With Harry Kane extending his Tottenham contract, Don Balon have to find a new Spurs star to play with. And that man is Christian Eriksen.
They go with a headline saying ‘100 million! The signing that Florentino Perez must close in a week’ and explain the Real Madrid president is under pressure to sign Eriksen before Tottenham also extend his deal.
The more reliable Madrid media have always talked down the idea of a swoop for Eriksen. That isn’t because they don’t rate him, it just that, as it was with Kane, it’s thought to be a transfer that would either be too expensive or impossible.
But Don Balon don’t deal with reality and say Eriksen knows ‘the Real Madrid train only passes once in a lifetime’. It’s claimed Tottenham have given their player a week to decide whether to renew or not.
Even that is unbelievable. Eriksen became a father for the first time a week ago and is currently with Denmark preparing for the World Cup, it’s unlikely Spurs would be handing out such ultimatums.