Tottenham Hotspur will demand £42.5 million in compensation if Real Madrid try to appoint Mauricio Pochettino to succeed Zinedine Zidane, who resigned yesterday.

Pochettino signed a new five-year contract worth £8.5 million a year at Tottenham last week that does not include a release clause. The manager has not been given any assurances by Daniel Levy that he would be allowed to leave in the event of an approach from Real.

The Spurs manager said this morning that he had no plan for his future but would let “football take me wherever”.

“I live in the present, there is nothing more important than this. I enjoy what is happening and what has to be, will be,” he told Spanish newspaper AS.

“Jorge Griffa [his former