If you are the type of Tottenham fans who likes torturing yourself thinking about the ifs, buts, and maybes of the 18-year ENIC tenure (isn’t that all of us?), then you will really enjoy Charlie Eccleshare’s column in The Athletic today.
The Spurs correspondent for the Harlem Globetrotters of Internet journalism has sourced some brilliant and yet fist-clenchingly frustrating stories about the transfers that the club just failed to pull off over the years.
Highlights include:
- Rivaldo as ENIC’s proposed statement signing shortly after their takeover in 2002, and the trio of other top international strikers looked at before we signed Robbie Keane. And the letter the World Cup winner sent to Glenn Hoddle to apologise for not joining.
- Missing out on Morientes, Aubameyang, Moutinho and Martial
- And just how close we came to signing gossip column legend Leandro Damiao.
I won’t spoil any more for you. Take a read yourself here: FULL ARTICLE
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