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yiddopaul

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Problems will come for Tottenham, new stadium or not. They cannot keep paying players so much less than their rivals. Walker will not be the only key player to see opportunities elsewhere. Pochettino, too, may be lured away. It’s still not entirely clear how much the move to a new stadium will restrict finances.

Surely, the new stadium will have next-to-no affect on our player purchases. I hate all the 'net spend' debate we frequently see around here, but in this instant it's appropriate as we already function well within our means at a very low net spend. So moving into the new stadium will not hurt us as much as other teams.

In fact, won't it be easier to give bigger wages and to keep the players we want under our current structure.
 

The Swellhead Spur

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Paul Merson on the game this weekend;

"It's a big game for Tottenham though. If they don't win I look at Eriksen, Alli, the centre-backs and Harry Kane and I think they will move on at the end of the season."
 

StartingPrice

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Feb 13, 2004
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Problems will come for Tottenham, new stadium or not. They cannot keep paying players so much less than their rivals. Walker will not be the only key player to see opportunities elsewhere. Pochettino, too, may be lured away. It’s still not entirely clear how much the move to a new stadium will restrict finances.

Surely, the new stadium will have next-to-no affect on our player purchases. I hate all the 'net spend' debate we frequently see around here, but in this instant it's appropriate as we already function well within our means at a very low net spend. So moving into the new stadium will not hurt us as much as other teams.

In fact, won't it be easier to give bigger wages and to keep the players we want under our current structure.

I suspect they are actually underestimating how quickly we will be seeing an increase in our revenues.

Long may it continue :)
 

StartingPrice

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Paul Merson on the game this weekend;

"It's a big game for Tottenham though. If they don't win I look at Eriksen, Alli, the centre-backs and Harry Kane and I think they will move on at the end of the season."

Lads, it's Merson :rolleyes:

I actually got into this with a Goon the other week - just kept on repeating his dream scenario over and over again, that Kane, Eriksen and Dele (and for some reason Winks) were all going to be off at the end of the season. Even after I explained to him why there was zero chance of it happening, and not much chance of even one of them going this summer, he still kept at it in a gloaty way.

So I said to him: Okay, I'll play along. Suppose we do sell all three of them in the summer. It has already been made clear that Kane would cost more than £200 million (not that he would go). And if Liverpool wanted £137 million for Coutinho, it would be very conservative to say Levy would want at least £125 million each for Erisken and Dele (and I mean very conservative). So, those three would bring in at least £450 million - and that is being conservative. Winks wasn't even on the table.

ATM, Spurs have:
  • a great young squad, built on virtually zero net spend.
  • one of the most highly rated youth set-ups around
  • a hoard of exciting young talent in the youth set-up
  • a state-of-the-art training centre, one of the best in World football
  • soon, the second biggest, but best, most modern, most fitted to purpose and best designed for atmosphere, stadiums in England
  • a great young manager, completely committed to his project and the club, who has shown time and again he is able and willing to bring talented youth through
  • the most savvy chairman around
  • unity from boardroom to playing staff to fans (with some bizarre exceptions)
So, what you are saying is Spurs keeping all of this but losing those three players in exchange for £450 million is something you believe will knock them back to what you believe their level is, for good? If I were you, I would be more concerned about the fact that half, and the best half, of ArseAnal's first team are either in the final year of their contract or in their thirties. We could lose what you think of as our three best players for £450 million+, you are going to lose your best two players for fuck all.

He stopped gloating and just looked very glum :troll:
 
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Mate

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Some more comedy from the gold standard of Sky punditry. We are going to financially cripple ourselves and get relegated :rolleyes:

"I've seen it too often with Spurs, they fail to turn up in big games, maybe going back 20 years," said Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher last season. "Is it a belief thing? Is it a mentality thing, ingrained in the club? If that doesn't change, they are going to become like Leeds. Fantastic Leeds, got to the semi-final of the European Cup - so what? They didn't win anything."
 

Matrix

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Paul Merson on the game this weekend;

"It's a big game for Tottenham though. If they don't win I look at Eriksen, Alli, the centre-backs and Harry Kane and I think they will move on at the end of the season."

Don’t forget he would rather have Kolchelney in the back three over Davidson Sanchez. He must be back on the sauce.
 

StartingPrice

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Some more comedy from the gold standard of Sky punditry. We are going to financially cripple ourselves and get relegated :rolleyes:

"I've seen it too often with Spurs, they fail to turn up in big games, maybe going back 20 years," said Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher last season. "Is it a belief thing? Is it a mentality thing, ingrained in the club? If that doesn't change, they are going to become like Leeds. Fantastic Leeds, got to the semi-final of the European Cup - so what? They didn't win anything."

To be fair to Carragher, I think he has been much more complimentary to Pochettino and the club this season. Probably Gary Neville has converted him into a fully fledged member of The Cult of Poch, which is like the Jedi Nights as compared to The Empire equivalent of The Cult of Pep people :blackalien:
 

Drink!Drink!

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Oct 10, 2014
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Some more comedy from the gold standard of Sky punditry. We are going to financially cripple ourselves and get relegated :rolleyes:

"I've seen it too often with Spurs, they fail to turn up in big games, maybe going back 20 years," said Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher last season. "Is it a belief thing? Is it a mentality thing, ingrained in the club? If that doesn't change, they are going to become like Leeds. Fantastic Leeds, got to the semi-final of the European Cup - so what? They didn't win anything."


What is this BS meme with all the crap pundits...it’s not even true...Leeds won the bloody league in that period
 

dagraham

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Sep 20, 2005
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Lineker with the obligatory “feeder club” and “must win something.”

Thankfully both Ferdinand and Lampard basically ignored him and praised how far we’ve progressed.

Agreed with what Ferdinand said about the one type of player we are still missing. A Hazard/Mahrez type.
 
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