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Our transfers from 2016 to 2019 were awful - no decent players signed, best are probably Suarez and Moura.
And that means we cannot generate any meaningful sales revenues in recent transfers from players bought in that period because nobody will pay much for Suarez, Ndombele, Lo Celso Sessegnon etc. A huge handicap for us
Point me in the direction of the post, any post, where I've 'backed ENIC'
I agree but just because there's a disco on it doesn't mean we have to go.
Sure, I'd like to get to second base but not at the cost of a fortnight in the Maldives for someone who looks like you.
No offence intended.
Anything less than saying Levy is a bald cunt parasite cockroach who drinks the blood of a certain type of children is considered’Backing ENIC’ to the single-minded.
He has not completed his 25 year internship yet
I know Paul pretty well, he's an honest person, and knows the club and some of the staff and players well.
To be fair, though I don't know you, it's fair to say that you are the bigger cunt.
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I doubt he just plucked the idea of a rebuild out his backside.
Someone at the club told him that
Not as ridiculous as Spurs fans OVERPLAYING Scum things to make Spurs look worse!
Back at my computer now... Some FACTS:
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CURRENT WINDOW (as at NOW per TFM):
Arse (m/euros):
23/24 in 231.6 out 19.9 <<< so far = 211.7m
Spurs (m/euros):
23/24 in 136.3 out 11.6 <<< so far = 124.7m
Let's do Livepool for posterity too seeing as they occupy a similar bracket to us and the scum:
23/24 in 112 out 14 <<< so far = 98m
..........Lets see how the rest of the window pans out shall we? ...Fair?
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PREVIOUS WINDOWS (since first full season in NWHL):
Arse (m/euros):
22/23 in 192.3 out 23.8 = 168.5m
21/22 in 167.40 out 31.4 = 136.0m
20/21 in 86 out 19.1 = 66.9m
19/20 in 160.8 out 53.6 = 107.2m
= €478.6m (net spend) / Avg per season = €119.65m
Spurs (m/euros):
22/23 in 177.9 out 38.7 = 139.2m
21/22 in 95.9 out 34.6 = 61.3m
20/21 in 110.50 out 13.3 = 97.2m
19/20 in 150.5 out 64.5 = 86m
= €383.7m (net spend) / Avg per season = €95.92m (Hardly the chasm it has been portrayed to be!)
Liverpool (m/euros):
22/23 in 137.3 out 80.7 = 56.6m
21/22 in 87.0 out 29.5 = 57.5m
20/21 in 84.0 out 17.2 = 66.8m
19/20 in 10.4 out 48.0 = -37.6m
= €143.3m (net spend) / Avg per season = €35.82m
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Wages in pounds (Seeing as goalposts get shifted to wages if/when it suits):
22/23 - Arse 103.5m / THFC 110.4m
21/22 - Arse 93.9m / THFC 89.7m
20/21 - Arse 128.7m / THFC 129.1m
19/20 - Arse 115.4m / THFC 93.1m
Arse = Total £441.5m
THFC = Total £422.3m
Diff = £19.2m / Avg per season = £4.8m
Figures as per:
2019 EPL Team Salary Cap Tracker
A real-time look at the 2019 salary cap totals for each EPL team, including estimated cap space.www.spotrac.com
........Contrary to hype Arse vastly outspending us there either
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This isn't intended to provoke further debate; but:
To Dare Is To Do.
Richard Arlison
ElTel
Please bookmark for future discussion.. It would save a lot of ball-ache.
You can't do a comparisson based on money spent alone.
A left back would cost less than a striker?
It's about the player, position on the field, contract remaining and any buy out clause?
What about free transfers?
The end of the day the PL table dictates who has been more suuccessful irrespective of spend.
Didn't Leicester of a few seasons ago prove that?
What time do you have to be back at the asylum?
Who's to say that over the next ten to twelve days player movement both on and out won't increase?
I said before that the Kane issue once resolved will see all the pieces fall into place.
It's insane for anyone to suggest that the centre backs that we currently have will be the ones that feature on day one of the new season.
There's no way that Levy (selling Kane or not) will not strengthen the one area of the pitch that is the weakest.
No fucking way.
I admire your faith in Daniel Levy , although misplaced, it's refreshing
If we are unable to put onto the pitch on day one of the new season, an objectively better side than we could at the end of last season, then something is seriously wrong with the club.
They need to get moving next week.
I do believe Levy will sign a CB.
Will there be budget for a CB that is a genuine upgrade? If we sell Kane, yes. If we don’t, less sure.
And tbh we need 2
Serious question!! Why don’t we have enough money to buy quality players?????
A "factor" to what tho'.... Honestly.... I don't even know what you've being trying to argue against me over today?
Re-cap.... A claim was made about the scum's recent spending.... I disputed it.... And suitably evidenced that it was not true.
What you haven't explained is where you would draw a cut off instead and what makes that appropriate. The further you go back, the bigger the financial gap between us and the rest of the so-called top 6. (That was the point of the stadium; to help boost our spending power.)
....And why is 2014 suddenly an appropriate marker point?
In the most basic terms; if you wanna look past the cost of the stadium build then you can chuck another 500m in the trf kitty between 14-19 (half of which period was pre-Neymar/Mbappe 2017 market inflation).
......Is that even true? ....According to what criteria? ....According to what source?
I've been good enough to provide scrutinise-able data. It's not fitting that you'd require me to swallow unsubstantiated counter-claims on face value... Esp. given how routinely false they (in general) transpire to be.
With all respect to you individually; I'm not sure I really care so don't but a gut replying on my account.... Anything that does get credibly established with genuine data just gets thrown into the bin in favour of emotion almost immediately anyway.......
- "Kronke has been spending £200m per season" - Myth busted.
- "Arse have been vastly outspending us on wages" - Myth busted.
- When Spurs spend Bale money "Net spend is what matters"; yet when Arse spend Gross is king.
- Last year: "It's cheating to count Romero, Kulu & Porro" cos they've not been finalised yet / This year: "It's cheating to count Kulu & Porro cos they were signed last year. Ditto Romero the year before.
It's boring as fuck.
We're not big spenders, but equally we're not vastly outspent by the teams in our 'wealth bracket' either.... Have we been poor operators in the transfer market since our spending levels rose back up and undone much of the on-field progress we made under Poch..? Sure..... If one wishes to attribute that solely to poor strategy from the top; so be it cos yeh, ultimately anyone that has contributed to that floundering was ultimately hired by Levy at some point.
Bollocks to much of the rest of the fake-news-frenzy and anger-porn that gets flung about here on a daily basis tho'.
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Yeah I'm sure with us selling Kane and them being linked to more players with no big sales on the horizon we're about to make up that gap if we just wait!
He didn't....... Sadly........
He trolled one of our lot into a drunken swing of the leg that likely saw them banned for the foreseeable.