Plausible argument but there is no evidence that any harm was done. What research do you think was missed by the way? And why do you think we could have known in advance that the Dier and Dele fees were good value?
TBH you're omitting that Bale hardly had clean hands in his move to Los Ladrones, as his agent was conducting the tapping-up campaign More than that, though, realistically it was the summer of Keane/Berbatov that is why Levy's default position is to dig in his heels as both were subject go naked tapping-up campaigns (and, in Berbatov's case, a mild case of kidnapping) and that’s where we are now
Total rewrite of history. Spurs were faced with losing two world class players, with neither the offer of prestige (CL etc) or wages (unlike the state-sponsored funding of Madrid, Spurs are run as a "business of own account" ) to keep them. Unlike what happened with Berbatoss, Levy ensured that if the players were going (therefore weakening Spurs) , they were NOT going to STRENGTHEN a PL RIVAL. No shame in losing players to overseas apex predators while rinsing their finances in the process. No brain in losing them to direct rivals.
I assumed his argument was that we knew Dier and Dele were useless so getting a good fee for them made the rivals suffer.
At what specific season were each objectively so, and : 1: what would their market value have been at that point 2. would a rival have even bought them For Dele Alli, I contend that the season would have to be at the end of 2018-19. No opinions on when that would have been for Dier (so am open to suggestions) .
Can he not? We've got them on the last day. Their remaining fixtures are City (A), Newcastle (H), West Ham (A) and us (H). It's going to be a real scrap down there, I think.
I think we can pretty much guarantee that they will win the last game!! They will either be playing to stay in the league and therefore be more up for it than our lot or they will already be down and playing with no pressure and therefore will with a freedom that we won't be able to cope with.
I'm struggling to understand Chelsea's plan here or why Kante's on the right of their midfield 3. Surely he'd be better in the middle, unless he's supposed to help deal with Trossard? Seems like he's too involved on the ball and not involved enough in defending, to me.
I really thought Chelsea might be up for this game, but nothing could be further from the truth. Arsenal are very good, but Chelsea offering nothing and its a good job they reached 39 pts under Potter otherwise they would be looking over their shoulders!!
