Sounds like it wasn't a case of 'we advise you not to go' but 'you don't have our permission to go, and if you do they'll be consequences'. So club feel they have to follow through, even if it feels unhelpful at this point. I think the misjudgement was thinking they could threaten them into not going in the first place.I agree.
But it's the journalists like Ally Gold who typically get info direct from the club who are saying Spurs will fine GLC, Romero & Davinson.
I do wonder what game Levy thinks he's playing here. Davinson is playing as well as he's ever done for us, we've just signed Romero and GLC should be our creative 8 in Nuno's formation.
Fining the players seems an idiotic decision, side-stepping the fundamental football authority / international Covid regulation issues which are at the heart of this clusterfuck.