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Najafi is the guy who tried to buy UTD?
yep our director's box operates a very strict minimum beauty threshold
Levy is just an average 60something year old. The Mrs ain't bad for her age at all.
Look at this from a while ago
And now
Whoever we get will be someone shit so it doesn’t matter. This is Spurs, we don’t get to have nice things.
One of my main requirements of girlfriends in my 20s was that they enjoyed fucking with their face!
Times change I guess.
No. It's the guy that runs MSP Sports Capital. They own Mclaren Formula 1 and some smaller football clubs. Najafi is also a part owner in the Phoenix Suns.
He's been linked to buying into Spurs for a while now.
10% of them!
That valuation feels on the light side for ENIC if you ask me. It doesn’t get done at that level, they’ll value the club at higher than that so it probably won’t happen.
Although interesting it says Lewis family. I thought they may keep it but maybe they don’t want the hassle.
It seems pretty in line with our current Forbes valuation. But with a good jump upwards if the sale goes through.
Presumably a 10% stake, will eventually lead to a total buyout.
Most of us would welcome additional income, as long as it goes back into the team for transfers.
It's no coincidence that, the clubs who spend the most on transfers generally win things, at the very least they can really challenge.
The club does seem to be in a good place at the moment, good young signings, a decent recruitment team and, finally a real plan in place that we have been waiting for.
More spending won't make much of a difference, winning is linked to wages and salaries not transfers because it means you can buy quality and keep your best players.
What we spend these days is up there with the highest spenders now anyway but to bridge the gap we need to pay higher.
You're shitting yourself
But if you align success to higher wages, you have to spend more on transfers too. Unless you are saying we’d be better if we paid our present players more?
And I can’t recall the last player that left us due to salary. Maybe Stephen Carr?
There may have been players in the past that didn’t come here due to salary, but I doubt that’s a major issue anymore.
What's the plan in relation to Levy/ENIC?
Not sure, transfers themselves have been often quite low. Haaland at £50m, Williams release at £45m etc. release clauses and contracts run down to 1 year often mitigate high transfers.
Wages though for a lot of top players around £300k. Not saying we do that but there will come a time a truly game changing special player is willing to come and wages do become a factor.
The negative is that if the player turns out to be a flop it’s harder to move them. We have a poor record with big transfer/high wage players like Ndombele but that is us, other clubs like Real or City often nail it. So our scouting would need to be at a level we can take the risk.
Assuming of course that neither PSR/FFP becomes the force that it on paper is intended to be, and we should be well equipped to handle that. Or the football bubble bursts and things like salaries and transfer fees have to reset for the sport to survive.
But do we want players who are “willing to come” predicated on a high salary? Ange himself says we just want players who want to play for us. Does paying a player £250k a week make much of a difference from paying one £300k a week? Possibly would, but do we want such players?