Tottenham made the best transfer of the summer…by making a sale
Usually when we talk about a club making the best move of the summer transfer window, we are discussing a bargain signing of a blockbuster move that ended up winning a team the league. But in the case of Tottenham, they may have pulled off a brilliant deal by selling someone nobody should have wanted to buy.
For weeks, AC Milan were pushing to sign Emerson Royal from Tottenham, and only God knows why Paulo Fonseca was so hell-bent on signing Emerson instead of Lille right back Tiago Santos, with whom he directly worked with and should have seen was one of the best young right backs in Europe.
Instead of signing Santos, Milan signed Emerson from Tottenham for about the same price, 15 million euros, even though Emerson is both older and demonstrably worse.
How much worse? If Santos ...