Juan Foyth looks to be off to Villa Real after an utterly unmemorable spell at Tottenham that unbelievably managed to rumble on into its fourth season, with the player managing to have amassed just 16 Premier League appearances in total.
A brief point here – if that’s quite alright – this sort of purchase must now stop. The technique of buying in young, inexpensive talent, with an eye to making a fat profit in the future is a decent enough business model on paper, but Tottenham have achieved nothing with it on grass. Given the sheer the size of the club, the Deloitte listings and the colossal amount of infrastructure investment, this is a practice surely much better suited to the likes of someone like West Ham United.
What was saddening about Foyth, was that this was a player that has arguably learned nothing during his time at Tottenham and so has never shaken off his peripheral status with his national side, Argentina.
If Levy can swing €1.5million, plus a further €15million or so further down the line, then this is a modern masterpiece of a transfer.