Everton reacts to a fresh Tottenham offer over a trimmed £8 million star contract.

According to The Times, Everton has turned down a £10 million offer from Tottenham to change the conditions of the midfielder Dele Alli contract.

On Saturday, December 9, Tom Allnutt wrote for the British publication that Spurs intended to reduce the payout to £8 million while also lowering the amount of games Dele needed to play in order to receive that payment.

That would have essentially reduced the Toffees’ financial load but increased the possibility that they would have to pay Spurs the amount, which the team declined.

Since August of last year, Dele has only made 13 appearances for Everton, which is seven fewer than the initial threshold for the first installment that Spurs are awaiting.

SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS.

Dele has not been given a look-in since returning from a loan spell with Besiktas last season, which has not helped his injury problems, the most recent of which he is about to recover from.

It is hardly surprising, considering Everton’s financial difficulties, that the team does not want to spend £8 million on the luxury of essentially bringing Dele back to full health before his contract expires the next summer.

Considering the midfielder’s promise earlier in his career, it is a sad state of affairs, and you have to feel sorry for him because his career at Goodison will continue to stall.

It cannot be held against Everton for turning down Tottenham’s – let’s be honest – very pathetic attempt to charge us for a player they gave us for nothing less than two years ago.

Spurs will have to absorb the financial loss, and Everton might try to get Dele’s salaries off their books as soon as January in order to give his career another chance.