Antonio Conte has reportedly asked Paris Saint-Germain to almost double his salary if he is to be prized away from Tottenham Hotspur and replace Mauricio Pochettino as the club's new manager.
According to RMC Sport, Conte is currently on an estimated €17million a year at Tottenham after replacing Nuno Espirito Santo back in October. However, the figure he is hoping to for is around €30m which would possibly make him one of the highest-paid managers in Europe alongside Diego Simeone.
He also wants to join with his sporting director, Gianluca Petrachi and would like to see a number of their playing squad leave as part of a mass exodus. This is on top of already identifying potential transfer targets.
PSG have already secured the Ligue 1 title with four games to go - Pochettino's first league triumph of his managerial career. They are 13 points above second-place Marseille and have dropped just 24 points from a possible 102 available this season.
However, Les Parisiens' failure to progress past Real Madrid in the Champions League last-16 could have all but sealed Pochettino's fate. This is the first time they haven't reached at least the semi-final of the competition in three seasons after losing against Bayern Munich and Manchester City in the final and last four.
With Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Neymar as PSG's front-three, there were hopes PSG could go and win the trophy this season for the first time. But Pochettino's side fell to a 3-2 aggregate defeat against Los Blancos as a Karim Benzema hat-trick proved to be the difference between the two sides.
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Pochettino could be set to lose his job in the summer and Conte has supposedly been lined up for the role despite still having a year left on his contract at Spurs. The Italian signed a short-term deal until the summer of 2023 with an aim of getting the club back into the Champions League.
With a win percentage of 54 per cent, Conte has taken Spurs to the brink of achieving that. Tottenham are currently two points behind Arsenal in the chase for the top-four with five games to go.
The two sides still have to play each other on May 12 - a fixture that is poised to determine which side finishes higher in the table. Although Conte could be on his way out in the summer, helping Spurs into the Champions League would no doubt be some parting gift.
Chairman Daniel Levy would reportedly not be against letting him go and bringing back Pochettino, but PSG have not contacted the Italian yet. Pochettino spent four years in charge of Spurs, finishing second in the Premier League twice.
