While they were less successful on the trophy front than the current Tottenham Hotspur team, it would be fair to say the side Mauricio Pochettino built was the best the club has seen in the modern era.
From front to back, the team was filled with simply sensational players who really should have won at least a couple of major honours during their time in North London.
The likes of Harry Kane and a younger Son Heung-min would give opposition defenders nightmares, while Jan Vertonghen and Toby Alderweireld did the same to opposition attackers.
However, arguably, the most talented player in that squad was Mousa Dembélé, and now it looks like Ange Postecoglou might be brewing his own version of the Belgian.
Mousa Dembélé's Spurs career
Dembélé joined Tottenham in the summer of 2012 from fellow Premier League side Fulham for a fee of just £15m, which, in retrospect, has to be looked at as one of the deals of the century.
It didn't take long at all for the former Cottagers star to settle into life with the Lilywhites, scoring his first goal for the club on his debut - a 1-1 draw at home to Norwich City.
He finished his first campaign in North London with two goals and five assists to his name in 44 appearances, and while he looked the part, he only improved when Pochettino took charge ahead of the following season.
Under the Argentine, the Antwerpen-born titan became the all-action "monster," as dubbed by Eric Dier, that he's remembered as today.
It was practically impossible to get the ball off of him, and if he didn't have it, you could be sure that he'd do everything he could to win it off the opposition - usually to great success.
The 37-year-old icon was the engine of that Spurs side, and to say his teammates appreciated him would be a massive understatement, with Kyle Walker once describing him as "the best player I've ever seen play football" and Harry Kane simply calling him "incredible."
After making 249 appearances for the club, in which he scored ten goals and provided ten assists, the midfield maestro finally left in January 2019 to join the Chinese Super League.
However, some of his teammates would have liked him to stay for the rest of that season, as Kieran Trippier would later claim that Spurs could have won the Champions League with him still in the side.
He might have done what the club's new Dembélé did for them against Manchester United on Wednesday night.
The Spurs star becoming their new Dembélé
Okay, so the first thing to say here is that we aren't arguing that anyone in the current Spurs squad is as good a player as Dembélé was, as that would be absurd.
However, there is one youngster who starred on Wednesday night and has some of the characteristics that could see him develop into the team's modern version of the Belgian: Pape Matar Sarr.
The Senegalese international joined Tottenham under Nuno Espírito Santo's reign for around £14.6m, and after spending the 2021/22 season on loan with the French side, made his way to North London, where he has continued to develop since.
Much like the club's former number 19, the 22-year-old is primarily a central midfielder but has the ability and flexibility to play in defensive midfield and, even on occasion, slightly further up the pitch.
In terms of his style of play, the "sensational" dynamo, as dubbed by Spurs content creator tehTrunk, is constantly on the move, be that darting forward to help out in attacks or covering ground to help out the defence, and while he's not quite as safe on the ball, you'd have described the former Lilywhites star in a similar way.
We saw all of these characteristics in Bilbao, with Spurs writer Alasdair Gold awarding him a 9/10 match rating at full-time for his 'constantly running display' and how well he did 'to break up United's play.'
Ultimately, while we would never say Sarr is on the same level as Dembélé, we do think there are parts of his game that are quite similar, and with another few years of development, he could get close.