This. A few years ago, our players were getting linked to Chelsea, Liverpool, ManU, and so on. That's just not happening now. Instead, the only realistic buyers are now the very top clubs in the football world -- Real, Barca, Bayern.
Keane and Berbatov, our two best attacking players, went to Liverpool and ManU in the same transfer window. Could you see that happening with Kane and Alli? Nope.
Still, like Bale, to be a stand-out player at Spurs, you now need to be pretty brick-hot. Not just "looks good in a mid-table side" like Ginola, but "would walk into any team in the world" brick-hot. And Levy put down a marker of €100m (or whatever it was). To be honest, if Dele keeps developing at his 2016 trajectory for the rest of this season, he's going to be truly world class come May...and I wouldn't blame him for moving to Madrid.
I'm just hoping that everyone keeps on failing to notice the excellence of Toby, Dier and Lloris. Move along, nothing to see here.