Letter to Tottenham: Selling Toby Alderweireld to United will be unforgivable
By Gary Pearson
If Martial isn’t a part of the suspected Alderweireld transfer, even the most ardent Tottenham supporters won’t be able to forgive Daniel Levy.
If Alderweireld can’t be dissuaded, let him go.
Just make sure he is not sold to Manchester United for nothing but cash in return. Enough is enough, Daniel. Spurs supporters don’t care if United offer in excess of £75 million for the Belgian.
Spurs can ill-afford losing, regardless of his spate of recent injury concerns, a player of Alderweireld’s ability to an arch rival. Alderweireld is exactly the type of player United require to make a title push. With the Belgian marshalling their defence, United instantly become a part of the title conversation.
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If Martial is included as part of the transfer, most will be forgiven. Martial doesn’t have Alderweireld’s intangible leadership qualities, but he will offer Spurs more dynamism in attack, and maybe more importantly, support for Harry Kane.
That way each team will get what they want, a crucial metric when considering selling one of your top assets to a direct rival.
Levy’s history of selling to Premier League rivals
How many times will Levy make the same egregious mistake?
It’s no wonder Tottenham faithful have had enough of the shrewd businessman’s emotionless methods of running the club we unconditionally adore.
It’s hard to turn a blind eye to a cash windfall in the region of £75 million, of course. Spurs could use the funds to purchase Gareth Bale, or Ajax wunderkind Matthijs de Ligt, neither of whom will alleviate the pain of selling Alderweireld to a Jose Mourinho side which is a world-class centre back short of contending for the title.
Numerous other suitors, including Juventus, have shown interest in signing the Belgian stalwart. So why does Levy insist on handing United the Ace of Diamonds. History doesn’t shine brightly upon Levy regarding this particular storyline.
He sold Michael Carrick and Dimitar Berbatov to United, and more recently, Kyle Walker to Manchester City, to the chagrin of Spurs supporters.
Even the Carrick and Berbatov transfers, if Alderweireld is dealt to United, will be seen as more forgivable, purely because, at that stage, Spurs weren’t in the position to directly challenge United for the title.
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That is no longer the case.
Tottenham finished the season four points adrift of United and were within a whisker of reining in Mourinho’s men.
Selling Alderweireld for a bucket load of cash without Martial coming the other way will cause mass unrest in North London, and Levy should be held to account when the move backfires, which it most certainly will.