“When Spurs agreed an £85m move for Bale to Real Madrid in the final hours of the summer transfer window back in 2013, they spent the money on seven players and saw none of them justify the outlay, so they must learn the lessons of that disastrous piece of business. If they don’t replace Kane, Spurs will have to keep an unhappy player for another year and miss out on a windfall. Whatever Levy decides to do, the Spurs chairman will find it tough to reach a positive outcome.”
To be fair, he didn’t make the top-ten all-time assists leaderboard. He’s just eleventh.
