Danny Rose caused brief outrage earlier this month when he publicly criticised Spurs' way of doing business. Rose admitted that he won't be at Tottenham for his entire career, arguing that he is underpaid and that he is unimpressed with Spurs' policy of signing relatively unheralded players in the transfer market.
Gary Neville and Alan Sugar were among those to tell Rose he had made a mistake, before everybody took a step back and realised that 'yeah, he probably has a point'.
While Rose won't go poor on his current salary, Tottenham refuse to pay any of their players more than a hundred grand a week, and for as long as they persist with that (admirably sensible) approach, they will struggle to keep hold of their top players. Kyle Walker is the most recent example, and Spurs might be worried about a couple of others: Christian Eriksen is reportedly courted by Barcelona as an alternative to Coutinho.
Dele Alli has yet to attract strong interest of a bigger club, but one would assume it's only a matter of time. Among them is Eamon Dunphy, who pointed out Alli's relatively poor pay packet in defending Danny Rose on 2FM's Game On:
Swansea have a player in their squad, who is not even in the team, who is earning more than most of the Spurs players.
Dele Alli is on £65,000 a week. Pogba pays that in tax!
There will be resentment in the dressing room and support for Danny Rose. Danny Rose is a superb player. Harry Kane is their best player on £100k-a-week. Harry Kane would be getting £350k if he was playing for any of the big clubs in Europe. That’s unsustainable.
The genie is out of the bottle now. There will be resentment in the dressing room and support for Danny Rose.
It’s unfair on Mauricio Pochettino who I think is a good coach, but Spurs will not be winning anything this year – maybe the League Cup – but the club is in trouble because of its policy on wages.
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