Vital information makes sense of Daniel Levy’s diginified silence over Gibbs-White transfer

The white noise from overwrought Spurs fans over the last week or so has become unbearable, with unsolicited transfer advice being bawled from every corner. From the simpering of, ‘Where is he?’ to outright demands for Daniel Levy to move on to his next target. It’s times like these that even I am pleased Levy is running the club.

We are all too familiar with the background to this story. THFC managed quite coincidentally to guess the release fee for Morgan Gibbs-White, and Marinakis, the Nottingham Forest gaffer, lost his mind. We’ve all been in limbo ever since.

The legal action that never happened

The threat to instruct lawyers and involve the Premier League was never carried out, as TheBoyHotspur made clear repeatedly on his Substack. Tottenham had done little, if anything, wrong. Yes, the release clause was in the public domain, but if you go through our archives, you will find hundreds, if not thousands, of examples of where this type of information is freely available in the public domain.

For the record, slavery was abolished in the 1830s, and the truth of the matter is. that Marinakis simply wanted more cash. Indeed, he thought more cash was on the horizon, at one point.

A twist in the transfer tale 

The plot twist came courtesy of Manchester City deciding against the player, who, himself, it was widely rumoured, preferred Spurs. Now, the Manchester Evening News are reporting that having snapped up Rayan Cherki from and Tijjani Reijnders, they are now more interested in offloading players.

The phrase that pays (or more accurately, resolutely refuses to pay) here is this one:

“It has since been claimed that Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis would now rather sell Gibbs-White to a different club and that he is hoping City will prove willing buyers and re-enter the race. But the Blues have no intention of doing so and have ended their interest in Gibbs-White.”