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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024
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Stench of windows past.
big fish little pond syndrome.
Said to a mate earlier that Sugar was better. At least we signed some qualityNo place for riots*
*except outside Daniel Fucking Levy’s Training Ground Office.
Even selling mental case non striker from Brazil is a fucking saga for these cunts.
Christ I miss Irvine Scholar and El Tel.
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I have to agree. For a long long time I was really angry at the Sugar days. But this current lot are far far worse. There is no serious ambition.
Alan Sugar had far far less ambition than ENIC
From the little I know about transfers. The process is that the buying club sound out the player, and players representing agency. They explore if the player is open the the deal, If yeah. The agents move to the club who then continue to negotiate the possibility of a move. Eventually if all is agreed the player moves.
What looks to have happened here is the Saudi’s went direct to the club and the player heard about it the wrong way around and the net result is an absolute embarrassment for everyone concerned.
Hopefully I am misunderstanding.
View: https://x.com/cmdotcom/status/1821627220080968038
Italians getting excited about the arrival of Emerson Royal
15m plus 2m add ons. To close before end of weekend
They have signed Kamada and Sarr.
Anyway, they won't accept below the release clause and if we pay that (we won't), they don't have a choice.
news like this is as good of an indication as any news on our end. It's pretty obviously pointing in the 'get their business done before they've sold Solanke' direction.
More money for Levy & Lewis...
Adam Williams
Thu 8 August 2024 18:00, UK
Tottenham’s star is rising internationally. A quick look at the North London club’s commercial income shows that.
Spurs earned £228m from sponsorship, merchandise and events in 2021-22, the last year for which financial data is available.
Only Liverpool and the two Manchester clubs recorded higher commercial income in the same period, and the data suggests that Spurs’ brand is growing the quickest of them all overseas.
A recent study from Men in Blazers found that Spurs account for 15 per cent of US football fans, which is higher than any other English club.
Captain Son Heung-min meanwhile has turned the club into a commercial juggernaut in East Asia, where Spurs have spent pre-season ahead of 2024-25.
The commercial impact of an individual player is often overstated, but it is indisputable in Son‘s case.
Aside from the fact that he is a talented young player, Spurs’ acquisition of Yang Min-hyuk shows the club have one eye on retaining fans in the region in the post-Son era.
However, the latest news from the world of football business indicates that the game’s powerbrokers do not expect interest in Spurs and the Premier League as a whole to dip in East Asia any time soon.
The club have signed several commercial deals which are clearly centred on capitalising on the interest in the club in the territory.
But then there are less measurable benefits, such as brand exposure or how much the Spurs buzz in South Korea and beyond has contributed to Premier League’s TV deals in the area.
Recently, it emerged that the Premier League had struck a new broadcast deal worth around £40m over the next three years with Japanese broadcaster U-next.
Other clubs owe Spurs a thank you for a large chunk of the cash they will receive as a result of that deal.
Now, Seoul-based broadcaster Coupang has agreed a deal to take over the TV rights from Eclat in South Korea in a deal worth 66 per cent more than the previous package, per Sport Business.
The last deal was worth a reported £23.56m per season, which would mean the new arrangement is worth £39.84m, or £119.52m over the three-year deal length.
Spurs are well aware that fandom is more fluid outside Europe, with supporters liable to change their allegiances based on their favourite player’s movements.
It would therefore not be at all surprising to see the attacker return to the club in an ambassadorial role one day after he eventually hangs up his boots.
The Premier League is the only league in the world wherein the value of the overseas rights outstrips its domestic broadcast deals.
That speaks to the phenomenal global interest in clubs like Spurs, which clubs are attempting to monetise further for their own financial gain.
Tottenham boost confirmed as £120m off-pitch deal struck
Adam Williams
Thu 8 August 2024 18:00, UK
Tottenham’s star is rising internationally. A quick look at the North London club’s commercial income shows that.
Spurs earned £228m from sponsorship, merchandise and events in 2021-22, the last year for which financial data is available.
Only Liverpool and the two Manchester clubs recorded higher commercial income in the same period, and the data suggests that Spurs’ brand is growing the quickest of them all overseas.
A recent study from Men in Blazers found that Spurs account for 15 per cent of US football fans, which is higher than any other English club.
Captain Son Heung-min meanwhile has turned the club into a commercial juggernaut in East Asia, where Spurs have spent pre-season ahead of 2024-25.
The commercial impact of an individual player is often overstated, but it is indisputable in Son‘s case.
Aside from the fact that he is a talented young player, Spurs’ acquisition of Yang Min-hyuk shows the club have one eye on retaining fans in the region in the post-Son era.
However, the latest news from the world of football business indicates that the game’s powerbrokers do not expect interest in Spurs and the Premier League as a whole to dip in East Asia any time soon.
Spurs to benefit from new £51m TV deal
It is hard to quantify exactly how much the East Asian market is worth to Spurs, or indeed any other Premier League club.The club have signed several commercial deals which are clearly centred on capitalising on the interest in the club in the territory.
But then there are less measurable benefits, such as brand exposure or how much the Spurs buzz in South Korea and beyond has contributed to Premier League’s TV deals in the area.
Recently, it emerged that the Premier League had struck a new broadcast deal worth around £40m over the next three years with Japanese broadcaster U-next.
Other clubs owe Spurs a thank you for a large chunk of the cash they will receive as a result of that deal.
Now, Seoul-based broadcaster Coupang has agreed a deal to take over the TV rights from Eclat in South Korea in a deal worth 66 per cent more than the previous package, per Sport Business.
The last deal was worth a reported £23.56m per season, which would mean the new arrangement is worth £39.84m, or £119.52m over the three-year deal length.
TBR Analysis: The Son Heung-min factor
Son, now 32, is under contract until the end of 2024-25, although Spurs are believed to have the option to extend his deal by a further year.Spurs are well aware that fandom is more fluid outside Europe, with supporters liable to change their allegiances based on their favourite player’s movements.
It would therefore not be at all surprising to see the attacker return to the club in an ambassadorial role one day after he eventually hangs up his boots.
The Premier League is the only league in the world wherein the value of the overseas rights outstrips its domestic broadcast deals.
That speaks to the phenomenal global interest in clubs like Spurs, which clubs are attempting to monetise further for their own financial gain.
You and I remember the Sugar years very differently.
That’s called ‘tapping up’.
In theory, the buying club need the selling club’s permission to approach the player (unless within six months of his contract termination).
Clubs will give permission for a player to instruct his agent to find another club so that permission is implicit, I guess.
My guess is that Tottenham gave permission for the Saudis to speak to Richardson based on a rough understanding of the fee involved (or reached out to Richy to grant permission for him to look for a new club) but he declined the move so there was no point in further negotiating ( a fee).
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