It’s the balance. Look @ it this way, if it costs them £400m to generate £100m in prize money and finish 17th or it costs them £800m to generate £130m in prize money and finish 7th…
Is the risk of the extra £400m worth it to them, or is it better divested across Tavistock groups wider portfolios?
Flat figures and simplicity at play, but that is broadly what I think.
I get that totally, to an extent re: positional prize money...
But what a out the BIGGER picture?
It's not just the riches on ONE season's outlay, it's the longer term interest (and revenue) generated from BEING a Trophy winning club, which then in turn generates more opportunities to WIN more and attract even MORE investment.
...and dare I say, if they did it regularly for a DECADE or more, you then generate a whole new FAN BASE who also want to support a winning club...
Why do you think every cunt and his dog seems to support Woolwich right now??
The groundwork was done in the late '90s when loads of impressionable kids and future footballers wanting a successful team to follow....
Fast forward 25 years and the likes of Eze & Semenyo are not even considering US because of their Gooner allegiances
.. meanwhile the kids who are now grown up Fans don't want anything to do with us either....
The older generation of Spurs (who DO remember the Good AND Bad days) aren't being replaced by die hard fans.... only Day trippers and fairweather fans who may spend in the shop, but will stop coming sooner or later.... unless they won't, and in which case What do I know?
I thought success breeds success, that's all.
But apparently it's more 'you get what you pay for...'
Buy cheap, buy twice!