Tottenham Hotspur will have to settle for a lower fee than they had hoped to get for Djed Spence due to a clause in his contract.It has been widely reported that Djed Spence is closing in on a move to Inter Milan ahead of the new campaign after expressing a desire to join the Serie A club.According to reports, Spurs initially offered the full-back to several of their Premier League rivals for £45m.However, with none of them interested in the 25-year-old for that price, they have decided to do a deal with Inter for around €30m (£25.6m), partly driven by the player’s keenness to move to the San Siro.Credit: @thefrederikkejensen / InstagramMiddlesbrough owed part of the fee Tottenham will receive for Djed SpenceMany Spurs fans wanted Tottenham to demand a bigger fee for Spence, but it appears that the club are prioritising getting him out the door.A new report in The Northern Echo also confirms that Inter will pay an initial fee of £25.6m for the full-back, and claims that the deal could rise to £30m.However, they explain that Tottenham will not receive this full amount as Middlesbrough attached a 15 per cent sell-on clause on the player when they sold him to the Lilywhites back in 2022.That means that if Spurs sell Spence for £25.6m, Boro may be owed £3.8m, with Roberto De Zerbi’s men only making £21.8m from the deal. However, if the 15% sell-on clause was purely based on profit, the figure will be a lot lower, seeing as Tottenham only stand to make a net £5m-£10m on Spence.Could Spurs have got a bigger fee for Spence?Given the World Cup that the 25-year-old just had, many may have expected him to fetch a much bigger fee than what reports suggest.While Tottenham have done very well in selling some of the young talents in the squad, one cannot help but feel that they have been short-changed for Spence, as well as Cristian Romero, who is expected to complete a £34m move to Atletico Madrid.With time running out in the transfer window, perhaps the Spurs hierarchy just wanted to get these sales out of the way so that they can concentrate their full efforts on strengthening their attack.READ MORE: ‘Not good enough’ – Tottenham fans left split over latest £51m striker linksThe post Why Tottenham Hotspur may not even receive £26m for Djed Spence transfer appeared first on Spurs Web.