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That’s the difference between us as supporters though Devonshire. You are chuffed with the club pulling in money through boxing and concert avenues. That floats your boat, it doesn’t me mate. I want to see this club win trophies. I couldn’t careless about the next Anthony Joshua fight because it doesn’t fully get invested on the field anyway. If so, where is the striker we desperately needed this season? And the creative midfielder?
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TBF Don, apart from a couple of NFL matches which have already taken place, the AJ fight is the first event held at the stadium post covid. Think Lady Gaga and a couple more NFL matches are also scheduled in the coming months soon so too early to say where that extra revenue is going to be spent but from memory Levy has stated the funds will go into the team. Time will tell.
Personnally I think there are more funds to spend as we were bidding for the Inter Milan striker and were linked to Adama before the window closed.
Maybe we will spend again in January who knows? I think from Levy's point of view he probably put a halt on spending after signing Royal due to the fear of another lockdown and losing more money.
I don't agree with it and like you we should have gone in for in for Edoaurd at the very least for under £20m. No brainer.
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Levy also stated we would be playing fast attacking football with our DNA under a new manager too mate. Then appointed a well known defensive manager in Nuno forgive me Luka if I don’t believe a f** word that bald f** says mate sorry
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comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 3 hours, 27 minutes ago
I think the only good thing about Spurs these days is our stadiumit’s an amazing stadium it really is. The best in the world and I love going there, but a stadium like that deserves a world class team playing in it. Shame we have so far never seen the level of investment for the revenue this stadium rakes in. Yes I know Covid happened, but now there is no excuse.
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Spurs transfer spending:
Pre-New Stadium:
15/16 - £64m. Net -£15m
16/17 - £75m. Net 28m
17/18 - £111m. Net £18m
18/19 - £0. Net -£4m.
After Stadium completion:
19/20 - £133m - Net £65m
20/21 - £100m - Net £88m
21/22 - £60m - Net £30m so far.
But don't let a few facts spoil your bitter narrative.
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So, we basically have spent the same pre stadium to after we built itthat’s all your facts tell me.
In 3 years prior to the stadium being built we spent 250 mil, as I’m not counting the 0 spend season.
In 3 years after the stadium, we have spent 293 mil
Wow, a huge 40 mil difference in a 3 years period
No bitter narrative whatsoever. Just stating facts. The club think success is built on a lemonade budget and that’s the truth of it
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Strangely you have forgotten the year when we spent £0. I would have thought that was etched on your memory forever.
SO taking the 4 years, £250m spend = £62.5m per season.
FOr the following 3 years, £293m spend = £96.7m per season.
And one of those seasons (last) was mid pandemic, and this season we've had just the one window.
SO an extra £30m spent in gross terms in the 3 windows since.
ANd if you look at our net spend, which you also like to bang on about over and over, then in the 4 years before new WHL, it was a total of £27m (or £6.75m per season).
Since the opening its £183m or £61 per season.
SO overall, gross spending up about £35m a season and net up about £55m
These are the plain, unspun facts accurately represented. The actual truth!
How can you justifying this comment:
"Shame we have so far never seen the level of investment for the revenue this stadium rakes in."
I will not hold my breath!
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Check above mate. We have spent less than Crystal Palace this season when the team needed the most investment. You are never going to convince me that Spurs show ambition in the market because they simply don’t mate. The level of investment needed for Spurs to truly compete and win honours, which clearly the club feel they are at with the stadium etc, they don’t show anywhere near the level of ambition needed. That’s facts Devonshire.
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This is truly pathetic. We also added Romero & Gollini to the squad at no cost this year , so its not just as simple as saying we've spent less than Palace this season, quality has been added to the squad.
And lets just revisit your original statement:
"Shame we have so far never seen the level of investment for the revenue this stadium rakes in. "
How much did the stadium rake in last season when it was closed virtually all season?
You are trying to make the case that we have not spent the extra money made from the stadium, based on 1 window in 7 since its been open, when Palace (who lost 8 players from their first team squad this summer) outspent us by £5m.
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comment by LukaBrasi COYS #FreePalestine (U22178)
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comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 3 minutes ago
That’s the difference between us as supporters though Devonshire. You are chuffed with the club pulling in money through boxing and concert avenues. That floats your boat, it doesn’t me mate. I want to see this club win trophies. I couldn’t careless about the next Anthony Joshua fight because it doesn’t fully get invested on the field anyway. If so, where is the striker we desperately needed this season? And the creative midfielder?
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TBF Don, apart from a couple of NFL matches which have already taken place, the AJ fight is the first event held at the stadium post covid. Think Lady Gaga and a couple more NFL matches are also scheduled in the coming months soon so too early to say where that extra revenue is going to be spent but from memory Levy has stated the funds will go into the team. Time will tell.
Personnally I think there are more funds to spend as we were bidding for the Inter Milan striker and were linked to Adama before the window closed.
Maybe we will spend again in January who knows? I think from Levy's point of view he probably put a halt on spending after signing Royal due to the fear of another lockdown and losing more money.
I don't agree with it and like you we should have gone in for in for Edoaurd at the very least for under £20m. No brainer.
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Levy also stated we would be playing fast attacking football with our DNA under a new manager too mate. Then appointed a well known defensive manager in Nunoforgive me Luka if I don’t believe a f** word that bald f** says mate sorry
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He never said anything about fast attacking football Don. You are misguided there mate.
"I have said it many times and I will say it again – everything we do is in the long-term interests of the Club. I have always been and will continue to be ambitious for our Club and its fans.
As a Club we have been so focused on delivering the stadium and dealing with the impact of the pandemic, that I feel we lost sight of some key priorities and what’s truly in our DNA. Our work in the community and with the NHS is an example of when we get it right, but we don’t get everything right. It has never been because we don’t care about or respect you, our fans – nothing could be further from the truth."
Depends how you interpret DNA. It could mean maintaining a bottlejob approach as we have shown to do over the last 30 years under ENIC...
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comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 3 hours, 27 minutes ago
I think the only good thing about Spurs these days is our stadiumit’s an amazing stadium it really is. The best in the world and I love going there, but a stadium like that deserves a world class team playing in it. Shame we have so far never seen the level of investment for the revenue this stadium rakes in. Yes I know Covid happened, but now there is no excuse.
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Spurs transfer spending:
Pre-New Stadium:
15/16 - £64m. Net -£15m
16/17 - £75m. Net 28m
17/18 - £111m. Net £18m
18/19 - £0. Net -£4m.
After Stadium completion:
19/20 - £133m - Net £65m
20/21 - £100m - Net £88m
21/22 - £60m - Net £30m so far.
But don't let a few facts spoil your bitter narrative.
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So, we basically have spent the same pre stadium to after we built itthat’s all your facts tell me.
In 3 years prior to the stadium being built we spent 250 mil, as I’m not counting the 0 spend season.
In 3 years after the stadium, we have spent 293 mil
Wow, a huge 40 mil difference in a 3 years period
No bitter narrative whatsoever. Just stating facts. The club think success is built on a lemonade budget and that’s the truth of it
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Strangely you have forgotten the year when we spent £0. I would have thought that was etched on your memory forever.
SO taking the 4 years, £250m spend = £62.5m per season.
FOr the following 3 years, £293m spend = £96.7m per season.
And one of those seasons (last) was mid pandemic, and this season we've had just the one window.
SO an extra £30m spent in gross terms in the 3 windows since.
ANd if you look at our net spend, which you also like to bang on about over and over, then in the 4 years before new WHL, it was a total of £27m (or £6.75m per season).
Since the opening its £183m or £61 per season.
SO overall, gross spending up about £35m a season and net up about £55m
These are the plain, unspun facts accurately represented. The actual truth!
How can you justifying this comment:
"Shame we have so far never seen the level of investment for the revenue this stadium rakes in."
I will not hold my breath!
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Check above mate. We have spent less than Crystal Palace this season when the team needed the most investment. You are never going to convince me that Spurs show ambition in the market because they simply don’t mate. The level of investment needed for Spurs to truly compete and win honours, which clearly the club feel they are at with the stadium etc, they don’t show anywhere near the level of ambition needed. That’s facts Devonshire.
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This is truly pathetic. We also added Romero & Gollini to the squad at no cost this year , so its not just as simple as saying we've spent less than Palace this season, quality has been added to the squad.
And lets just revisit your original statement:
"Shame we have so far never seen the level of investment for the revenue this stadium rakes in. "
How much did the stadium rake in last season when it was closed virtually all season?
You are trying to make the case that we have not spent the extra money made from the stadium, based on 1 window in 7 since its been open, when Palace (who lost 8 players from their first team squad this summer) outspent us by £5m.
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Gollini isn’t 1st choice. Lloris is still our number 1, so that makes no difference to our starting 11 as it stands. Romero I’ll give you as we desperately needed a vented back and chances are, he will be our 1st choice defender soon. Quality in other areas hasn’t though or are you just conveniently forgetting the serious lack of ambition in getting in a back up striker and creative midfielder? Of course not with your pro Levy/ ENIC narrative
Apologies Don - You are right.
"We shall focus on the recruitment of a new Head Coach. We are acutely aware of the need to select someone whose values reflect those of our great Club and return to playing football with the style for which we are known – free-flowing, attacking and entertaining – whilst continuing to embrace our desire to see young players flourish from our Academy alongside experienced talent."
The more I read his statement the more frustrated I am. He never mentions winning trophies once.
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That’s the difference between us as supporters though Devonshire. You are chuffed with the club pulling in money through boxing and concert avenues. That floats your boat, it doesn’t me mate. I want to see this club win trophies. I couldn’t careless about the next Anthony Joshua fight because it doesn’t fully get invested on the field anyway. If so, where is the striker we desperately needed this season? And the creative midfielder?
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TBF Don, apart from a couple of NFL matches which have already taken place, the AJ fight is the first event held at the stadium post covid. Think Lady Gaga and a couple more NFL matches are also scheduled in the coming months soon so too early to say where that extra revenue is going to be spent but from memory Levy has stated the funds will go into the team. Time will tell.
Personnally I think there are more funds to spend as we were bidding for the Inter Milan striker and were linked to Adama before the window closed.
Maybe we will spend again in January who knows? I think from Levy's point of view he probably put a halt on spending after signing Royal due to the fear of another lockdown and losing more money.
I don't agree with it and like you we should have gone in for in for Edoaurd at the very least for under £20m. No brainer.
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Levy also stated we would be playing fast attacking football with our DNA under a new manager too mate. Then appointed a well known defensive manager in Nunoforgive me Luka if I don’t believe a f** word that bald f** says mate sorry
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He never said anything about fast attacking football Don. You are misguided there mate.
"I have said it many times and I will say it again – everything we do is in the long-term interests of the Club. I have always been and will continue to be ambitious for our Club and its fans.
As a Club we have been so focused on delivering the stadium and dealing with the impact of the pandemic, that I feel we lost sight of some key priorities and what’s truly in our DNA. Our work in the community and with the NHS is an example of when we get it right, but we don’t get everything right. It has never been because we don’t care about or respect you, our fans – nothing could be further from the truth."
Depends how you interpret DNA. It could mean maintaining a bottlejob approach as we have shown to do over the last 30 years under ENIC...
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Mate, Spurs DNA means attacking mate. That’s pretty obvious isn’t it ? Ok, he didn’t utter the words “attacking”, but every man and his dog knows Spurs as a football club historically are known for their attacking football, so when Levy mentions about restoring our DNA and sounding out a manager to do that, yet opts for a manager that is the complete opposite to that, what do you expect Mate ?
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That’s the difference between us as supporters though Devonshire. You are chuffed with the club pulling in money through boxing and concert avenues. That floats your boat, it doesn’t me mate. I want to see this club win trophies. I couldn’t careless about the next Anthony Joshua fight because it doesn’t fully get invested on the field anyway. If so, where is the striker we desperately needed this season? And the creative midfielder?
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TBF Don, apart from a couple of NFL matches which have already taken place, the AJ fight is the first event held at the stadium post covid. Think Lady Gaga and a couple more NFL matches are also scheduled in the coming months soon so too early to say where that extra revenue is going to be spent but from memory Levy has stated the funds will go into the team. Time will tell.
Personnally I think there are more funds to spend as we were bidding for the Inter Milan striker and were linked to Adama before the window closed.
Maybe we will spend again in January who knows? I think from Levy's point of view he probably put a halt on spending after signing Royal due to the fear of another lockdown and losing more money.
I don't agree with it and like you we should have gone in for in for Edoaurd at the very least for under £20m. No brainer.
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Levy also stated we would be playing fast attacking football with our DNA under a new manager too mate. Then appointed a well known defensive manager in Nunoforgive me Luka if I don’t believe a f** word that bald f** says mate sorry
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He never said anything about fast attacking football Don. You are misguided there mate.
"I have said it many times and I will say it again – everything we do is in the long-term interests of the Club. I have always been and will continue to be ambitious for our Club and its fans.
As a Club we have been so focused on delivering the stadium and dealing with the impact of the pandemic, that I feel we lost sight of some key priorities and what’s truly in our DNA. Our work in the community and with the NHS is an example of when we get it right, but we don’t get everything right. It has never been because we don’t care about or respect you, our fans – nothing could be further from the truth."
Depends how you interpret DNA. It could mean maintaining a bottlejob approach as we have shown to do over the last 30 years under ENIC...
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Mate, Spurs DNA means attacking mate. That’s pretty obvious isn’t it ? Ok, he didn’t utter the words “attacking”, but every man and his dog knows Spurs as a football club historically are known for their attacking football, so when Levy mentions about restoring our DNA and sounding out a manager to do that, yet opts for a manager that is the complete opposite to that, what do you expect Mate ?
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Agreed Don.
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Apologies Don - You are right.
"We shall focus on the recruitment of a new Head Coach. We are acutely aware of the need to select someone whose values reflect those of our great Club and return to playing football with the style for which we are known – free-flowing, attacking and entertaining – whilst continuing to embrace our desire to see young players flourish from our Academy alongside experienced talent."
The more I read his statement the more frustrated I am. He never mentions winning trophies once.
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There you go then mate, I was right. Attacking football he mentions. Then goes and appoints Nuno, who’s basically Mourinho with a Santa Claus beard.
The facts are the only player we have bought this summer that could potentially improve our 1st 11 by a distance is Romero. Emerson Royal possibly too, as I don’t think you could get any worse than Aurier and Doherty. We have needed a lot more than this though. We desperately needed a creative midfielder, but this hasn’t been implemented. We desperately needed extra goals in this team because we lost both Vinicius and Bale. This hasn’t been implemented. Instead we are still relying on Son and Kane for the 6th season running. I’m sorry Devonshire, but I’m not bowing down to your extremely pro Levy and ENIC narrative.
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The facts are the only player we have bought this summer that could potentially improve our 1st 11 by a distance is Romero. Emerson Royal possibly too, as I don’t think you could get any worse than Aurier and Doherty. We have needed a lot more than this though. We desperately needed a creative midfielder, but this hasn’t been implemented. We desperately needed extra goals in this team because we lost both Vinicius and Bale. This hasn’t been implemented. Instead we are still relying on Son and Kane for the 6th season running. I’m sorry Devonshire, but I’m not bowing down to your extremely pro Levy and ENIC narrative.
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So a creative midfield and a striker.......
What's that do you reckon £120m You think we should have spent £180m. Fair enough, but i think you were always going to be disappointed.
I just base my judgement and expectations in the real world, not fantasy football
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comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
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The facts are the only player we have bought this summer that could potentially improve our 1st 11 by a distance is Romero. Emerson Royal possibly too, as I don’t think you could get any worse than Aurier and Doherty. We have needed a lot more than this though. We desperately needed a creative midfielder, but this hasn’t been implemented. We desperately needed extra goals in this team because we lost both Vinicius and Bale. This hasn’t been implemented. Instead we are still relying on Son and Kane for the 6th season running. I’m sorry Devonshire, but I’m not bowing down to your extremely pro Levy and ENIC narrative.
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So a creative midfield and a striker.......
What's that do you reckon £120mYou think we should have spent £180m. Fair enough, but i think you were always going to be disappointed.
I just base my judgement and expectations in the real world, not fantasy football
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Yes mate I do. In the real world and I’m talking in the football world here, if you want to compete with the very best and win majour honours, then you simply have to spend that sort of money to compete, otherwise what is the point of the stadium etc ? It’s clear Spurs want to compete with the very best, but seem to think they can do it on a consistent basis by spending less than all the other top clubs. 100% I reckon we should have spent another 120 mil on a creative midfielder and a striker because in the long run, it would have payed off. We would be equipped to win trophies and potentially challenging the league, plus a huge chance of CL qualification again, which returns any spend we made in the market. The club don’t do this enough for me.
All this extra revenue and increased spending on players that the Levyista`s like to point out, and yet we are still bottom of the pile for percentage of revenue spent on wages.
We still don`t pay the top wages to attract the top players to the club, barring a few established players, we don`t pay wages at a level commensurate with our (increased) revenues. We spend around 38% of turnover on wages, which is admirable, but doesnt attract real top talent.
We have missed out on several big name players due to being outbid on wages, players will always follow the money but Levy is too tight to pay what they are worth.
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Apologies Don - You are right.
"We shall focus on the recruitment of a new Head Coach. We are acutely aware of the need to select someone whose values reflect those of our great Club and return to playing football with the style for which we are known – free-flowing, attacking and entertaining – whilst continuing to embrace our desire to see young players flourish from our Academy alongside experienced talent."
The more I read his statement the more frustrated I am. He never mentions winning trophies once.
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There you go then mate, I was right. Attacking football he mentions. Then goes and appoints Nuno, who’s basically Mourinho with a Santa Claus beard.
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Your folks must’ve taken you to some proper sheite Santa’s when you were a kid Don
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You have to give Nuno a chance though Don. Every good team has the basis of a good defence. You cannot blame Nuno from building from the back.
If we played gun ho football from the off we would leak goals and Nuno would be open to " He doesn't know to defend" comments. With our history I don't blame him for his approach. It's sensible. Build a solid base then work out how to dismantle teams. The introduction of Ndombele, with GLC returning is a sign Nuno is moving the team forward. The performances have improved slowly attacking wise but we are leaking goals mainly due individual mistakes.
If we can cut them out we have a half a chance.
comment by ● Billy The Yidd ● 2020* 2021* ENIC OUT! (U3924)
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All this extra revenue and increased spending on players that the Levyista`s like to point out, and yet we are still bottom of the pile for percentage of revenue spent on wages.
We still don`t pay the top wages to attract the top players to the club, barring a few established players, we don`t pay wages at a level commensurate with our (increased) revenues. We spend around 38% of turnover on wages, which is admirable, but doesnt attract real top talent.
We have missed out on several big name players due to being outbid on wages, players will always follow the money but Levy is too tight to pay what they are worth.
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Firstly, if you increase your revenue over night by opening a new bigger stadium, wages will not go up at the same time. Not until new players and new contracts come in, across the board.
Great example is NDombele. Big marquee signing after the stadium opened and is on, apparently, nearly £200k a week. Players get pay rises on merit. Kane might want out but it aint because of money.
As for losing out on players on wages, who? show me!
Plus, if you look at Romero, hes reported only £60k a week. which seems like not a lot but its doubled his Juve/Atalanta wage. If we pay him £150k a week it doesnt make him a better playerand we'd all agree he's not a cheap bargin signing.
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All this extra revenue and increased spending on players that the Levyista`s like to point out, and yet we are still bottom of the pile for percentage of revenue spent on wages.
We still don`t pay the top wages to attract the top players to the club, barring a few established players, we don`t pay wages at a level commensurate with our (increased) revenues. We spend around 38% of turnover on wages, which is admirable, but doesnt attract real top talent.
We have missed out on several big name players due to being outbid on wages, players will always follow the money but Levy is too tight to pay what they are worth.
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Firstly, if you increase your revenue over night by opening a new bigger stadium, wages will not go up at the same time. Not until new players and new contracts come in, across the board.
Great example is NDombele. Big marquee signing after the stadium opened and is on, apparently, nearly £200k a week. Players get pay rises on merit. Kane might want out but it aint because of money.
As for losing out on players on wages, who? show me!
Plus, if you look at Romero, hes reported only £60k a week. which seems like not a lot but its doubled his Juve/Atalanta wage. If we pay him £150k a week it doesnt make him a better playerand we'd all agree he's not a cheap bargin signing.
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The stadium has been open a lot longer than overnight. We have had the lowest wage bill per percentage of revenue in the PL for years.
Mane for example, chose Pool over us because they offered more wages, he was shown around our training ground, a fee was agreed and he was keen join, but eventually chose Pool after they offered wages Levy would not match. There are countless others.
Obviously you don`t pay more than you need to, to acquire the player you want, particularly when there is little competition and the player is keen to join. The issue is not offering players enough when they have a choice of clubs.
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comment by ● Billy The Yidd ● 2020* 2021* ENIC OUT! (U3924)
posted 2 hours, 24 minutes ago
All this extra revenue and increased spending on players that the Levyista`s like to point out, and yet we are still bottom of the pile for percentage of revenue spent on wages.
We still don`t pay the top wages to attract the top players to the club, barring a few established players, we don`t pay wages at a level commensurate with our (increased) revenues. We spend around 38% of turnover on wages, which is admirable, but doesnt attract real top talent.
We have missed out on several big name players due to being outbid on wages, players will always follow the money but Levy is too tight to pay what they are worth.
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Firstly, if you increase your revenue over night by opening a new bigger stadium, wages will not go up at the same time. Not until new players and new contracts come in, across the board.
Great example is NDombele. Big marquee signing after the stadium opened and is on, apparently, nearly £200k a week. Players get pay rises on merit. Kane might want out but it aint because of money.
As for losing out on players on wages, who? show me!
Plus, if you look at Romero, hes reported only £60k a week. which seems like not a lot but its doubled his Juve/Atalanta wage. If we pay him £150k a week it doesnt make him a better playerand we'd all agree he's not a cheap bargin signing.
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The stadium has been open a lot longer than overnight. We have had the lowest wage bill per percentage of revenue in the PL for years.
Mane for example, chose Pool over us because they offered more wages, he was shown around our training ground, a fee was agreed and he was keen join, but eventually chose Pool after they offered wages Levy would not match. There are countless others.
Obviously you don`t pay more than you need to, to acquire the player you want, particularly when there is little competition and the player is keen to join. The issue is not offering players enough when they have a choice of clubs.
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Mane chose Liverpool at a time when we were in the UCL and they weren't. they had just ended 8th us 3rd.
At tHe time he followed the money, which says more about him than it does us.
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That’s the difference between us as supporters though Devonshire. You are chuffed with the club pulling in money through boxing and concert avenues. That floats your boat, it doesn’t me mate. I want to see this club win trophies. I couldn’t careless about the next Anthony Joshua fight because it doesn’t fully get invested on the field anyway. If so, where is the striker we desperately needed this season? And the creative midfielder?
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TBF Don, apart from a couple of NFL matches which have already taken place, the AJ fight is the first event held at the stadium post covid. Think Lady Gaga and a couple more NFL matches are also scheduled in the coming months soon so too early to say where that extra revenue is going to be spent but from memory Levy has stated the funds will go into the team. Time will tell.
Personnally I think there are more funds to spend as we were bidding for the Inter Milan striker and were linked to Adama before the window closed.
Maybe we will spend again in January who knows? I think from Levy's point of view he probably put a halt on spending after signing Royal due to the fear of another lockdown and losing more money.
I don't agree with it and like you we should have gone in for in for Edoaurd at the very least for under £20m. No brainer.
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Levy also stated we would be playing fast attacking football with our DNA under a new manager too mate. Then appointed a well known defensive manager in Nuno forgive me Luka if I don’t believe a f** word that bald f** says mate sorry
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comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
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comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 3 hours, 27 minutes ago
I think the only good thing about Spurs these days is our stadiumit’s an amazing stadium it really is. The best in the world and I love going there, but a stadium like that deserves a world class team playing in it. Shame we have so far never seen the level of investment for the revenue this stadium rakes in. Yes I know Covid happened, but now there is no excuse.
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Spurs transfer spending:
Pre-New Stadium:
15/16 - £64m. Net -£15m
16/17 - £75m. Net 28m
17/18 - £111m. Net £18m
18/19 - £0. Net -£4m.
After Stadium completion:
19/20 - £133m - Net £65m
20/21 - £100m - Net £88m
21/22 - £60m - Net £30m so far.
But don't let a few facts spoil your bitter narrative.
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So, we basically have spent the same pre stadium to after we built itthat’s all your facts tell me.
In 3 years prior to the stadium being built we spent 250 mil, as I’m not counting the 0 spend season.
In 3 years after the stadium, we have spent 293 mil
Wow, a huge 40 mil difference in a 3 years period
No bitter narrative whatsoever. Just stating facts. The club think success is built on a lemonade budget and that’s the truth of it
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Strangely you have forgotten the year when we spent £0. I would have thought that was etched on your memory forever.
SO taking the 4 years, £250m spend = £62.5m per season.
FOr the following 3 years, £293m spend = £96.7m per season.
And one of those seasons (last) was mid pandemic, and this season we've had just the one window.
SO an extra £30m spent in gross terms in the 3 windows since.
ANd if you look at our net spend, which you also like to bang on about over and over, then in the 4 years before new WHL, it was a total of £27m (or £6.75m per season).
Since the opening its £183m or £61 per season.
SO overall, gross spending up about £35m a season and net up about £55m
These are the plain, unspun facts accurately represented. The actual truth!
How can you justifying this comment:
"Shame we have so far never seen the level of investment for the revenue this stadium rakes in."
I will not hold my breath!
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Check above mate. We have spent less than Crystal Palace this season when the team needed the most investment. You are never going to convince me that Spurs show ambition in the market because they simply don’t mate. The level of investment needed for Spurs to truly compete and win honours, which clearly the club feel they are at with the stadium etc, they don’t show anywhere near the level of ambition needed. That’s facts Devonshire.
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This is truly pathetic. We also added Romero & Gollini to the squad at no cost this year , so its not just as simple as saying we've spent less than Palace this season, quality has been added to the squad.
And lets just revisit your original statement:
"Shame we have so far never seen the level of investment for the revenue this stadium rakes in. "
How much did the stadium rake in last season when it was closed virtually all season?
You are trying to make the case that we have not spent the extra money made from the stadium, based on 1 window in 7 since its been open, when Palace (who lost 8 players from their first team squad this summer) outspent us by £5m.
posted on 24/9/21
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 22 seconds ago
comment by LukaBrasi COYS #FreePalestine (U22178)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 3 minutes ago
That’s the difference between us as supporters though Devonshire. You are chuffed with the club pulling in money through boxing and concert avenues. That floats your boat, it doesn’t me mate. I want to see this club win trophies. I couldn’t careless about the next Anthony Joshua fight because it doesn’t fully get invested on the field anyway. If so, where is the striker we desperately needed this season? And the creative midfielder?
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TBF Don, apart from a couple of NFL matches which have already taken place, the AJ fight is the first event held at the stadium post covid. Think Lady Gaga and a couple more NFL matches are also scheduled in the coming months soon so too early to say where that extra revenue is going to be spent but from memory Levy has stated the funds will go into the team. Time will tell.
Personnally I think there are more funds to spend as we were bidding for the Inter Milan striker and were linked to Adama before the window closed.
Maybe we will spend again in January who knows? I think from Levy's point of view he probably put a halt on spending after signing Royal due to the fear of another lockdown and losing more money.
I don't agree with it and like you we should have gone in for in for Edoaurd at the very least for under £20m. No brainer.
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Levy also stated we would be playing fast attacking football with our DNA under a new manager too mate. Then appointed a well known defensive manager in Nunoforgive me Luka if I don’t believe a f** word that bald f** says mate sorry
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He never said anything about fast attacking football Don. You are misguided there mate.
"I have said it many times and I will say it again – everything we do is in the long-term interests of the Club. I have always been and will continue to be ambitious for our Club and its fans.
As a Club we have been so focused on delivering the stadium and dealing with the impact of the pandemic, that I feel we lost sight of some key priorities and what’s truly in our DNA. Our work in the community and with the NHS is an example of when we get it right, but we don’t get everything right. It has never been because we don’t care about or respect you, our fans – nothing could be further from the truth."
Depends how you interpret DNA. It could mean maintaining a bottlejob approach as we have shown to do over the last 30 years under ENIC...
posted on 24/9/21
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 11 seconds ago
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 28 minutes ago
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 3 hours, 27 minutes ago
I think the only good thing about Spurs these days is our stadiumit’s an amazing stadium it really is. The best in the world and I love going there, but a stadium like that deserves a world class team playing in it. Shame we have so far never seen the level of investment for the revenue this stadium rakes in. Yes I know Covid happened, but now there is no excuse.
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Spurs transfer spending:
Pre-New Stadium:
15/16 - £64m. Net -£15m
16/17 - £75m. Net 28m
17/18 - £111m. Net £18m
18/19 - £0. Net -£4m.
After Stadium completion:
19/20 - £133m - Net £65m
20/21 - £100m - Net £88m
21/22 - £60m - Net £30m so far.
But don't let a few facts spoil your bitter narrative.
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So, we basically have spent the same pre stadium to after we built itthat’s all your facts tell me.
In 3 years prior to the stadium being built we spent 250 mil, as I’m not counting the 0 spend season.
In 3 years after the stadium, we have spent 293 mil
Wow, a huge 40 mil difference in a 3 years period
No bitter narrative whatsoever. Just stating facts. The club think success is built on a lemonade budget and that’s the truth of it
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Strangely you have forgotten the year when we spent £0. I would have thought that was etched on your memory forever.
SO taking the 4 years, £250m spend = £62.5m per season.
FOr the following 3 years, £293m spend = £96.7m per season.
And one of those seasons (last) was mid pandemic, and this season we've had just the one window.
SO an extra £30m spent in gross terms in the 3 windows since.
ANd if you look at our net spend, which you also like to bang on about over and over, then in the 4 years before new WHL, it was a total of £27m (or £6.75m per season).
Since the opening its £183m or £61 per season.
SO overall, gross spending up about £35m a season and net up about £55m
These are the plain, unspun facts accurately represented. The actual truth!
How can you justifying this comment:
"Shame we have so far never seen the level of investment for the revenue this stadium rakes in."
I will not hold my breath!
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Check above mate. We have spent less than Crystal Palace this season when the team needed the most investment. You are never going to convince me that Spurs show ambition in the market because they simply don’t mate. The level of investment needed for Spurs to truly compete and win honours, which clearly the club feel they are at with the stadium etc, they don’t show anywhere near the level of ambition needed. That’s facts Devonshire.
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This is truly pathetic. We also added Romero & Gollini to the squad at no cost this year , so its not just as simple as saying we've spent less than Palace this season, quality has been added to the squad.
And lets just revisit your original statement:
"Shame we have so far never seen the level of investment for the revenue this stadium rakes in. "
How much did the stadium rake in last season when it was closed virtually all season?
You are trying to make the case that we have not spent the extra money made from the stadium, based on 1 window in 7 since its been open, when Palace (who lost 8 players from their first team squad this summer) outspent us by £5m.
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Gollini isn’t 1st choice. Lloris is still our number 1, so that makes no difference to our starting 11 as it stands. Romero I’ll give you as we desperately needed a vented back and chances are, he will be our 1st choice defender soon. Quality in other areas hasn’t though or are you just conveniently forgetting the serious lack of ambition in getting in a back up striker and creative midfielder? Of course not with your pro Levy/ ENIC narrative
posted on 24/9/21
Apologies Don - You are right.
"We shall focus on the recruitment of a new Head Coach. We are acutely aware of the need to select someone whose values reflect those of our great Club and return to playing football with the style for which we are known – free-flowing, attacking and entertaining – whilst continuing to embrace our desire to see young players flourish from our Academy alongside experienced talent."
The more I read his statement the more frustrated I am. He never mentions winning trophies once.
posted on 24/9/21
comment by LukaBrasi COYS #FreePalestine (U22178)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 22 seconds ago
comment by LukaBrasi COYS #FreePalestine (U22178)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 3 minutes ago
That’s the difference between us as supporters though Devonshire. You are chuffed with the club pulling in money through boxing and concert avenues. That floats your boat, it doesn’t me mate. I want to see this club win trophies. I couldn’t careless about the next Anthony Joshua fight because it doesn’t fully get invested on the field anyway. If so, where is the striker we desperately needed this season? And the creative midfielder?
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TBF Don, apart from a couple of NFL matches which have already taken place, the AJ fight is the first event held at the stadium post covid. Think Lady Gaga and a couple more NFL matches are also scheduled in the coming months soon so too early to say where that extra revenue is going to be spent but from memory Levy has stated the funds will go into the team. Time will tell.
Personnally I think there are more funds to spend as we were bidding for the Inter Milan striker and were linked to Adama before the window closed.
Maybe we will spend again in January who knows? I think from Levy's point of view he probably put a halt on spending after signing Royal due to the fear of another lockdown and losing more money.
I don't agree with it and like you we should have gone in for in for Edoaurd at the very least for under £20m. No brainer.
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Levy also stated we would be playing fast attacking football with our DNA under a new manager too mate. Then appointed a well known defensive manager in Nunoforgive me Luka if I don’t believe a f** word that bald f** says mate sorry
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He never said anything about fast attacking football Don. You are misguided there mate.
"I have said it many times and I will say it again – everything we do is in the long-term interests of the Club. I have always been and will continue to be ambitious for our Club and its fans.
As a Club we have been so focused on delivering the stadium and dealing with the impact of the pandemic, that I feel we lost sight of some key priorities and what’s truly in our DNA. Our work in the community and with the NHS is an example of when we get it right, but we don’t get everything right. It has never been because we don’t care about or respect you, our fans – nothing could be further from the truth."
Depends how you interpret DNA. It could mean maintaining a bottlejob approach as we have shown to do over the last 30 years under ENIC...
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Mate, Spurs DNA means attacking mate. That’s pretty obvious isn’t it ? Ok, he didn’t utter the words “attacking”, but every man and his dog knows Spurs as a football club historically are known for their attacking football, so when Levy mentions about restoring our DNA and sounding out a manager to do that, yet opts for a manager that is the complete opposite to that, what do you expect Mate ?
posted on 24/9/21
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 5 seconds ago
comment by LukaBrasi COYS #FreePalestine (U22178)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 22 seconds ago
comment by LukaBrasi COYS #FreePalestine (U22178)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 3 minutes ago
That’s the difference between us as supporters though Devonshire. You are chuffed with the club pulling in money through boxing and concert avenues. That floats your boat, it doesn’t me mate. I want to see this club win trophies. I couldn’t careless about the next Anthony Joshua fight because it doesn’t fully get invested on the field anyway. If so, where is the striker we desperately needed this season? And the creative midfielder?
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TBF Don, apart from a couple of NFL matches which have already taken place, the AJ fight is the first event held at the stadium post covid. Think Lady Gaga and a couple more NFL matches are also scheduled in the coming months soon so too early to say where that extra revenue is going to be spent but from memory Levy has stated the funds will go into the team. Time will tell.
Personnally I think there are more funds to spend as we were bidding for the Inter Milan striker and were linked to Adama before the window closed.
Maybe we will spend again in January who knows? I think from Levy's point of view he probably put a halt on spending after signing Royal due to the fear of another lockdown and losing more money.
I don't agree with it and like you we should have gone in for in for Edoaurd at the very least for under £20m. No brainer.
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Levy also stated we would be playing fast attacking football with our DNA under a new manager too mate. Then appointed a well known defensive manager in Nunoforgive me Luka if I don’t believe a f** word that bald f** says mate sorry
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He never said anything about fast attacking football Don. You are misguided there mate.
"I have said it many times and I will say it again – everything we do is in the long-term interests of the Club. I have always been and will continue to be ambitious for our Club and its fans.
As a Club we have been so focused on delivering the stadium and dealing with the impact of the pandemic, that I feel we lost sight of some key priorities and what’s truly in our DNA. Our work in the community and with the NHS is an example of when we get it right, but we don’t get everything right. It has never been because we don’t care about or respect you, our fans – nothing could be further from the truth."
Depends how you interpret DNA. It could mean maintaining a bottlejob approach as we have shown to do over the last 30 years under ENIC...
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Mate, Spurs DNA means attacking mate. That’s pretty obvious isn’t it ? Ok, he didn’t utter the words “attacking”, but every man and his dog knows Spurs as a football club historically are known for their attacking football, so when Levy mentions about restoring our DNA and sounding out a manager to do that, yet opts for a manager that is the complete opposite to that, what do you expect Mate ?
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Agreed Don.
posted on 24/9/21
comment by LukaBrasi COYS #FreePalestine (U22178)
posted 30 seconds ago
Apologies Don - You are right.
"We shall focus on the recruitment of a new Head Coach. We are acutely aware of the need to select someone whose values reflect those of our great Club and return to playing football with the style for which we are known – free-flowing, attacking and entertaining – whilst continuing to embrace our desire to see young players flourish from our Academy alongside experienced talent."
The more I read his statement the more frustrated I am. He never mentions winning trophies once.
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There you go then mate, I was right. Attacking football he mentions. Then goes and appoints Nuno, who’s basically Mourinho with a Santa Claus beard.
posted on 24/9/21
The facts are the only player we have bought this summer that could potentially improve our 1st 11 by a distance is Romero. Emerson Royal possibly too, as I don’t think you could get any worse than Aurier and Doherty. We have needed a lot more than this though. We desperately needed a creative midfielder, but this hasn’t been implemented. We desperately needed extra goals in this team because we lost both Vinicius and Bale. This hasn’t been implemented. Instead we are still relying on Son and Kane for the 6th season running. I’m sorry Devonshire, but I’m not bowing down to your extremely pro Levy and ENIC narrative.
posted on 24/9/21
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 4 minutes ago
The facts are the only player we have bought this summer that could potentially improve our 1st 11 by a distance is Romero. Emerson Royal possibly too, as I don’t think you could get any worse than Aurier and Doherty. We have needed a lot more than this though. We desperately needed a creative midfielder, but this hasn’t been implemented. We desperately needed extra goals in this team because we lost both Vinicius and Bale. This hasn’t been implemented. Instead we are still relying on Son and Kane for the 6th season running. I’m sorry Devonshire, but I’m not bowing down to your extremely pro Levy and ENIC narrative.
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So a creative midfield and a striker.......
What's that do you reckon £120m You think we should have spent £180m. Fair enough, but i think you were always going to be disappointed.
I just base my judgement and expectations in the real world, not fantasy football
posted on 24/9/21
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 4 minutes ago
The facts are the only player we have bought this summer that could potentially improve our 1st 11 by a distance is Romero. Emerson Royal possibly too, as I don’t think you could get any worse than Aurier and Doherty. We have needed a lot more than this though. We desperately needed a creative midfielder, but this hasn’t been implemented. We desperately needed extra goals in this team because we lost both Vinicius and Bale. This hasn’t been implemented. Instead we are still relying on Son and Kane for the 6th season running. I’m sorry Devonshire, but I’m not bowing down to your extremely pro Levy and ENIC narrative.
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So a creative midfield and a striker.......
What's that do you reckon £120mYou think we should have spent £180m. Fair enough, but i think you were always going to be disappointed.
I just base my judgement and expectations in the real world, not fantasy football
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Yes mate I do. In the real world and I’m talking in the football world here, if you want to compete with the very best and win majour honours, then you simply have to spend that sort of money to compete, otherwise what is the point of the stadium etc ? It’s clear Spurs want to compete with the very best, but seem to think they can do it on a consistent basis by spending less than all the other top clubs. 100% I reckon we should have spent another 120 mil on a creative midfielder and a striker because in the long run, it would have payed off. We would be equipped to win trophies and potentially challenging the league, plus a huge chance of CL qualification again, which returns any spend we made in the market. The club don’t do this enough for me.
posted on 24/9/21
All this extra revenue and increased spending on players that the Levyista`s like to point out, and yet we are still bottom of the pile for percentage of revenue spent on wages.
We still don`t pay the top wages to attract the top players to the club, barring a few established players, we don`t pay wages at a level commensurate with our (increased) revenues. We spend around 38% of turnover on wages, which is admirable, but doesnt attract real top talent.
We have missed out on several big name players due to being outbid on wages, players will always follow the money but Levy is too tight to pay what they are worth.
posted on 24/9/21
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posted on 24/9/21
comment by Ace (U22467)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 55 minutes ago
comment by LukaBrasi COYS #FreePalestine (U22178)
posted 30 seconds ago
Apologies Don - You are right.
"We shall focus on the recruitment of a new Head Coach. We are acutely aware of the need to select someone whose values reflect those of our great Club and return to playing football with the style for which we are known – free-flowing, attacking and entertaining – whilst continuing to embrace our desire to see young players flourish from our Academy alongside experienced talent."
The more I read his statement the more frustrated I am. He never mentions winning trophies once.
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There you go then mate, I was right. Attacking football he mentions. Then goes and appoints Nuno, who’s basically Mourinho with a Santa Claus beard.
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Your folks must’ve taken you to some proper sheite Santa’s when you were a kid Don
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posted on 24/9/21
You have to give Nuno a chance though Don. Every good team has the basis of a good defence. You cannot blame Nuno from building from the back.
If we played gun ho football from the off we would leak goals and Nuno would be open to " He doesn't know to defend" comments. With our history I don't blame him for his approach. It's sensible. Build a solid base then work out how to dismantle teams. The introduction of Ndombele, with GLC returning is a sign Nuno is moving the team forward. The performances have improved slowly attacking wise but we are leaking goals mainly due individual mistakes.
If we can cut them out we have a half a chance.
posted on 24/9/21
comment by ● Billy The Yidd ● 2020* 2021* ENIC OUT! (U3924)
posted 2 hours, 24 minutes ago
All this extra revenue and increased spending on players that the Levyista`s like to point out, and yet we are still bottom of the pile for percentage of revenue spent on wages.
We still don`t pay the top wages to attract the top players to the club, barring a few established players, we don`t pay wages at a level commensurate with our (increased) revenues. We spend around 38% of turnover on wages, which is admirable, but doesnt attract real top talent.
We have missed out on several big name players due to being outbid on wages, players will always follow the money but Levy is too tight to pay what they are worth.
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Firstly, if you increase your revenue over night by opening a new bigger stadium, wages will not go up at the same time. Not until new players and new contracts come in, across the board.
Great example is NDombele. Big marquee signing after the stadium opened and is on, apparently, nearly £200k a week. Players get pay rises on merit. Kane might want out but it aint because of money.
As for losing out on players on wages, who? show me!
Plus, if you look at Romero, hes reported only £60k a week. which seems like not a lot but its doubled his Juve/Atalanta wage. If we pay him £150k a week it doesnt make him a better playerand we'd all agree he's not a cheap bargin signing.
posted on 24/9/21
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 6 hours, 57 minutes ago
comment by ● Billy The Yidd ● 2020* 2021* ENIC OUT! (U3924)
posted 2 hours, 24 minutes ago
All this extra revenue and increased spending on players that the Levyista`s like to point out, and yet we are still bottom of the pile for percentage of revenue spent on wages.
We still don`t pay the top wages to attract the top players to the club, barring a few established players, we don`t pay wages at a level commensurate with our (increased) revenues. We spend around 38% of turnover on wages, which is admirable, but doesnt attract real top talent.
We have missed out on several big name players due to being outbid on wages, players will always follow the money but Levy is too tight to pay what they are worth.
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Firstly, if you increase your revenue over night by opening a new bigger stadium, wages will not go up at the same time. Not until new players and new contracts come in, across the board.
Great example is NDombele. Big marquee signing after the stadium opened and is on, apparently, nearly £200k a week. Players get pay rises on merit. Kane might want out but it aint because of money.
As for losing out on players on wages, who? show me!
Plus, if you look at Romero, hes reported only £60k a week. which seems like not a lot but its doubled his Juve/Atalanta wage. If we pay him £150k a week it doesnt make him a better playerand we'd all agree he's not a cheap bargin signing.
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The stadium has been open a lot longer than overnight. We have had the lowest wage bill per percentage of revenue in the PL for years.
Mane for example, chose Pool over us because they offered more wages, he was shown around our training ground, a fee was agreed and he was keen join, but eventually chose Pool after they offered wages Levy would not match. There are countless others.
Obviously you don`t pay more than you need to, to acquire the player you want, particularly when there is little competition and the player is keen to join. The issue is not offering players enough when they have a choice of clubs.
posted on 25/9/21
comment by ● Billy The Yidd ● 2020* 2021* ENIC OUT! (U3924)
posted 8 hours, 23 minutes ago
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 6 hours, 57 minutes ago
comment by ● Billy The Yidd ● 2020* 2021* ENIC OUT! (U3924)
posted 2 hours, 24 minutes ago
All this extra revenue and increased spending on players that the Levyista`s like to point out, and yet we are still bottom of the pile for percentage of revenue spent on wages.
We still don`t pay the top wages to attract the top players to the club, barring a few established players, we don`t pay wages at a level commensurate with our (increased) revenues. We spend around 38% of turnover on wages, which is admirable, but doesnt attract real top talent.
We have missed out on several big name players due to being outbid on wages, players will always follow the money but Levy is too tight to pay what they are worth.
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Firstly, if you increase your revenue over night by opening a new bigger stadium, wages will not go up at the same time. Not until new players and new contracts come in, across the board.
Great example is NDombele. Big marquee signing after the stadium opened and is on, apparently, nearly £200k a week. Players get pay rises on merit. Kane might want out but it aint because of money.
As for losing out on players on wages, who? show me!
Plus, if you look at Romero, hes reported only £60k a week. which seems like not a lot but its doubled his Juve/Atalanta wage. If we pay him £150k a week it doesnt make him a better playerand we'd all agree he's not a cheap bargin signing.
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The stadium has been open a lot longer than overnight. We have had the lowest wage bill per percentage of revenue in the PL for years.
Mane for example, chose Pool over us because they offered more wages, he was shown around our training ground, a fee was agreed and he was keen join, but eventually chose Pool after they offered wages Levy would not match. There are countless others.
Obviously you don`t pay more than you need to, to acquire the player you want, particularly when there is little competition and the player is keen to join. The issue is not offering players enough when they have a choice of clubs.
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Mane chose Liverpool at a time when we were in the UCL and they weren't. they had just ended 8th us 3rd.
At tHe time he followed the money, which says more about him than it does us.
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