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20m up front is a lot to turn down for a striker who frankly hasn't scored many in the past 18 months or so and is now in the last year of his contract!!  If he stays and still doesn't perform, then that value will halve come January and then completely disappear next summer, doesn't make a lot of business sense to hold onto him to find a replacement when in actual fact it wouldn't take much to get 10-12 goals a year from someone else anyway!!

Yeh, but Spurs were ready to pay 20 a year ago for this great goalscorer on the edge of the full England team, and inflation has pretty much doubled since then. If it weren't for his childish attitude this 22 y-o would be worth every penny of £40m in this market.