Tottenham want to terminate Sergio Reguilon’s contract in January
Tottenham Hotspur left-back Sergio Reguilon has fallen out of favour at the club and is no longer a part of Ange Postecoglou’s plans.
The Spanish defender, who joined Spurs from Real Madrid in a deal worth £32m back in 2020 has not featured for the north London club following the arrival of manager Ange Postecoglou in the summer of 2023, and has since been loaned out twice. Despite loan spells at Manchester United and Brentford last season, he has not managed a single minute under the Greek-Australian tactician.
The 27-year-old was heavily linked with a summer exit but nothing materialised and, as a result, Postecoglou has frozen him out of the first squad at Tottenham. Sergio Reguilon has not been included in Spurs’ Europa League squad and failed to even make any Premier League matchday squads so far this term.
Given that his contract expires at the end of the ongoing season, Reguilon will be eligible to sign a pre-contract agreement with foreign clubs in January. As per reports, Tottenham have not ruled out the possibility of terminating the Madrid-born talent’s contract by mutual consent, and should that happen Spanish sides Sevilla and Getafe may register interest in signing him.
John Wenham—the owner of the famous Spurs podcast Lilywhite Rose—feels Reguilon would at least 80 per cent of his remaining wages if he agrees to terminate his contract with Tottenham. The club insider doesn’t think a contract termination will be that easy and that other clubs would struggle to match the left-back’s current wages in January.
“I don’t see any incentive for him to leave unless someone else is willing to match his wages,” John Wenham exclusively told Tottenham News.
“Tottenham are paying him £100,000-per-week, and he has quite rightly, from his point of view, stuck to that contract.
“Unless he agrees to terminate the last six months of his deal, I think he will remain in North London. However, even then, I imagine he will demand at least 80 per cent of his remaining salary.”
A mutually agreed contract termination could help Reguilon in ending his Tottenham nightmare and finding a new club to kickstart his stuttered career. The Spaniard is currently valued by Transfermarkt at €12 million, and his £53k-per-week contract at the Hotspur Way expires in June 2025.
As of January 1, Reguilon would still be due to earn £2.6million from his current employers. Thus, if the defender were to demand 80 per cent of that figure, and Spurs were to terminate his contract at the turn of the year, the club would still need to pay him a little more than £2million. So, as Wenham says, contract termination is neither expected to be a straightforward affair nor a cost-effective option.
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The north Londoners don’t have many options left but to at least keep paying Reguilon his wages. Any money Daniel Levy can get for the ex-Real Madrid man at this point would be viewed as a bonus.
