Everton midfielder Ross Barkley reportedly wanted to become Tottenham Hotspur’s highest-paid player to make the move.
According to a report from the Liverpool Echo, Tottenham have now been told that Ross Barkley will cost ‘at least £30 million’, while adding that speculation suggesting that the Everton midfielder wants to become the highest-paid Spurs player if he moves is wide of the mark.
The Daily Mirror recently suggested that Barkley wants to bag a contract worth a staggering £150,000 a week before he makes the move to Tottenham.
Ross Barkley
That deal, the Mirror reports, would make him the highest-paid member of the Spurs squad by quite some distance with Hugo Lloris and Harry Kane earning around £120,000 a week.
However, the Liverpool Echo has suggested that the 23-year-old has made no such demands – which should please Tottenham fans keen on seeing Barkley signed, though it perhaps remains to be seen which report proves to be more accurate.
Similarly, the Echo has suggested that the £50 million asking price that has seemingly been attached to Barkley for the majority of the summer – with the Mirror’s report also suggesting that that is how much the playmaker will cost – may also not be entirely set in stone.
According to the Echo, Spurs have been told Barkley will cost at least £30 million – which may perhaps give Tottenham some hope that they may not need to make such a staggering offer for the Toffees ace.
Nevertheless, even if the Echo’s suggestions regarding his asking price and wage demands are accurate, it would still hardly be a surprise if Spurs hesitated over making a move.
Barkley has just one year left on his contract at Goodison Park, so even if Everton decide that they will accept £30 million, it surely has to go down as a major outlay for a player who, as things stand, will be out of contract in a year.
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