I think it would be worth it, assuming that substantive progress is made on NDP. If serious moves are made there, think it would be fine to break wage structure a small bit as a statement of intent. You'd still have to talk Ade way, way down, though. If Spurs broken the wage structure to a significant degree then the other players are going to expect more, too. The positive is that very few clubs can afford Ade's wages. He's run the circuit of clubs in the EPL, and all the top clubs have extremely settled strike forces (unless Andy Carroll keeps underwhelming). It's like his choices are Spurs, or impress enough that Real Madrid has another go at him. There's no doubt that's where he really wants to be, but it's an awful long shot to pin ALL your hopes on a move to one specific club. Especially when they didn't extend his loan or exercise their option to buy.
He's a mercenary through and through, and wages are incredibly important to him, but I just don't know that I see it happening. I think he's gonna blow away the EPL this year but still his wages awfully limit him to a very few select clubs, many of which he's already played for and been passed over. All we can hope for is that he enjoys his playing time enough that he'd rather take a paycut to 110k a week and keep playing, instead of taking 170k a week kicking the ball around with Citeh's youth squad.
Wishful thinking, probably. If he keeps playing like he has been, I think he'd be well worth breaking the wage structure. Especially since I've heard so many warnings about his terrible work rate, I've been blown away by his off the ball movement. We didn't see that with ANY of our strikers last season. I've thought all along that a prototypical big man up front would really unlock the team's potential. Someone who can muscle the defense around and present a genuine attacking threat, holding up play as well. We didn't see that last season at all and as a result it looked like opposing teams focused on covering Bale and VdV. After all, why bother covering Pav or Crouch?
The exception to this might be Leandro. If we make a move for Leandro in the Jan. window and he looks to be in good form, doing all of those things that I just mentioned, he'd likely be a much more cost effective alternative to Ade. Still, we'd need to pick up another big man, unless Harry Kane starts growing by leaps and bounds. Thank god Leandro just got injured for 6 weeks. He's been on such a tear I'm worried we'll be priced out of the move.
Oh well, what the fuck do I know?
/rant