Certainly in summer 2018 (I think) Eriksen was turned down for a move. I'd hate to sell domestically and hope that we could repeat the Modric transfer (who was being pursued by Chelsea) but we allowed Madrid to take him.
Its always up to buying club to persuade player to leave Spurs, usually for higher wages or more sun in Spain !
Never easy and never going to be popular but results of NOT agreeing Eriksen's sale in 2018 was a lack of funds to buy his successor which is coming home to roost now. Its a classic case of a small amount of jam today for a couple of seasons if you keep an older player or (hopefully) lots of jam tomorrow or actually maybe 10 seasons if you sell and buy right.
Yes, the summer before he left is the absolute latest we should've sold him, didn't he want Madrid who didn't seem fussed about wanting him? Might've been paper talk.
I'm also against selling a top player to a domestic rival, wasn't so fussed about Walker (don't regard him as a top player) going for crazy money, just a shocker that we recruited so badly for so long at RB (and generally).
I remember the Modric affair well, he tried to publicly engineer a move to Chelsea for £40m and Levy quite rightly told him and his agent to fuck off. He sulked for a few weeks and then had an excellent season. We sold him at the end of it for £30m(ish) to Madrid which did him a massive favour to be honest, what a career he's had.
As an aside, Harry was manager then and complained that he was struggling with Modric after the Chelsea affair, that the lad wasn't training properly and maybe it'd be better to sell him and invest the money on new players.
Cut to a year or two later when Harry was now managing QPR and he said that Spurs were a good club but their problem was they sold their best players like Modric!!
Selective memory from Harry as per!