Tottenham set for 7-figure cash windfall if Burnley FC are promoted from the Championship | OneFootball

Some extra money will be added to Spurs' coffers if the Clarets return to the Premier League this year

Tottenham Hotspur will land extra millions in their bank should Burnley make it back to the Premier League later this season, thanks to a clause inserted in Marcus Edwards' loan move to Turf Moor.

Edwards came through the Spurs academy, but after playing just once for their first-team, the attacker made the jump to Portuguese football, linking up with Vitoria de Guimaraes in 2019 at the age of just 20.

Two-and-a-half years later, Edwards made another move, this time further up the Primeira League ladder with Sporting CP, and despite benefitting from that move, Spurs remained locked in for any potential further activity for the tricky playmaker.

Tottenham would benefit from Marcus Edwards, Burnley permanent transfer thanks to 35 per cent clause

It's somewhat unusual for a club to have a hefty sell-on clause for a player's second transfer after they've left the club, but Spurs remained locked in to Edwards' future when he traded Vitoria for Sporting.

And they're potentially set to benefit from that, as per a report from Portuguese outlet Record, who claim that the Premier League side still own 35 per cent of Edwards' rights.

That means should Burnley - the club that the 26-year-old signed for on loan in the mid-season transfer window - are to return to the top flight of English football at the first time of asking, in which they are then reportedly obligated to buy Edwards for €11 million (£9.4 million), then Spurs and chairman Daniel Levy will take €3.85 million (£3.3 million) of that thanks to the fact they negotiatied a position to stay in the deal.

Whilst that kind of figure is by no means huge, it will be much-welcomed money for Spurs this coming summer, as they won't land a European financial windfall next season unless they win the UEFA Europa League.

Burnley FC could be sitting on a pot of gold with Marcus Edwards

Since arriving in early February in Lancashire, Edwards has been a revelation out on the right flank for Burnley and Scott Parker.

Whilst his goal and assist numbers - just one of each in the Championship - may not paint the most positive of pictures, he has been a regular starter since late February, and it speaks volumes that with the creative winger in the starting 11, the Clarets have not yet lost in league action.

With Manuel Benson continuously troubled by injury and fitness issues, Burnley were missing a diminutive left-footed player to cut in from the right in the first half of the season, but they finally landed one in Edwards - sometimes things are better late than never.