Tottenham to offer bumper deal to Dele Alli to fend off Barcelona interest
Posted Sunday, July 30, 2017 by Express.co.uk
Dele Alli won the PFA Young Player of the Year award last season
TOTTENHAM are preparing to bring Dele Alli in line with the club's top earners in a bid to keep him out of the clutches of Barcelona.
The England midfielder is on Barca's wanted list to replace Neymar who is on the verge of a world record £200m switch to Paris Saint-Germain.
The PFA Young Player of the Year scored 23 goals last season to help Spurs finish runners up behind Premier League champions Chelsea.
It would be his third new contract since joining the club in January 2015 and only put pen to paper on his last deal in September.
But even though he still has five years to run on it a recent spate of players signing new deals have left him behind in the wage stakes on around £55,000 a week.
The new deal could net him as much as £80,000 a week will more or less put him on a par with the top earners like Harry Kane and Hugo Lloris.
Barca are the latest club to take a look at signing Alli who cost Spurs a bargain £5m from MK Dons and who would now cost at least £100m.
Barca are currently fighting to keep Neymar at the club amid interest from Paris Saint-Germain.
The Nou Camp president Josep Bartomeu said on Saturday that midfield is a key position they want to strengthen.
"There will be more players (coming in), one in the middle, that’s for sure," Bartomeu said.
Real Madrid and Manchester City have also expressed an interest in Alli but Daniel Levy and Mauricio Pochettino have insisted he is going nowhere.
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