There may have been a few in the home end looking towards the sky during Xavi Simons’ on-pitch unveiling, waiting for a former hard-nosed Italian banker to swoop down from a helicopter, snatch the Dutchman and fly him down Seven Sisters Road.
Insecurity had been rife among Tottenham Hotspur’s fan base following not only a summer of rejections and hijackings, but years of transfer heartbreak. Before Morgan Gibbs-White and Eberechi Eze, there was João Moutinho and the paperwork error, Paulo Dybala’s image rights, as well as the ever-elusive Leandro Damião.
