Imo Kane is not coming back to Spurs while Levy is still here......he can't forgive being denied that move to Man City
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Imo Kane is not coming back to Spurs while Levy is still here......he can't forgive being denied that move to Man City
A new troll account quoting one of the original twitter troll accounts indykalia is hilarious
Not quite as we still have positions to sort out, dead wood etc.
Let's be honest. Levy has had a legendary window.
The detractors must no apologise.
I believe I have been balanced about Levy. But I apologise for saying he could not close a deal.
I have written to the club leadership team to reassert my support for them.
The detractors must no apologise.
I believe I have been balanced about Levy. But I apologise for saying he could not close a deal.
I have written to the club leadership team to reassert my support for them.
Rogers is not of our calibre
Yep. I was at the Bayern friendly and him and Olise were the stand out players. Head and shoulders above everyone else on the pitch. Harry didn’t have to do much running to be fair. He’d be a huge asset to us if he came back. Still has his box at the ground.
He is not going to earn that wherever he goes.
If he leaves city he will have to take a wage cut
Us: Here’s £15M for Akanji.
City; He doesn’t want to sit on your bench.
Us: OK. Same offer for Ake.
City: Doesn’t want your bench either.
Us: OK. Well, since you need to trim your squad, why don’t you find a player that is willing to make the move and we’ll negotiate a price.
Would those covenants only be about transfer fees?
Because we just made a HUGE commitment financially on Simons when you include his wages for 7 years. Maybe because the yearly wage bill is still low, the amortization of 60m still sits comfortably within the covenant on annual loan payments?
It will come out after the window that ENIC have finally put the rest of the drawn down money in I suspect. About £135 million. Enough to put the down payment on a few decent players.
Yup 100%
Now they got their man with Simons, they will want us to know ENIC put that money in.
Again, credit Change for Tottenham here as well for putting pressure on them last year.
Hopefully he has a better touch than Destiny!
Slightly confused! Thought Pep said if a player wants to leave he can?
Reports saying Savinho fancies Spurs?
Why 'clearly'? I think they're still looking for a forward.
Wait , so we got him as we could pay more wages than the chavs?
I haven’t seen the debt covenants, but that seems like it would a strange one. I’m not sure that the covenants would let them run around and sign 25 players at £50m and not ten at £100. I would expect that the debt covenants are written with a total value at some level. Usually (and things could be different!), these are in place for a certain level of interest rate coverage, or a percentage of debt to their EBITDA, or things like that. It’s all to protect the lenders and reduce their risk, which is why that total level matters a lot.
From the club point of view, there’s almost no way that the board and Levy would enter into this kind of agreement. The truth is, that kind of clause, where you limit the price you could pay for a player, would hamstring the club considerably. If it existed, and became public, you’d be completely shafted if other clubs were targeting the same players. I also don’t think that the club was that desperate or in such a terrible position to refinance their debts.
There was a time during Covid where the debt was renegotiated and locked in. I’m going by memory, but I think it was around 1.75%. Whatever the rate was at that time, it was a stroke of financial genius by Levy and the board. It gave them cost certainty (I feel like those terms were locked in to 2030 or longer), at the lowest interest rates we’ve seen. We all know there are a lot of reasons to dislike Levy and the board. But their financial dealings (in this aspect) are excellent.
TLDR; I don’t think that there is a debt covenant regarding individual player purchases. Also, I’m a nerd and find these things very interesting.
I don’t want any player, including Kane, whose motive is to gain a personal record.
Lookman would be ok but a loan with an opportunity to buy. He’s been poor in England, very good in Italy. With a loan it would give us a future chance of getting Savinho.