What hurts more? Holding on or letting go?He's gone mate.
Gone. Sacked. Booted out the fucking door....
You really don't need to defend him anymore.
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Yeah, good question.
There are two main football 'rich lists' that get publicity. The first is Deloitte's, which uses revenues/turnover as its measure. There's a lot to say for this because it represents spending power and thus the ability to pay player wages. This measure correlate most with success. In principle, you might want to adjust for the cost of a debt, which would subtract from spending power, but in practice this is quite small (as emerged in this thread's recent discussion).
Personally, I think this is a useful measure. We can, for example, tell if a club punches above or below its weight – 'punch' in terms of league position (measured as an average over a few seasons), 'weight' in terms of spending power.
One interesting aspect of turnover is commercial revenue, the most important component of which is, arguably, the sponsorship contracts. These reflect the so-called 'brand value' of a club, and there'll be rankings that use measures of this. This rather intangible thing appears to correlate with the standard rich lists.
The other main publicised rich list is calculated by Forbes. I'm not sure, I may be wrong, but I think this is an attempt to value a club – or, at least, contribute to valuing a club – if you want to buy or sell it.
As it turns out, we're 9th in the Deloitte list with a turnover of €615m (5th in PL), and 9th in the Forbes list with a valuation of $3.3bn (5th in the PL).
So, in other words, we have punched above our weight for years?
Interesting.
Glad he's gone but I will always acknowledge the incredible job he did with the training ground and stadium. Those are the positives he'll be remembered for.
That's a damning graphic. I don't want us to be profitable. I want us to spend all the money on top players and win.
Just like Jol or Redknapp. Some would say karma.
I can’t make my mind up. Can’t decide if I’m happy we’ve moved on or not. Sometimes it’s better the devil you know. However I met my brother in law today who is a gooner and all I can say is he is gutted!
Well there's your answer
Copied this from elsewhere. It pretty much smacks the nail on the head regarding Levy’s Spurs
Jonathan Wilson wrote this week: It is one of the curses of football’s executive classes that fans still care about trivialities such as winning the trophies and playing the game well, and one of the great ironies of the modern Premier League that before every match at Tottenham a video montage of highlights of the club’s history is played to stirring music and Danny Blanchflower’s dictum that the game is about glory. And then out run a team representing a club with a 42% wages-to-turnover ratio.
Jonathan Wilson wrote this week: It is one of the curses of football’s executive classes that fans still care about trivialities such as winning the trophies and playing the game well, and one of the great ironies of the modern Premier League that before every match at Tottenham a video montage of highlights of the club’s history is played to stirring music and Danny Blanchflower’s dictum that the game is about glory. And then out run a team representing a club with a 42% wages-to-turnover ratio.
I think the full spectrum from Levy In to Levy Out would agree: we got the best Daniel Levy had to offer in his 24 years at the helm. There was not going to be some significant change to come in the way he operated, the man is who he is.
Change at the top could bring change for the worse, it carries risk. But it could also bring change for the better, the kind of change in philosophy we've all been pining for.
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Very insightful stuff from Jol. He was great, zero bullshit. I hope Frank can become a Spurs figure in that image.
So this means you don’t have to slag him off anymore as well?He's gone mate.
Gone. Sacked. Booted out the fucking door....
You really don't need to defend him anymore.
Got to love BMJ. Some great quotes in there. Interesting to see what he says about Levy’s son.
So......who's the new scapegoat?
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So......who's the new scapegoat?
Well for the last 25 years it's been every manager he employed
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The stuff where he was speaking from experience and memories was good, the stuff about our squad today was nonsense. Kudus isn’t better than Kulu? And Kulu wouldn’t play for Utd? Genuine talksport level shit. Someone take Grandpa Jol back to bed.
Have we? When? We’ve finished higher than 5th once since the stadium opened