Yeah but if you recall, it was between Fred and Mahrez. Neither came but were obvious targets. Fred ends up at United/Jorginho becomes the target. That also falls through so we go back to Mahrez and bite the bullet.
Roll around Jan 2019 and after pushing hard in the previous 2 windows for a cdm, you're telling me Pep suddenly doesnt want one when there's a hatful of good options?
I expect the windows of £200mil+ spends are gone and we are looking to start closing the gap between our in and out transfer numbers, promoting more youth and buying/budgeting after we sell. Say what you want about Spurs being bottlers but they have a fantastic squad having net spent nothing on it and i'd hazard a guess we are looking to emulate that somewhat in the future(along with Chelsea's buy cheap and young, loan out then sell for a profit model)