Former Tottenham Hotspur captain Graham Roberts has told Football FanCast that he expects Jose Mourinho to net a payoff worth £15m after his sacking from the club.

The Portuguese was sacked on Monday, with chairman Daniel Levy installing Ryan Mason as the interim head coach until the end of the season.

Mourinho endured a difficult time at the helm, and has overseen a hugely underwhelming season in many ways.

Indeed, Spurs were top of the Premier League for a time in 2020 but were seventh on Monday when he was fired, while they were also knocked out of the Europa League in humiliating fashion by Dinamo Zagreb.

They have the Carabao Cup final to look forward to this weekend against Manchester City, and reports have suggested that Mourinho will earn £20m from his sacking.

However, Roberts believes that he will instead be handed one year’s salary, thus seeing Spurs’ chances of signing an extra centre-back in the summer transfer window go up in smoke.

Speaking exclusively to FFC, he said: “I think it’d be £15m. That’s what he was on per year, so I would have thought it’ll be the year’s contract.

“I think it’s a rolling, one-year deal, so if you get sacked you get one year’s payment. Whatever it is, it’s a lot of money, that’s a centre-half gone next year.”