Darren Eales has already hatched a plan should his old boss, and one of football’s more notorious negotiators, come calling.
Few know the tricks and tells of Daniel Levy better than Tottenham’s former executive director, who spent five seasons in north London. Even fewer hold such a persuasive bargaining chip. Eales has leverage lingering deep in his archives.
‘(Daniel) lives and breathes work, lives and breathes Tottenham,’ he tells Sportsmail. ‘The one thing I’ll always remember, though. I love doing karaoke and we were playing in Moscow. We’d gone up to the bar on the roof and they happened to have karaoke going.