Tottenham are confident that Dele Alli will sign a new contract worth around £80,000-a-week, according to the Telegraph.
The newspaper claim that Spurs are preparing to offer Alli, 21, a new deal that would catapult him into the next bracket of earners at the club.
The Telegraph reports that the attacking midfielder is currently earning around £50,000-a-week on his existing deal, which runs until 2022.
It is said that this new bumper contract will see Alli’s stay extended by an extra year but will still be short of the club’s top earner Harry Kane, who is earning £100,000-a-week.
Good move for Tottenham?
There is currently no conceivable angle from which selling Alli would be a good move for Spurs, even if it were to generate a £100million-plus fee. It is entirely sensible of Tottenham to protect their asset by offering him an improved contract, even though his current deal runs until 2022. The England international has emerged as one of the outstanding players in the Premier League after joining Spurs permanently in the summer of 2015. In 104 matches for the north Londoners, Alli has scored 35 goals and supplied 25 assists, stand-out statistics for an attacking midfielder who does not turn 22 until next April. The scary thing is he is a long way off his peak. Curb that hair-trigger temper and the world is the oyster for this brilliant midfielder.
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Likely to happen?
It is likely that Alli will sign up for a contract extension, but this does not mean his future is bulletproof. Far from it. Alli is set to switch agents, and joining up with someone like Mino Raiola or Jorge Mendes would increase the likelihood of a mega-money transfer from Tottenham to Real Madrid or Barcelona, where the super agent pair have impeccable connections and are well placed to facilitate a move. Alli is unlikely to leave Spurs next summer, but the following year is a different matter, entirely.
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