The best part about building a £1.2bn stadium is the endless sense of possibility. Tottenham Hotspur has been reinvented. Progressive house is blasted over the speakers. The branding is slick, the nods to history subtle.

Everything about a matchday at Thomas Frank’s Tottenham tells you this is a club being jolted into the future. And then you turn a corner. Onto Whitehall Street, where tourists lap up selfies with the 25-foot mural. He’s One of Our Own.

He is not, of course, contractually, in that he plays for Bayern Munich and in fact scored the opening goal in a 4-0 victory, when the Harry Kane of the here and now met his old haunts in a pre-season friendly.

In another sense, he will always be synonymous with Spurs, both as record goalscorer and their greatest player of the 21st cent

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