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All I can take from this is that the players are disappointed because they didn’t get a pay rise for finishing SECOND. Why would we award failure? It hardly sparks a mindset of success. That bothers me a hell of a lot more than players feeling undervalued as it shows the mindset of the player isn’t exactly one you’d want in your team. Players satisfied at finishing second. Triffic.
It's a great achievement even if we didn't win. Success is not only measured by victories. Give the team and Poch the kudos they deserve. That was a huge struggle to get there and we probably only lost because Sissoko is an idiot and Mane is a cheat.
 
If that article is true it shows why we never won anything despite having a talented squad

Losers mentality , expecting a prize for finishing second
 
Pleat left Spurs for non footballing reasons. He was caught kerb crawling and cautioned by the Police and had to go.
Did you not believe me? Google it.
Pleat's employment as manager of Tottenham came to an end in October 1987 when he was dismissed due to disclosures about his private life. Newspaper revelations that Pleat had been cautioned by police three times for kerb-crawling created publicity that forced him to leave Spurs. Wikipedia.
 
Did you not believe me? Google it.
Pleat's employment as manager of Tottenham came to an end in October 1987 when he was dismissed due to disclosures about his private life. Newspaper revelations that Pleat had been cautioned by police three times for kerb-crawling created publicity that forced him to leave Spurs. Wikipedia.
Not sure of your point, he came back to the club (as I've already mentioned) and was caretaker manager for a while.
 
You're forgetting agents fees, signing on bonuses and signing on bonuses for new contracts signed by existing players.
@ 40m in sales is about right.

We have spent, despite Levy being a tight bald cunt who's only interested in profits.

Should we spend more? Of course we should, our team is desperately short in certain areas, but we can only spend in the TW and we can only spend the profits we make. Unless of course we want to go into debt.

It's our recruitment process that needs looking at.
Yes your right, our recruitment process is shite..have to agree with everything else you say too
 
My memory of those times isn't reliable. I was working 36 hour shifts and didn't have much free time. But I'm sure they were playing well under pleat and then Venables came in because he was a celebrity manager and that was that.

Sorry I meant the 87/88 season. (88/89 was the Gazza/waddle season). 87/88 was the first season I started going to games bringing by usual sporting luck along with it FFS. I can’t really remember, but looking at the results yes it was going well until we lost to Torquay in the league cup. Then it went tits up.

 
So Man U are not going to be spending much either then and Woodward has said similar to Levy.

Well - he got the man they needed in Jan including a temporary striker replacement and we got some bargain-bin specials as usual instead of spending that money on single quality player in a key area - i.e. DM
 
You're forgetting agents fees, signing on bonuses and signing on bonuses for new contracts signed by existing players.
@ 40m in sales is about right.

We have spent, despite Levy being a tight bald cunt who's only interested in profits.

Should we spend more? Of course we should, our team is desperately short in certain areas, but we can only spend in the TW and we can only spend the profits we make. Unless of course we want to go into debt.

It's our recruitment process that needs looking at.
Let me ask you this - would you rather spend 75m on 3 average players which would cost 50k in wages over 4 years plus agents fees etc, or spend that 75m on a single first-class player and 100k wages and one agent’s fee? Latter also works out cheaper in the long run.

For me it’s a no brainer and struggle to understand Levy’s ideas on this
 
Let me ask you this - would you rather spend 75m on 3 average players which would cost 50k in wages over 4 years plus agents fees etc, or spend that 75m on a single first-class player and 100k wages and one agent’s fee? Latter also works out cheaper in the long run.

For me it’s a no brainer and struggle to understand Levy’s ideas on this
I agree with you.

Hence my last line.
 
Let me ask you this - would you rather spend 75m on 3 average players which would cost 50k in wages over 4 years plus agents fees etc, or spend that 75m on a single first-class player and 100k wages and one agent’s fee? Latter also works out cheaper in the long run.

For me it’s a no brainer and struggle to understand Levy’s ideas on this


It's purely spreading the risk, our big signings rarely work out.
 
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