This is Spurs with their foot on our neck. Don't think Levy isn't enough of a sad little small time cunt for that to be hyperbole. Listen to Dick Law talk about the Özil deal, for example, and Levy's ridiculous behaviour there.
This is Spurs trying to say; things have changed, we're top dogs, we have more money than you and we'll take a player off you as and when we want to.
This is about more than just Saliba now, if they come in at the eleventh hour and take him from us now, we're in big trouble.