Another Levy thread- Credit

[mkkid]

would you care to outline your master plan that would see us return to the top table of English football, without spiralling into massive debt?

I'd be fascinated to hear it

Look at the stats,we spend more than than anyone,apart from Chelsea and Utd.
Everyone to blame but the people running the club,7 managers in 8 years,in most companies the chairman would have got the bullet by now.
The way,Jol was forced out was a disgrace and didnt really like him but he didnt derserve that.
What club sells there best two forwards and has no one to replace them and then spend 40 million in January.
Dont constantly sell you best players and then moan about them.Have the ball to say,no your staying.We wont crack the top four,if we alway sell our best players.
If you want profit,Levy your man.I simply want a decent team on the pitch.
Average tickets prices at spurs have gone up 49% in 8 years,am i watching a better team for my money.

 

[leffe186]

Look at the stats,we spend more than than anyone,apart from Chelsea and Utd.
Everyone to blame but the people running the club,7 managers in 8 years,in most companies the chairman would have got the bullet by now.
The way,Jol was forced out was a disgrace and didnt really like him but he didnt derserve that.
What club sells there best two forwards and has no one to replace them and then spend 40 million in January.
Dont constantly sell you best players and then moan about them.Have the ball to say,no your staying.We wont crack the top four,if we alway sell our best players.
If you want profit,Levy your man.I simply want a decent team on the pitch.
Average tickets prices at spurs have gone up 49% in 8 years,am i watching a better team for my money.

If you mean more transfer money then maybe, I'll take your word for it - although I suspect we recoup more than anyone.

The point has been made several times in this thread though that it's the wages where we do well. Remember that table published a couple of months ago that listed the wage bill as a percentage of turnover. Almost every single club in the Premier League was at 70% or over, iirc it was us, Arsenal and Man U at around 45%. That's an astonishing achievement for a club that has not been in the Champions League, and lest we forget, up till the last five years had rarely been in Europe in the Premiership era.

Newcastle have effectively been bankrupted by their wage bill, it's only Ashley and his comedy "due diligence" that have kept them going.

I wish someone would just lay out clearly which different approach we should be taking. WE CANNOT AFFORD TO COMPETE IN WAGES WITH MAN CITY. Some people still seem not to grasp this. No team will be able to guarantee a Top Four finish this year - that's a shortfall in income that vey few can cope with.

 

[leffe186]

Average tickets prices at spurs have gone up 49% in 8 years,am i watching a better team for my money.

Sorry, missed this bit. Yes mkkid, you are.

 

[hybridsoldier]

That, we could have matched. What we couldn't match was the reported £130k a week—£27m over a four-year contract—world-class superstar wages for a player who's good, but not that good. And Adebayor on £150k a week? Mad, or what?

Anyone who thinks we can pay that kind of whack has lost all touch with reality.

Exactly mate, thats what Im saying. This Barry thing people are comparing with Berbatov and Carrick is totally unfair, Man Utd are the most successful side in England since the 80s. Man City are a 1-off, a crazy whore that is messing up the transfer market for everyone.

Also 150 Italian Lira a month is too much for that tosser, hope Benjani does some black magic on him

 

[southlondonyiddo]

8 years of Levy

average points per season 52

7 managers

3 DOF's

Not great reading is it!

You cannot sell your best players every season because its good business. It will always weaken the football team whilst strengthening those your supposedly trying to catch

I am not a levy fan

 

[eViL]

All I'm going to say is..

 

[spursandbarca]

yeah and the progress on it is kind of slow

 

[yawa]

Slow is better than not at all. Something like that doesnt just happen overnight...hes been trying for years.

 

[gibbs131]

RE Portsmouth:


Lol. Loans owing? Do you know how much a Prem team gets a year?

Stay up = flotation. The pun is liquid.

The only investment hiccup I can see from the whole deal is not enough fans in the surrounding area.

Portsmouth are going to be fine. And I hope they do well because they buck trends and deserve limelight.

Spurs are the ones doing donuts. Selling best players, investing in young and NOT backing them is folly.

This year we will do well. Because the WC is coming and our flash little players will actually make an effort. Beyond 2 years is another slump.

 

[gibbs131]

As for Levy: He is a muppet. He didn't make us money. We made Spurs money by paying through the nose through thick and thin. Mansion etc etc would not have touched Spurs if it wasn't for us.

This sums up Levy trying to make money:


Me in 2008:

http://www.spurscommunity.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=36966&highlight=gold+dust&page=2

"I blame the person who would entertain agreeing a fee for Berbs or Keane.

Prem striking partnerships are like gold dust."

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Christ almighty, I give up, too many people have their fingers in their ears and are shouting out "na na na na I'm not listening"