I agree in sentiment but with a caveat.
My worry is those clubs seem to have endless cash and a proven track record of spending big regularly and winning big regularly.
Spurs do not.
And Roberto De Zerbi will be gone in 2-3yrs (I’m backing him but this is a reality at most clubs let alone Spurs and with this particularly guy). These young players should be sent on loan if not ready for the first team. Bergvall will be better than Tonali in a few years. Likewise Vuskovic > JP van Hecke. There’s a reason why a known selling club wants to go big on Vuskovic - they will sell him for 2-3 times the price next year. We are literally giving free cash away. A good DoF would veto any sale of Vuskovic or Bergvall, and rightly so, because there MUST be long-term planning.
You keep the best youngsters at your club, and sell the peripheral players for profit. That’s the model.
The KDB and Cole Palmer examples are a false narrative - everyone accepts they were errors and certainly isn’t something to hold up to justify selling world class young talent on the cheap.
We may not have won in 2026 in the league, we may have the worst owners, DOF and CEO in the prem, we may be right in a relegation fight and we may have the worst injury crisis in world football, but at least, nah I got nothing