Tottenham face scaling down their shirt sponsorship plans.

The Daily Mail says Spurs chairman Daniel Levy will have to reduce radically his ambition to find a £10million-a-year shirt sponsor for next season in a crowded market - with Premier League rivals Sunderland, Fulham and Aston Villa also looking for more realistically priced backing.

Levy was spoilt by the current Mansion deal of £8.5m-a-year, which at the time was the fifth largest shirt deal in the world.

Spurs are now conducting their increasingly fraught sponsorship search without their commercial director Paul Barber, who has moved to Canada to run Vancouver Whitecaps.