Tottenham Hotspur are apparently willing to spend around €1.8m (£1.6m) keeping Richarlison around until January, despite having little intention of using him.
That’s the calculation journalist Rafael Reis makes for UOL in Brazil.
Richarlison is still at Spurs after a summer full of attempted exits. He’s also been left out of their Premier League squad, and Roberto De Zerbi doesn’t plan to use the Brazilian in the domestic cups either.
So Tottenham could spend the next few months paying a very expensive player to barely play any football. But how much would it be?
Tottenham will keep paying
Richarlison earns €5.4m (£4.7m) per year in basic wages. That means Tottenham will pay him just under €1.8m (£1.6m) between September and December.
It’s obviously not an insignificant amount. But there’s a bit of good news for Spurs, though.
Richarlison can reportedly earn another €2.4m (£2.1m) per year through bonuses and performance-related payments. Those become pretty difficult to collect when you’re not playing. So Tottenham should at least save money there.
The bigger point is that Spurs appear happy enough to take the hit. They could have solved the problem last week, as we covered in detail, but Richarlison said no to pretty much all of his viable options.
Spurs aren’t making this easy for him
So here we are… Tottenham have Richarlison under contract, aren’t using him in the Premier League and apparently don’t fancy using him in the cups. Yet they’re still not prepared to simply let him walk away.
Paying €1.8m (£1.6m) between now and January isn’t ideal of course. Losing a player for nothing would hardly be attractive either. So Spurs clearly seem prepared to live with the first option.
Richarlison could now work with Tottenham’s U21s until January, though there is some disagreement on that point in Brazil. ESPN Brazil’s Bruno Andrade said last week that Richarlison had returned to first-team training and wouldn’t play for the U21s.
Either way, that detail should become clearer over the coming weeks. What isn’t in doubt is Roberto De Zerbi’s stance on him. And after everything that happened with Vasco, there’s no Brazilian escape route anymore either.
Unless another market provides a surprise solution, this could now drag on for months. Tottenham will have to keep paying Richarlison. But for the moment, they seem perfectly willing to do exactly that instead of giving him the free exit he wanted.
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