Agreed. If the new owners spend like city we will improve & win things. Easiest way to gain success, buy lots of very good players & a top manager.
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I don’t see why ENIC would sell anytime soon. Getting a great return on their investment.
With NFL on the radar as well things only looking up.
Ha I know. You would think that's obvious. But honestly on here people swear spending big is a waste of time. I remember hearing city are wasting their time spending big. Somehow spending big is a disadvantage. What about Leicester mouse? What about Leicester!
(only joshing Scotty, you know i loves ya)
Leicester spent money. Don't let the fairy tail narrative tell you otherwise. Not City money for sure, but higher net spend than us (which isn't that hard i suppose).
Problem with using mega spending to "guarantee" success is that the beast always needs feeding.
Success breeds expectations and that means you need to keep spending to maintain it.
Clubs inevitably end up in a boom / bust cycle looking for short term wins which means rotation of coaches and playing staff and paying off contracts. - more money.
Plus it requires creative interpretation of FFP. Not every club is lucky enough to have owners that can hold FIFA to ransom whenever questions they don't like are asked.
I was surprised he didn't try to find a buyer for all that weed...
Must say, he does rightfully get some criticism his way, but Levy really showed over the past few months how competent he is in his role. Contrast us moving on from Poch with the scum moving on from Emery.
Spurs: Sack Poch and then within 12 hours announce a world class manager, along with an entire coaching staff
Scum: Sack Emery, appoint an interim, fail to provide the interim manager with a coaching staff, create a shortlist of dozens of potential candidates, get denied by top available candidates (Pelligrini), spend weeks doing nothing while the club continues to drop points in embarrassing fashion, finally pick a guy they didn't pick last time, and still have to spend days negotiating his release from the club where he is only even an assistant coach
Fair play to Levy man.
Spurs: Sack Poch and then within 12 hours announce a world class manager, along with an entire coaching staff
Scum: Sack Emery, appoint an interim, fail to provide the interim manager with a coaching staff, create a shortlist of dozens of potential candidates, get denied by top available candidates (Pelligrini), spend weeks doing nothing while the club continues to drop points in embarrassing fashion, finally pick a guy they didn't pick last time, and still have to spend days negotiating his release from the club where he is only even an assistant coach
Fair play to Levy man.
To be fair, Mourinho had all his staff lined up ready to join him as soon as he got a job...Must say, he does rightfully get some criticism his way, but Levy really showed over the past few months how competent he is in his role. Contrast us moving on from Poch with the scum moving on from Emery.
Spurs: Sack Poch and then within 12 hours announce a world class manager, along with an entire coaching staff
Scum: Sack Emery, appoint an interim, fail to provide the interim manager with a coaching staff, create a shortlist of dozens of potential candidates, get denied by top available candidates (Pelligrini), spend weeks doing nothing while the club continues to drop points in embarrassing fashion, finally pick a guy they didn't pick last time, and still have to spend days negotiating his release from the club where he is only even an assistant coach
Fair play to Levy man.
That's part of identifying and picking a proper candidate though.
Yeah it was obvious Jose was on standby for Levy to pull the trigger
“The problem is it is also about squad size, English versus non-English, because we have the homegrown rule in the Premier League,” the Tottenham chairman said.
“There are lots of circumstances why sometimes you don’t do a transaction. It wasn’t a case that we didn’t have money. We have to get rid of this obsession in England of spending money. It just doesn’t happen overseas.”
Levy added in an interview with the London Evening Standard: “There is an amount we have allocated to spend each year in terms of net investment in the team. If you compare us to certain other clubs, they will have more money to spend. It doesn’t frighten us.”
That's all well and good Mr Levy but I can assure you clubs aren't going to stop spending stupid amounts of money just because you say they should stop obsessing over it.
The reality is, this isn't overseas, it's England and in this league clubs buy success and that's what we have to compete with, if we can't compete financially in terms of raw spending power then we have to make sure whatever purchases we make are a success.
Hiring Mourinho shows real ambition, I just hope that ambition is also shown where it matters, with top quality recruitment on the pitch when we need it.
“There are lots of circumstances why sometimes you don’t do a transaction. It wasn’t a case that we didn’t have money. We have to get rid of this obsession in England of spending money. It just doesn’t happen overseas.”
Levy added in an interview with the London Evening Standard: “There is an amount we have allocated to spend each year in terms of net investment in the team. If you compare us to certain other clubs, they will have more money to spend. It doesn’t frighten us.”
That's all well and good Mr Levy but I can assure you clubs aren't going to stop spending stupid amounts of money just because you say they should stop obsessing over it.
The reality is, this isn't overseas, it's England and in this league clubs buy success and that's what we have to compete with, if we can't compete financially in terms of raw spending power then we have to make sure whatever purchases we make are a success.
Hiring Mourinho shows real ambition, I just hope that ambition is also shown where it matters, with top quality recruitment on the pitch when we need it.
No. Only the ones that can afford to buy success do. We can't compete with City, Utd. on finances how hard is it to understand this?
You clearly didn't read my post and instead decided to jump down my throat.
I said at the end, if we can't compete in terms of raw finance then we have to make sure whoever we do buy is a success.
I am simply saying it's unrealistic for Levy to expect other clubs to stop being "obsessed with spending" because it "doesn't happen overseas."
(Which is complete bullshit anyway because it does happen overseas, considering the biggest transfer in world football didn't even happen in the PL.)
He isn't going to stop clubs spending money and if he wants us to compete at the top of the table but can't match the ludicrous spending then we have to be clever about how we do business without depriving the squad and allowing it to regress.
He's not "obsessing" with it though is he? He's actually (IMO) talking about fans and media within the UK who are absolutely obsessed with spending. It dominates every single conversation, NOT oversees.
I find it truly amazing that it still does given the fact that the majority of clubs that spend shit loads fail to make their squad any better, in most cases, they go backwards.
It's an unhealthy obsession of the British media, I think that's fair.
But pointing that out doesn't paper over the fact that Daniel Levy's business and sporting mandates on the club are wholly incompatible with his commercial ambitions, full stop.
The business plan WILL fail without eye-watering, Sky-pleasing transfer investment. It might fail even with that. Football is a mug's game financially, always has been, always will be.
The facts show that Spurs are the ONLY "NEW" team in World football to break into the top 10 that are not backed by a Sovereign wealth fund. I'd say the business model is working and outperforming the majority of the biggest clubs in the World right now.