I'd rather have transfer windows now rather than the old days when the transfer window was open until March.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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The profit and loss column was significantly impacted by the player trading for Spurs in 2023/24. The sale of Harry Kane to Bayern Munich, with Kane having held no book value at Spurs due to him being a product of the club's academy, represented pure profit, allowing the club to book all of the guaranteed fee, helping them jump from £16m in player trading profit in 2023 to £82m in 2024.
That figure massively skews what Spurs have managed to achieve in terms of player trading in the last five accounting years, with the club having only made a combined profit on the disposal of player registrations of £80m in the preceding four years before Kane's sale. That makes them the sixth-worst in the Premier League when it comes to player trading profit.
When you consider how Chelsea have been able to invest in the squad heavily due to hugely successful player trading, to the tune of £417m in the five years up to 2022/23, and with Spurs being by some way the worst performer of the so-called 'big six' in that area, the inability to trade effectively has contributed to a trend of loss-making seasons, and points to the managerial tumult behind the scenes during that period and a lack of a working transfer strategy.
The long-held notion has been that Spurs are a profitable football club. Indeed, the club made a profit every year between 2015 and 2019, with cumulative profits of £328m. Since then, however, there have been five years of losses that have amounted to a combined £300m. The net profit for the last decade has been £28m, and no profitable season has been posted since the club moved to their new stadium.
Of course, the stadium built in 2019 will be a the main reason Spurs have hope for future growth but, with the significant debt attached albeit at far lower rates of borrowing that we currently see today, it has an impact on the balance sheet. The flip-side is that Spurs could not have raised matchday revenues in the way that they have, up from £41m in 2015 to a high of £118m in 2023, nor could they have seen commercial revenue increase from the £60m in 2015 to £255m for 2024.
But in order to stop the loss-making seasons continuing, the club has to improve both its player trading strategy, but also and most crucially, has to get back to being a regular competitor in the Champions League, especially given that it is now more lucrative than ever following the revamping of the competition to a league format for this season, adding an extra two games.
No need he's savinhos alternative
They will sell him there as its not a rival
Need to get them out there to keep their value in case we want to sell. Mind you, we did that with Solomon and he's still here. We are just shit in the transfer market and with squad management. What’s the betting we have to do an Aurier or Doherty and cancel someone’s contract today.
How can they afford him and not be in psr breach?
We arent a rival to city nowadays though…,
These transfer links are all very interesting, but could somebody please explain to me the intricacies and define the rightful ownership of the Gaza Strip?
No need he's savinhos alternative
Where is the 'Do me a favour ' emoji?
It’s total click bait bollocks I’d say.
Change their name to Man City or Chelsea for 24 hours? Sell their women's team to themselves for £200m?
Especially with the sale of Martinez falling over and Ornstein now reporting they're closing in on Harvey Elliott.
View: https://x.com/David_Ornstein/status/1962484366417830056
RKM seems to be done
Has not been mentioned all summer by anybody. Classic move.
View: https://x.com/david_ornstein/status/1962484366417830056?s=46&t=Gc6HrWVZT0mtSXU7r8ZBIQ
I hope this means we can get Lookman now as it’s just a dry loan.
No, I don't, but I do think if we had signed 7 players, some people want that 8th, and be ready to have a go if we failed.
No obligation. Wow. That's great.