Such a bizarre window. Players we or at least most loved coming at first like Ndombele, Lo Celso, Bryan Gil and Dele being shipped out. Few years ago that would have seemed a catastrophe, losing your entire creativity but now is needed to create space to enable Conte to be a success.
I think the players mentioned here, except Gil, have to shoulder a fair bit of the blame for how their Spurs career went to shit (Domb, Dele) or never got going really (Lo Celso).
That being said, I think it's vital for the future of the club that there be a proper introspection, a proper enquiry into how players with obvious talent so badly flopped. It can't be all blamed on the players. Especially as they aren't the first 3.
For instance, in Domb's case, did our scouting team miss the many reports of him being lazy, nonchalant and just a downright difficult character? Or were they aware and just decided to take the risk?
As for Dele, yes, he's done a lot wrong. But the club shouldn't have let it get to that point. Of course he was always gonna get big-headed after his first couple highly successful seasons with us, and yeah, gotta cut them young lads a bit of slack sometimes...boys will be boys and all that. But somebody with authority should've put an end to it a lot earlier.
Lo Celso is a mystery. He's clearly a very talented footballer. He proved it a bit at PSG and with Argentina but mainly at Betis, where he was excellent...and rarely injured. Now he comes to Spurs and is so bad, always out injured and showing poor attitude. Not a scouting issue here. But maybe the internal practices at the club, the way players are managed, led to him becoming such a waste.
The fact we've changed managers and strategy so many times in such a short space of time can't have helped either.
That being said, in the meantime you have players like Sonny who have excelled.