For the seventh time in his 12-year tenure as chairman of Tottenham Hotspur, Daniel Levy agreed to a compensation package for a manager, not the sort of consistency football wants.

Reports claim Andre Villas-Boas will be paid £4 million severance money after leaving Spurs "by mutual consent," which will top up the £12 million he received when Chelsea showed the Portuguese the door.

On planet football, nothing succeeds like failure and it is unlikely too many 36-year-olds will have benefited so generously from two golden handshakes.