Yet a few years ago the media were telling everyone we don’t pay our players enough and it’s a reason they’ll leave. Now we pay them too much, so which approach was the right one? Personally I think they’re all paid far too much. It’s no wonder they lose motivation on that money.
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Yet a few years ago the media were telling everyone we don’t pay our players enough and it’s a reason they’ll leave. Now we pay them too much, so which approach was the right one? Personally I think they’re all paid far too much. It’s no wonder they lose motivation on that money.
We need a proper overhaul now, because even the 'okay' players seem to lack the mentality we need. Ally Gold was tactful enough not to name names but he alluded to a lot of squad players needing to go.
And considering he's usually nice, that stood out to me in his latest video.
Not quite, we pay bottom half players more than what bottom half clubs pay.
We still baulk at signing truly established players and paying them their fair wage.
Players like Dier, Sanchez, Ndombele, Moura, Winks, they're not on enormous money, but they won't get offered it by any club they deserve to be at
We need to keep Kane and ditch 8+ others
The hard truth is, Kane will go and they'll stay
I think the pay is less of an issue than taking hits on the transfer fees. Ndombele is an extreme example wage-wise because his drop off was so crazy.
Convinced that deals like the one for Kevin Wimmer (£18m to Stoke. HOW?!) further poisoned Levy's brain into not cutting losses.
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Half or more of the posters here moan about t cheap transfers for players running their contracts down. You appear to be in the opposite camp.
Schrodinger’s Spurs Fan.
Free transfers are never free and high wages affect the entire structure. Neither of us have any idea about clauses based on other player’s wages. Danny has been notorious about maintaining (one of the) lowest wages / revenue ratios in the EPL. It will go up next year as revenue will go down without UCL football.
Whichever way you look at it, we’ll be at the same level as Woolwich (give or take), about 100m per year less to spend than Liverpool, 200m-250m behind United or City in terms of transfer fees/ wages combined, all other things being equal . I’m leaving Newcastle United and Chelsea out of the equation as I’ve no idea at this point how their new ownerships will affect/,subsidize fees and wages.
Typically, you get what you pay for. It’s why we won’t get (threatened with) relegation and why we won’t compete. We had an up cycle and fell back. Woolwich fell back and are currently on the up. At the end, things will tend towards the norm.
Culture of comfort at the club. Useless fuckers love the training ground, the lodge, and living in London.
Why the fuck would they want to leave?
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(And for what it's worth, I think it does reflect on their shit mentality - because some players could get a career refresh if they actually fucked off)
Fucking hell, it's like you're saying his name in a mirror three times
Well you're in for a treat then
Yep it’s a mystery alright
You might be right.
But I'm afraid they'd squander whatever transfer fee we reaped or simply replace him with a couple of mid-table players and our descent would only continue.
We also signed Romero (CB) and Porro (RB) for a combined £80,000,000....
A centre back who every single person wanted us to sign permanently and a right wing back that everyone was clamoring for us to "JuSt PaY tHe FeE" for on the first of January instead of fucking about haggling.
Such a good point. We got delusions way beyond reality..
Ironic here that those who dislike/hate Levy mau have no choice but to agree with him here, which of course will pain them..
The joke is on us.
I think Rodgers is good manager who can go no higher and what we are likely to get is a manager who if they do well will disappear to a bigger club but will most likely fail and be the latesr blaming tool against Levy. So boring.
We are completely in a mess and full of delusion. If as reported, which I take with a pinch of salt Levy is against Rodgers, he needs to have a very good other option..
We won't pay Brighton the money that they would want for De Zerbi( even though I think he'd jump at the chance). From what I hear Rodgers talked us down one too many time for Levy's liking and burnt a bridge.
We have made it known we want a project manager and one that plays progressive football and is steeped in player development. That's Arne Slot. It just is, now thing is, he probably isn't a big enough name to keep Kane. And its probably playing in to our thinking. ....
But if the fans give him time and we at least attempt to give the bloke say Alex Scott and pick the up a few good young players well...we can't do better than this to my mind. Even though I think Kane leaves and we face some very tricky times
We have made it known we want a project manager and one that plays progressive football and is steeped in player development. That's Arne Slot. It just is, now thing is, he probably isn't a big enough name to keep Kane. And its probably playing in to our thinking. ....
But if the fans give him time and we at least attempt to give the bloke say Alex Scott and pick the up a few good young players well...we can't do better than this to my mind. Even though I think Kane leaves and we face some very tricky times
That sense of being trapped in stasis is the most exhausting, depressing thing about supporting Spurs at the moment.
To be fair, in the case of not hiring a guy that got sacked by a team circling the drain of relegation it feels like even Levy would know better.
Or this. This would be a suitably shit rationale for Levy to come to the correct conclusion. Very him.
Yeah no chance we pay 15m to get DZ and we shouldn’t either.
If JN doesn’t come back into the picture with a new DOF, then it has to be Slot.
Although I’m not sure it’s ever been Kane requesting big name managers. His comments have been about culture at the club, if requested anyone it might be Mason but either way you don’t let star players choose managers, even if it’s Kane.
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