Tottenham Hotspur Financials - Year to 30 June 2020

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And looking at Match day revenues, using the graph showing our closest rivals and Spurs for 2019 :



And this year for Spurs :

Premier League matchday and catering receipts were £81.9m (2019: £64.2m) with 14 of the 19 home matches played prior to the COVID-19 outbreak at the THS with fans, the remaining five home matches being played behind closed doors. Gate receipts from the UEFA Champions League and domestic cup competitions were £12.6m (2019: £17.5m).

So total match day revenues of £94.5m (81.9 + 12.6) versus 2019 £ 81.7m (64.2 + 17.5) - whilst our rivals will also have lost 5 matches behind closed doors.

So its likely Spurs will have overtaken Liverpool and Woolwich match day revenues - and put us very close to ManU, the PL club with the highest match day revenues.

Another revenue segment where Spurs are now well in competition with our closest rivals.


I know it isn’t match day but probably can still be counted in that column....the other events. The millions we will get from those once things will be back up and running must put us top.
 
I think he'd be delighted - the debt would soon be gone with increases in commercial revenue
But he's had the chance over and over and over to speculate to accumulate and never once taken it.
We've always balanced the books and made a profit.

It would be so ironic if the first time he goes overdrawn we win the bloody league.
 
But he's had the chance over and over and over to speculate to accumulate and never once taken it.
We've always balanced the books and made a profit.

It would be so ironic if the first time he goes overdrawn we win the bloody league.


He did always say it would be different once the stadium was built

Hopefully we manage to clear out some of the deadwood in January as I'd love to see him with no excuses to strengthen the team again....
 
But he's had the chance over and over and over to speculate to accumulate and never once taken it.

Hmmmm - we speculated 60m on training facilities, 750m on a new ground, we've hired a 15m a year manager all to provide the infrastructure for the spending you wanted ... did you miss that?

It's chicken and egg, just ask fans of teams who spent fortunes and now play in fifty year old empty stadiums in the lower leagues ... sure there's been the two doped clubs Chelsea and City ... but the rest of the EPL's big guns all generate the income to support the big money spending, as now do we.
 
I know it isn’t match day but probably can still be counted in that column....the other events. The millions we will get from those once things will be back up and running must put us top.

Yup, the Other Events revenue is included in Commercial Revenues - and so far we have not had one complete year with all the events included. One reason why Commercial Revenues will grow
 
Not directly linked to the financials but I see from Companies house that Rebecca Caplehorn who seemed to be significant in player signings/contracts resigned wef from 11 November.
Resigned from the Club or position? If it's the position then that fits as per Trevor Birch's appointment.

She's still listed as Director of Football Administration & Governance on the website (the role she took post Birch reshuffle).
 
The figures would have been very good but for lockdown. This years figures will as warned be bad but assuming we get back to something resembling normal for next season then we are ideally placed to compete Financially with the other big clubs. Levy has reduced his salary considerably which should reduce some of the hatred for him.
Wasn't salary, they were bonus payments he earned. Looks like his salary is exactly the same.

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He did always say it would be different once the stadium was built

Hopefully we manage to clear out some of the deadwood in January as I'd love to see him with no excuses to strengthen the team again....
To your first point, Levy has basically set Spurs up to effectively have the third highest revenue in the Premier League (competing with Liverpool and Chelsea) and fighting Bayern/PSG for 5th highest in Europe. Assuming 2021/22 is more or less normal, than there really isn't much reason not to compete with the big boys financially. The debt is extremely manageable and revenues continue to grow across two of the main three areas (matchday/events, commercial - TV is flat, but it's flat for everyone).

As to your second, I think the problem with January is that we won't have any buyers and Levy won't take a cut-rate price on Dele, Winks or Sanchez. The other side of that coin, of course, is that some clubs will be DESPERATE for funds and will let go of their assets to pay their bills. A CB and DM in January would be great.
 
Hmmmm - we speculated 60m on training facilities, 750m on a new ground, we've hired a 15m a year manager all to provide the infrastructure for the spending you wanted ... did you miss that?

It's chicken and egg, just ask fans of teams who spent fortunes and now play in fifty year old empty stadiums in the lower leagues ... sure there's been the two doped clubs Chelsea and City ... but the rest of the EPL's big guns all generate the income to support the big money spending, as now do we.

The stadium and training ground are property. Property that will likely never depreciate nor run it's contract down and leave for nothing or retire. Property that will always give a return on its investment (pre covid)
Players are a different asset altogether. They pose a considerable risk if they go pear shaped and there's no guarantees that it won't happen. The stadium and training ground are/were no brainer investments. Players are a gamble.

With regards to Jose, I don't think there was anyone else that made sense. He tried twice with AVB and Poch to get the next best thing. Neither won a thing in their time at the club and left us needing a rebuild after. He needed to guarantee his best shot at winning something. Is there a manager in the game at the moment that we could get that has the pedigree of Jose? He's won more than most clubs. Expensive? Yes. VFM? Definitely.
 
To your first point, Levy has basically set Spurs up to effectively have the third highest revenue in the Premier League (competing with Liverpool and Chelsea) and fighting Bayern/PSG for 5th highest in Europe. Assuming 2021/22 is more or less normal, than there really isn't much reason not to compete with the big boys financially. The debt is extremely manageable and revenues continue to grow across two of the main three areas (matchday/events, commercial - TV is flat, but it's flat for everyone).

As to your second, I think the problem with January is that we won't have any buyers and Levy won't take a cut-rate price on Dele, Winks or Sanchez. The other side of that coin, of course, is that some clubs will be DESPERATE for funds and will let go of their assets to pay their bills. A CB and DM in January would be great.

I'm thinking more like Rose, Gazzanigga, Gedson (loan ended) - we might not get big fees, but that's a lot of completely wasted wage budget there and crucially would free up squad places.

We definitely won't sign anyone if it means another player is deregistered and left on the sidelines.
 
The stadium and training ground are property. Property that will likely never depreciate nor run it's contract down and leave for nothing or retire. Property that will always give a return on its investment (pre covid)
Players are a different asset altogether. They pose a considerable risk if they go pear shaped and there's no guarantees that it won't happen. The stadium and training ground are/were no brainer investments. Players are a gamble.

With regards to Jose, I don't think there was anyone else that made sense. He tried twice with AVB and Poch to get the next best thing. Neither won a thing in their time at the club and left us needing a rebuild after. He needed to guarantee his best shot at winning something. Is there a manager in the game at the moment that we could get that has the pedigree of Jose? He's won more than most clubs. Expensive? Yes. VFM? Definitely.
Fair point but football stadiums are only assets when used - our fancy stadium has a life span of about thirty years, and we just lost one of those - it might take thirty years and not five but at the end of that time whilst the land retains it's value the stadium does not.

If we spent 1.2 billion we will need to make 40m a year additional net profit just to break even, that's not counting interest, maintenance, and any r and m. That's pretty easily achieved as a top flight side in the EPL but almost impossible outside that rarefied level.

It's less of a gamble than it would be for a smaller club but it's a pretty huge piece of speculation, let's hope DL can pull it off.
 
Fair point but football stadiums are only assets when used - our fancy stadium has a life span of about thirty years, and we just lost one of those - it might take thirty years and not five but at the end of that time whilst the land retains it's value the stadium does not.

If we spent 1.2 billion we will need to make 40m a year additional net profit just to break even, that's not counting interest, maintenance, and any r and m. That's pretty easily achieved as a top flight side in the EPL but almost impossible outside that rarefied level.

It's less of a gamble than it would be for a smaller club but it's a pretty huge piece of speculation, let's hope DL can pull it off.
Covid is the worst thing that could happen to us IMO.
Just spent a ridicukous amount of money on getting as many people packed into a small space as possible, only to have this shit happen and make the whole world think about how to keep your distance from others. Mental. Spursy.
 
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