Paulo Dybala was in London this week and it made many Spurs fans wet on social media.
The Juventus striker was heavily linked in the summer, with The Independent claiming that Juventus wanted to sell, Spurs wanted to buy and Dybala wanted to come to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Why no deal then? Image rights. Dybala had previously sold his image rights to a third party. Despite satisfying both Juve and the player, Spurs were unable to do a deal to buy these image rights and therefore one of the best strikers in the world slipped through their fingers.
But could the deal be back on? Probably not, but reality and pessimism seem to have escaped plenty of hopeful Spurs fans on Twitter, who got very excited after seeing Dybala post of picture of himself and girlfriend Oriana Sabatini on the London Underground this week.
The January transfer window is less than two weeks from slamming shut and Tottenham have yet to buy anyone, with most of the noise focused on when Christian Eriksen will leave and for how much.
And many Spurs fans are dreaming that an Eriksen-sized sale could be enough to buy back Dybala’s freedom from his image right goons.
Dybala would be a perfect signing right now. The list of players Spurs have been linked with to fill the void left by Harry Kane’s injury is very underwhelming but this guy is mustard.
Let the social media meltdown begin!