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You keep going on about "facts" yet keep banging on about ITK this, ITK that. ITK is just hearsay, it's NOT a matter of fact and should be taken with a wheelbarrow full of salt. Personally speaking ITK is a load of bollocks and I'd rather take the words of SL owners, BF and his agent why the deal broke down as opposed to some attention seekers who claim to be in on the deal.What you've established there is the fact of what various interested parties said happened. You have not established the fact of what actually happened. They are not necessarily one and the same. Not least because there is one key person's version of events absent from your account.
Once again, I ask you, what is the likelihood that Spurs - Daniel Levy's Spurs - was ever going to sign three hugely expensive, predominantly central midfielders in one window? Once again, I point you to the ITK which insisted long before window's end that Lo Celso was the true target, not Fernandes; that we were not trying to sign both of them; that Fernandes was a backup option; and even that he was a stalking horse for the Lo Celso deal.
You claim that "You don’t agree terms with someone you have no intention of buying". Well, if Fernandes was our backup option, then we absolutely did intend to buy him..............if we couldn't get Betis to budge on Lo Celso. And since there were only days, if not hours, of the transfer window remaining at the time, then it was imperative that the Fernandes deal was oven-ready, short of actual signatures on a contract. This is common strategy late in the transfer window when a club can't be certain of securing its primary target.
Once Lo Celso was finally secured, Levy had to get busy decommissioning the Fernandes deal. How was he to do that? By telling Fernandes that he had been playing him all along and that Spurs never really wanted him? Awkward! Much easier to kill the deal at the eleventh hour by insisting on additional terms or clauses that he knew would be unacceptable to Sporting.
That's just my two pence worth. Do carry on defending ENIC for our failures last summer in the transfer market, it's not like they've not got previous eh...
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