On the Tottenham transfer outlay thing - Spurs have wiggle room. While cash reserves clearly aren't aligned with the financial outlay - in most instances transfer fees are paid out over a number of years.
There are two offers from Madrid - one with the money upfront (a lower offer), and a higher offer with payments spread out over a number of years.
It makes sense for Levy to take this to the wire, because if you for one moment believe Arsenal are after anything but a Ligue 2 free transfer, Tottenham could make it incredibly difficult for Arsenal to complete deals with RM before the window closes.
Some crazy nuts think Wenger is planning on buying 2/3 RM players.
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