The reality Mitchell perhaps didn't grasp

Mauricio Pochettino wasn't disappointed or disillusioned with the club, just disappointed with Paul Mitchell's decision to depart we all believe for Leicester City when he has worked his notice until an agreed date. People move in business and football all the time. The system is in place, the scouting network is in place, we just need a new analyst and initial deal broker who also scouts.

It is claimed that Mitchell grew disillusioned because Sours didn't agree a deal for Michy Batshuayi, who Chelsea stumped up the money for to help Marseille out. We didn't value him to that level.

Paying Bayshuayi the £125,000-a-week that Chelsea are paying him is, in our wage structure, in effect agreeing to a £300,000-a-week increase in wages.

If you bring in a second choice striker on those wages, then other players will want parity. It wouldn't surprise me if Hugo Lloris had a clause in his contract that he has to have parity with our top earner. Harry Kane, Toby Alderweireld, Jan Vertonghen, Mousa Dembele would all be knocking on the door for a wage increase.

In fact the whole squad would be saying you have increased the wage band so we want a new deal. It could have ended up costing Spurs a lot more than £300,000-a-week, which is £15.6-million on the wage bill annually, plus all the extras that come with employment, which could account for a 60% increase (£9.36-million) in that figure taking it to a whopping £24.96-million. And all because you agreed to a £125,000-a-week contract.

The final straw being the rearrangement to a more sensible figure the deal for unheard of Frenchman Georges-Kevin N'Koudou. We may never know who negotiated that first deal, the fact that Mitchell and Mackenzie left looks rather significant. The deal was too generous to Marseille to be a Levy deal, he was trying to drive down the price of Batshuayi but quite happy to splash the cash on a one season winger, when he isn't with any other young winger.