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Been posted before, but worth a revisit.Death Star 2.0:
For what it's worth I think we still owe you one cryptic solution.
Play it again Sam
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It obviously fell through but we were interested in him.
Yes it can. If you watched the press conference you would know that. Critical thinking is lacking for you.
I regard a key first team player, if astutely signed to cost £40m tops and for a prospect to cost similar to what Foyth cost if it's done correctly. I think the only exception we'll see to that is if a truly remarkable deal comes up where we push the boat out at say c£25m for a prospect or a record signing at around £50m.
The markets truly become a crazy place that makes it hard for us to compete when you look at all the numbers. We just have to hope that the majority of the teams with a money pimp or a stadium that was given to them for free have lumped their dosh on a settled spine now and the windows will slowly ease up for English clubs. At the moment it seems all a well run club needs to do is show interest in a player and their club/ agent contacts all other rivals domestically to drum up interest and blow them out of the water. It would explain why we like to do our business late when all other clocks have stockpiled their quotas for the season.
Keep our nuts down for 4-5 years, keep this ticking along with the outside chance of a cup or title and then we'll have a little more weight to throw around when it comes to not having to play a certain game with deals in and out. I'd be happy with 1st team signing and a hot kid like a Foyth etc each season to keep this steady. Why spend money that you really don't know will be wisely spent when you have things to pay for at the same time
Can't remember where, but there was a pretty nice piece of financial analysis going around showing that Spurs were spending the least of their income in the league on player wages- and not by an insignificant margin.
If I recall correctly, we are spending 41% of our income on wages while most other clubs are spending at around the 60% mark.
This means we could be spending 50% more on wages and be in line with the average club in the league.
-Same TV revenue as other clubs
-Better CL revenue than all but 3 other clubs
I know we have the stadium and all, but still, we are clearly a rich and profitable club with a rich cash flow. We've got a shit ton of spending power, if we wanted to use it.
ENIC is a business though and they want to grow the value of the asset (THFC) while taking on as little debt as possible (devalues asset).
It's the clash between our fantasy of a club that wants compete above all else versus the reality of a club that wants to compete as much as it can, while always remaining very profitable, while wanting to grow at a rapid pace. Therein lies the rub.
Has to be said a total washout of a transfer window which will hardly be a morale booster as we head into the new stadium.. Bottom line Levy still not willing to pay the going rate in transfer fees, which with all the money awash in the game have gone up. and we are not acting like the 11th wealthiest club in the world! After being told the playing budget was ring fenced it is Interesting to see Poch now quoting the costs of the training ground, the stadium and BREXIT for us not signing a single player!!
Having saved ourselves any transfer fees might we be able to go back to Toby with improved terms? Although the fact that not a single offer came in for him lessons his bargaining power a touch but it would soften the blow of a lack of signings if one of the best CB's in the country committed to a long term contract.
Having saved ourselves any transfer fees might we be able to go back to Toby with improved terms? Although the fact that not a single offer came in for him lessons his bargaining power a touch but it would soften the blow of a lack of signings if one of the best CB's in the country committed to a long term contract.
Ah here’s where’s jesters alias is derived
We have an excellent side. So what if there aren't any new presents under the tree this summer? We're satiated with top class players all throughout as it is. The winter transfer will be the time to add pieces if needed.
Poor Moyes- I actually liked him as Everton coach- was running a nice lil rebel alliance act til he sipped from the poison chalice.
In the last two years Winks played a total of 1200 minutes of PL football and 600 minutes of European football. Last season alone NDombele played just over 2050 minutes of Ligue 1 football and 700 of European football.
NDombele was exactly the type of player we desperately needed, and he was gettable.
Good idea let’s hope Levy makes up for his fuck up during the winter transfer window all will become glaringly clear by then
Do you understand the rules at all? you can't spend money on players that you don't earn, that's not just economics it's FFP and EPL rules ... we currently have an income of 300m that compares with Utd 730m, City 560m, Woolwich 500m, Chelsea 478m and Dippers 431m .... you can't just magic a billion out of thin air ....
It's like you wanting a fleet of Ferraris on a shelf-stackers salary .... never going to happen
Our transfer budget most seasons is invariable zero - we balance the in's with out's - just the same as we've done this window ....
What we have done (and hopefully will continue to do) is increase our wages bill to allow us to keep the good players we already have ....
Only time will tell if that strategy is a good one, but at least it's a realistic one ....
Factor in depreciation tho
What an absolute utter cunt of a human being.Death Star 2.0:
This season, I want us to win a cup (league, FA or Premiership Trophy....anything really) just so I can phone in to TalkSport and tell Adrian Durham that he's a clueless cunt.
Obviously I won't use that word on air.......I'll probably just say stupid cunt.
Obviously I won't use that word on air.......I'll probably just say stupid cunt.
We just won the icc cup
I think that's a fair angle of enquiry, but.... I'll add to that a rhetorical 'is Poch too picky?'.
Dele was a bargain.... Foyth looking good. Tripper 3m Dier 4m...... Eriksen 14m and nice priceless.
We get 'em..... Harry cost nish!
Loans are a funny one... No option to buy you're just developing players for bigger clubs and back to square 1 when they leave. Most times not worth our effort.
I think if we got have got a loan to buy we have been more interested in Kovacic.
Chavs are just keeping him happy for when Modric leaves next summer. Much like Ronaldo/Bale, there's a changing of the guard at the Bernabau.
Everton's starting XI when we beat them at the start of the season last year:
Pickford, Keane, Williams, Martina, Sigurdsson, Schneiderlin, Gueye, Baines, Rooney, Klaassen, Sandro
Probable starting XI this year will be Pickford, Zouma (if he signed in the end) Mina, Digne, Coleman, Gueye, Gomes, Sigurdsson, Richarlison, Bernard, Tosun
3 players from their starting XI last year. Absolutely incredible an established Premier League team does that. Crazy times
I think they should make a very concise and conservative statement about the window.
It'd be a very poor decision to blatantly ignore some of their most passionate supporters.
Media relations people are pros at this stuff and it should be easy to do:
Dear THFC ST: The Club is truly sorry to hear of your displeasure at the results of our activities in this past transfer window. We made our best efforts to find players that could improve the side at a reasonable cost, but in the end, the difficulties in doing so were too great to overcome. We have utmost confidence in the quality of the squad presently assembled and believe we have the quality needed to compete for top honors in the Premier league this season. With investments made to complete our new stadium, as well as to re-sign our beloved manager and World Cup Golden Boot winning Striker, we believe that ultimately we were successful in securing the future of the club despite the lack of transfer activity. As a show of good faith, please find this affixed coupon for 5% off any purchase from our Cheese Room. Love, THFC/ENIC
*Enters Talksport phone number into sim card memory*