Anyone else, bar the ridiculous Gary Glitter suggestion
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Looks like a Patpong knock-off Polo to me.I think that whoever it is, they should be well-dressed.
A discrete Ralph or Lacoste polo is fine. Fred Perry too if you're going British, but this?
No. No! NO!!!
Liverpool are comparable. They may have bigger revenue, but the fact of the matter is that they used it wisely, which led to trophies.Yeah, Liverpool are far more successful commercially. They’re well ahead of us in terms of revenue.
Woolwich are comparable.
I think it's American Polo Association or something like that.Looks like a Patpong knock-off Polo to me.
Er, so I've been told.
I think that whoever it is, they should be well-dressed.
A discrete Ralph or Lacoste polo is fine. Fred Perry too if you're going British, but this?
No. No! NO!!!
3 should be oil /gas state or mad/corrupt/scummy billionaire. Then I'd vote for that. Either that or accept that we are the good guys and will never win anything again.
TBH nobody else gives a shit anymore about FFP, etc. so I don't either.
Oh yeah. I should have added tech to the requirements........But we already have that.
Liverpool are comparable. They may have bigger revenue, but the fact of the matter is that they used it wisely, which led to trophies.
It's not about matching their spend, it's about matching their smarts.
I smell a multi.
Somebody who hasn't posted in 5 years, and has never commented in the Enic/Levy thread, suddenly casts a vote.
Mate, I don't disagree with you there on the revenue, but as we've shown ourselves, the real difference isn't in how much you spend, it's how well you spend it. I had a quick check on the expenditure over the last 10 years and we've spent £1.12Bn to their £1.2Bn. Our nett spend over that time is £30M higher though, so the numbers show that they most definitely are comparable when it comes to ability to spend.Yes. They’ve used it wisely but the revenue difference is huge.
In 21/22, it was over 150 million pounds That buys an extra Virgil Van Dyke and a Luis Diaz every year with money to spare.
I agree to some degree.Mate, I don't disagree with you there on the revenue, but as we've shown ourselves, the real difference isn't in how much you spend, it's how well you spend it. I had a quick check on the expenditure over the last 10 years and we've spent £1.12Bn to their £1.2Bn. Our nett spend over that time is £30M higher though, so the numbers show that they most definitely are comparable when it comes to ability to spend.
Interestingly enough, the gooners nett spend is almost double ours, yet you have them as comparable.
I still stand by my point that, for clubs like us, it's not about how much you spend, it's how smart you are with you spending. When we were working our way up the league, starting from Jol's tenure, we were very smart in not just our spending, but also in offloading players that were deemed as surplus to requirements. Obviously, the landscape has changed a great deal since that time, but the principle remains the same.
IMO, that is our single biggest fail, we seemed to have abandoned what was a successful formula. I had hopes that we'd addressed that and were boxing clever with our initial purchases this window, but the CB shenanigans have eroded that hope, though not yet entirely.
Chin up mate, as soon as Saudi trigger the super league, we'll be left with actual FFP and a level playing field. Sure, we'll be a feeder club, but we can always just take oily blood money to pull the ladder up behind us.Honestly whats it matter any more really wanting to say "we won a trophy properly"?
Football has long since sold its soul to the Devil, its getting to the point now where you either join them and sell your soul to some Arab state or billionaire or just accept the Odd Top 4 finish and hopefully a cup run but doing things "the right way"
As much as I hate Levy and Enic though its not like they haven't spent the cash just lately its that it hasn't been spent wisely, and the time when they actually needed to take a gamble was after the CL final, if we had invested wisely then it could have set us up for years, unfortunately though with ENIC the balance sheets will always come before the team, and in football as a business sense that extra capital that is now needed to win is not worth it when getting top 4 will pay so well!
I honesty think for Levy and ENIC the idea is to keep us part of the so called "big six" with as minimal spend as possible and hope the next time the super league idea comes about they can pull it off, for them Spurs is the Goose that lays the golden egg and it does all that without winning and minimal outside investment, dont get me wrong I'm sure Levy would love to see us win something and I feel the amount of chances we have had we should have, its just why would he invest the extra few hundred million that wouldn't be enough to match the likes of City any way, sure maybe we could win a cup but its no guarantee , and im sure thats the way the board looks at things, its all about making the maximum profit and its sickening as the game used to be about Glory!
Before you disagree im not saying this is how I like it, its just cold hard facts , well my opinion of them any way!
2 is what created the opening and led us to the doping clubs buying and destroying football. It's what put dozens of clubs up against the wall over the years. 2 should be illegal.2. It's the only proper choice IMO.