Toby Alderweireld's contract extension reignites interest from PSG

Tottenham Hotspur’s decision to extend Toby Alderweireld’s contract has sparked renewed interest from Paris Saint-Germain.

Alderweireld’s 12-month extension includes a clause that allows him to leave Tottenham for £25million during the summer until two weeks before the transfer window shuts.

That has revived PSG’s interest in the Belgian, but any bid will wait until the end of the season when Alderweireld’s clause becomes active.

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A host of clubs, including Manchester United, were put off trying to convince Daniel Levy to sell Alderweireld last summer but PSG enjoy a good relationship with the Spurs chairman.

Tottenham have signed Lucas Moura and Serge Aurier in recent years from the French club and PSG may be willing to allow another player to move to London as part of an Alderweireld bid.

Belgian right-back Thomas Meunier is one player PSG could offer, but that may be reliant on Spurs offloading either Aurier or Kieran Trippier.

Tottenham are looking to sell a number of fringe players this month to make space for potential January signings.

Fernando Llorente wants to return to Athletic Bilbao, while Spurs also want to find new clubs for Vincent Janssen and Georges-Kevin N’Koudou. Levy will listen to bids for Mousa Dembele, but the Belgian may prefer to wait until the summer to pick his next club once his contract has expired.

Should Tottenham manage to free up some space in the squad, then the club could act on interest in Hull City winger Jarrod Bowen and Norwich City full-back Max Aarons.

Spurs need at least one more player who counts as home-grown to fill their Champions League squad for the knockout stages of competition.

Ahead of plotting transfer moves, manager Mauricio Pochettino wants his Tottenham players to bounce straight back from their shock defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Spurs travel to Cardiff City on New Year’s Day and Pochettino said: “It’s a tough place to play. It’s going to be difficult. Cardiff’s physicality makes them a very dangerous team and a very difficult one to play against. They have some talented players too. I think it is going to be a very difficult test for us after a bad defeat against Wolves on Saturday.

“We hope the players have recovered from that. I may have to make three or four changes, but that is nothing new. We move on. We cannot stop to think. The first of January, it's here and we need to be again ready to compete. We need to be clever enough to try to move on, to be competitive, because it's going to be tough.

“Cardiff, they won against Leicester, Leicester after two amazing victories against Chelsea and City lose at home to Cardiff, and Cardiff is going to have all the confidence, so it's going to be tough game.”