SPURS SET FOR £90M SUMMER CLEAR-OUT

POCHETTINO OVERHAUL WITH UP TO NINE PLAYERS LEAVING

TOTTENHAM will try to offload as many as nine players this summer, who cost the club £90million in total.

Four of the players were bought in the summer of 2013 with the money from the £86m sale of Gareth Bale and include Roberto Soldado, who was signed for a then club record fee of £26m.

Also on the list are Younes Kaboul, who started the season as captain but has not started a Premier League match since November, and Emmanuel Adebayor, who still has a year left on his £100,000-a-week deal.

Vlad Chiriches, Etienne Capoue, Paulinho, Mousa Dembele and Aaron Lennon are all also surplus to requirements. The future of Benjamin Stambouli is also unclear, even though the French midfielder joined the club only last summer.

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino aims to finalise his summer transfer plans when he meets key st aff shortly after the club’s final game of the season against Everton.

But he already has a clear idea of the players he is willing to lose and will communicate this to chairman Daniel Levy. Paul Mitchell, the club’s head of recruitment and analysis, will also have a significant role to play during the close season. Pochettino will seek to sit down with Mitchell, Levy and other senior figures in the final week of May, although Tottenham leave the country soon after the match at Everton on May 24. They have games in Kuala Lumpur and Sydney on May 27 and May 30 respectively and Pochettino is keen to have his project set in stone as soon as he can.

Pochettino wants a wide forward, a centre-half and a central midfielder — just as when he took charge in May 2014. It also promises to be yet another busy off-season for Levy.

At Southampton , Mitchell played no part in contract negotiations. With Franco Baldini, Spurs’ technical director, thought to be in a vulnerable position, the task of negotiating with players coming in and out of Spurs will again fall to the chairman.

Former Spurs boss Harry Redknapp believes the club have a big summer ahead of them.

He told Sky Sports: “The big signings have been a disaster. That is something Daniel is going to have to look at, the recruitment was poor. They have to make sure when they make more signings, they’re better than the ones they’ve got.”