In fact including the 3 most expensive flops in our history. Has £ 73m ever been worst spent ?
And yet here is where things get confusing because, although no one disputes Paulhino has been a disaster, many Spurs fans will still lobby for the inclusion of Soldado and Lamela in our "strongest team" whatever that is.
What is clear is that the expensively assembled team that played yesterday (and let's remember that in addition to the £73m spunked on those 3, an outlay of nigh on £50m was also spent bringing Messrs Fazio, Capoue, Chiriches, Dembele, Kaboul and Vorm to the club) should have been good enough to beat Leicester at home.