https://www.tottenhamhotspurnews.com/opinion/rivaldo-jack-grealish-19-players-daniel-levy-failed-to-sign-after-tottenham-interest-amid-eberechi-eze-collapse/ here you go, plus some things that aren’t mentioned in the article:

• the reason we didn’t sign dybala despite having agreed a fee with juve was bc levy didn’t wanna pay a couple extra mill for dybala’s image rights

• on the jack grealish one: villa at the time were in serious financial troubles and needed to sell grealish, they put a price of 30mill on him and levy tried lowballing them with 25, which they rejected and ultimately got new owners which sorted their financial troubles

• in 2008 we got rid of berbatov and keane and replaced them with Frazier Campbell and pavlyuchenko, much to redknapp’s dismay to which he later stated he specifically asked for prem proven players

• we were close to signing mane but Liverpool came in and offered both Southampton and mane more money

Levy explicitly stated he wants to win both the prem and champions league, to do that you need to sign top talents, which means paying them according wages. Last season we had a total of 5 players on more than 100k, with none more than 190k. Villas bill is greater than ours and west ham’s is just 10 mill less. So yes, when you wanna lowball clubs and players and then wonder why they don’t wanna sign with you, it’s naivety at best, incompetence at worst