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Everyone else is light years behind at this time . At the moment I make it 16 concerts at The Lane this summer , no one else has a stadium that can stage that many concerts plus other events like NFL/ rugby, except Wembley.
Unless someone is going to build a new stadium and the only one in the pipeline is Man U who is going to compete with The Lane.
No one likes to hear it but Levy/ENIC have done brillliantly with the new stadium.
Everyone else is light years behind at this time... there is 13 teams who are ahead of us in the only stat that matters... the league table... I don't care one iota for revenue or EBITDA as a barometer to how well Levy/ENIC are doing... league table is the only metric that you can truly use to draw comparisons with others clubs that are (according to you) light years behind us... the other stat that correlates nicely to league position is wages to revenue ratio... we are last (or first depending on your view) with just 46% of our revenue spent on wages... and this will be lower next year when a number of big earners fall off the list... this is damning.. every club in the premier league spend more of their income on wages than we do... so you are right... everyone else is light years behind us when it comes to indolence.
 
Everyone else is light years behind at this time... there is 13 teams who are ahead of us in the only stat that matters... the league table... I don't care one iota for revenue or EBITDA as a barometer to how well Levy/ENIC are doing... league table is the only metric that you can truly use to draw comparisons with others clubs that are (according to you) light years behind us... the other stat that correlates nicely to league position is wages to revenue ratio... we are last (or first depending on your view) with just 46% of our revenue spent on wages... and this will be lower next year when a number of big earners fall off the list... this is damning.. every club in the premier league spend more of their income on wages than we do... so you are right... everyone else is light years behind us when it comes to indolence.
I think THIS is where the Levy statement this week about not wanting to "Spend what we don't have..." we DO have it, YOU'RE pocketing most of it you bald greedy fuck!

Don't get me wrong, I hate the fact we're demanding to pay Human beings half our age another £100k a WEEK on TOP of their exorbitant fees.... (or whatever it is we're demanding)

BUT everyone else is doing it, so I'd rather the players/the TEAM get it than Levy & Lewis and the rest!!!!
 
After 16 losses out of 30 and the manager attempting to openly taunt our away fans, yet again showing nothing but contempt for us, he's still here.

I hope anyone who still had any crazy ideas about Baldcunt being a decent human being who cares about this club can now lay those notions to rest.

He's a despicable creature.
 
The optics are terrible. If he thought not sacking Ange was a good football optic for showing he gives managers a chance then it has backfired massively. All this is doing is fueling conspiracy theories (which may have substance) that he values saving money at the expense of on-pitch success.

Whatever way you cut it, it's the latest in a long, long list of bad football calls.
 
The optics are terrible. If he thought not sacking Ange was a good football optic for showing he gives managers a chance then it has backfired massively. All this is doing is fueling conspiracy theories (which may have substance) that he values saving money at the expense of on-pitch success.

Whatever way you cut it, it's the latest in a long, long list of bad football calls.
he cant get anything right. hes in the wrong sport. hes reacting to past mistakes and making even more mistakes in doing so because he cant read situations.
 
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Some decent thoughts here from Seb if I am being honest. Spurs are in a odd spot were we like to think that we are a big club that plays a certain way against everyone. But the reality is that we are still a club that needs to adapt to the circumstances. Both in house and outside of it.

Whoever takes over from Ange needs to think more in the lines of "what can we be?" rather than "what do we want to be".
 
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Some decent thoughts here from Seb if I am being honest. Spurs are in a odd spot were we like to think that we are a big club that plays a certain way against everyone. But the reality is that we are still a club that needs to adapt to the circumstances. Both in house and outside of it.

Whoever takes over from Ange needs to think more in the lines of "what can we be?" rather than "what do we want to be".

Levy wants us to be a big club but he doesn’t want to act like one.
 
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Some decent thoughts here from Seb if I am being honest. Spurs are in a odd spot were we like to think that we are a big club that plays a certain way against everyone. But the reality is that we are still a club that needs to adapt to the circumstances. Both in house and outside of it.

Whoever takes over from Ange needs to think more in the lines of "what can we be?" rather than "what do we want to be".
Spurs can be as big as anyone.

Don't allow the miser, and the few friends he has left, to persuade you we should accept second best.

Demand more from the miser and protest.

Make Spurs great again.
 
Levy wants us to be a big club but he doesn’t want to act like one.
Bingo. He wants to hang with the big boys but is unwilling to put in the work to actually deserve a spot.

Thus all of the football staff at the club, or at least the decision makers, need to be people that can work around him and within his restrictions to make us as competitive as can be. Which arguably is EL-Conference level if I am being realistic.
 
Bingo. He wants to hang with the big boys but is unwilling to put in the work to actually deserve a spot.

Thus all of the football staff at the club, or at least the decision makers, need to be people that can work around him and within his restrictions to make us as competitive as can be. Which arguably is EL-Conference level if I am being realistic.
The stadium is the best in the world.

The supporters are among the best in the Premier League.

Levy thinks he is the club.

It is on us to take it off him.

He isn't up to it.

Not us.
 
We’re a club on the field to make up the numbers , off the field thanks to Levy we can compete with the best that’s what we are simple as…….we are a business
 
I am giving my head a wobble and wandering how it has taken so many Spurs supporters 17 years plus to figure this out.

Martin Jol was sacked at half time and humiliated by Levy and ENIC in 2007.

Before Jol arrived Spurs had been in a desperate state.

Jol began the process of restoring belief in THFC.

He deserved better.

I have no sympathy for Levy whatsoever.

He's trousered a fortune and pissed on our dreams.

A worrying amount still haven't. They're happy to just exist. Levy offers them that. They're terrified of us going down the Leeds or the might of Bury FC.

I'm confused, wasn't the whole argument that generally speaking, the teams with the highest wages/income percentage are the most successful?

what are City, Liverpool and Gooner scum doing at the bottom? what are Palace, Everton and Norwich doing near the top?

This stat is skewed by the clubs income. Those paying a very high ratio are the clubs that earn the least. So they're not actually paying their players a lot of money.
Palace, for example, had a 2023 wage bill of £68m
It would make more sense to put clubs in brackets where those wealthier clubs are put in brackets to compare them to their peers.
So Arse on the other hand, had an annual wage bill of £170m but a lower ratio to Palace.
We had an annual wage bill of £112m despite bringing in more money than Arse.

It's nowhere near as simple as X% of income because you can only judge it against your rivals with similar incomes.
 
We’re a club on the field to make up the numbers , off the field thanks to Levy we can compete with the best that’s what we are simple as…….we are a business
This is the narrative that will be peddled in defence of Levy.

Sugar, Levy and ENIC did not buy a club that made up the numbers. They turned us into a club who now make up the numbers. It is worth remembering that they did this side by side from 2001 - 2007 as shareholders.

When Sugar bought into Spurs he bought a club that had won the F.A, Cup more than any other team and broke transfer records to sign the best players ahead of all our main rivals.

Paul Gascoigne turned down Fergie's Manchester United to play for THFC.

Gary Lineker could have signed for anyone he wanted to but chose to sign for THFC.

So did Chris Waddle.

These fucking liars have trousered a fortune off THFC's reputation and given the bare minimum back.

Don't be persuaded by anyone that Spurs are a joke club.

The joke is on us for allowing these fuckers to take the piss.
 
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