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Slot machinations mean Spurs’ search for the right manager drags on

There are offers – in football as in life – and there are offers – the kind that, as they like to say in the gangster movies, people cannot refuse. Tottenham were interested in making Arne Slot from Feyenoord their next manager and they made a few moves via their middle men and women, always confident that if it came down to personal terms, it would not be a problem.

Because they are Spurs, one of highest-revenue-generating clubs in England and, therefore, the world and Feyenoord are Feyenoord – from the altogether smaller pond of the Eredivisie. Spurs can blow them out of the water on salaries.

They can do likewise on transfer fees and yet there seems to be one rule for clubs when they buy, say, a centre-half or midfielder and another when they have to pay to recruit a manager. Which is strange given how fundamental the latter is to absolutely everything.

Spurs have completed or agreed deals of more than £40m for a few players since last summer alone – Cristian Romero, Richarlison, Pedro Porro – but when it came to Slot, they would not go anywhere near that. No club would.

Feyenoord were fortified by the absence of a release clause in their man’s contract this summer. They have not wanted to lose him and they felt empowered to say no to Spurs or, at least, place a very expensive price on Slot’s head.

How expensive is unclear, beyond it being less than a fee for what most Premier League fans would consider a run-of-the-mill player, but the bottom line is that it added up to impasse. So there was Slot on Thursday morning firing off a text message to a group of trusted Dutch journalists, saying that, honestly, the talks his agent had enjoyed on Wednesday with Feyenoord were only to do with his contract extension.

Which

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