How much Spurs pay Assou-Ekotto to sit on the bench.

[Charnwood]

I've just read that Benoit Assou-Ekotto is being paid £40,000 a week by Tottenham despite not playing for the first team for more than 18 months.

The defender does not even train with the first-team squad these days as he prepares for a move in the January transfer window.

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino excluded Assou-Ekotto from his first-team squad when he arrived at the club and doesn’t want him anywhere near his group.

How can football sustain itself whilst these sort of financial excesses exist ?

Surely this also adds to the problems for Championship Clubs trying to attract the Premier Leagues left overs and getting them to play in the next tier of English football?

[marko69]

I'm positive that is a prawn dish that my wife likes from the Chinese takeaway. I ask for it, the guy shouts, "ASSOU EKOTTO" through to the chef guy. Seriously, it sounds like that, I ain't joking.

£40K a week AND he doesn't have to train? I can't even begin to imagine what that would be like. I wonder what he does with his time and money.

Hopefully there are still a few young lads out there with a special love for "football", and not the cash. Although I doubt it.

[shabba]

if we are honest spurs have even bigger wastes of salaries on their books....... Ade at £100k+, Solgardo etc.