If at almost any point in the Premier League era, and indeed for much of the period back to the departure of Bill Nicholson in 1974, you had suggested that Tottenham Hotspur's best players had no need to leave the club in search of glory, you'd be considered quite mad.
In the last 10 years alone, Spurs have lost the likes of Gareth Bale, Luka Modric, Dimitar Berbatov and Michael Carrick to bigger fish, both at home and abroad. But as this January transfer window shuts, their prime asset has announced that anyone leaving White Hart Lane now would be "stupid.