Tottenham have dodged a bullet as Barcelona make first bad decision of the transfer window

 Things had been going reasonably well for Barcelona during the current transfer window.

Despite being over a billion euros in debt, some financial wizardry allowed the club to sign Ferran Torres and register Dani Alves, as well as promoting a number of young Barca B players into the first-team.

Joan Laporta and his board were, and are, well on the way to lifting the club out of the huge mess that they found themselves in after the horrendous mismanagement of the previous regime.

There hadn’t really been a bad decision made by the current board… until now.