Thought I'd put this to a poll seeing as it clearly causes the biggest divide between supporters at present.
With the stadium & facilities build denting the club, short term until dividends are rewarded in the form of merchandise, increase of mathday revenue, commercial exposure with naming rights etc how I see it is the club are taking a somewhat cautious yet safe approach to transfer dealings at a time where it can ill afford reckless behaviour that risks the stability of the first team & he potential stripping of its assets if targets aren't achieved.
The current Chanpions League money we generate from qualifying for the knockout phases generates a minimum of £70m for the club. Add matchday revenue sales, commercial bonuses for participation and we are looking at that figure to be closer to £100m. When you take into account the combined salaries of Pochettino, Kane, Son, Dele, Lloris, Vertonghen & Eriksen equate to roughly £40m you can see how valuable such an injection of money is whilst we pump money into other areas of the business, most notably the new stadium, transport links & training facilities at a cost of nearly £1bn. European football ensures we don't have to invest any of our other revenue streams into the day to day running of the first team, freeing up finances to cover debt, loans, all other areas regarding the running of the club.
I do love a visual & have posted this previous but as it's a new thread and may have been overlooked, to show the commercial difference it brings in light of Pochettinos comments about domestic cups & the top 4 qualifying benefits I've posted an example of the gulf in financial reward below:
With the club investing HUGE amounts of money in. Pushing itself in a growth phase off the pitch and with the Champions League revenue generated over 8 matches generating a third of what Premier League money generates, around 50-60x what a cup run domestically does my question is this:
Are we being too prudent, too reserved in our courage to move forward or would you rather see us spend money to add in much needed areas, have a greater chance to achieve the next level knowing at if we don't get to that level, the most difficult level to achieve in a very competitive league whilst still having no home advantage to work with we would have to strip the club of some of its key assets as costs would need covering should the large revenue streams via UEFA football dry up?
Dare to risk it and end up losing everything or do the logical thing in times where inflation in football has seen the money it cost Napoli to sign Diego Maradona shift to the money it costs you to sign the Andre Grey's of this world or use that money to pay the likes of Harry Kane over £10m per season, nearly double what a cup win would reward us.
If this is the predicament the club finds itself in until we are definitely given the green light with the new stadium, until the extra costs are covered since the delays were announced, since the market spiked at an absurd rate since the money men we simply cannot compete with in the form of PSG & Manchester City threw their hats into the ring what would you prefer the club do? Reward the Kanes, Deles & Sonnys or throw it at new blood in a bold move to risk it all to get the best out of this current batch of players among our ranks?
How I see it is it would probably be one or the other so it would be great to see who wants the group to stay together for as long as possible and who sees this as our only chance and would happily risk mid table mediocrity for the roll of a dice whilst we navigate through footballs biggest debt domestically worldwide as far as I can see it.
Votes & comments welcome as I'm sure we all love the club and want what's in its best interests. It's a fascinating subject that leaves many at the club and it's following at loggerheads.
Risk it for a biscuit or know we have a stable group that covers our costs far quicker than we could have imagined when the build started, thus fast tracking our cost cover and soldifying ourselves as a long term big boy quicker than we envisaged.
With the stadium & facilities build denting the club, short term until dividends are rewarded in the form of merchandise, increase of mathday revenue, commercial exposure with naming rights etc how I see it is the club are taking a somewhat cautious yet safe approach to transfer dealings at a time where it can ill afford reckless behaviour that risks the stability of the first team & he potential stripping of its assets if targets aren't achieved.
The current Chanpions League money we generate from qualifying for the knockout phases generates a minimum of £70m for the club. Add matchday revenue sales, commercial bonuses for participation and we are looking at that figure to be closer to £100m. When you take into account the combined salaries of Pochettino, Kane, Son, Dele, Lloris, Vertonghen & Eriksen equate to roughly £40m you can see how valuable such an injection of money is whilst we pump money into other areas of the business, most notably the new stadium, transport links & training facilities at a cost of nearly £1bn. European football ensures we don't have to invest any of our other revenue streams into the day to day running of the first team, freeing up finances to cover debt, loans, all other areas regarding the running of the club.
I do love a visual & have posted this previous but as it's a new thread and may have been overlooked, to show the commercial difference it brings in light of Pochettinos comments about domestic cups & the top 4 qualifying benefits I've posted an example of the gulf in financial reward below:
With the club investing HUGE amounts of money in. Pushing itself in a growth phase off the pitch and with the Champions League revenue generated over 8 matches generating a third of what Premier League money generates, around 50-60x what a cup run domestically does my question is this:
Are we being too prudent, too reserved in our courage to move forward or would you rather see us spend money to add in much needed areas, have a greater chance to achieve the next level knowing at if we don't get to that level, the most difficult level to achieve in a very competitive league whilst still having no home advantage to work with we would have to strip the club of some of its key assets as costs would need covering should the large revenue streams via UEFA football dry up?
Dare to risk it and end up losing everything or do the logical thing in times where inflation in football has seen the money it cost Napoli to sign Diego Maradona shift to the money it costs you to sign the Andre Grey's of this world or use that money to pay the likes of Harry Kane over £10m per season, nearly double what a cup win would reward us.
If this is the predicament the club finds itself in until we are definitely given the green light with the new stadium, until the extra costs are covered since the delays were announced, since the market spiked at an absurd rate since the money men we simply cannot compete with in the form of PSG & Manchester City threw their hats into the ring what would you prefer the club do? Reward the Kanes, Deles & Sonnys or throw it at new blood in a bold move to risk it all to get the best out of this current batch of players among our ranks?
How I see it is it would probably be one or the other so it would be great to see who wants the group to stay together for as long as possible and who sees this as our only chance and would happily risk mid table mediocrity for the roll of a dice whilst we navigate through footballs biggest debt domestically worldwide as far as I can see it.
Votes & comments welcome as I'm sure we all love the club and want what's in its best interests. It's a fascinating subject that leaves many at the club and it's following at loggerheads.
Risk it for a biscuit or know we have a stable group that covers our costs far quicker than we could have imagined when the build started, thus fast tracking our cost cover and soldifying ourselves as a long term big boy quicker than we envisaged.
