Christian Eriksen is out of contract at Tottenham Hotspur next summer.
Ray Parlour has warned Tottenham Hotspur that Christian Eriksen could cost them a major transfer fee in January by refusing to leave until the end of his contract next summer.
Spurs, who have won three Premier League games this season, are having a rotten 2019-20 campaign under Mauricio Pochettino.
Quite a few big-name Tottenham stars haven’t been performing and the same is true of Eriksen more times than not.
The Denmark international helped the North Londoners to a Champions League final in June and swiftly admitted afterwards that he wanted a change of scenery after six years with the Lilywhites.
Eriksen wound up staying at Tottenham despite a summer’s worth of transfer rumours and, with only seven months left on his contract, selling in January makes the most sense if he fails to sign a contract extension.
But Parlour, speaking to the Weekend show on talkSPORT, believes that Eriksen will pocket a huge signing-on sum if he joins his next club as a Bosman and questions whether he might refuse to leave during the winter transfer window.
The former Arsenal star said: “From January 1 you can do your contract and pre-sign with whoever you are going to, and his wages will be so much more if he goes on a free transfer. So he’ll be saying: ‘No, I’m not going anywhere and I don’t have to go anywhere’.
You might get £20million for him in January, but that £20m will go in his pocket if he stays another six months.”
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