I think you're right, but they're academy players I believe? It's the players who have had a brief intro to first team football I'm thinking of. It can't be THAT difficult to draw up a watch-list of 50 young British players who have between 5 and 50 games under their belt and then to just go for it, making some mistakes but also signing some gems who make the whole outlay worthwhile. If that makes sense.
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I think you're right, but they're academy players I believe? It's the players who have had a brief intro to first team football I'm thinking of. It can't be THAT difficult to draw up a watch-list of 50 young British players who have between 5 and 50 games under their belt and then to just go for it, making some mistakes but also signing some gems who make the whole outlay worthwhile. If that makes sense.
Sorry - I thought you meant we've spent rather than made money. This proves my point further if anything - our cost have ballooned for obvious reasons
Premier League - Transfer balance and five-year comparison
In dieser Statistik werden die Transferbilanzen der letzten fünf bzw. zehn Jahre der Vereine der Premier League miteinander verglichen.www.transfermarkt.co.uk
33 m 11/12
13m 13/14
16m 15/16
5m 18/19
we are not building this year.
We are not building but have a massive debt to service and no Naming Rights in place - are you trolling, mate?
The thing is, you need to give them the opportunity to develop as well. We've got a couple of young british players already on our books, who didn't get much playing time, despite the fact that we needed some extra bodies (KWP, Skipp).
Ideally we'd pick up a couple of these players and loan them out to lower Premier League clubs, like we did with Kyle Walker, etc. If they turn out to be decent, can give them a run in our first team, and if not, sell them on.
Clearly the club have decided to move away from this kind of set up though, which I believe was down to Poch's aversion to loaning players out.
I corrected - last 3 years we have -17 & -30.
Our costs servicing debt have gone up but the revenue has gone up further - simply -estimates are 50m service the debt and 80 M extra revenue - should give us an extra 30M. That's just from the stadium.
Positive
Sanchez
Sissoko
Lamela (when fit)
Son
Lucas
Didn’t work
Janssen
Bent
Bentley
Soldado
Haven’t made up my mind
Aurier
That's conjecture and oversimplification at best
Anyhow - if you think we'll sign 80m players this window - happy to be proven wrong. Just can't see it happening myself unless we unveil the naming rights
Agree on all fronts, I just think it's the wrong strategy to move away from this way of working when it's been hugely successful for us.
If we signed two players per year with the kind of profile I've suggested, we'd be in big profit I'd suggest, plus our squad would have another 2-3 young stars in it. If you're signing players for £10-20 million, and 1 in 4 goes onto be a star, it's worth it.
I find it hard to place Lamela in the positive category any more, I mean he's hardly played for the last few seasons...
I'm hoping both Clarke and Sessengon sign this summer. They seem a more plausible option to me too.
Maybe but he did have a season or two where I thought he played really well. Hard to be to negative when it’s injuries that have hampered the situation but I understand your point.
It was vast oversimplification and conjecture you are right, as is the opposite, we wont know the cash flows for 2 years.
I think its very likely we will get NDombele - he will be the top signing and wont be 80m, are you including him in the statement?
Thanks for this, I always thought our big money signings were mostly meh but I couldn't be bothered listing them
Son is the only one who has proven to be special. The rest we could have done without and not missed anything
Yes we as a club tend to do better with cheaper signings or youngsters from the academy as your other list proves
Amazing really
Agree - Clarke fits the profile of what I'm saying perfectly. I hope we sign Sessengon, but I suppose to stick with my argument, we should have gone with him a year or two ago. Regardless, delighted if we get him now.
Let me clarify - we can sign for 80m if we sell for 85m
I simply don't believe we have a massive kitty, that's all
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I think we will have a net spend - how much net depends if Eriksen leaves (less if he leaves) and if we manage to get any dosh for our dross and outcasts.
Well some people think we will do a leeds if we "spend above our means" anyway so It will probably be music to their ears.
Even though these same people want us to win trophies but offer no alternative whatsoever to "spending above our means" in order to achieve that goal, that's the thing that makes me laugh.
I just want to understand at what point did some of our fanbase start caring more about business than they do about football? It's like they care more about "doing it the right way" (whilst ignoring we just spent over a billion on a stadium which means that we are hardly the underdogs that people make us out to be) than they do about actually seeing us achieve anything in their lifetimes, they seem to think that if we spend money on players we will go broke, as if that's even possible in this day and age with a premier league club, we would get bought out long before that ever happened.
I can't imagine what it's like living every single day worrying about the finances of a football club worth billions and "doing things the right way" rather than actually giving a shit about what's important, like you know, watching our club win things.
Each to their own I suppose, I get it, some don't want us to "buy success" well when we inevitably get purchased by someone who does buy us success those supporters are free to go and support a club that wins fuck all for the rest of their lives whilst the rest of us can enjoy watching the club we love win things "the wrong way."
I used to give a shit about how things were won but after watching us get into a CL final and come so close I had an awakening, this is what I want our club to experience on a regular basis and frankly, I don't give a toss how we do it, after waiting 30+ years and nearly 12 years without a trophy I think plenty of us have shown enough patience.
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Both Sanchez and Foyth will surprise a lot of people in the not too distant future. Sanchez will be massive for us. It's easy to forget he's still only young so understandable why he's written off so frequently.
Then Pochettino walks because our model runs counter to even the so called lesser Prem clubs.
It's a mad world the Premier but we also generate an insane amount of money.
Excuses are limited, even with the new stadium and Pochettino will see his stock diminish if he presides over a downward spiral, and that comes if we are Scrooge-like again this summer.
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you seem to care more about business than football- you want us to spend all the money, that's business. Others are happy for the manager to care about the football.
I still think Foyth can go either way, Stones or Rio, depending if he can calm down and improve decisions.