Brendan Rodgers says that, for now, he would prefer to work at Leicester than Tottenham. And that's meritocracy. That's why leagues without true competition are bunk.
There are perhaps two points in history when Tottenham would be considered for entry into a closed-shop competition of European aristocracy.
At the moment, when the primacy of our Premier League places our biggest clubs in exalted positions, and in the early 1960s, which was Tottenham's last title-winning era.
Indeed, when the esteemed writer Brian Glanville argued the inevitability of a European Super League, in 1964, after the success of the fledgling European Cup, he put Tottenham in it, alongside giants such as Real Madrid, Barcelona, both Milan clubs and Manchester United.