, Does Spurs interest in Leeds United starlet underline transfer strategy

Does Spurs interest in Leeds United starlet underline transfer strategy

There’s rumours of a £10million bid for Jack Clarke from Tottenham Hotspur, and it is something that we’ve written about here on The72 . When big vultures circle, small prey get picked off.

That’s the nature of the beast, you have the bigger clubs circling and using their heft in the financial department to ‘convince’ clubs to sell their prized starlets. If the Spurs ‘interest’ is strong, if it is credible, then that is how it will end.

It’s the inevitability of it, that knowing that it is going to happen and nothing can be done to stop it. Leeds United fans are used to inevitability. The inevitability that the second half of a season will crumble as results drop off. The inevitability of a transfer window that underwhelms.

That inevitability has already started with Leeds owner Andrea Radrizzani already issuing caveats as to summer transfer deals that fans have been expecting. Phil Hay, writing in the Yorkshire Evening Post, quotes Leeds United owner Andrea Radrizzani as saying there’s the likelihood of a “difficult” transfer window ahead. Whites fans are already used to ‘difficult’ windows, what could be any different?

Quoting a speech that Radrizzani gave to the FT Business in Football Summit, Hay writes that the Whites owner’s take on it was: “We’ll have to run a difficult summer in terms of the transfer market but we have a great academy.” That admission that Leeds intend to do things that way, almost smacks of doing it on the cheap. After going so close last season, fans were hoping for some level of marquee purchase or at least a seasoned pro or two in key positions.

Yet, the news that Spurs are circling, weighing up their options does tend to lend itself to another inevitability that Leeds United fans have come to expect – a ‘sell-to-buy’ scenario in the transfer market.

That £10million, or higher if the Whites play hardball over Clarke, suddenly looks suddenly even more like the impending inevitability that Leeds United fans knew was coming. In that sense, Jack Clarke will join a line of ‘sell-to-buy’ players such as Lewis Cook, Chris Wood and Charlie Taylor whose sale has funded development.

Again, it’s just a simple inevitability at Elland Road, a simple inevitability.

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