• The Fighting Cock is a forum for fans of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Here you can discuss Spurs latest matches, our squad, tactics and any transfer news surrounding the club. Registration gives you access to all our forums (including 'Off Topic' discussion) and removes most of the adverts (you can remove them all via an account upgrade). You're here now, you might as well...

    Get involved!

Transfers January Transfer Thread 2024

Latest Spurs videos from Sky Sports

Perryman said:
The rules will be changing in the summer. UEFA are looking to a percentage of wages to turnover of around 70% eventually. Prem Lge are reportedly looking at 85% which seems ridiculous.
We had a turnover of 440m in 21/22. We paid 47% wages. Under those rules we could pay around 370m.
No chance of that.
Clubs in Europe will have to go with UEFA rules . We will currently be well below 70%. Some teams won’t.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Under the rules we could pay £370 million, but that would leave us no money for transfers, because the 70% includes both wages and transfer fees (and manager salary too, if I'm not mistaken). I don't think we will ever go there, though. Our current wages are around £130 million and I do not see us trebling that under any scenario.
 
SpursUpNorth said:
Any Nus?
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Season 9 Reaction GIF by The Office

Jake Gyllenhaal Reaction GIF

I Understand Jimmy Fallon GIF by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
 
Perryman said:
The rules will be changing in the summer. UEFA are looking to a percentage of wages to turnover of around 70% eventually. Prem Lge are reportedly looking at 85% which seems ridiculous.
We had a turnover of 440m in 21/22. We paid 47% wages. Under those rules we could pay around 370m.
No chance of that.
Clubs in Europe will have to go with UEFA rules . We will currently be well below 70%. Some teams won’t.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
It's not wages, it's wages and transfers, no? Without the Saudi money, there'd be a hell of a recession in prices.
 
Spursidol said:
A couple of snippets out of Ange interviews show he's aware of youth - for example knew a lot about Chris Davis Academy Head linked to move to Swansea a couple of months back, and indeed a few youth players.

Whilst Ange does not have the remit of a Fergie I'd be astounded if he didn't sit down with Davis and maybe other academy coaches and recruitment guys maybe once every few weeks to understand who is looking interesting at youth level (mainly at u21's ?), reports on players out at loan etc and before pre-season decide with the same guys which youth to involve in pre-season. And with our injuries know our options for youth on bench.

Mourhino is not usually associated with youth development, but he surprised me when at Spurs by being familiar with the likes of Cirkin coming through, Scarlett and Devine, White et al. And he clearly decided Skipp needed a loan to be useful to Spurs so Skipp went to Norwich and a couple of others aklso went out on loan.

So at the end of the day its about managers setting their own priorities in terms of youth development and working with the players at his disposal. But the results from that after 6 years at Spurs was incredibly disappointing .and suggests there was not much successful focus on youth development.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
I heard on some podcast that on the 3rd day he was our manager he actually sat down with all the youth team players and said to them something to the effect "I will get to know all your names."
 
Matt1882 said:
I've seen Josh fucking Onomah mentioned multiple times today.

You do realise he's 26 and hasn't had club since last summer?
Fulham let him go in January 2023 having no played for ages.

He, like so many kids, get seen by fans playing kids football and think they're ready for the PL.
And not just the PL, but a top 6 PL team with ambitions to be in the CL every season.

It does not matter if a kid looks good in the kids league. There's been very few players to leave Spurs academy that have proven anyone wrong. Edwards is Portugal. He's 25 years old, he is no longer a young prospect, he's probably at his level. Madueke, we'll see, but he's not exactly showing he's a start in the making yet.

The homegrown and club trained rules are fucking pathetic. Most teams just pick 4 players from the academy to sit in the team bus and rarely make the match day squad just because they're obliged to.
It's not helping the national team.

From the last 21 man England squad, only about 4 players were still at the club they started at as a youth. So clubs are being told they must have 4 academy/CT players in their 25 man squad but for the most part, those players won't play and effectively can't leave.

I don't really have a problem with home grown rules so much. I think it gives each league a character if the spine of every team is from that country. But the CT thing bugs me. 2 max.

It's also a little counter productive for teams with less resources. They may not have the facilities to bring kids through, but also, may really depend on the income of selling them just to exist. I'd even argue we were once, not that long ago, a team that used development and sales to stabilise our finances and move forward.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
They're not obliged to. They can have no club trained players on their roster, if they want. It just means they will have a smaller roster. They can have no HG on their roster either, for that matter. They'll just be limited to a 17-man roster and U21s.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top