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Carlito Brigante said:
How many premiership clubs have gone close to the wall since Leeds?
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CJJ said:
Liverpool, for one.

You can't pretend debt doesn't exist by ignorance
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I'll name another: Chelsea. They were fucked, which is why the ambramovic deal took 15 minutes.....

Chelsea were on the brink before takeover

Indeed, in his autobiography, Totally Frank, Frank Lampard recalls a team meeting with former CEO Trevor Birch ahead of Chelsea's last game of the 2002/03 season, a few weeks before Abramovich took over: "'I need to tell you something very important,' said Birch...'In order to ensure that Chelsea FC will still exist next season, you have to make the Champions League. In short, if you fail to beat Liverpool then the club will go out of business.'"
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Chelsea: Where Would the Blues Be Without Roman Abramovich's Billions?

effectively, if they hadnt beaten liverpool, would the russian have bought them? They may have survived, but they would never have been a success..they would have been the next leeds or portsmouth.
 
Add to that list Southampton, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, QPR, Palace, Coventry, Bradford, Ipswich, Derby, Leicester, Hull...

Not all Prem. But big clubs, and Leeds were technically in the championship when they went into administration.

Outside the Prem you can consider Parma, Rangers, Fiorentina...
 
Blanchflower said:
City have spent millions on marketing teams to raise their profile - they literally have an office floor of people calling every company in the world asking if they want to sponsor them.

Chelsea have 1 or 2 people fulfilling the same role.
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City Football Group (the Holding Company that owns ALL of Mansour & Mubarak Football interests globally)
Regent's Place 14th Floor,
10 Brock Street,
London,
NW1 3FG
Employees at least 80 people.
 
Not a comment on our transfer window, more the general transfer activity that's surrounded us for the past few years.

We now have two teams of 11 that give us options, with a couple of blowouts but overall our transfer activity has been remarkable

Lloris £8m
Trippier £3.5m
Davies £11m
Alderweireld £11.5
Vertonghen £9.5m
Dier £5m
Wanyama £11m
Dembele £15m
Eriksen £11.5
Alli £5m
Kane £0m
£91m! Basically the same as a Pogba for a whole first 11 that looks like that!

Vorm £3.5m
Aurier £23m
Foyth £9.5m
Sanchez £40m
Rose £1m
Winks. £0m
Sissoko £30m
Lamela £30m
Son £22m
Edwards £0m
Llorente £12m
£171m

Our total squad spend comes to £262m with a majority of our lump fees coming from newbies or fringe players.

When you think that a player like Gylfi Sigurdsson who couldn't make it in our team cost about 1/6th of what it cost to build the whole squad, its remarkable that Levy has been able to not only build a top class 22 to choose from, giving the manager and squad a promise of rest whenever any player on the part requires it if need be but he's done so running the club as an efficient business as well. That's got to be the hardest thing to do and he's done it remarkably.

I don't think you'll find a chairman anywhere that runs its finances so well, stays competitive and when a manager really wants a player, is prepared to back them and spend big (Lamela, Sissoko, Sanchez etc)

We got Levy, Woolwich get Kroenke and the Spammers the two Davids. Very lucky to have pound for pound the best chairman in the league regardless of what anyone thinks about him. Top businessman, top negotiator, top at being ruthless when it's needed for the best interests of Tottenham and he has to go down as the best pound for pound chairman in the league as far as I'm concerned. He's gone about his business, hasn't been sucked into the soul selling insanity that is the transfer window and most important of all has kept Tottenham Tottenham.

Our whole squad cost only £60m more than Neymar cost yet finished 2nd with the youngest squad, in the most competitive league in the world. Teams and chairman really must be envious of how we go about what we do.

We like to give him stick but it ain't his money, he doesn't own the club. He's done a remarkable job that puts us on the cusp of dreams we never felt possible, all through patience, growth and readjusting when required. Very impressive stuff that separates us from most of the league
 
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Park Lane Mark Twain said:
We got Levy, Woolwich get Kroenke and the Spammers the two Davids. Very lucky to have pound for pound the best chairman in the league regardless of what anyone thinks about him. Top businessman, top negotiator, top at being ruthless when it's needed for the best interests of Tottenham and he has to go down as the best pound for pound chairman in the league as far as I'm concerned.
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Ohhh. You're going to be in trouble with John Thomas John Thomas :)
 
[QUOTE="Park Lane Mark Twain, post: 1312460, . Very lucky to have pound for pound the best chairman in the league regardless of what anyone thinks about him. Top businessman, top negotiator, top at being ruthless when it's needed for the best interests of Tottenham and he has to go down as the best pound for pound chairman in the league

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Since he's 2 foot high and 6 1/2 stone l see your point .
 
This is Levy on Poch, an extract from the new book on Poch being launched now.

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