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The new owners have only had direct control of this club since September when Levy left. They only lost faith in Levy at the beginning of last year when they appointed Charrington and Vinai against Levy’s wishes. Effectively they have had one transfer window and the early signs were good with Johnson out and Gallagher in. Us under Levy would have been haggling over £1m and a bag of wotsits until 31 Jan under Levy.

I’m disappointed like everyone we did nothing in the last 2 weeks but that seems to be down to Lange and Frank. Lewis kids pumped in £100m of their own money in October to help the club / build the team so there was money available.

Let’s shoot the right people here. The new owners have had 1 transfer window and less than six months. The shit squad etc is down to Levy management.
 
Ulrika-ka-ka-ka said:
The new owners have only had direct control of this club since September when Levy left. They only lost faith in Levy at the beginning of last year when they appointed Charrington and Vinai against Levy’s wishes. Effectively they have had one transfer window and the early signs were good with Johnson out and Gallagher in. Us under Levy would have been haggling over £1m and a bag of wotsits until 31 Jan under Levy.

I’m disappointed like everyone we did nothing in the last 2 weeks but that seems to be down to Lange and Frank. Lewis kids pumped in £100m of their own money in October to help the club / build the team so there was money available.

Let’s shoot the right people here. The new owners have had 1 transfer window and less than six months. The shit squad etc is down to Levy management.
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Stockholm syndrome, it has to be.
 
Sir Archibald Crooks said:
Wishful thinking hoping they'll move on if we go down. They're not going to sell at that point when they're getting low ball offers because we're in the clarts. They'll want to maximise the sale price and that isnt coming with championship football.
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If we go down and there is an exodus of players just think of the bargain basement dross they'll bring in. We'll be stuck in the Championship for years.
 
Ulrika-ka-ka-ka said:
The new owners have only had direct control of this club since September when Levy left. They only lost faith in Levy at the beginning of last year when they appointed Charrington and Vinai against Levy’s wishes. Effectively they have had one transfer window and the early signs were good with Johnson out and Gallagher in. Us under Levy would have been haggling over £1m and a bag of wotsits until 31 Jan under Levy.

I’m disappointed like everyone we did nothing in the last 2 weeks but that seems to be down to Lange and Frank. Lewis kids pumped in £100m of their own money in October to help the club / build the team so there was money available.

Let’s shoot the right people here. The new owners have had 1 transfer window and less than six months. The shit squad etc is down to Levy management.
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New owners

Ice Cube What GIF
 
Ulrika-ka-ka-ka said:
The new owners have only had direct control of this club since September when Levy left. They only lost faith in Levy at the beginning of last year when they appointed Charrington and Vinai against Levy’s wishes. Effectively they have had one transfer window and the early signs were good with Johnson out and Gallagher in. Us under Levy would have been haggling over £1m and a bag of wotsits until 31 Jan under Levy.

I’m disappointed like everyone we did nothing in the last 2 weeks but that seems to be down to Lange and Frank. Lewis kids pumped in £100m of their own money in October to help the club / build the team so there was money available.

Let’s shoot the right people here. The new owners have had 1 transfer window and less than six months. The shit squad etc is down to Levy management.
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but didn't they only make the board changes when they thougth Levy was trying to have them over ? not because Levy was doing a bad job
 
Furball man said:
we talked of getting Solanke back as if was some kind of world beater .
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Even in this colossally shit side, he's on a goal every 137 minutes.

I think people fail to see that he is a quality forward - he's spent almost every season here in a team that doesn't really create chances for a center forward and is still roughly at 1 goal every 2.5 games (based on games, not mins).

People were talking about Isak being ambition, but if you look at what he's been like in a slightly shit Liverpool team, you can only imagine how bad he'd look in this one. It'd be totally different if he was missing chances but IMO he is vastly underrated in this swamp of a team that can only pass forwards by facing the goalkeeper
 
CJJ said:
Even in this colossally shit side, he's on a goal every 137 minutes.

I think people fail to see that he is a quality forward - he's spent almost every season here in a team that doesn't really create chances for a center forward and is still roughly at 1 goal every 2.5 games (based on games, not mins).

People were talking about Isak being ambition, but if you look at what he's been like in a slightly shit Liverpool team, you can only imagine how bad he'd look in this one. It'd be totally different if he was missing chances but IMO he is vastly underrated in this swamp of a team that can only pass forwards by facing the goalkeeper
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Agree. I'm not too bothered about CF. Solanke is decent if he stays fit. And there aren't many better ones out there that would join us anyway.

We have far bigger priorities in the summer:
- LB
- Passing midfielder
- Son replacement
 
manmountainbutters said:
Yes, but what I'm saying is there would be a fire sale of highly paid, relatively high value players.

Romero
VdV
Simons
We would not buy Palhinha
Solanke
Gallagher

The above is about £1m per week.

etc.

I reckon we would at least half the wage bill with sales. And of course, bring in £200m plus in cash.

Nothing we could do about sick bay. Our sick bay wage bill would be greater than all other champo club's total wage bill !
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Probably some nuance though. We would have to sell many of those players at such a loss to their transfer fee that it would be a flip of a coin as to what the bigger loss is.

You'd think a club that is run by accountants could see this, but I'm not sure they do. It's quite ironic that we could do a Leeds having spent 25 years trying not to do a Leeds.
 
KingstonSpur said:
Agree. I'm not too bothered about CF. Solanke is decent if he stays fit. And there aren't many better ones out there that would join us anyway.

We have far bigger priorities in the summer:
- LB
- Passing midfielder
- Son replacement
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Would probably (hopefully) put a GK in there at the top

I'd say CB for the hopeful cultural reset, but ideally Vuskovic comes in.
 
CJJ said:
Even in this colossally shit side, he's on a goal every 137 minutes.

I think people fail to see that he is a quality forward - he's spent almost every season here in a team that doesn't really create chances for a center forward and is still roughly at 1 goal every 2.5 games (based on games, not mins).

People were talking about Isak being ambition, but if you look at what he's been like in a slightly shit Liverpool team, you can only imagine how bad he'd look in this one. It'd be totally different if he was missing chances but IMO he is vastly underrated in this swamp of a team that can only pass forwards by facing the goalkeeper
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League appearances it’s 2610 mins , 11 goals isn’t it ? That’s a goal every 237 or almost 1 goals in 3 games but I totally agree having no one creative to help him . Hes scored one brace in his Tottenham career ( premier league as this is where we are struggling )

It’s all about opinions but personally I think he’s a player we went for after one decent season & we could pay £90k a week initially ( think he’s on 140k now )

But yup the squad is a shambles
 
www.theguardian.com

Spurs plan to rip up wage structure and invest in squad if club avoid relegation

Tottenham’s owners are planning to change the club’s rigid wage structure before a major overhaul of the squad this summer
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

More PR bullshit. The owners have put out more bullshit PR spin stories then we have wins in the league this season.
They appear too far removed from the situation to realise that fans don't buy this shit anymore. We heard all this positive stuff ahead of January window and look at the state they left us in at the of the window.

They can't even protect us from a relegation fight or put in a structure that lasts more than 3 months (joint sporting directors with Paratici already walking away) and here they are talking about squad overhauls and big signings. Delusional.
 
Matt1882 said:
Probably some nuance though. We would have to sell many of those players at such a loss to their transfer fee that it would be a flip of a coin as to what the bigger loss is.

You'd think a club that is run by accountants could see this, but I'm not sure they do. It's quite ironic that we could do a Leeds having spent 25 years trying not to do a Leeds.
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I reckon of the ones I've listed, we could pretty much break even ... loss on Solanke obviously. But profit on VdV and Romero (a bit). But anyway, i take the point. It's going to really hurt these cretins
 
Sidford said:
www.theguardian.com

Spurs plan to rip up wage structure and invest in squad if club avoid relegation

Tottenham’s owners are planning to change the club’s rigid wage structure before a major overhaul of the squad this summer
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

More PR bullshit. The owners have put out more bullshit PR spin stories then we have wins in the league this season.
They appear too far removed from the situation to realise that fans don't buy this shit anymore. We heard all this positive stuff ahead of January window and look at the state they left us in at the of the window.

They can't even protect us from a relegation fight or put in a structure that lasts more than 3 months (joint sporting directors with Paratici already walking away) and here they are talking about squad overhauls and big signings. Delusional.
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I don't believe it because why would they suddenly change now? Surely it hasn't take 20+ years for the penny to drop.

Like you say, none of us are falling for it any more.

We've had more board signings than first team signings under the new regime!
 
Sidford said:
www.theguardian.com

Spurs plan to rip up wage structure and invest in squad if club avoid relegation

Tottenham’s owners are planning to change the club’s rigid wage structure before a major overhaul of the squad this summer
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

More PR bullshit. The owners have put out more bullshit PR spin stories then we have wins in the league this season.
They appear too far removed from the situation to realise that fans don't buy this shit anymore. We heard all this positive stuff ahead of January window and look at the state they left us in at the of the window.

They can't even protect us from a relegation fight or put in a structure that lasts more than 3 months (joint sporting directors with Paratici already walking away) and here they are talking about squad overhauls and big signings. Delusional.
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Yep. More lies. They will invest just enough to be mid-table.

How about sacking the coach who was obviously failing 6 weeks earlier/
 
Sidford said:
www.theguardian.com

Spurs plan to rip up wage structure and invest in squad if club avoid relegation

Tottenham’s owners are planning to change the club’s rigid wage structure before a major overhaul of the squad this summer
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

More PR bullshit. The owners have put out more bullshit PR spin stories then we have wins in the league this season.
They appear too far removed from the situation to realise that fans don't buy this shit anymore. We heard all this positive stuff ahead of January window and look at the state they left us in at the of the window.

They can't even protect us from a relegation fight or put in a structure that lasts more than 3 months (joint sporting directors with Paratici already walking away) and here they are talking about squad overhauls and big signings. Delusional.
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They probably don't even know we are really close to relegation. All these talks should come after the season if we made the escape. They are so out of touch it's sickening.
 
Sidford said:
www.theguardian.com

Spurs plan to rip up wage structure and invest in squad if club avoid relegation

Tottenham’s owners are planning to change the club’s rigid wage structure before a major overhaul of the squad this summer
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

More PR bullshit. The owners have put out more bullshit PR spin stories then we have wins in the league this season.
They appear too far removed from the situation to realise that fans don't buy this shit anymore. We heard all this positive stuff ahead of January window and look at the state they left us in at the of the window.

They can't even protect us from a relegation fight or put in a structure that lasts more than 3 months (joint sporting directors with Paratici already walking away) and here they are talking about squad overhauls and big signings. Delusional.
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To be fair they stuck Xavi and Gallaher on high wages and have made reference to the fact that we don't pay enough if we want to compete at the top which is true however that doesn't begin to get to the crux of our issue which is the recruitment, the terrible profiling and lack of strategy and structure when it comes to identifying players, signing Gallagher tells me that aren't learning and don't really have a clue what what the actual issue is, same with trying to sign Robertson and stick him on a high wage.

IMO the only reason they are mentioning wages because they are pandering to the fans who have made it known that we don't pay enough to compete at the top. the problem is that we aren't competing trying to stay in the league now and that's little to do with our wage budget.
 
glacierSpurs said:
They probably don't even know we are really close to relegation. All these talks should come after the season if we made the escape. They are so out of touch it's sickening.
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but wait, the orange Daniel-noshing blob Simon Jordon kept telling us about restrictive banking covenants that meant we couldn't spend more on wages. So surely it's not possible?

Jordan got owned by a fan on Talksport yesterday btw. Worth watching.
 
Sidford said:
www.theguardian.com

Spurs plan to rip up wage structure and invest in squad if club avoid relegation

Tottenham’s owners are planning to change the club’s rigid wage structure before a major overhaul of the squad this summer
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

More PR bullshit. The owners have put out more bullshit PR spin stories then we have wins in the league this season.
They appear too far removed from the situation to realise that fans don't buy this shit anymore. We heard all this positive stuff ahead of January window and look at the state they left us in at the of the window.

They can't even protect us from a relegation fight or put in a structure that lasts more than 3 months (joint sporting directors with Paratici already walking away) and here they are talking about squad overhauls and big signings. Delusional.
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ST renewal window innit
 
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