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Meant to say Eriksen & Levy, but obviously you were too stupid to work it out!
We all get rinsed by auto correct some times...
Such pedantry round here is often light-hearted.
Oh someone is touchy
not as stupid as being able to actually spell people’s names correctly, once I could understand but twice in one sentence.
What are you cunts arguing about? It isn’t obvious reading through the posts.
I hope Eriksen stays, but I imagine he only will if he’s on parity with Harry et al. That’s what I’d want if I was him.
If he’s been vaguely wise with his money he’s probably got £20m in the bank/assets by now. He can double that easy by the end of his career if he gets 200k a week.
So then it becomes a question. Do you spend all your best years at Spurs, maybe do something special and end your career with £40m in the bank, or;
do you high-tail it to Madrid, get 50% of the game time, undoubtedly win lots of trophies at the cost of a somewhat empty career, and finish with about £60m.
I dunno, but beyond £40m I imagine extra money has a decreasing rate of return in terms of worth to you and your life. At that point you’ve already got luxury houses around the world, investments, the cars and the yachts not to mention your grandchildren’s life of luxury secure. You’re basically just acquiring more for more’s sake.
Eriksen seems like a bright guy. If he is, he’ll realise that the life of the footballer is to spend the rest of your life sitting in your Sunseeker wishing you were still a footballer. So it really matters that you achieve all you can in your career and have no regrets. Is that at Spurs or in Spain? We’ll find out soon enough.
I hope Eriksen stays, but I imagine he only will if he’s on parity with Harry et al. That’s what I’d want if I was him.
If he’s been vaguely wise with his money he’s probably got £20m in the bank/assets by now. He can double that easy by the end of his career if he gets 200k a week.
So then it becomes a question. Do you spend all your best years at Spurs, maybe do something special and end your career with £40m in the bank, or;
do you high-tail it to Madrid, get 50% of the game time, undoubtedly win lots of trophies at the cost of a somewhat empty career, and finish with about £60m.
I dunno, but beyond £40m I imagine extra money has a decreasing rate of return in terms of worth to you and your life. At that point you’ve already got luxury houses around the world, investments, the cars and the yachts not to mention your grandchildren’s life of luxury secure. You’re basically just acquiring more for more’s sake.
Eriksen seems like a bright guy. If he is, he’ll realise that the life of the footballer is to spend the rest of your life sitting in your Sunseeker wishing you were still a footballer. So it really matters that you achieve all you can in your career and have no regrets. Is that at Spurs or in Spain? We’ll find out soon enough.
I hadn't mentioned salary caps.... Assumed that was directed at someone else.
I agree that it's a non-starter, but it has little to do with my earlier contradiction.
It's your single-minded outlook on people's motivations i refuted.
(Ditch the moaning about insults.... You're dishing more than enough out yourself .)
...Are we done?
State of this place sometimes, eh.
Of course footballers are paid too much money. And of course we at Tottenham Hotspur hold the moral high ground for refusing to succumb to such ridiculous demands.
And the way all these chairmen and CEO's are milking the gravy train too. They've all got their snouts in the trough of sky billions and £1,000 ST prices.
Nice to see us bucking the trend there too
Tottenham double amount paid to Daniel Levy for the year to more than £6m
Tottenham and Daniel Levy are the highest paid directors and chairmen in British football : coys
Tottenham Hotspur reveal season ticket prices for their new stadium | Daily Mail Online
We may not be able to keep players like Eriksen, or pay them market rate wages. But at least we're doing it the right way .
State of this place sometimes, eh.
Of course footballers are paid too much money. And of course we at Tottenham Hotspur hold the moral high ground for refusing to succumb to such ridiculous demands.
And the way all these chairmen and CEO's are milking the gravy train too. They've all got their snouts in the trough of sky billions and £1,000 ST prices.
Nice to see us bucking the trend there too
Tottenham double amount paid to Daniel Levy for the year to more than £6m
Tottenham and Daniel Levy are the highest paid directors and chairmen in British football : coys
Tottenham Hotspur reveal season ticket prices for their new stadium | Daily Mail Online
We may not be able to keep players like Eriksen. But at least we're doing it the right way .
Christ, you're boring..... EVERYTHING you moan at others for, you do in spades!
The point i was making was barely even about football (let alone Spurs transfer policy) yet somehow you shoehorn a bunch of unrelated quotes in as added vindication to your standard blinkered drivel about Levy and embezzlement.
If it sucks to be Spurs so bad then fuck off you abhorrent, disingenuous window licking cunt.
State of this place sometimes, eh.
Of course footballers are paid too much money. And of course we at Tottenham Hotspur hold the moral high ground for refusing to succumb to such ridiculous demands.
And the way all these chairmen and CEO's are milking the gravy train too. They've all got their snouts in the trough of sky billions and £1,000 ST prices.
Nice to see us bucking the trend there too
Tottenham double amount paid to Daniel Levy for the year to more than £6m
Tottenham and Daniel Levy are the highest paid directors and chairmen in British football : coys
Tottenham Hotspur reveal season ticket prices for their new stadium | Daily Mail Online
We may not be able to keep players like Eriksen, or pay them market rate wages. But at least we're doing it the right way .
Haven't been around that long, but this much seems obvious to me.....
Haven't been around that long, but this much seems obvious to me.....
Oh indeed... Mr Thomas is far from being a deep and diverse read. He crops up to make the same post every few days....
Always quick to attempt to groom a newbie too as' aside from his ever depleting band of sycophants, he's pretty much got zero credibility.
Look who you are backing.......Very harsh. His opinions differ to yours so he's a cunt and I should be banned for giving fellow TFC members the option of reading his take on the situation .
Hmm, this fellow springs to mind
But do carry on suckling on his teet of opinion.
We're not going to agree, so I guess so.
However we can agree on a good result tonight.
State of this place sometimes, eh.
Of course footballers are paid too much money. And of course we at Tottenham Hotspur hold the moral high ground for refusing to succumb to such ridiculous demands.
And the way all these chairmen and CEO's are milking the gravy train too. They've all got their snouts in the trough of sky billions and £1,000 ST prices.
Nice to see us bucking the trend there too
Tottenham double amount paid to Daniel Levy for the year to more than £6m
Tottenham and Daniel Levy are the highest paid directors and chairmen in British football : coys
Tottenham Hotspur reveal season ticket prices for their new stadium | Daily Mail Online
We may not be able to keep players like Eriksen, or pay them market rate wages. But at least we're doing it the right way .
You know that equates to around £120k a week right? That's less than a fair few of our players and certainly less than many of the highest paid players in the league. Do you think those so called players put in the hours Levy does? I imagine most once training is finished, are either off player golf, gambling or increasing their income by promoting some shite somewhere.
You're taking another cunt off and raising it by a cunt off.
err... Yes. This is how a market works! The best wage for Eriksen is what someone will pay. I have no idea what it is but it's significantly north of the £65K a week we pay him. And yes, if others see him being paid it, they will want their share.
When deciding on an individuals remuneration there are three things to consider:
1) Inflation. How much does my salary need to go up to buy the same that I bought last year. At these stratospheric pay levels, inflation is irrelevant.
2) What others get paid (the market rate), so de Bruyne, Hazard, Salah get paid (very roughly) the same. So Sterling is not paid the same as James Tarkowski or Leighton Baines.
3) The ability of the employer to pay (this can be debt, PL money, a country, Mafia, ticket sales, TV money). Pay more than you can afford and (without a backer) you go bust.
These are facts. We can jump up and down and say that everyone should be paid the same, but life isn't like that.
Because Branson owns an island we all should own one?
You're trying to equate what a PL footballer and an MD does. It doesn't work like that.
Both excel at what they do and should be paid according to the principles outlined in the post above.
I wonder where these reports of £110,000 p/w come from? How could anyone know?
Wasn't it also reported that we offered Toby £130,000 p/w though he wanted £180,000?
The only point I'm trying to make is that if we believe these reported figures then surely they don't stack up.
Toby 130 grand > Eriksen 110. At the VERY least Eriksen should be offered what we offered Toby.
Eriksen seems like he knows a thing or two. I imagine he has various investments and also many indorsements further adding to his income. Therefore I believe money wouldn't be his motivation. If his dream move to Barca or Madrid didn't materialize (I do understand it has been his desire to play for either and wouldn't blame him) Then I hope he would still have the ambition and love for us that he would like to stay and help us over the line.
Back to my original point. If the £110,000 offer is true it is an insult imo to a great player. He is now in his prime years and would be very difficult to replace with any money we received for him.
Wasn't it also reported that we offered Toby £130,000 p/w though he wanted £180,000?
The only point I'm trying to make is that if we believe these reported figures then surely they don't stack up.
Toby 130 grand > Eriksen 110. At the VERY least Eriksen should be offered what we offered Toby.
Eriksen seems like he knows a thing or two. I imagine he has various investments and also many indorsements further adding to his income. Therefore I believe money wouldn't be his motivation. If his dream move to Barca or Madrid didn't materialize (I do understand it has been his desire to play for either and wouldn't blame him) Then I hope he would still have the ambition and love for us that he would like to stay and help us over the line.
Back to my original point. If the £110,000 offer is true it is an insult imo to a great player. He is now in his prime years and would be very difficult to replace with any money we received for him.
