Our pain will go onYou know, I look at that picture and I get the image of ENIC building a casino, and we are the entertainment, nothing more.
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Transfers January 2022 - Transfer Window
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We’ll see how committed they are to top-of-market spending over time. They recognized the importance to that club of winning the Premier League and the opportunity they had with Klopp to do it. And they executed perfectly.
I understand what you mean about their stadium project but I am absolutely steadfast on two things:
1. Our new stadium project was well conceived and as well executed as could be reasonably expected and when he’s dead and gone we will thank Levy for leaving us a top football ground that has put the club on extremely strong financial footing.
2. That project has never been an obstacle or excuse for letting the football club wither and die on the vine the way ENIC have done.
As I’ve always said, ENIC have done a phenomenal job making Spurs a club built to succeed under ownership that isn’t them.
Anfield is a different thing in a different city, but at the end of the day for a hypothetical Champions League night against Real Madrid or whoever, our stadium would bring in massively, massively more revenue than theirs, and under sound management that advantage will become visible on the pitch.
:llorisunsure:No more french players
Keeping us contending at the top will help the asset he needs to spend to make at this point
really hope this doesnt happen
We can't even wrap up a player that wants to come here, that we have already bid for/spoken to mere months ago and their club want to sell as he is running out of contract ffs.
These things take time...lessons have been learned etc.
Oncewe get the stadium built and moved into the pandemic is over we will be able to compete with the big boys.
These things take time...lessons have been learned etc.
Once
I posted about a possible transfer in the transfer thread.
It must have come as a shock to the thread spammers.
We've heard this from a few people now so thought it was worth posting.
Paratici (and subsequently Conte) were promised we'd have money to spend on new players and that was part of what convinced them to join.
These finances were meant to be from a deal that we'd hoped to have wrapped up by now. We don't know if it was the stadium rights or someone buying equity but Levy thought it'd be done already. Conte "understands" the situation but if things get worse then that can obviously change.
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The Goat bleats that the board have been lying their heads off again.
Paratici (and subsequently Conte) were promised we'd have money to spend on new players and that was part of what convinced them to join.
These finances were meant to be from a deal that we'd hoped to have wrapped up by now. We don't know if it was the stadium rights or someone buying equity but Levy thought it'd be done already. Conte "understands" the situation but if things get worse then that can obviously change.
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The Goat bleats that the board have been lying their heads off again.
I don't want to see anyone saying we can't spend cause of that stadium
That stadium prints money and we was told it wouldn't affect anything
It's not and never has been an excuse
That stadium prints money and we was told it wouldn't affect anything
It's not and never has been an excuse
Poor old Tottenham haven't 2 pennies to rub together or a pot to piss in.
Yeah but we had the covid situation in N17, no one else had to deal with that.
It's funny, not paying well coincided with our most recent successful period, the problems started when we started to up the wage bill and pay more, expectations started to rise as did our spending and look what happened
In the summer Kroenke decided to give the club a 250 mill cash injection to bring in younger talent, that's what was reported in the media. Arteta still has a big chunk left to spend, around 120 mill so Vlahovic is easily affordable.
Are you sure it’s not a premonition of Levy next season wondering where all the fans areDaniel looking for the ticket machine in the car park that he thought he had nailed down
We won’t be putting that to the test for ourselves under ENICYup yet some folk will have you know that if you pay high wages you're garanteed to instantly improve
We don’t want to do a Chelsea
Approach FC
No more of the Hitchen Era French players
next onto observing
18 trophies since our last one (against them)
To a large degree it's the team (note not club!) that Sterling, Suarez & Coutinho built.
Steling: Hard-balled his way out. Left a hated man.
Suarez: It was good luck that Barca came knocking as it saved them from having to nurse him through another PR shit-storm (3rd biting charge) when for all intents it looked like his value would tank.
Countinho: The Barca fairy came knocking again and threw stupid money at them
There's very little strategy, bold-ness or savvy to those exits.
The upside of their ops is that they finally started spending well having in the Brenson/Dalglish era pissed away a fortune on duds(***)..... Carrol, Benteke, Balotelli, Charlie Adam and a cast of MANY more....
(***A role reversal with us to some extent.)
EDIT: The funny thing is when we sell Bale, Walker & Berbatov (an equivalent trio); it's widely regarded as an act of embezzlement.
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