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Transfers January 2022 - Transfer Window

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Sir Archibald Crooks said:
Conte saying today we need to spend. In terms of outgoings you can read between the lines on who Conte doesnt trust and who will be gone and that is, i would guess, Ndombele, Doherty, Alli and Rodon. Bergwijn a maybe.
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Tanguy and Dele for sure. I think Doherty depends on getting a replacement. What happens with GLC will be interesting to watch.
 
Sir Archibald Crooks said:
Conte saying today we need to spend. In terms of outgoings you can read between the lines on who Conte doesnt trust and who will be gone and that is, i would guess, Ndombele, Doherty, Alli and Rodon. Bergwijn a maybe.
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Yeh....

Hopefully the out list includes Gio & Doherty too.

GLC, Sess & Berg are tricky to shift considering they're never fucking fit (as is currently the case).
 
Airfixx said:
Yeh....

Hopefully the out list includes Gio & Doherty too.

GLC, Sess & Berg are tricky to shift considering they're never fucking fit (as is currently the case).
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Personally i'd keep Sess, as wing back suits him, just needs to get fit once and for all. The rest, any half decent offer and they should be gone although Conte has spoken favourably about Lo Celso so he'll probably at least want to see him play (whenever the hell that may be)
 
Seven Sisters said:
Very interesting - wages to turnover ratio is always a strong measure of an organisation’s approach to risk imo. As you say, they had a punt on paying more to get CL revenue and it looks like it hasn’t worked out for them. To be fair, if they had any sense they would have realised their title win was a flash in the pan and that ‘normal service’ would resume pdq.

The graphic also shows that we ‘win’ the wages to turnover trophy … but I’m not sure that doesn’t say more about our attitude to risk. To Dare Is To Do?…. ahem….
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Probably all true.

But we have doubled our revenue in the last 5 years, and spent big in 2019 (circa £140m) just as revenues from the stadium were coming on line, but unfortunately not on a great selection of players in terns of results/improvements to our squad (Ndombele, Lo Celso and Sessegnon), but if covid had not happened we'd have probably made similar size £ investment in the last 2 years.

Worth remembering that the wages for players signed in summer 2020 and summer 2021 are NOT included in those figures, and due to covid, revenues for year to 30 June 2021 reduced to £360m (from £402m in 2020).

But based upon known figures of 2019 wages (£181m) divided by 2021 revenues (£360m), the figure becomes a 50% wages to revenue ..... add in wages for players incoming in summer 2020 etc and the ratio increases to say 60% +

So whereas Leicester built up the squad anticipating higher revenues - and are now struggling financially as revenues have reduced - Spurs are spending in line with revenue increases.

I'd suggest Spurs transfer plans in January are in large part going to be governed by availability of suitable players to buy, and our ability to ship out unwanted players (even at smallish fees/losses as we saw with Aurier, Lamela etc last summer), more than Spurs finances. And I'd expect us to target good quality players rather than squad fillers.
 
Sir Archibald Crooks said:
Personally i'd keep Sess, as wing back suits him, just needs to get fit once and for all. The rest, any half decent offer and they should be gone although Conte has spoken favourably about Lo Celso so he'll probably at least want to see him play (whenever the hell that may be)
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I can see why given his recent cameos; but I'm just fed up of the sick-notes..... They just mean other players get over-worked and their levels eventually drop due to fatigue or pick up silly injuries too.

My take:

Airfixx said:
It's been a heady few weeks, but it feels like we've come full-circle.

Berg: Sick note.
Lo Celso: Sick note.
Sessengon: Sick note.
Ndombele: Un-fancied dosser.
Dele: Not showing anything consistently enough to be relied upon.
Doherty: Occasionally functional; mostly painful to watch.
Rodon: Poor bugger can't get a sniff

....Laters. 👋
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...But like I said, sick-notes need to be fit before they can attract buyers anyway so not holding my breath in January.

Depends who we have targeted to sign, but I guess Rodon, Doherty and maybe Berg get sold given the interest from Ajax. Perhaps a loan for one or two of the others.
 
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Think there is very little chance of a load of players leaving most will not be wanted by any team of note plus wages etc will make it difficult . I have faith in our manager but to expect wholesale changes next month is not realistic we may have some money but not mad amounts i presume.Hopefully we can get in a couple of quality players ready to play from the off and are suited to the league .
 
Spursidol said:
Leicester need a big war chest spent to sort themselves out. Worth remembering that the figures I posted were to May 2020 - and the figures to May 2021 will be worse due to covid.

Owners were promising a new stadium so as to increase revenues - but the current planning will only take them up to a capacity of 40k , they will also build a hotel and indoor arena. That will increase revenues but probably only take them up to being comparable to say Everton, and some way behind the big 6 clubs.

Before that they probably need to pump in £200m+ just to clear debts from the last 2 - 3 years big losses.

And unless they sell some of the players who are higher earners, Leicester owners will need to pump £50m - £100m each year until the stadium is built, hotel is regularly full and indoor stadium full of events so as generate money. And the stadium, hotel and indoor arena are probably 3 years away from producing extra income.

Hence my comments that players coming to the end of their contracts and won't re-sign may be sold if 'an acceptable' offer' comes in, rather than the player run down his contract more so that his value decreases - and at end of contract its zero.
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You got abit of an obsession with Leicester trolling nearly a year old figures, you seem to really hate them!
 
Crispin LA said:
You got abit of an obsession with Leicester trolling nearly a year old figures, you seem to really hate them!
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Nah, the headline figures are easy to find on the internet. Its not hate simply being aware of other clubs position

I do get fed up with some on here who trot out 'Leicester won PL so we should do too '

Fact is they had a fluke year and have over estimated themselves on that basis, spent too much and its now coming home to roost financially - and that in turn has impacted them on the field this season.
 
I despise the rat Winks for refusing to leave this summer and now instead clogging a place for a real CM

What an unambitious wage thieving wanker - perfect Levy player
 
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