The Portuguese coach, 34, did not receive a lump sum pay-off when he was fired by Chelsea last March just eight months into a three-year contract.
Instead, the Blues agreed to keep paying his £100,000-a-week salary until he got another job.
He has so far received three months of payments up to the start of July.
But if he takes the White Hart Lane post, Chelsea supremo Roman Abramovich will turn off the cash tap and AVB will miss out on another 25 months — worth £10.8m.
Reports from Portugal had suggested negotiations with Spurs had hit financial problems.
There were even rumours Chelsea had taken the unprecedented step of preventing AVB joining another Premier League rival for at least 12 months. But this has been rubbished by the Champions League kings, who said their ex-boss was free to take a job the day he left Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea have used the payment method to AVB as a way to avoid a huge one-off compensation pay-out after they handed Porto £13m last summer to secure his services.
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