Yes, greed took over and the amount that they were prepared to pay him, tickled his vanity. Whilst I could understand his frustration at not playing at spurs, his public outburst about how pleased he was to leave, said a great deal about this character: afterall isn't everything supposed to stay...
Our current recruitment team gets a lot of deserved praise, so we have to be consistent, and accept that Pilchard must have some ability for the club to have been prepared to pay whatever millions it was in the end. But you are right in that, with so much to prove, he was so ineffective. Perhaps...