Safety comes first regarding the money with Levy and ENIC. If they don't believe the player is worth the money, or that the particular coach can't improve the player to be worth a bigger sell on price or to move the club forward, they won't sign them.
I have seen a lot of names thrown about and some of them, not all, were not exactly poor decisions in hindsight. For instance, Grealish. A few summers ago he was a Championship player with a bit of a reputation for being a party boy. He is now being quoted prices of about £70-100m (according to some sources). Would you even pay 3 times less than that for a player unproven in the Premier League, a poor reputation and a Championship player? That doesn't happen so often. The best of the best move for that type of money and, at that time, whilst Grealish's talent and potential was clearly there, why would he have represented a £30m-ish transfer fee a few summers ago? I could imagine Spurs fans going mad and even then, would he have got in to the side then?
You could use Alli as the argument that you have a history of developing lower league footballers, but he was much less than what you'd have been paying for Grealish. It's going to be a (very) long project for Spurs yet.
Grealish
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posted on 20/5/21
comment by Citizen Smeg. Viva la revolution (U6574)
posted 6 hours ago
One constant through 20 years of absolute failure is Daniel levy.
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He's a bit like a nagging pain that you cannot take anything medical for
posted on 20/5/21
Safety comes first regarding the money with Levy and ENIC. If they don't believe the player is worth the money, or that the particular coach can't improve the player to be worth a bigger sell on price or to move the club forward, they won't sign them.
I have seen a lot of names thrown about and some of them, not all, were not exactly poor decisions in hindsight. For instance, Grealish. A few summers ago he was a Championship player with a bit of a reputation for being a party boy. He is now being quoted prices of about £70-100m (according to some sources). Would you even pay 3 times less than that for a player unproven in the Premier League, a poor reputation and a Championship player? That doesn't happen so often. The best of the best move for that type of money and, at that time, whilst Grealish's talent and potential was clearly there, why would he have represented a £30m-ish transfer fee a few summers ago? I could imagine Spurs fans going mad and even then, would he have got in to the side then?
You could use Alli as the argument that you have a history of developing lower league footballers, but he was much less than what you'd have been paying for Grealish. It's going to be a (very) long project for Spurs yet.
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