We used to be a proud club.Apparently its all a big lie.
We used to be proud of the way this club was run. Some of our fans make me sick these days.
Full of swagger , a cavalier ethos.
I am sorry l make you unwell.
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We used to be a proud club.Apparently its all a big lie.
We used to be proud of the way this club was run. Some of our fans make me sick these days.
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This does't include the reported £6-10million we got for Sandro as well.
Apparently its all a big lie.
We used to be proud of the way this club was run. Some of our fans make me sick these days.
We used to be a proud club.
Full of swagger , a cavalier ethos.
I am sorry l make you unwell.
Sammy,
We can still be proud of the way the club is run if we spend money on some good players.. That's a must these days if you want to compete..
I'm not sure whether you go to games or not but I speak from my own situation and I spend quite a lot of money following Spurs and feel we are entitled to see the best players playing for us.
Watching the club make a profit in a transfer window makes me feel somewhat let down, will my season ticket come down in price?
I'm not into signing players because they are a CL superstar, I leave that to Woolwich fans, but wanting a top striker to admire week in week out is not going against any traditions the club has or had.
We badly needed a striker who could bang in 25 goals a season and we are going to be left with Kane and Soldado when the AFCON begins.. That's just irresponsible and will bite us on the arse big time..
Fans wanting that said striker is not being unreasonable or going against club traditions, it's common sense and one that we deserve...
Also very interesting that we have the 6th highest purchased gross, with no CL and no sugar daddy.
But because we sell for a profit and stay self sufficient, people are actually complaining about spending.
Can you actually believe that.
We spent 110M last season in trying to do that and are still waiting to see those players take off.
Who knows, maybe in a few years you'll be watching them in a nice new stadium that didnt bankrupt us...
I'm convinced I will be watching us in the new stadium and levy and co have done a decent job in sorting that out for us.. But spending 20m on astriker would not have affected that during this window.. We made a profit Ffs, had we spent 20m then it would have still been a very cheap window..
I know we couldn't have signed falcao or DI Maria but there are plenty of good players around for that money that we could have gone for..
Kane and Soldado and being in 4 comps is madness.
I would not be surprised if he was given the choice.Yes, great, but who? When I heard Welbeck was going for 18M I didnt want him, and rightly so we pulled out...I also wouldnt have minded Remy, or Bony.....has anyone stopped to think that maybe Poch didnt though...?
NDP is a myth. Didn't you know?Probably because £400m stadia are expensive and require some saving for. Remember how long the Goons went big money signingless after opening the Emirates?
Difference is, blokes like Glazer are saddling their club with hundreds of millions of pounds of debt in the process (buying the club with money they didn't have, and putting those loans ONTO the club!) and then selling thousands or even millions of shares that goes into THEIR pockets.Joe Lewis ($4.2 B) is worth more than John Henry ($1.1 B) or Stan Kroenke ($4.0 B), and only slightly less than the Glazer family ($4.4 B). So that's simply incorrect.
Spurs generate less revenue than the Top 5, but vastly, exponentially more than most of the teams ahead of them in the net spend table.
I don't know if you've noticed, but these players tend to cost around £50m and they prefer to earn around £250k-£300k/week.We badly needed a striker who could bang in 25 goals a season
I don't know the answer to this so it is a genuine question, but do we actually have all the money that we supposedly have received? Aren't some deals through installments?
Correct.Yeah but you would likely pay in installments so that would balance out I guess.
Though I know nothing of how transfers are made so this is just guess work.
God net spend is such a useless abomination of a statistic.
Transfer fees are amortised over the period of the player's contract, so it makes little sense to complain that we haven't "bought" this summer (or before) when we still have our THREE BIGGEST FEES EVER PAID on the books!
Look at City: they "spent" huge this summer, even without a lot of incomings simply because they still have huge fees on their books from the previous years.
It may be the case that there is no greater short-termist, instant gratification, fuck-you-pay-me, sky-modern-football way of looking at a club than net spend.
Sounds like everything is rosy in your garden.This is all good. We have a low net spend because although we do spend a lot on players, the trend is that we buy lowish, develop and then sell very high. Additionally, we have one of the best development squads and Levy seems to get a staggering fee on some of the shite off casts we sell.
Over the last decade our squad size and quality has increased significantly too. No doubt about that.
So the system works.
But do we actually NEED to spend more money, or CAN we spend more money (in that, will the players above the bracket we are buying actually come to Spurs?)Net spend per window is myopic but net spend over five years isn't.