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I plead 100% guilty as charged.
Guess what, American Soccer Hipsters are worth a lot of money to the European game.
But even that notwithstanding, national domestic leagues with promotion and relegation and the decades of history and embedded cultural meaning are a product unto themselves, just smashing the clubs together like they're Marvel action figures is simply not the same thing and if Florentino Perez and MBS and Apple think the marketplace will treat that as the same thing they're going to lose their shirts, IMO.
I get less and less interested in the Champions League every year, Spurs involved or not.
What's true at the Hollywood box office will be true in college football and will be true in the European Super League: cynical, charmless entertainment products will not have their stink go unnoticed by the audience and will be worth less than the sum of their parts.
(Sidebar: those are bad examples. Kompany's Burnley is an objectively better watch than Simeone's Atletico)
Th very first thing I asked you was to name the "top ST" that you wanted.... You bottled it with whimpering "I'm not a scout".... As if the world's top STs are some kind of obscure proposition.
Then you said it was ok for Spurs to spend 50m on a 100m and then chased your tail in trying to make that make sense.
Look, I'm not keen to revsit that convo cos it proved a massive waste of time, but balls to you playing the whole thing off like you were the voice of sense and reason and I was quoting Levy rhetoric...... MASSIVE balls to that.
Luton aiming for the league this season then.
But what is Houston vs Jacksonville in Week 15 worth?
Or Pittsburgh Pirates vs Oakland A’s on September 15th?
You'd be absolutely horrified, unfortunately.
America is culturally addicted to professional football, it's a national civic sickness.
Go Bears
So Richarlison at £60m seems to me to be overpaying.
And lots of people complain we paid that much
Do you ?
All we need is one of those Men In Black mind wiping gadgets to make everyone forget about his time with us. Eze at 70m, forget that. We would be lucky to get 20m for GLC, even at 15m, noone wants to pay.
If he remains with us this season, I just hope he shows something.
Really hope Ange gives Kulu a look in the 8 role.
Rough math says each NFL game is worth 18.8m to each team. 320m a season.
Bollox, mosts primary goal is to stay in business for another year, with winning something a far off aspiration.
Yeah, not a good player. Overpay for good players not mid table cloggers. I wouldn’t have wanted him for 20M
Thanks for your hindsight. Unfortunately decisions are made in real time.
And how do you know the players worth paying too much for?
Personally, I find Man U v Burnley more interesting as it would typically have more direct ramifications to Spurs's bread & butter; i.e. the EPL.........
But everyone has a different opinion of players - loads called Kane crap for several years.
Maybe others thought Richarison was the best striker available ....... and on that basis paid £60m to secure that rare talent .
Yeah true, maybe he will kick on this season and shine and I’ll be wrong. Let’s hope so
So in hindsight, you agree we should have thrown an extra 10M to get it done and we fucked up?