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Again, when you've got Kane, I think you've always got a chance of winning football matches, but a lot of problems at Tottenham with a lot of the players' contracts up, that must affect.

Usually you might have one player's contract running up, but I think there's three or four, and that does create problems, and I think that's certainly affecting them.

Are we at a time now, Graham, where we don't know what we're going to get from Tottenham going to Anfield next week?

I've got a little bit of sympathy for Tottenham, because...

They had an exceptional team for two or three years with great talents that I think clubs like United, Real Madrid, big clubs in Europe would have taken their players off them.

And those players know that, so they have a choice to make.

They either sell those players and cash in, like Harry Kane and Dele Alli and Eriksen and all those players, or they keep them and those players won't re-sign a new contract.

And then the contracts run down, so they've been in a bit of a difficult situation.

The big thing with Tottenham is they won't break the wage structure.

They won't go and do what United have done over the last three years and pay people huge money to keep them.

They'll always stick within that.

So they're a little bit the devil in the deep blue sea for Tottenham, I think.

He would have sold them a few years ago.

I think Daniel Levy 10 years ago would have sold them.

It's costing them a problem.

The reason he's kept them this time and not cashed in is because of the new stadium.

He couldn't sell before the new stadium because he needed to have a full stadium.

So I think Pochettino, Kane, Alli, Eriksen, Alderweireld, all these players had to be in the new stadium.

for the fans to buy the season tickets to create that momentum, and I think that he would have cashed in ordinarily Daniel Levy five, ten years ago, would have pulled the money in and got £100 million, £60 million, £80 million off the players, but he hasn't done this time.

It'll be interesting to see what he does with Eriksen in January, because I mean, United, I would imagine, would probably pay £50, £60 million for somebody who's out of contract in four months just to get him.