We all know the chairman of Spurs football club is infamous for being a tight miser so and so, but this is not uncommon in the transfer windows, when you see how low other clubs have made their offers to us, For example, a certain Turkish club offering €8m for Ndombele?
Plenty of other instances of other clubs low balling us when bidding for our players?
Are we being unfair (just a tad maybe?) to the chairman?
I am not one of his defenders, but when it's fair we should call it out.
Spurs are not the only "cheapskates" in town?
Levy does haggle longer than most and that is very much noticed by all the clubs, the reason why they hate dealing with us.
But we are far from being the only club that does penny pinching in deals.
Of course, some clubs pay whatever is asked for and maybe even more, like Utd, City etc , but they are also a big club and have finances to do so.
Should Spurs start acting like the big clubs that we are as the financesof the club suggest (one of the top 10 richest club with revenue around £442.8 m 2021-22 season)?
Does our chairman need to stop penny pinching and change his own mentality first before asking the players to change theirs?
Should we be going into a bid with the highest bid rather than the lowest one like we do now?
Start acting like one?
posted on 19/7/23
comment by Striketeam7 - the smartest person you know - After 40 years Maf lost his trophy virginity to Florence (U18109)
posted 1 hour, 1 minute ago
comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 3 minutes ago
would like to see more signings like Sarr and Phillips.
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More signings like this keeps you where you are. You want to win things you have to spend a few levels higher
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Bollox, you can progress by spending reasonably as long as you spend well.
Spurs rise from 90’s obscurity to CL regulars was built on bargains like Bale/Berbatov/Modric/Dawson/Carrick/Lennon/Rose/Walker/Eriksen/Son/Loris - all at mid level fees for the time period. The biggest impact of all was growing a generational player like Kane
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Down to some good man managers too the likes of Redknapp and Martin Jol.
Hopefully, Ange is in the same mould so we should have some good football to watch this season.
posted on 19/7/23
comment by ●Billy The Spur● LEVY OUT- ENIC OUT! (U3924)
posted 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
Levy will have pist off half of Europe`s chairmen over the years with his hard negotiating ways, there is no wonder the boot is now being put on the other put.
You reap what you sow.
Levy out.
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Levy out
posted on 19/7/23
Man Utd haggled and took weeks to get their 2 signings in. Their new GK hasnt even arrived for training yet so this focus that it is only Spurs who haggle and take time to get players in is false.
How long did it take for Arsenal to get Rice in?
I think we are constrained financially, we are having to make a smaller budget go further and with a need to off load some players or risk failing to be FFP compliant. We also cannot carry a massive squad into a season when we have no Europe.
There is a lot to balance and i think we are not penny pinching for the sake of it, there are very good reasons for doing so!
posted on 19/7/23
Low-balling for our players?
The players we want to shift haven’t played for us in 2 years and are deemed surplus to requirements.
Who would want Dier? Or Rodon? Or Sanchez? Or Sessegnon?
And for more than £10mil?
Nah
posted on 19/7/23
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 51 minutes ago
Man Utd haggled and took weeks to get their 2 signings in. Their new GK hasnt even arrived for training yet so this focus that it is only Spurs who haggle and take time to get players in is false.
How long did it take for Arsenal to get Rice in?
I think we are constrained financially, we are having to make a smaller budget go further and with a need to off load some players or risk failing to be FFP compliant. We also cannot carry a massive squad into a season when we have no Europe.
There is a lot to balance and i think we are not penny pinching for the sake of it, there are very good reasons for doing so!
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Doesn’t excuse the CB issue tho Devon. The thing with UTd and Onana and Arsenal and Rice is that they identified the player and pursued them until they got them.
If we had said Tapsoba or nobody and pursued him and it was taking this long I would be a lot more forgiving. But that’s not the case, it’s Tapsoba or VDV or maybe Tosin, or possibly Lenglet, but then what about Nelson and then there is Anderson - it comes across as us focused more on price rather than footballing quality and that concerns me deeply.
The whole summer window was set up to bring in a keeper a playmaker and the best possible partner for Romero - the last one has me concerned and we saw yesterday the issue we have if we don’t get this right in the next 3 and a half weeks
posted on 19/7/23
I think you are over simplifying thing.
Take Tapsobe....does he want to come to Spurs. Surely if he is as amaziong as some are making out he may have offers or a hope of offers elsewhere. Is he waiting and seeing what materialises?
Compare our buying to the Kane situation. Munich want Kane and desperately need a striker...they havent got it over the line yet because the selling club (us) are sticking to their guns. We arent acting any different to Munich in our search, on a player that the selling club do not want to lose.
This position that "we just get the deal done" is rubbish and realistic unless the asking price is realistic, whoever you are!
Plus, you dont know our budgets. I have seen prices for Tapsoba from 25m to 60m quote and have no idea what his club are asking. Say it's £40m, do we have that much? Do we need to move a player or to on first to give us some wages/transfer spending/FFP headroom?
I am not excusing our lack of CBs BUT we will have our priorities and our budget and i am sure we would rather take the time necessary to get Option A in at a price we can afford rather than settling for cheaper quicker Option B or C which might turn out to be Sanchez 2.0.
So many on here talk about some of these signings as if they are dead certs. There is no such thing and if you consider VdV, he is an U21 Dutch player who is apparently available for £25m...that to me does not say "a player who will walk in and make all the difference to a shaky defence". Indeed an unsettled defence might be the worst environment to learn your trade - new team, new country, new league.
I really would have liked us to have priority CB in by now but i also can see the bigger picture, which includes that we are not the biggest draw right now and have a more limited budget with a bloated squad.
posted on 19/7/23
*unrealistic unless the asking price is realistic
posted on 19/7/23
I think it is sometimes more complicated than we think as fans...Of course, we all want to be linked with a very decent player that fulfills our gaps, but then negotiations kicks in and that;'s if the seller is willing to listen to us. I know that with VDV and Tapsoba, personal details were agreed.
This is something clubs agree on with player, pending agreement with the club on fee, structure of fee payments, add-ons, and sell-on clauses.
More than one element to bring to an agreement between clubs so offcially we could have agreed terms with players, it is still a long way from clubs reaching an agreement on the totality of the package and then sometime another club, joins the bidding and may do so under the radar without media or fans knowledge, and then bidding gets complicated.
Frustrating because we are a big club faninancially, but we try to do by the books and try to get value in every deal.
posted on 20/7/23
Levy is on record publically a couple of seasons ago, saying he didn't agree with the high prices being paid for football players.
Here's part of what he said in 2017.......
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“My view is that it’s totally unsustainable,” Levy said after ringing the Nasdaq opening bell in Times Square on Spurs’ pre-season tour of the US. “I’m not sure if that’s the view of the other Premier League clubs, but certainly the prices that are being paid for other Premier League players, I can’t see it being sustainable in the long term. We’ve managed the club, we think, in a very appropriate way.
“I think I am a custodian of this football club. This club has been around since 1882 and when I leave it will be somebody else. I think we have a duty to manage the club appropriately. I don’t think that long term for any club it’s sustainable to spend more than you earn. You can have periods where you do but over the long term you can’t.
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Levy buys cheap and then wonders why his purchases dont turn into Lionel Messi.
And when he does put some dollars down, he buys complete idiots like Ndombele!
Yes Spurs are financially profitable. Its a well run piggy bank for Lewis...but is it a winning football club?
A review of Levy's own pronouncements will lead to the inevitable conclusion that the answer will always by "NO" as long as Levy is in charge.
posted on 21/7/23
If we want Tapsoba just go and sign him. For fack sake. Put the money down and move on. Time is money.