When the chips were down they relied on Bale, every free kick, every break away and counter attack he was the man, not anymore it seems. Tremendous player, bucket loads of ability and will be a massive gap to fill, huge in fact considering how much they relied on him. Can't fault Spurs for taking that amount of money because he is worth nowhere near that, we all know that, even for Levy. To be worried about Spurs for me they would have to throw all his transfer fee back into transfers, Levey won't do that IMO. 25M on Soldado and one or two more signings for relatively decent money and the rest back in the vault. They will take a season to adapt, AVB needs to work with fresh bodies and it will be them to fight it out with Arsenal again for fourth IMO. Going back to the Bale thing, a few weeks back AVB was interviewed after a friendly and he looked completely gaunt and looked like he was completely washed out. I think this must of been the time he was told that Bale was wanting out, even his face against South China said a lot....This could rock Spurs more than anything IMO. If he goes Spurs have one hell of a job picking themselves up.