After losing 1-0 to Sunderland in another toothless attacking performance despite having Roberto De Zerbi in charge, Tottenham Hotspur's relegation from the Premier League is starting to feel like an inevitability to the suffering Spurs fan base. Especially with West Ham United and Leeds United impressing with big wins and Nottingham Forest having recently trumped Spurs 3-0, the plight of the Lilywhites has long past moved a point of desperation along a 14 game winless streak.
So as Spurs supporters contemplate the ramifications of relegation, the wage bill and future financial health of Tottenham comes to mind. Tottenham have quite a few players who are directly responsible for this relegation battle and futility, and these players are both poor and overpaid.
Even though Daniel Levy was smart enough to plan for the contingency of relegation with steep 50 percent wage cuts across the board, as Football.London's Kasra Moradi charts, there are still going to be some hefty wages paid to several Spurs players in the 2026/27 season if they are in the EFL Championship.
Conor Gallagher is a real low point
The worst two offenders will be two recent, overpaid signings who have been atrocious in recent weeks, striker Dominic Solanke and center midfielder Conor Gallagher. Solanke had a month of a purple patch in his return from injury but has been even worse recently. The record 65 million pound summer 2024 transfer will still make 70,000 pounds per week in the EFL Championship, and while that does not seem like a lot at the outset, it is a ton of money for a guy who barely scores - let alone has his name even uttered on the broadcast with how invisible he is.
But obviously, nothing tops Gallagher in terms of sheer regret. Tottenham Hotspur only just signed the former Chelsea and Crystal Palace rival from Atletico Madrid, but they both overapid the Rojiblancos to beat out Aston Villa to the midfielder - and, worse yet, they broke their wage structure to bring in a player who was already pretty lousy for Atleti anyway.
Gallagher has been even worse for Tottenham. Even with the wage reduction accounted for, the English No. 8 would still be on the books for 80,000 pounds per week. Only Cristian Romero, Xavi Simons, and James Maddison would make more.
Maybe Cristian Romero should be mentioned as a third player then, at nearly 100,000 pounds per week even on reduced wages. But firstly, Romero leaving Spurs is a foregone conclusion at this point. And secondly, unlike Solanke and Gallagher, he's actually a good player and still worth that money in a vaccuum. Solanke and Gallagher are so bad, they don't even deserve 50,000 per week.
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