While we might never know the behind the scenes here, Spurs have had quite a day. First, they did finally get Porro over the line, and that left us with Emerson and Doherty in RWB as well. We had Spence there and loaned him. The limit is 8 international loans...which we were at. We had a deal to loan Doherty to Atletico, apparently, which we couldn't do. So, at the last minute we terminated the contract of Doherty to have him leave on a free to Atletico. Unbelievable.
If you're trying to follow along at home, this club had targeted Porro a few months ago. We quibbled over the release (which ended up expiring during the final twelve days of the window), and who should pay costs and all this stuff. Only to literally giveaway a multi-million dollar asset in Doherty. What a circus.
And yeah, I get it, Doherty isn't exactly a world-beater at this point, but he's not worth nothing. We gave him away because no one seemed to realize that we couldn't loan him until the very last second!
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