Spurs are ready to offer Brendan Rodgers three times his current salary to persuade the Leicester City manager to succeed Jose Mourinho, according to reports.
Mourinho was sacked by Tottenham 11 days ago after fan pressure had been building on the Portuguese coach over poor performances and results.
Spurs have now begun the hunt for his successor with the likes of Wolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo and Ajax manager Eric ten Hag reportedly in the frame.
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Rodgers has also been touted but the Leicester man recently ruled himself out of the running for the job, he said: “Tottenham is a fantastic club, it’s one of the big clubs in this country, it’s a huge club. My focus is purely here.
“I’m at a world-class training facility, the project we’re in here, we still want to develop, we still have a lot of work to do here.
“I have a great connection with the players and the board, and we have plans to keep progressing.”
However, the Daily Mail claimed on Thursday that Spurs are ‘not ready to turn their back on Rodgers’ despite his comments in the media.
There is ‘hope behind the scenes at Tottenham that the former Liverpool boss could have a change of heart’ depending on where Leicester – who currently occupy a Champions League spot in the Premier League – finish the season.
And Football Insider now reckon that Spurs ‘will offer to triple Brendan Rodgers’ wages to try and lure him’ to north London and claim he is ‘their number one choice’.
A source has said that the club are prepared to ‘offer him the earth’ and ‘are willing to triple Rodgers’ salary to £15million-a-year including bonuses’.
There would also be compensation to pay and Football Insider add that it ‘would send the total cost of the deal through the roof’.
The Sun has a very different report that reckons Leicester’s ‘expected compensation demands of £20m’ plus Rodgers wages has ‘frightened off’ Spurs.
The newspaper reckon the potential cost of landing Rodgers could total £70m and that Tottenham have been ‘unable to come up with a package that would get Rodgers out of the King Power’.
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