Stoke prosper as Spurs choke

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And Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is nothing if not a shrewd operator when it comes to buying and selling on the ever-inflated market.

It is less than two years since he banked for Tottenham a world-record fee for Gareth Bale after a long, hot summer of negotiations with Real Madrid. Only 12 months earlier, the same Spanish club wired Spurs around £30m for Luka Modric days before the transfer window’s closure. Again, it brought an end to months of back-and-forth between Levy and Madrid.