It has now been alleged that Daniel Levy wanted to pay just £1.5m of a £30m deal upfront to sign a striker for Tottenham. The 62-year-old has earned a reputation for being a shrewd operator at Spurs. Mirko Barisic – President of Dinamo Zagreb when Tottenham signed Luka Modric – once told a story about when he asked Levy for some Modric 14 Spurs shirts after the agreement, only for the man from Essex to deduct the price of those kits from the overall transfer fee, which pretty much sums it up. He told FourFourTwo: “Levy gave them to me, but the invoice for the transfer, €23m (£19.8m), was minus…
