Regardless of who makes the decisions about players being signed or sold the manager has to be consulted or at least considered in the decision making.
The reason is simple, you cannot just go and sign a player that does not suit the managers’ style of play, to do that will always end in failure.
The truth right now is that none of us and probably no one at Tottenham either has any real idea who the manager will be in the summer.
Man City, Man Utd, Chelsea and Liverpool all know who their manager will be and can therefore make their plans, Tottenham cannot do that.
If Spurs finish outside Europe and get humiliated in the Carabao Cup then it is safe to assume that Jose Mourinho will be given his marching orders.
However, if Tottenham does lift the Carabao Cup and somehow sneak into a top-four spot then it is hard to see the Portuguese departing in the summer.
With that in mind, it is almost impossible right now to guess who Spurs may sign.
For example, Milan Skriniar looks like an ideal type of Mourinho player but is he the sort of player that another manager would want? I really do not know.
Look at Thomas Tuchel at Chelsea, he has come in and made some significant changes, players that were out of favour under Frank Lampard have been brought back into the fold and others now find themselves on the fringes.
In fact, just look closer to home at some of the players that were favoured by Mauricio Pochettino and are now outcasts under Mourinho.
Would a new manager bring back Oliver Skipp and Ryan Sessegnon and integrate them into the squad, most of us probably suspect that Mourinho will not.
So, until we know as a certainty who the Tottenham manager will be in the summer the reality is that we have no idea which type of player the club will be targeting and I doubt they know right now either.