Matty said:You can't randomly pick 3 players who have been linked to your club in your starting 11 and claim it's a title winning side. Leandro, Willian and Moutinho are, highly likely, not to join Spurs. It's almost a nailed on certainty you won't get all of them, and the safe money would be on you getting none of them. Spurs play in the most competitive league on the planet, they aren't a current Champion's League side and have only qualified for it once anyway. Spurs won't pay top whack on wages (hence the Adebayor saga lasting so long) so that won't help in attracting the best players. So, no Champion's League football, no league titles for decades, no guarantee of future champions league qualification, inability to pay the top rate for wages. Explain to me again why you think top players are falling all over themselves to join Spurs?
The only thing stopping those players coming here is Levy/Money - all of those players want to come and I would be very surprised if at least 1 of them didn't. Whether we can afford it or not is another question, partly depends on what we get for Modric/selling Dawson.
That last question is worded to make any genuine answer sound ridiculous, I'm not going to say that world class players are falling over themselves to join us, but players will join us to play in one of the top teams in the Premier League, and to be regularly starting for us. A striker like Leandro Damaio for instance, would join us instead of a team with 3 or 4 top class strikers already in the pecking order. Moutinho would join us because of his prior relationship with AVB. Willian, probably the same reason as Leandro.