Tottenham will revert to their transfer policy of signing younger players this summer and target players priced between £10-15million.

Spurs chairman Daniel Levy says the club will return to its “comfort zone” after the disastrous big-money signings of the likes of Roberto Soldado and Erik Lamela.

Tottenham spent over £100million on seven new players after Gareth Bale was sold to Real Madrid for a world-record £86million in the summer of 2013. The money spent included £26m on Soldado, £30m on Lamela and £17m on Paulinho.

The minutes of the Tottenham board’s latest meeting with members of The Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust, which was held this week, have revealed that Spurs will move away from that big-spending strategy this summer.

The minutes, which were published on the Trust’s website, said: “THFC’s transfer comfort zone was with younger players around the £10-15m price range and they would look to return to that policy. They felt that moving away from this strategy in summer 2013 had not worked well.”

However, Levy maintains that he backed then Spurs head coach Andre Villas-Boas and technical director Franco Baldini after the sale of Bale.

Villas-Boas has claimed that Levy had failed the bring in the players he had asked for that summer. But the minutes read: “Daniel Levy was keen to stress the club had backed the Coach and Technical Director with those purchases.”