With Harry Kane to Bayern Munich looking more and more likely with every passing second, Levy must not waste the hundred-plus million pounds we receive.
10 years ago, we sold Gareth Bale to Real Madrid for 86 million pounds. With that money, we signed 7 players. Roberto Soldado, Erik Lamela, Paulinho, Christian Eriksen, Etienne Capoue, Vlad Chiriches and Nacer Chadli.
The fact Christian Eriksen was the only good bit of business on that list is an absolute disgrace. Yes, the argument is there that Lamela and Chadli were good bit part players for the club, but for the price tag of Lamela especially, it was disappointing. As for the other names in the list, they are better to not be mentioned at all.
The only good thing that came out of that season was the HP kits. Unlike then, now we have a side that does have talent (in areas). We have several exceptional players but then that is countered by our lack of good-quality defenders.
Should Kane go, and it is worth noting that it isn?t a dead certain he?s leaving this window at the time of writing, here is a simple way of using the money…
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Sign two central defenders
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