How Tottenham have saved £40m-per-YEAR by offloading stars in huge clearout with top earners like Bale moving on
TOTTENHAM have cleared out £40million-per-year’s worth of talent from their wage bill this summer.
New managing director Fabio Paratici was appointed in June, tasked with rebuilding Spurs’ ageing squad.
The Italian eventually hired Nuno Espirito Santo as manager before getting to work on the playing squad.
Fans were keen to see plenty of new signings, with Paratici delivering Pierluigi Gollini, Cristian Romero, Bryan Gil, Pape Matar Sarr and Emerson Royal.
But it may be the 49-year-old’s work in getting rid of players that impressed his boss Daniel Levy more.
Tottenham have shed 11 senior players that were on the books last season, saving the club a total of £822,500-per-week – and £39,480,000-per-year.
Spurs’ highest earner shed was an easy one, with the club simply not renewing Gareth Bale‘s loan spell at the club.
The Welshman is famously on £600,000-a-week at Real Madrid, with Tottenham reportedly paying a £240,000 chunk of that figure last term.
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Long-serving defender Toby Alderweireld departed for Al-Duhail SC in Qatar for an initially reported £13m, trimming another £120,000 off the weekly wage bill.
Erik Lamela was included in part-exchange in the Bryan Gil deal from Sevilla.
The Argentine had been earning around £100,000-a-week at Spurs prior to his departure.
Moussa Sissoko departed in a £5m switch to Watford, making his Hornets debut against Spurs last weekend.
The Frenchman was reportedly earning £95,000-a-week in North London.
Paratici simply could not find a taker for right-back Serge Aurier.
So in the end the Ivorian had the remaining year of his £70,000-a-week contract ripped up.
Danny Rose and Paulo Gazzaniga both departed after their respective contracts expired.
The former had been earning £60,000-a-week at Spurs, while goalkeeper Gazzaniga had been on around £30,000.
Already forgotten striker Carlos Vinicius departed upon the end of his loan spell, with Tottenham saving £30,000-a-week on him as well.
Europa League winner Juan Foyth left for Villarreal, after the Spanish side exercised their option to buy the Argentine defender.
Celtic paid £1m for ex-England keeper Joe Hart, who recently made a howler for the Bhoys against AZ Alkmaar.
Hart, 34, is believed to have been earning £27,500-a-week at Tottenham.
Spurs’ final outgoing was centre-back Cameron Carter-Vickers, who joined Celtic on loan for the penultimate season of his £20,000-a-week contract.
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