Should we call him Daniel Levy or Daniel L(egend)evy?

Transfer expenditures = £107,250,000

Transfer income = £111,513,600

Net profit = Transfer income – Transfer expenditures

Net profit = £111,513,600 – £107,250,000

Net profit = +£4,263,600

Incoming players (loans excluded): Paulinho, Nacer Chadli, Roberto Soldado, Étienne Capoue, Vlad Chiriche?, Erik Lamela, Christian Eriksen.

Outgoing players (loans excluded): Gareth Bale, Massimo Luongo, Scott Parker, Tom Huddlestone, Clint Dempsey, Steven Caulker, John Bostock, Nathan Byrne, William Gallas, Jack Munns, Dean Parrett, Jack Barthram, Jake Nicholson, David Bentley.

Bale out, seven in!

In addition of a monetary profit, they have also made a profit on the average age. The outgoing players have an average age of 24 years whereas 23 years 4 months is the average age of the incoming seven players, which is surely a valid plus point.

The two most important qualms now for Tottenham are team chemistry and success. Their current squad is fiercely potent but will they adapt within themselves? Will their team chemistry take a kicking? Will Andre Villas Boas manage to keep up a certain momentum which will earn them a Champions League spot, this season?

All these questions need to be pondered upon. In the Premier League it is always difficult to adapt because of the tenacity and the level of competition it offers. With seven players from entirely different league backgrounds, it will be an absolute delight to see how they cope up with England and its accomplices.

The success and momentum factor also plays a vital role in this team building process for Villas Boas. Bale was a proven goal scorer, a winger who took his chances and often came inside the ‘D’ box. Nacer Chadli is a purely crossing winger like Aaron Lennon while Lamela and Eriksen are purely attacking midfielders. So essentially, Bale was doing the job of Chadli and Eriksen/Lamela.

Villas Boas will have to work on his formations too. All these factors will be of high reference in their race to glory. They can keep the momentum going only if they manage to get a string of vital victories in the league. With this highly potent squad, they are also expected to concentrate and do well in the Europa League after a disappointing campaign last time around.

To sum up, whether or not Daniel Levy’s calculated risk was right, will come to light only as time passes. They look like a solid team with nothing to worry about. In the first four rounds, they sit atop the league table in third position, just below their North London rivals Arsenal and Merseysiders, Liverpool.

Sans Bale, the practice balls at the White Hart Lane now get kicked by a hugely talented set of seven new youngsters.

How will that pan out for Spurs? Wait and watch.