Glenn Hoddle: Tottenham need ‘rebuild in every department’ - but they won’t spend the money

[mawspurs]

Glenn Hoddle says Tottenham need a total overhaul of the squad to return to challenging for the trophies but believes the club will not spend the money this summer in the wake of the Covid pandemic.

Source: Evening Standard

 

[yankspurs]

The club wouldnt spend the money even without covid.

 

[shelfboy68]

Always excuses at Tottenham

 

[Neon_Knight_]

The club wouldnt spend the money even without covid.

I think we will either see a similar transfer window to last year or a repeat of the 2013 overhaul (money from sale of star player reinvested). Either way, I expect us to end up with a stronger squad, but to remain an underdog for top 4.

 

[tcyrus]

can't wait for Kane to leave, so the media will leave us to F! alone

 

[CrazyHeart]

Hoddle finally said something I agree with...

 

[CrazyHeart]

can't wait for Kane to leave, so the media will leave us to F! alone

Don't bet on it... The media asswipes won't let up

 

[CrazyHeart]

The club wouldnt spend the money even without covid.

That comment should go viral !

 

[Nerine]

Can’t disagree with the headline tbh.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

Take the spin off of the headline though and we need as much of a discussion about why we can't spend the money when it's available. Poch said it, as did Jose - the money was there but we couldn't get the deals over the line and, from the sound of it, in a lot of cases the big money moves we were talking about weren't nearly as close as we wanted them to be.

Whether that's a financial thing when it comes to contracts or if it's a "Spurs" thing, who knows. If it's Levy trying to get too fiddly with the contracts then maybe someone does need to try and convince him to be a bit more direct, but if it's him refusing to pay an agent a full quarter of a multi-million pound transfer then I'm totally with him on that, but I suspect that money isn't the only elephant in the room when contracts are being drawn up.

Four finals. Zero goals.

 

[Dennism]

I cannot remember ever before as depressed as this as a Spurs fan. Relegation was bad but in those days was a blip. Competition was more open and you always had a chance to recover. The situation now seems hopeless. We have a poor and gutless team that is declining and seriously needs upgrading but many of the players will be hard to shift. Doherty has only just arrived and is useless. The best players are being tempted by big money moves away and we have no proper manager. The backdrop to this is the massive debt we have accumulated that will hold us back for years. Meanwhile all our rivals seem to be thriving and the gap between us and them grows all the time. Even Arsenal look like they are about to win the lottery. Levy has made some catastrophic errors and if his aim has been to make money I fear he will be disappointed because Brexit and COVID have crippled us over the stadium. If people disagree with me please give me the positives and cheers me up!

 

[sebo_sek]

I cannot remember ever before as depressed as this as a Spurs fan. Relegation was bad but in those days was a blip. Competition was more open and you always had a chance to recover. The situation now seems hopeless. We have a poor and gutless team that is declining and seriously needs upgrading but many of the players will be hard to shift. Doherty has only just arrived and is useless. The best players are being tempted by big money moves away and we have no proper manager. The backdrop to this is the massive debt we have accumulated that will hold us back for years. Meanwhile all our rivals seem to be thriving and the gap between us and them grows all the time. Even Arsenal look like they are about to win the lottery. Levy has made some catastrophic errors and if his aim has been to make money I fear he will be disappointed because Brexit and COVID have crippled us over the stadium. If people disagree with me please give me the positives and cheers me up!

The way JM used him yes - he simply isn't capable of doing that job. But there is a good player in there.
As far as the other stuff, sadly it seems you're right.

 

[LeParisien]

Yea because we’re a club with finite resources. I mean that’s the most basic constraint of economics - how to meet unlimited wants with limited resources.

Im not saying every decision has been perfect but you have to understand the strategy is been to invest to maximise revenue streams for the long term so those can be reinvested into the playing squad. That is consistent with what we’ve seen since the major infrastructure investment has finished. Covid will slow that but welcome to global pandemics.

Oh and to compound things were competing against teams with far greater resources than we have.

 

[Dennism]

Yea because we’re a club with finite resources. I mean that’s the most basic constraint of economics - how to meet unlimited wants with limited resources.

Im not saying every decision has been perfect but you have to understand the strategy is been to invest to maximise revenue streams for the long term so those can be reinvested into the playing squad. That is consistent with what we’ve seen since the major infrastructure investment has finished. Covid will slow that but welcome to global pandemics.

Oh and to compound things were competing against teams with far greater resources than we have.

That is true and we have been unlucky that our stadium build coincided with Brexit and COVID. As you say our competition has far greater resources and under Poch we did amazingly well to outperform much of that competition.

 

[poc]

Levy would spend money the issue is how he deals with moving players on as much as anything else. We have too many players to get out of the club to rebuild. Maybe it would be manageable across a four window project but i think he would spend.

 

[double0]

Take the spin off of the headline though and we need as much of a discussion about why we can't spend the money when it's available. Poch said it, as did Jose - the money was there but we couldn't get the deals over the line and, from the sound of it, in a lot of cases the big money moves we were talking about weren't nearly as close as we wanted them to be.

Whether that's a financial thing when it comes to contracts or if it's a "Spurs" thing, who knows. If it's Levy trying to get too fiddly with the contracts then maybe someone does need to try and convince him to be a bit more direct, but if it's him refusing to pay an agent a full quarter of a multi-million pound transfer then I'm totally with him on that, but I suspect that money isn't the only elephant in the room when contracts are being drawn up.

Four finals. Zero goals.

Tottenham will always find an excuse not to get things done. We've been buying Poorly and the lack of quality is there for people to see the players are just not good enough I've accepted this for a while. I had no hope at all going into the cup final the game panned out exactly how I thought it would and that's TOTTENHAM.