New buildings rise from the ground at Tottenham Hotspur, not just the £750 million stadium but a 46-room lodge at the training ground in which players (and, Daniel Levy hopes, overseas teams paying their way in rent) can stay overnight. There is vast investment in Spurs’ future.

But exactly what sort of future is actively debated in a dressing room when players see this money going into bricks and mortar and wonder if the priorities are right, if more of that cash should not be rewarding their work. As one source put it, “it’s all well and good spending £20 million-plus on somewhere for the players to sleep at the training ground but they have to want to stay”.

This may seem the last question