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Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy has placed a stunning £130million asking price on Christian Eriksen, per The Guardian.

The attacking midfielder has yet to sign a new contract at the club and his current deal expires at the end of next season.

What’s the word?

Spurs are preparing for a summer of restructuring, per the aforementioned report, and doubts persist over whether Eriksen will remain at the club.

He has held off committing himself to Tottenham and has attracted interest from Real Madrid but Levy wants a fee in excess of that received for Gareth Bale when he departed for Santiago Bernabeu.

This is what The Guardian had to say about the current situation: 'The chairman has let it be known that he would cost £130m, which has drawn the usual rueful smiles, although not from Eriksen. If this were not Levy, the position would be unbelievable. But this is Levy. Eriksen faces a complicated summer.'

A transfer fee of £130m would mark the highest fee ever received by Spurs, despite the fact that Eriksen’s contract runs out next year.

The Guardian list a number of targets that Spurs may pursue in the summer, including Aston Villa’s Jack Grealish, Hull City’s Jarrod Bowen, Celtic’s Kieran Tierney and Ajax midfielder Hakim Ziyech.

It remains to be seen if those potential deals will rest on the sale of Eriksen, however.

The same old trap

This is a risky game from Spurs.

They have not signed a single player in the last two transfer windows and there is a risk that, in valuing Eriksen so highly, new signings could drag on throughout the summer.

Spurs, historically, have not hit the ground running at the start of the season and that often comes because players have not been given enough time to bed in.

Deals need to be done quickly when the transfer window reopens and players need to be given the chance to get to grips with Pochettino’s methods.

Otherwise, they take months to hit top form and, by then, there may already be a settled XI, diminishing their impact.

Levy might want to consider lowering that value as he looks to quicken the club’s summer business.