Mate, we have the lowest wage to revenue ratio in the PL.
Yes, Kane stayed at his boyhood club and Son is a once in a generation type of humble and loyal but both would have earned close to double in their careers if they left earlier.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Mate, we have the lowest wage to revenue ratio in the PL.
Yes, Kane stayed at his boyhood club and Son is a once in a generation type of humble and loyal but both would have earned close to double in their careers if they left earlier.
Maybe when we get pounded by Woolwich on Thursday levy will wake up . I feel like he thinks the squad was just managed really badly and that it's actually top 4 level.
Not so sure, with son completely finished, solanke , richarlison highly unlikely to score 20 league goals , a bunch of kids and some middling midfielders I'm not so sure this squad is top 10. Unless you can keep maddison and kulusevski fit and in form
Not so sure, with son completely finished, solanke , richarlison highly unlikely to score 20 league goals , a bunch of kids and some middling midfielders I'm not so sure this squad is top 10. Unless you can keep maddison and kulusevski fit and in form
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Ndombele is the freak event. £65m and 200k a week for an admittedly insanely talented player who fucked us over and basically retired on our contract. A bizarre and very unusual situation. However we have to be willing to try again if we want the best, one failure shouldn’t cloud our judgement.
Kane wanted out years before he left, Romero seems to want out if he can, Son clearly loves us and the other players are very good but not sure they would have top 4 teams chasing for them.
I certainly think we should be looking at high wage players in a few positions to improve the quality of the squad.
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This is really bizarre. Glad others have noticed. Like fucking John Gotti as the owner with a contract ready to go if you don’t do what he says.
He's a jolly happy chap isn't he...
Interesting he talks about belonging to the Family....
The two 'Families' that spring instantly to mind are the Corleones and the Mansons!
And 120mil in their transfer kitty.
it's not about the overall spend number, it's what we spend relative to our worth. it's about trusting your owners are doing everything they can and even a bit more to win. even small clubs can do that.There are seven clubs above us that may satisfy your appeal to just spend, spend, spend. Six of which won what last season?
As for "tinpot"?
We won the second biggest available European Trophy last season.
I don't know what would satisfy you, but for sure is you are looking for unbridled spending then you are obviously supporting the wrong club whomever the owners be.
We have never outspent other clubs in the top tier of English football.
I'll just leave this here.
you don't get to decide who's a "Genuine" Supporter and who's not, grow up.
you're doing the exact same fucking thing accusing people who don't despise the owners as being not Spurs fans and I'm fucking sick of it on both sides frankly.
JT absolutely wrecks my head but I fully accept like me AND EVERYONE ELSE ON HERE wants us to win and be successful.
accusing people of being fans of Woolwich or Hotels or Spreadsheets or boardrooms or whatever the fuck else needs to stop we can all want what's best for Spurs and have differing opinions on the ownership.
this place needs to grow up a bit, its painful.
Why have we not leaked any BS transfer rumours just to save a bit of face.
Bet Levy is still telling Frank just be patient MGW is imminent.
Bet Levy is still telling Frank just be patient MGW is imminent.
I think we can agree to disagree about JT.
If he’s a spurs fan, I’m a porn star.
But anyway, I fully accept that 99.99% of posters on here are genuine spurs fans.
What are the actual facts (not blinded bullshit) as to why we didn't sign MGW?
Where you present at the negotiations, or are you just assuming that it wasn't anything legally that we could do anything about, was it the players decision, or perhaps his wife didn't want to move given her medical condition?
The media drove this story, not the club, or anyone inside it.
Let's wait for the facts behind the players decision before jumping all over the club.
Live with it if it improves us. Kudus and Paqueta improve our first 11.
What an awful post.
Bullshit. You're comparing two completely different era's you clown. The market prices then are incomparable to the market prices today.
Stop running the club down and belittling our past magnificence.
.... Where 'To dare is to Do' actually meant something
We used to be trailblazers in the transfer market. In fact we smashed the all time British transfer record to sign Jimmy Greaves. In his absolute prime
Imagine the excitement that would have given our fans who were around at the time.Bazali ?
Imagine this cuntsmashing the British transfer record
..or beating off Alex Fergusons Man Utd to sign the mercurial talent that was Paul Gascoigne lol
The only records he smashes are boardroom salaries and chairman bonuses
Yes, exactly! There is simply no comparison that can reasonably made across eras, which is the entire point my post was attempting to illustrate. The way money works in football now is so astronomically different from the way it worked 30-40-50 years ago that it requires an impressive amount of laziness, ignorance, or both to bleat on about how Spurs used to behave, used to spend money, used to “show ambition” in the transfer market like it has any bearing at all on how they should be expected to behave, spend money, and “show ambition” now.
You can talk about what we paid for Greaves and Gazza all you want, and of course it’s fantastic that we did those things, but it’s still a completely irrelevant thing to bring up in the context of the modern game because the conditions that enabled us to do that then are not even remotely similar to the conditions that exist now. When we bought Greaves and even Gascoigne, Tottenham were not part of a nuclear arms race involving clubs that have the financial backing of entire nations. Revenue was not so heavily determined by participation and performance in European competitions. From your own mouth, John, “you’re comparing two different eras, you clown.”
I think that’s about United as much as him.
He’s had Ten Hag who brought him in as a ball playing CM taking the ball off the CBs, then Amorim who used him as a sort of wide 10 or whatever he needed because he only had space for Bruno to play the ball
I think that Porro, Kulu, Bergvall, Micky, Udogie, Gray (possibly) would attract top clubs here or in Europe.
I don't believe Romero wants out despite showing his frustration, but time will tell on that one.
Bottom line is that by spending the most on a player, (transfer and or wages) doesn't guarantee success, it's about on whom that money is spent on.
Why though? Surely that is the question that needs to be asked
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Moore, Devine and Scarlett left at home to find loan moves
Udogie not on the tour from injury. We need to sign a LB
Tbh the market looks pretty dry for me for creative mids. We should probably just take the 60m and try and get Rodrigo Mora from Porto for the future. He’s a potential superstar that hasn’t been snapped up by Chelsea or Real yet.
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