All this noise about investment and the club acting differently this summer…. Not buying it.
Felt like maybe with MGW so quick but they’ve done fuck all in reality
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All this noise about investment and the club acting differently this summer…. Not buying it.
Felt like maybe with MGW so quick but they’ve done fuck all in reality
Did see on youtube MGW will be a tottenham player by end of weekend.
We will get more imo. But want quality to improve squad and not just numbers.
No. Their wage bill is roughly £63M, which is 91% of their turnover. Hence £70M.
They need to bring it down to £49M in order to comply with PSR.
We tried and probably still will do something we have never done before. Buying 2 players for £55m and £60m is unheard of from Tottenham not to mention the £35m for Tel.
Something is different this transfer window I'm not entirely sure what it is yet but we are acting differently than we have before under ENIC
I just did basic maths. Forest's wage bill is just shy of £64M per year. The New York Times actually reports their wage to revenue ratio at 94% for the 2024/2025 season, so I extrapolated their revenue from that. I guess the TV monies weren't factored in, maybe because they haven't received them yet?
If the UEFA regulations are so meaningless, how come virtually every club is doing it's damndest to comply with them?
Lastly, £100M???
Elanga £55 M
Sosa £10M
Every other player has left on a free.
They've then brought in Igor Jesus and Jair Cunha from Botofogo. Combined fee is around £25M, so £40M to date in profit.
I understand where you're coming from though. I did the maths based on the info that they were sitting at 91% wage/revenue, then calculated the revenue from the reported squad wages. I would assume the additional 3% reported by the NYT is for non playing staff.
Eh, Madders, VDV and Johnson were a lot of money, as were Solanke and Gray. And now we have Champions League.
This is a very rich football club.
It might just be the EL and CL revenue being spent.
A lot of people got overly excited after reading a rumour about outside investment. There's been absolutely nothing to substantiate that, but it didn't stop people from adding 2 and 2 to make 5.
Have spurs ever spent £150m on 3 players in one transfer window before? And we are going to spend more as well. Something is definitely different
I don't want to be an insufferable pedant (too late, I know), but there's just like a whole bunch wrong with that.
I just eyeballed Wikipedia, but Danilo just got finalized today for 21.7 and Andrew Omobamidele (he of the purported match fixing penalty concession to screw Palace) had his loan deal made permanent for 6.9.
93.6 total.
If the club gets MGW, that's 115 on two,who is the third?
117 last year, 130 the year before, 120 the year before that
I hope we're breaking into some new investment-fueled tier of the market, but this is mostly just a continuation of the broader inflationary trends.
Ok, I'm game. How is the maths wrong? If 91% of your revenue is used on wages, and your wage bill is £64M, what is this "whole bunch" that I'm doing wrong?
Righto.
£35M on Tel. Also £25M on Danso.
We haven’t bought 2 players for 55 and 60m yet
He’s talking wages I believe. Transfer fees secondary in their problems it seems
To be fair it's wage to revenue, so the transfer fees would count as revenue. However, I don't believe the whole transfer fee would be included as part of that year's revenue, just the installments, so of that £90 odd million, maybe 10-20%?
Ah yes, the poster said 3 players for 150m that threw me for a bit.
To be fair, with the way this MGW saga is going on, it's very easy to forget the previous business we've done. Even Kudus seems like a dim memory at the moment, and it's only been a week!
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