Alasdair Gold, Football London’s Tottenham Hotspur correspondent, has responded to a Spurs fan on Twitter asking why the club can’t sign Real Madrid attacker Gareth Bale or Paris Saint-Germain striker Edinson Cavani.
Spurs are going into the final day of the January transfer window having so far failed to sign a stand-in for the injured Harry Kane, with the club reporting earlier this month that the England captain won’t return to first-team training until April.
They have been linked with both Bale and Cavani this month in fact, which obviously led one curious supporter to ask the journalist why the north London outfit can’t sign either of the duo.
Gold’s response was pretty clear, and he cited both players’ wages as a reason why they won’t be donning a white shirt – for the second time in Bale’s case – for the rest of this season.
As a comparison to the £325,000 and £625,000-a-week wages the reporter says Cavani and Bale earn respectively, Kane and Tanguy Ndombele are Spurs’ highest earners at £200,000-a-week according to Spotrac.
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According to David Ornstein on a Q&A for The Athletic, Chelsea striker Olivier Giroud is their only striker target before Friday’s 11pm deadline, and the Blues won’t allow him to move across the capital until they secure a replacement for the Frenchman.
Should they get no-one, they will be left with Lucas Moura, Son Heung-min, Steven Bergwijn and Troy Parrott to fill the role for the next couple of months.
In other Tottenham news, Paul Gilmour has been “told there is a good chance” of one thing happening at Spurs on deadline day…
