Harry Redknapp is due to receive a seven-figure bonus and an improved contract at Tottenham Hotspur after steering the club into the top four of the Premier League and therefore to a place in at least the Champions League play-offs.
When Redknapp negotiated his move from Portsmouth in October 2008, when Tottenham were bottom of the Premier League, the focus of the club’s chairman, Daniel Levy, and everyone at White Hart Lane was on avoiding relegation to the Championship. The manager was promised a £1m bonus if he kept the team up, which he did.
But he also pushed for the inclusion of a clause to reward him handsomely in the event of his leading Tottenham to fourth place and the chance of entering Europe’s elite competition. Levy agreed, perhaps reasoning that he would never have to pay it. No man in his position ever has.
Hardly any of the Tottenham players have similar clauses in their contracts, relating either to their league position or Champions League qualification.
Redknapp, with whom talks are now planned on an extension to his existing deal, which has a little over 12 months to run, had his squad in for training at 10.30am yesterday. He is keen to finish the season with a victory at Burnley on Sunday – Spurs could finish third if Arsenal lose at home to Fulham.
