Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has been told to drop his asking price for Roman Pavlyuchenko.
Levy is loathed to take a big loss on Pavlyuchenko, who cost £13.8million in 2008.
Pavlyuchenko's agent Oleg Artemov said: "We can't agree about the price with Mr Levy. He values Pavlyuchenko according to his own gauge. This is by how much the club spent, his goals and he also wants some profit on him. I don't really know how he's counting."