Saido Berahino latest – Tottenham deal collapsed when they offered just £6m up front, talkSPORT understands
Tottenham's bid to sign West Bromwich Albion striker Saido Berahino collpased because they were prepared to pay only £6million up front.
The England Under-21 international was desperate to seal a move to White Hart Lane and submitted a transfer request last week to try to push through the deal.
But the Baggies stood firm on their £25m valuation and turned down a total of four bids from Spurs, including two on Tuesday.
There were reports Tottenham had tabled a ‘take it or leave it’ offer of £25m in a final attempt to land their man, who they saw as the ideal strike partner for Harry Kane, but talkSPORT has been told that is not the case.
Instead, talkSPORT understands Spurs were offering a total of £22.5m in a deal including payment instalments and performance related targets, and were prepared to pay the Baggies just £6m as a down payment.
West Brom were clearly unhappy with Tottenham's attempts to prise away one of their star assets, with club owner Jeremy Peace publicly shaming their ‘antics’ to land Berahino in a cut-price deal.
“We have a key player who has been very unsettled by antics which were designed to get him out of our club cheaply,” Peace said in a statement released shortly after the 6pm deadline on Tuesday.
“Those tactics have continued despite me making our position clear in my first conversation with Daniel Levy on this subject in mid-August.
“I said selling Saido so late in the window was not on our agenda.
“Tottenham’s offers failed substantially to reflect Saido’s true value while the timing made no allowance for our own recruitment of a suitable replacement for a proven Premier League goalscorer.
“Saido has been unsettled to the point where our Head Coach has not felt able to select him for our last three games.
“We are now left with the task of repairing the damage created by this unfortunate episode.”
In the wake of the transfer window furore surrounding him, Berahino has been given extra time off and is not expected back for training until Monday, September 9.