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Everything we've all said and known is written here.
Useless cunt.
Just consider the story that Juande Ramos tells, as the last Spurs manager to get his hands on some silverware, about why his relationship with Levy unravelled and, in particular, what happened when the club decided to sell Dimitar Berbatov and Robbie Keane.
Ramos wanted to replace them with Samuel Eto’o from
Barcelona and David Villa, then at
Valencia. Instead, Spurs signed Roman Pavlyuchenko from Spartak Moscow and Ramos was asked to put his trust in Darren Bent, who had joined the club the previous year from
Charlton Athletic.
“Daniel has been built up as some sort of mastermind in the transfer market,” says one football executive, speaking on condition of anonymity. “In reality, there have been a lot of stinkers.”
Redknapp wanted Gary Cahill and Carlos Tevez but ended up with Ryan Nelsen and Louis Saha. Hoddle wanted Samuel Eto’o and Fernando Morientes. Pochettino wanted, among others, Saido Berahino
and Jack Grealish. Mourinho and Conte always seemed dissatisfied for one reason or another.