed three years wages would amount to about £45 million and the player will still have a book value of around £15 million so that isn't happening. It's a game of brinkmanship, presumably Clement wants to play, Barcelona want to minimise their loss and Spurs will only be interested if they can't find 'better' value elsewhere.
That's a good point. Theoretically, he could agree to a lower payment in the knowledge that he'd essentially be earning a second salary for those three years. If the two payments roughly matched his current wages, he might prefer to be at a club that wants him rather than one that clearly doesn't. Unlikely to happen though...
Either way it’s weighed against being shite in defence
Its a cop out tbh once again. We need to go big at CB and one of them needs to be experienced.
Exactly. It’s why we will never be a top club and it frustrates me no end watching other clubs spend big on the issues. It’s not like we are asking for gvardiol it’s 90m max outlay on a position we’ve neglected for years and on players that fit levy’s mo of young fairly cheap and with resale value.
So if Van de Ven costs 40m instead that's better for you?
So Declan Rice was the best player in the Premier League last season?
