Levy wasted £21m on Spurs flop who was just a “poor man’s Soldado”
Being one of the biggest clubs in England, Tottenham Hotspur have been blessed with a plethora of sensational players over the years.
The likes of Jimmy Greaves, Gary Lineker, Ledley King and Harry Kane are just some of the supreme talents who have etched their names into the club’s illustrious history, but as the fans will attest, for all the greats they have seen pull on the shirt, there have been plenty of flops as well.
One such example was Spanish striker Roberto Soldado, who joined the club as part of the not-so ‘magnificent seven’ in the summer of 2013.
The former Valencia ace thoroughly underwhelmed in North London and is rightly remembered as one of the most disappointing transfers in the club’s modern history, but just a few years later, Daniel Levy and Co signed another promising attacker who was arguably even worse and went on to cost the club a pretty penny.
Soldado’s underwhelming Spurs stint
In the aftermath of Gareth Bale’s £85m move to Real Madrid in the summer of 2013, Spurs went on a spending spree to try and replace the Welshman’s world-class output, and while the players they signed were nicknamed the ‘magnificent seven’, it would be hard to claim any of them were successes, bar Christian Eriksen, of course.
