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That data is for the most expensive ticket only. It’s not at all surprising that we have the most expensive most expensive ticket because we will have the best luxury facilities in the world.Certainly the most expensive in the PL
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I know what the data is, I posted it.
. The fact is Tottenham sell the most expensive ticket, which was the claim.
Never seen anything like the evidence required for that to become a “fact” around here.
The Levybots continue to spin spin spin everything!
Seriously, what are they fucking on about?
Our club is a shambles and this all stems from those at the top, especially Mr Levy himself.
I'm just embarrassed to be a Spurs fan nowadays and can't see anything changing until we get new owners. Levy and ENIC, just the like Tory party, are stale and have run out of ideas.
Time's up!
Be it the owner, chairman or CEO, it just doesn’t really happen. Rarely do you see anyone but the manager fronting up. One of Conte’s complaints I seem to recall. I don’t know anyone that heads up a business (and we are a business as well as a football club) that is always giving interviews. Maybe a mad bastard like Elon Musk, but nobody else.Not as the owner, as the chairman, as the CEO.
Spurs have to stop having their helpless managers under siege from the press be the only voice of the club, it's been a toxic dynamic for years now.
A DoF could potentially play that role (Paratici didn't seem to want to, and was very limited in English), someone like Scott Munn could play that role.
But preseason, the end of the transfer window, end of the season, a couple key points, not every day, the CLUB, not the manager should step up to the mic and deliver its message.
I'm sat here in Chicago and that would mean a lot to me.
It's the bottomless, enthusiastic cynicism that just galls me. A note of acknowledgment that the prices asked from fans haven't been reflected in what has been put on the field would cut through quite a bit.
Premier League season tickets: 11 clubs raise prices for 2022-23
More than half of Premier League clubs have increased ticket prices for the 2022-23 season, a survey by The Athletic has foundtheathletic.com
It's not an exact science because the pricing varies. Woolwich are close as well.
And per a comment above, based on PSG's insane matchday income and smaller capacity they look likely to be higher as well, though the PL in general has the highest ticket prices in the world.
Spurs have much higher prices than United, City, Chelsea or Liverpool and spend much less on players, despite similar and sometimes higher revenues than the latter two.
I don’t have an athletic subscription so I can’t read your link.Not as the owner, as the chairman, as the CEO.
Spurs have to stop having their helpless managers under siege from the press be the only voice of the club, it's been a toxic dynamic for years now.
A DoF could potentially play that role (Paratici didn't seem to want to, and was very limited in English), someone like Scott Munn could play that role.
But preseason, the end of the transfer window, end of the season, a couple key points, not every day, the CLUB, not the manager should step up to the mic and deliver its message.
I'm sat here in Chicago and that would mean a lot to me.
It's the bottomless, enthusiastic cynicism that just galls me. A note of acknowledgment that the prices asked from fans haven't been reflected in what has been put on the field would cut through quite a bit.
Premier League season tickets: 11 clubs raise prices for 2022-23
More than half of Premier League clubs have increased ticket prices for the 2022-23 season, a survey by The Athletic has found
It's not an exact science because the pricing varies. Woolwich are close as well.
And per a comment above, based on PSG's insane matchday income and smaller capacity they look likely to be higher as well, though the PL in general has the highest ticket prices in the world.
Spurs have much higher prices than United, City, Chelsea or Liverpool and spend much less on players, despite similar and sometimes higher revenues than the latter two.
Likely a prick, but he's spitting facts here.Matt Law is such a prick. Bet he loved using Levy here to have continued digs at the club. Completely unnecessary.
'Greatest club in the world?' Daniel Levy has turned Spurs into a joke
Every time staff leave Spurs, their career improves – it wouldn't be a surprise if Cristian Stellini is the next to gowww.telegraph.co.uk
Daniel Levy laughed momentarily when he was asked by an audience member at the Cambridge Union "What do you think of Tottenham?" before firing back: “It’s the greatest club in the world.”
The first part of Levy’s response is currently more accurate than the second because, right now, Tottenham Hotspur, the supposed “greatest club in the world”, are a laughing stock of his making.
The resignation of Fabio Paratici means Tottenham are now “the greatest club in the world” with no permanent head coach, no managing director of football and an acting head coach who many supporters would like to see sacked.
It was apparently on the advice of Paratici, in what would have been one his last acts as a Spurs employee, that Levy agreed to retain and promote Antonio Conte’s trusted lieutenant Cristian Stellini into the hot seat for the Premier League run-in.
Now Paratici has gone and it would not be a huge surprise if Stellini and the rest of Conte’s old staff, who are probably wondering why they are still at “the greatest club in the world”, followed him before the end of the season.
Last week’s defeat at home to Bournemouth left those with knowledge of Tottenham’s inner workings speculating whether or not Stellini himself could be sacked if the team lose to Newcastle United on Sunday.
Another defeat for “the greatest club in the world” will leave Spurs six points behind Newcastle, having played a game more, and still trailing Manchester United, who will have two games in hand and a six-point cushion.
Stellini has confirmed himself to be Conte-lite, which is no bad thing and completely understandable but is not what the Tottenham fans, or some players, wanted and it certainly has not resulted in any sort of bounce. Some even rate his promotion as Levy’s worst-ever decision, but there is plenty of competition in that field.
Should Levy travel to St James’ Park on Sunday, then he will be reacquainted with a former employee, Darren Eales, who once convinced him to sing Crocodile Rock by Elton John at a Karaoke evening in Moscow.
Eales has established himself as one of the most highly-respected chief executives in football, firstly at Atlanta and now Newcastle, since leaving “the greatest club in the world” and Paratici can at least console himself that, once his ban is served, exiting Tottenham has not exactly proved to be a career killer.
On the same weekend that Newcastle, where Eales works, can put a huge dent in Tottenham’s Champions League hopes and take a step closer to confirming their own qualification, Paul Barber, another former employee of Levy, will be watching Brighton at Wembley in the semi-finals of the FA Cup.
Barber and Brighton have become envied across the Premier League for their superb work and could yet finish above “the greatest club in the world” in the Premier League table, as well retaining the dream of finishing the season with a trophy.
Next weekend will be a big one for ex-Levy employee Damien Comolli. He is now president of Toulouse, who are looking forward to a French Cup final against Nantes.
And what of a certain Jose Mourinho, fired by Levy a few days before a League Cup final Spurs then lost and shortly before the arrival of Paratici? His Roma team on Thursday night qualified for the semi-finals of the Europa League and are fourth in Serie A, on course to qualify for next season’s Champions League.
Over the past 20 years, Levy has hired 10 permanent coaches, who, between them, have won 61 trophies before and after managing Spurs. Between them all in that time, they have won one trophy at “the greatest club in the world.”
With Scott Munn not due to start work as Tottenham’s chief football officer until July 1, Levy will lead the search for his 11th permanent head coach himself. The Premier League’s longest-serving chairman remains the one constant at the club he still tells himself is the “greatest in the world” while everybody else, just as the Cambridge Union audience did, laughs along.
Levy admires and models his future vision for European football on US pro sports leagues, no? People above the coaches speak regularly with the media in the US. It varies but it's never just the head coach as the face of the team.
They also ought to be important factors in setting transfer budgets, but at Spurs they aren't.
I like a lot of your posts but I don’t think you’ve thought this through.
True, but that has emerged from a 5 year period of net negative transfer spend and the longest period without a purchase in Premier League history.
We have higher revenue than Chelsea in the current season and barring collapse in our league position next season as well. We also might pass United in next season's accounts, which would have been unimaginable a decade ago.
Don’t think I could pick any of those people out of a line up. But I maybe just watch less news about other clubs. Will bow to your superior knowledge on this one.
We do have scope to increase our spending on wages. 360k / week more would be reasonable. I agree on that.
And none of them is more prominent than Paratici anyway. He’s not even being objective about our club - he’s being biased against it.
That's where someone like Scott Munn could be valuable.
Paratici spoke publicly like three times in his entire Tottenham tenure, the last of which on the same day he was banned by FIFA, all on grainy Zoom calls, I think all in Italy, and took a grand total of zero questions from the press.
There is nothing secretive about, how badly miss managed we have been.
Honestly? My personal pet theory on Summer 2018 is that the dodgy wiring fiasco took so much of Levy's time, just his personal man-hours, that it suddenly left us unable to finalize transfer business which at Spurs had always been historically dependent on extensive levels of Levy's personal involvement.
What were the other members of the transfer committee doing?
I mean the reports we have are that Levy was on-site every day and no one could believe how personally involved he was.
Levy makes no secret in the Cambridge Union interview that wage controls are what he's counting on to bring Spurs back on terms with the top of the sport.
