Machiavelli
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True, but unless TB also has a Men In Black-style brain-wiping device to be used when they leave, they will have a very good idea of the players were are looking at now with a view to buying in 2 or 3, perhaps even 5 or 6 years' time. Which is why Ashworth jumping ship to a moneybags rival is probably the biggest setback of all.
Indulge me and elaborate, because I think I disagree with you on this. We won't have info on just one player in each position, but several. In the time frames you suggest, TB et al will be generating new info/data which will mean that player A looks more attractive than player B at time X+2 whereas it was the reverse at time X. That past knowledge that DA has supposedly eloped with to Sportswashing x.O FC will be out of date, shirley.