Deferring Mauricio Pochettino's £8.5m Tottenham Hotspur payout will prove difficult for Daniel Levy.
This is the view of Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher.
A report by the Daily Mail on Thursday claimed that the club are opening negotiations with the Argentinian coach about striking a new deal with the sacked boss to defer at least some of the huge figure he is owed this year.
Spurs are also looking to strike deals with Pochettino’s backroom team, the report adds, which includes Jesus Perez, Miguel D'Agostino and Antoni Jimenez.
But Carragher believes that with clubs already fighting to talk some players down from their wages, Levy will do well to get a sacked manager to volunteer himself for a pay cut.
"We all loved Pochettino when he was in the job, and what a great job he did," Carragher told Sky Sports.
"He had just signed a big contract so I am sure there was a big pay off, and rightly so because that is the name of the game and Daniel Levy knows that.
"There is going to be cuts right across football, there no doubt.
"I think we are still having problems with Premier League players with reports that clubs are finding it difficult.
"I don't think that's going to change with a manager you've sacked.
"If you think it's hard to get players like Harry Kane to deffer wages or have wages cut, people you work with day in day out, if Pochettino is in Argentina with his family I think he will just be switching his phone off.
"It is going to be a lot harder with a manager you've already sacked than it is with a player in your own dressing room."
