Alderweireld signs new Tottenham contract – 8 Spurs players with short-term papers

Tottenham defender Toby Alderweireld has ended speculation about his future by signing a new contract. The 30-year-old, who was due to be a free agent in the summer, has agreed terms on a three-and-a-half-year deal at the north London club.

Alderweireld looked set to be leaving Spurs at the end of the current campaign as negotiations over a new deal had stalled and under Mauricio Pochettino there appeared to be little chance of them restarting.

But the arrival of Jose Mourinho has brought about a change and the Belgium international will now stay until 2023.

Spurs chairman Levy “We have to get rid of this obsession in England of spending money.” Read more Despite his contract stalemate Alderweireld, who followed Pochettino to Spurs having been on loan at Southampton in 2015, has been a mainstay of the defense in recent times, making 50 appearances last season and counting already 20 games in the current campaign.

The club exercised an extension in his contract last term which also triggered a £25million release clause, but only Roma were interested in the centre-back and made a much smaller bid in the summer.

Alderweireld’s Belgium team-mate Jan Vertonghen is also out of contract in the summer and can discuss terms with European clubs in the new year, though he has expressed a desire to sign a new deal. Next to Verthonghen another three players including Christian Eriksen have only a valid contract until 2020, with four more players only bound one year more until 2021.

Eriksen has reportedly told Mourinho he will not sign a new contract and looks set to leave on a free in the summer, unless Spurs can sell him in January.