Alli's nowhere near a £60-70m player yet - even in such an obscenely distorted market as this - but he has the potential to be worth that and more eventually.
All of which is fairly meaningless, really. All that matters is that he is on a long contract at Spurs and that they have no desire to sell. Consequently, even a bid of £80m wouldn't land him.
Any bid of £80m would definitely get him. That is twice his real value. Levy would rightly accept that. The buying club (City, Real Madrid whoever) would get a player who probably will be worth £80m one day but mostly they would be sending out a statement that they have the resources to buy any player they want. Levy will take some stick in the short term (like with Bale, Modric, Berbatov) but he knows it will soon be forgotten when he buys the next Paulinho to replace him.
And another chunk of the stadium will be paid off. Like it or not, selling players like Spurs and Arsenal have to do to pay for (part of) their stadiums is a very good long term business model if there is no outside investment. Liverpool's failure to invest properly in their infrastructure will mean that they will have to become a "plastic club" and seek significant outside investment if they are to compete. I doubt that "the most knowledgeable fans in the World" will issue any apologies to other clubs that they have criticised for developing in this way.
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