Profit = Levy should have spent more in the transfer market
I do remember that poll now. That's 83% of SC, not 83% of fans in general, so there is the risk of this place potentially being a bit of an echo chamber. Also, I recall the poll fluctuated a lot, depending on our last result / performance (closing it after consecutive losses / before any January signings were complete would have been far less favourable to ENIC than closing it after we beat Man City / after we had signed Porro & Danjuma).
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Fair point, but i think someone made mention later on that the net profit would be significantly less.
But SC is likely to be a very good representation of the wider fan base, isn't it? Unless you're calling me a weirdo, you bastard...
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It was a gauge of feelings on SC at the time, we have no way of polling fans in general. You couldn't change your vote plus a huge chunk of the voting was pretty quick so i'm pretty sure there wasn't that much time for fluctuating
I'll take it as 83% of people who voted didn't vote how you liked.
The latter. Sustainability is a joke. The PL is the plaything of billionaires, investment consortiums and sovereign wealth funds. Levy is either dreaming or selling us a lie.
Just trying to provide a bit of context.
Nail and head!
No-one can promise trophies though. Yes, big spending increases your chances, and the bigger your spend the more chances you get, but even City with their bottomless pit of money, the "world's best coach" and seemingly fiddling the FFP system haven't bought the prize they really want - the UCL. They've got as close as we have...
There are thousands of people who just come here for the HITMAN thread and don't give a shit one way or the other about ENIC, m8.
Context my arse, I know what you're doing, you know what you're doing, anyone with half a brain cell knows what you're doing
Measured in trophies yes, but that was a different time when trophies weren't almost exclusively won by a small group of mega rich clubs. Also, as had already been said we had large slices of luck in all our 80s cup wins. We rarely challenged for the league at the time (Pleat's 86/87 team aside). Of course I want trophies - and it's been devastating to see us get so close so many times in recent years without success and have that feeling that maybe the board missed opportunities to kick on (see Poch's "rebuild"). But it isn't what defines my love of the club and in my 40 odd years supporting Spurs I cannot remember such a sustained period of us being at the top end of the table and in the latter stages of competitions - and that's in a period when three or four clubs have been using financial cheat codes. Some of that 80s luck in the last 10 years and the situation looks very different.
