He said to Football Insider: “Surely there’s only Daniel Levy that can construct a deal like that, isn’t there? It’s one of the strangest deals that I’ve ever seen, it’s an incredible deal for Tottenham to have.
“Actually, first rights over the player, and if I’m led to believe right what I’ve read, they get a sell-on clause if it’s not them.
“How can you have a piece of a player that’s never played for your club and a sell-on clause?
“If that’s not a Tottenham Hotspur contract I don’t know what is, it’s a great option all around.
“He’s a very, very good player, I think to have first refusal on the player, it’s a really good deal for Tottenham.
“He’s a first-class player, he would do well but there’s a lot of ifs and buts that can happen in the next 6 -12 months.
“The manager at Tottenham may have changed, the system may have changed, the player’s form may have changed.
“But to have basically Daniel Levy’s covered all bases he can bring a really, really good player in if he keeps developing in the same way as he does and the manager, whoever’s in charge at that time, wants him.
“If not, if they get outbid by a bigger and better club around Europe say a European giant, a Real Madrid, a Barcelona, they get a sell-on.