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“Chelsea are a great club, they play in the Champions League every year, they have great players, they are ambitious and have an ambitious owner who wants to invest in the club and make it win the Champions League, the Premier League and other titles. They are going in a great direction and everything about the club is very good.â€

So said Luca Modric in his heartfelt bid to move on to pastures new at the Bridge and with these words you really do wonder why he hasn’t effectively severed any lasting ties he might have had to his present club. But no, not in football, not in a world where fabrication blurs into Fabregas and friends into Defoes at the drop of a want-away quote. In this instance the Media has feasted, along with Levy and ’Arry, on the injustice and ingratitude of it all without once alighting on the most significant phrase in the Modric mitigation plea. Stands out for me, as it surely stands out for Spurs fans after last season’s fall from Champions League grace. Not guessed it yet? Well, I’ll highlight it for you in big, bold print…they are ambitious and have an ambitious owner who wants to invest in the club.

Admittedly, the rest of this paean of praise is just as joyful to our ears as it is cacophonous to the cockerels, but it is this particular double-bladed comparison that cuts like a knife through Levy & Co’s subsequent butter-wouldn’t-melt justification for holding young Luca to his contract. More to the point, it screams out to become the emblazoned headline above every tabloid story that follows the Modric exclusive for the simple reason that everything else Spurs put in the public domain [as a smokescreen] must never be allowed to hide the brutal truth of the matter - that Roman Abramovich embodies driving force and ambition, whereas David Levy goes so far and no further. Sweeping statement this may be, yet because it can be backed up by supporting evidence in so many ways since the turn of the year, I’m going develop the theme…

Let’s start by going back to January and an open window swung wide (of necessity) by Roman with the purchase of David Luiz and Fernando Torres. Okay, it didn’t quite tilt balances in our favour in the coming months, but nobody, apart from a begrudging media, can deny the Russian’s ambition and intent. Meanwhile, down at the Lane you would have found them mulling over a series of bids for Micah Richards, Scott Parker, Craig Bellamy and, of course, Joe Cole. In addition, the ever-present hack-pack surrounding ’Arry were treated to numerous rumour-ridden training sessions with Becks that amounted to mere business puff and there was even a last-gasp bid for Phil Neville to keep us amused and the Spurs faithful totally bemused.

See where I’m coming from on this one? If not, fast forward to a couple of explanatory close-of-season quotes from Redknapp, extolling the glory, glory of fifth place as ’one of the best on record’ and, I kid you not, describing the position as ’as good as it’s going to get’ in a direct ‘idiots’ response to his growing number of detractors. Around about the same time Sky were giving him this perennial platform to make a fool of himself, Chelsea fans were witnessing real ambition in action, as Carlo got the bullet, much to the feigned baying disapproval of press hounds who had gleefully scented his blood since arrival. Like it or not, this speeding bullet was soon followed by more targeting, with further transfers in our sights and Luca Modric on our [or at least somebody’s] mind, bringing us full circle in this tale of comparative ambitiousness.

Except that this circle of malcontent cannot be completed without Levy’s current Berbatov-esque face-saving operation and yet more bizarre quotes from ’Arry, as he ponders on the identity of the Invisible Man behind our effrontery and pulling the strings - "It is very, very strange and difficult to understand, but this has been going on for quite a while, not just this week. It's been going on for the last three or four weeks, since Carlo Ancelotti lost his job. Somebody else at Chelsea is choosing the players - not the new manager.†and on the domino effect our offer has engendered - "Chelsea are not the only club that have been in for him. There have been other clubs - top, top clubs.†- which leads us all to gaze in wonderment at the sheer legitimacy of these undisclosed bids compared to the disgusting naked ambition of our own.

Then again, perhaps we should not be too facetious or critical of a club that has now shown, albeit belatedly, a measure of ambition by fighting hard to keep its top player against his will, or at least for as long as it takes for his price to go up a bit. Anyway, here’s ’Arry once more for a final say on the subject - "But if Tottenham are looking to go anywhere we can't be selling Luka. We have to do something to keep him at the club. We can't afford to sell Luka Modric if we want to be a successful club. If Daniel's saying no he really can't be seen to be going back on that now. He's made a very strong statement. I wouldn't see Daniel backtracking on that at any price."

Cor blimey, hang on a minute, does that mean I must have got that last [hike-in-price] comment wrong then? I suppose, as with most things, only time will tell and while we wait has anybody got any breaking news on who our new boss is… hope he’s young and ambitious.

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