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NEVILLEB

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So are you saying that if Levy and co promised you exciting flair players and entertaining football you'd be prepared to 'invest' more?

Of course not.

You are completely misunderstanding how our ownership works, I suspect deliberately, just to have yet another bash at ENIC.

If your preference is for some billionaire to come in and just spend shed loads of money for the pure love of it then I understand that. I doubt there are many people who wouldn't find that more exciting (albeit much much more risky).

But that's not what you are saying in this thread. You are somehow suggesting that because you pay to go and see Spurs, the owners should put in more money. And that those who pay a bigger percentage of their income should somehow get more from that 'investment'. It's complete codswallop and I suspect you know that.

I think you are misunderstanding my posts but I don't think it's deliberate.
 

Lilbaz

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Apr 1, 2005
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This all boils down to you want a sugar daddy that will invest shit loads of money like city and chelsea. That's fair enough. I'd be excited at possibly winning a league. But lewis isn't that guy and you can't blame him.
He has hundreds of business interests with thousands of employees and has a responsibility to them. He hasn't got the £bn it would take to invest in cash. It is all tied up.
There are very few people in the world eho do have that sort of money available. They seem to either already own football clubs or not be interested. A million of these threads wont change that.
 

sloth

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I spend 10% of my yearly income on fuel, yet the chief exec of bp isn't returning my calls! I feel your pain brother.

Not to mention the 30% to 40% many spend on rent. Maybe their landlords should respect their investment and donate a similar amount of their own income to provide a swimming pool, sauna, jacuzzi and all those other extras it would be so nice to have along with the two bedrooms and whatnot?
 

NEVILLEB

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Not to mention the 30% to 40% many spend on rent. Maybe their landlords should respect their investment and donate a similar amount of their own income to provide a swimming pool, sauna, jacuzzi and all those other extras it would be so nice to have along with the two bedrooms and whatnot?

If we're talking strictly business then £2000 is probably a rip off to watch fairly mundane football.

In business terms, the customers are paying a high price for an average quality product.
 

Lilbaz

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If we're talking strictly business then £2000 is probably a rip off to watch fairly mundane football.

In business terms, the customers are paying a high price for an average quality product.

Demand and supply. If the demand wasn't there then the price would drop. There are thousands of people willing to take your season ticket if you don't want it.
 

jonnyp

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Don't know why he doesn't pump money into the stadium development as it's not money lost if he were to sell down the line. I can understand he doesn't want to use any of it on transfers knowing our shitty transfer business over the last 2-3 seasons.
 

Lilbaz

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Don't know why he doesn't pump money into the stadium development as it's not money lost if he were to sell down the line. I can understand he doesn't want to use any of it on transfers knowing our shitty transfer business over the last 2-3 seasons.

He has already put in £50m. How much cash do you think he has got?
 

sloth

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If we're talking strictly business then £2000 is probably a rip off to watch fairly mundane football.

In business terms, the customers are paying a high price for an average quality product.

I think that's true, though there is this equation called supply and demand which tends to mean prices find there level.

A further problem we face is that we're bounded currently by an absolute need to maximise our income today and some would say we're doing it at the expense of tomorrow. That said if we increase the supply (bigger stadium) then you never know we may get clever with a mixed pricing policy that looks to tomorrow as well. I don't hold out a lot of hope on that though. Perhaps the best we can wish for is that a slight excess in supply encourages the club to be daring and experiment with a more German style model in the future?
 

zx81

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Would I love if it spurs won the league with some oil money ( or any ) super rich owner.... hell yeah!!! But thats not happening anytime soon so right now we are one of the best run clubs in the EP outside of those with bigger resources.. PERIOD. No matter what you think of enic and Lewis and levy we have not had it as good as we have in over a generation.
 

Lilbaz

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£4.7 billion. £1 billion in artworks alone.

He has not got £4.7bn cash but as assets including us. Yes he has an Art collection of $1bn. That is his passion and also gains in value far quicker than we do.
 

philip

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That really isn't how investment works. If he is here as an investor he isn't not going to just give the club £50m.

He could loan the club the money with a payment plan for it to be returned but I don't think that is really a good idea.

We are competing with the top 6, we're not doing that badly. In fact consistently better than we've been in my entire life.
Agree. I started actively supporting in the 90s and grew up watching teams with the likes of Thatcher, Perry, Korsten, Acimovic and Vega.
 

michaelden

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Aug 13, 2004
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He has not got £4.7bn cash but as assets including us. Yes he has an Art collection of $1bn. That is his passion and also gains in value far quicker than we do.

in which case he can pay me £100k pw to find more art for him around the world. I mean if he pays Ade nearly twice that to find the goal then I'll be out performing him in no time!!

;)
 

gljspur

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Jan 5, 2007
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He has not got £4.7bn cash but as assets including us. Yes he has an Art collection of $1bn. That is his passion and also gains in value far quicker than we do.

I bet we would gain value and trophies far quicker if we were his passion.

You have just neatly explained why we are where we are.
 
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