Fair enough, sour grapes is too harsh. The point I was trying to make is that players within the confines of Hotspur Way are batoning down the hatches against the media seige, Soldado is still on his way there, probably hasn't been briefed yet, and Caulker is gone and is a free agent to be able to comment, anything he says - literally anything - will offer something for the media to grab hold of that has a degree of authenticity as a legitimate club source.
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That money will allow us to be a better team without Bale, than with Bale.
So, if spent wisely we can become a club that players want to come to instead of the eternal stepping stone..
Or sell him, buy more world class players and challenge for the league with players who want to be here.
Spurs should be looking to challenge the likes of Real Madrid, and while forcing top players to stay might work for a year, he will be gone next summer anyway.
Did no one learn a single thing from Modric and Berbatov? The problem then was that we didnt spend the money in the right areas on the right players.
100M FFS. Bale isnt the best player in the world...not even close. Bite their hand off.
New Premier League TV deal promises £100m prize money for next season's title winners
Manchester United earned a record £60.8 million in Premier League TV money after winning the title – but even the club who finish bottom next season will exceed that income because of the top flight’s huge new broadcasting deals.
Manchester United earned a record £60.8 million in Premier League TV money after winning the title – but even the club who finish bottom next season will exceed that income because of the top flight’s huge new broadcasting deals.
I understand your premise - but what suggests the money would be spent 'wisely' this time around?
By selling our best player in over a decade and the hottest property in world football, how are we perpetuating that image? Year on year, the only time Spurs make the headlines is for being in tumult over their star player wanting to leave. I think Levy has hit upon a good formula - let them wait it out an extra year. The value may decrease, but it's the first step to being one of the big boys. If Bale had played at Norwich or Hull (no offense intended), he would already be gone because their aspiration isn't as high as ours is in the medium term.
I agree with the bit in bold, most definitely. But you have to get there somehow and selling only perpetuates the image that we are a selling club. Look at Woolwich - they've fallen from being title challengers and European semi-finalists to perennial second-rounders and quarter-finalists without anything to show but their copy of the receipt for their former greats.
If we continue to project the image of a selling club, why won't we be seen as a stepping stone? That's all we'll ever be.
http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/8843633/avb:-bale-back-next-weekend
Interview with AVB last week saying Bale will be back for the Monaco game.
If he doesn't fly out with the team then I think he's definitely going.
Interview with AVB last week saying Bale will be back for the Monaco game.
If he doesn't fly out with the team then I think he's definitely going.
Thats the key issue for me...not Bale leaving
The problem in all those cases was not selling the player, but not improving the team with the money. Why pretend we are not a selling club when we clearly are exactly that?
All clubs are...look at Dortmund. Real and Barca lose players too. The difference we need to make, is by becoming a better team without Bale, and thats ALL that matters.
100M can do that. Personally, Id be happy if Bale left, and we signed another top striker and winger.
If Bale wants out, he can fucking do one as far as Im concerned. We are not going to become bigger than Real before his contract runs out, so we can win the PL next season, and it wont matter. He appears to have his head turned, and to be honest, you could see the Billy Big Bollox in him already last season.
100M spent wisely can start this club off in the right direction to becoming a top club. Fuck Real, we COULD be better than them one day, but Bale is already a casualty of silly season, and he cant be saved. Its too late.
As I said, the only thing that matters, is spending the money correctly, and thats where we have failed in the past.
On a side note, fuck agents.
£100M wont go very far Sammy, theres a good article on dml about this.
http://www.dearmrlevy.com/dml/2013/7/31/bale-is-worth-more-than-100m-to-spurs
http://www.dearmrlevy.com/dml/2013/7/31/bale-is-worth-more-than-100m-to-spurs
It's not a gif - it's a .jpeg
I didn't make it myself - simply wanted to demonstrate comparative 'value' since the topic of debate has shifted towards 'reinvesting'
Is that ok with you, buddy?
