Toff is clearly a top bloke & he has rarely let us down - we should certainly wish him well - but I think describing him as “hard done to” is stretching it quite a long way. He’s a solid player, but in comparison with Neco - let alone Renan Lodi & similar - he’s limited. One brilliant goal-line clearance at Spurs does not change the fundamental facts; we can do better, & the way clubs progress is by gradually increasing the standard of their players.
There’s also the fact that he will be 30 by the start of the season, & he strikes me as the sort of guy who is going to want to play for the next few years, not get splinters in his arse - so even if offered a deal (& we don’t know he wasn’t) would he have taken it? He played 4 games last season.
If he ever comes back to the CG, Toff will get a deservedly warm reception, but let’s not kid ourselves that the club are somehow letting a gem through their fingers just because we all like him, eh?