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Transfers Summer 2021 - Transfer Thread

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RealCoolYid said:
I can’t remember a more agreed upon position on this board that ndombele was a must buy

mych was the talk that he could have his pick of clubs and how fortunate we should be if we get even a chance to talk with him .

levy was bloody levy again for not coughing up 80 big ones !!??

it was perfect unison the cry for ndombele

I might be getting carried away with myself here but wasn’t he proclaimed dombele but more mobile ??

If … if he doesn’t do it this year and odds have shifted towards this outcome … then no one can hide, I don’t recall a single dissenter so we shall all have to hang our heads as one

80 mil just get the fucking deal done you bald cunt 😂
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Only difference between us and Levy is , he is paid a great deal of money to get things right. He has numerous people employed by him to help him get these things right , he has a duty to do the kind of due diligence on a players attitude that we would not have access to. So I admit I was keen on N’dombele but as a fan his attitude problems are more on Levy not us
 
tommyboyspurs said:
the three main ones realistic are isak vlahovic and martinez, all with upside and plenty of ability.

isak and vlahovic would be the dream pairing, for 5-10 years plus and to be honest if we get 150 mill for kane then both are attainable, just wish we got laporte in the deal but hey ho
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I'm not really sure Isak and Vlahovic would work that well together. I'm Swedish, trying to watch him now and then. But I'm probably wrong. Would love him in Spurs, but isn't he pretty similar to Vlahovic?
 
Nawh said:


this fucking Joke from the UEFA !!
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This also won't work. A fixed percentage of revenue is not a salary cap in the strictest term of the word. A true salary cap would be based on a cap on total salaries regardless of income, while also having some form of FFP still in place, and closing loopholes a la signing bonuses, which would make a mockery of the salary cap.

Haven't thought this out fully, but the goal should be to make things more competitive and level the playing field while at the same time reigning in these runaway player salaries.
 
Get in! said:
This also won't work. A fixed percentage of revenue is not a salary cap in the strictest term of the word. A true salary cap would be based on a cap on total salaries regardless of income, while also having some form of FFP still in place, and closing loopholes a la signing bonuses, which would make a mockery of the salary cap.

Haven't thought this out fully, but the goal should be to make things more competitive and level the playing field while at the same time reigning in these runaway player salaries.
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The Luxury Tax will do nothing against City or PSG .they can cheat with their sponsors.
The UEFA want just more money .
 
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Ed Vanderlay said:
Only difference between us and Levy is , he is paid a great deal of money to get things right. He has numerous people employed by him to help him get these things right , he has a duty to do the kind of due diligence on a players attitude that we would not have access to. So I admit I was keen on N’dombele but as a fan his attitude problems are more on Levy not us
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This is true. There is a story I remember from Harry Redknapp's book It Shouldn't Happen to a Manager about his interest in Pierre van Hooijdonk before he signed for Nottingham Forest. West Ham were going through a striker crisis and he went up to Celtic to see him play and at some point after the match the Celtic manager shook his head and said "Not for you, Harry". Pierre ticked all the boxes in terms of ability but the Celtic manager's warning about his attitude prompted Harry to look elsewhere and he signed John Hartson and Paul Kitson instead.

There is a code of honour among managers that they tell the truth about the attitude of a player because they all rely on that support network and if a manager offloads a rotten apple at the expense of another manager his reputation is mud.
 
Get in! said:
This also won't work. A fixed percentage of revenue is not a salary cap in the strictest term of the word. A true salary cap would be based on a cap on total salaries regardless of income, while also having some form of FFP still in place, and closing loopholes a la signing bonuses, which would make a mockery of the salary cap.

Haven't thought this out fully, but the goal should be to make things more competitive and level the playing field while at the same time reigning in these runaway player salaries.
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They need to police the fake revenue and bring in regulations that block Abu Dhabi tourism board sponsoring Man City u9’s third kid for £50M
 
Kid Chameleon said:
This is true. There is a story I remember from Harry Redknapp's book It Shouldn't Happen to a Manager about his interest in Pierre van Hooijdonk before he signed for Nottingham Forest. West Ham were going through a striker crisis and he went up to Celtic to see him play and at some point after the match the Celtic manager shook his head and said "Not for you, Harry". Pierre ticked all the boxes in terms of ability but the Celtic manager's warning about his attitude prompted Harry to look elsewhere and he signed John Hartson and Paul Kitson instead.

There is a code of honour among managers that they tell the truth about the attitude of a player because they all rely on that support network and if a manager offloads a rotten apple at the expense of another manager his reputation is mud.
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In fairness to Van Hugedonkey, he was very much on the up and was looking to progress. Tommy Burns was the Celtic manager back then and Celtic's chairman was the one and only "Bunnet" Fergus McCann.

Now you think you know dodgy football chairmen, then there's Fergus McCann.

However the similarities between Van Hugedonkey at Nottingham Forest and current day Harry Kane are striking.
 
minty said:
Nearly correct. Parents used to own a sports shop so this is how it works. Nike pay club a hefty fee to do the shirts. Back in the days where adults shirts were c.£40 Nike would sell the club and all other retailers the shirts for c.£23.

So the club would make an uplift and profit the same as any other retailer plus the hefty annual fee. Nike would more often than not break even/lose on the deal because they have made the shirts at say the have to recoup the cost paid to the club. They would also have to pay volume bonuses to the club. So Nike just get exposure out of the deal, working on the premise that if you have a Nike football shirt you will want Nike trainers etc.

Some smaller clubs have alternate arrangements. They will approach a manufacturer and simply say we will pay for you to make our kit I.e in the old days of £40 shirt will pay Nike £7 per shirt. Nike make a profit like any other wholesale type arrangement but the club gets more for each and every shirt sale (filling the gap of a one off annual lump sum).

So anything that ever says shirt sales will pay for a player (especially when including image rights) is absolute bobbins
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On the face if it, it looks like the club would make the club a £17 profit here but they doesn't factor in VAT, overheads, staff salary etc.
The outcome is always the same, the club just don't make a lot of money out of shirt sales.
You wonder why premier league clubs haven't bought some Hong Kong sweat shop and made their own kits to maximise profits. I can't believe Nike don't make more than what they pay Spurs. So theoretically, Spurs could make the kits themselves and sell them and put all the profit back into the club. AND have control over the design.
 
Get in! said:
This also won't work. A fixed percentage of revenue is not a salary cap in the strictest term of the word. A true salary cap would be based on a cap on total salaries regardless of income, while also having some form of FFP still in place, and closing loopholes a la signing bonuses, which would make a mockery of the salary cap.

Haven't thought this out fully, but the goal should be to make things more competitive and level the playing field while at the same time reigning in these runaway player salaries.
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I think player contracts should be shorter and players nor allowed to leave until 1 year before expire for a nominal fee or on a free at expiry. No wiggle room. That defeats ever inflating transfer fees. Might even kill them off entirely. Suddenly the poorest clubs and compete with the richest clubs in the transfer market.
Then I think every equivalent league around the world has a fixed salary cap. It should be less than richest clubs can afford and more than the poorest clubs can afford, a blended average of sorts.
Say City can afford £450k a week and Brentford can afford £50k a week you set it at £150k a week. Brentford can't afford it but probably 10 other teams in the league can match it so City don't stock up on mercenaries


Let's fix the game but actually limiting the spending!
 
Matt1882 said:
On the face if it, it looks like the club would make the club a £17 profit here but they doesn't factor in VAT, overheads, staff salary etc.
The outcome is always the same, the club just don't make a lot of money out of shirt sales.
You wonder why premier league clubs haven't bought some Hong Kong sweat shop and made their own kits to maximise profits. I can't believe Nike don't make more than what they pay Spurs. So theoretically, Spurs could make the kits themselves and sell them and put all the profit back into the club. AND have control over the design.
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It's all about distribution. I can buy a Spurs Nike shirt at a sports shop in Haparanda Sweden, North of the polar circle, in Buenos Aires, Kape Town and Singapore. It will take a while and huge investments before this would happen with a Spurs brand. If we would sell one tenth of the shirts with our own brand it would be good. That's my guess. So in the end, we make more money walking the Nike path.
 
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