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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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NottinghamHotspur said:
So where does the money for the capital projects come from?
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There's £9m from haringey council, £18m from GLA (£27m total - Agenda item - Approval to enter into grant agreements with Tottenham Hotspur FC to deliver heritage and public realm improvements for north Tottenham | Haringey Council)

The other funds are from loans and are spread across about a bajillion companies on companies house. I suspect that is where Joe Lewis is happy to put some money in.

I expect part of it will be seen as an 'investment' to build the stuff like the supermarket and the flats and then make some money off all of that. There's no sniff of it in the club's accounts or finances though. It's all just proxy stuff.
 
CJJ said:
I mean we're kind of already at entropy aren't we.

It started when Hall & Shepherd were able to blow Woolwich out of the water with the crazy £15m for Shearer, and then United paying £30m for Rio a few seasons later - which I remember was the times where Championship Manager would have spurs with a £7m transfer budget and you'd get £1.25m for tarrico. Then Roman came along and spent cash like he was terminal, and the prices went up for everyone because all of a sudden the PL was seen as rich. Then PSG go spending a quarter of a billion on a fat brazilian with a glass skeleton, and all of a sudden teams in Europe want £100m for selling back english academy rejects. Yet they won't spend that money on a Kane easily.
Not too far off the same experience you can get going abroad, where there's local prices and tourist prices.


But now there's not just one Roman Abrahmovic now, there's at least 3 or 4 of them (Abu Dhabi, PIF, Clearlake). Only one club can win the league each year and no doubt there will eventually be a pump-and-dump when they get bored or move onto a different sport or league where they can get their fix without spending £500m and finishing 8th
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The reality is, in a business sense, all of those prior revolutions have been more than justified by the future revenue growth pathway of the Premier League and Champions League. The top players really WERE worth that much.

I have my doubts about that growth trajectory continuing, but that's business.

The Premier League, its team owners, the FA, whomever, would have been wise to see which way the wind was blowing during the Abramovich revolution and move toward something like PSR in 2006 rather than 2023. And of course if I had the power I would mandate 50+1 in England tomorrow.

But, as Hyman Roth said to Michael Corleone in Godfather 2, this is the business we've chosen.
 
TomHotspur said:

View: https://x.com/fabrizioromano/status/1948104370026865080?s=46&t=RqG7Y6x0wheLRsJS4PyVFA

This right here, is an absolute prime example of why we will never ever be the side we could be, or compete consistently for top trophies under this ownership.

Here we have a player, in a position we have allegedly been trying to strengthen for some time, available for a reasonable fee, who would immediately come in and upgrade the squad, but what do we do rather than go for him?
Give Ben Davies a new contract.

This was the summer we had to say adios to Ben. Been a great servant, is a top lad, but he isn’t and has never been good enough.

Hato is an immediate, attainable upgrade on Davies and as per usual we are siting on our arses.

We finished 17th last season and through a miracle we are in the CL next season.
To have only one new player in so far is disgraceful and utterly negligible.
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How many CBs do you want us to sign, ffs??
 
Richard Arlison said:
I’m a fan of the club, not the owners
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FightingIllini said:
The reality is, in a business sense, all of those prior revolutions have been more than justified by the future revenue growth pathway of the Premier League and Champions League. The top players really WERE worth that much.

I have my doubts about that growth trajectory continuing, but that's business.

The Premier League, its team owners, the FA, whomever, would have been wise to see which way the wind was blowing during the Abramovich revolution and move toward something like PSR in 2006 rather than 2023. And of course if I had the power I would mandate 50+1 in England tomorrow.

But, as Hyman Roth said to Michael Corleone in Godfather 2, this is the business we've chosen.
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The PL are implicit though, aren't they? Not sure if I'll lose you on this, but Abrahmovic was basically No Face entering the bath house throwing gold around (Spirited Away). The PL were never interested or motivated by fair play - they wanted to grow a business and profit over it. Greed from the day it was formed, so it is in their DNA.

That is the start and end of the reason why their got pissed off about the 'Super League', and probably part of why they are letting the worse offenders get away with it still.

If Liverpool are making £175m for winning the league, and we're getting £150m for finishing 17th, imagine how much cash the PL, as an entity, is making for itself. Must be in the region of half a billion per season. They have no motivation to kerb it.
 
CJJ said:
Liverpool have saved up several years of PL and CL winning cash. They've spent with relative austerity for several seasons.

This isn't a regular thing for them.
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Richard Arlison said:
Several seasons?

Are you sure about that?
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24/25 -5m (n)
22/23 65m (n)
21/22 63m (n)
20/21 67m (n)
19/20 -38m (n)
17/18 -9m (n)
16/17 -9m (n)
15/16 36 m (n)

The usual suspects would absolutely slaughter us for such regularly low spend totals.
 
CJJ said:
The PL are implicit though, aren't they? Not sure if I'll lose you on this, but Abrahmovic was basically No Face entering the bath house throwing gold around (Spirited Away).
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Just saw this for the first time a few weeks ago!

CJJ said:
The PL were never interested or motivated by fair play - they wanted to grow a business and profit over it. Greed from the day it was formed, so it is in their DNA.
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Right, but what the PL did not understand in 2004 but does understand now (because of the influx of American owners and American know-how) is that the real money is to be made in anti-competitive cartelization.

What PSR is all about is squaring the circle between the fans desire for competitive balance and fairness with the capital owners desire to not have their costs race away from their revenue. It's not a solution, it's not an endpoint, it's a for-now detente and balancing act to keep things trundling along.
 
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