The Telegraph report that Alderweireld’s camp were primed for a move for the Belgian right up until the end of the Premier League window, Rose’s “potential departure went right to the wire” and Dembele also came close to leave after multiple offers for his services.
Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy had bargained on a £150million injection of transfer funds in the summer window, according to the Daily Telegraph.
The newspaper claim the long-standing Spurs chief expected to provide manager Mauricio Pochettino with a massive injection of cash through the sales of Toby Alderweireld, Danny Rose and Mousa Dembele.
OPINION
The Telegraph’s report provides further insight on where it has all gone wrong for Tottenham and why the team has just slumped to a third consecutive defeat. All does not seem quite right at Spurs, who expected to do multiple mega deals – incoming and outgoing – over the summer but ended up doing nothing and drawing a transfer blank. Pochettino has made dark mutterings about it being his toughest season yet at the club, without quite providing an adequate explanation that the extensive World Cup exertions taking so much out of so many of his players. Yet, other clubs also had plenty of big players in mid-June action, including high flying Liverpool. Clearly, Tottenham expected to be able to provide Pochettino with the funds to strengthen his squad, but the failed sales of three big names led to a series of collapsed deals, or Levy’s unwillingness to go the extra mile to seal them.