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Who the fuck is Leroy Brown?? Bad bad Leroy Brown
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We might be surprised by the people who would still buy. If we have the planning permissions and structural design work for the apartments complete already, and if there's other positive news regarding the Love Lane estate and general surrounding area then some may see it as an attractive investment. There's a PL/CL football club with the potential to become very famous plus the money-making side of the NDP, especially if property values in the area increase.if ENIC are going to sell us, no new owner will take it on with the debt, and I can't see ENIC selling until the rest of the development is finished and sold, because that will equal big profits once sold
Quite a few ifs in there, not least if Enic use the revenue from the stadium to pump into the team in the future, which is by no means guaranteed.
This just shows how much the stadium has affected our transfer spending, despite all of the (blatantly dishonest) posturing from the club to the contrary.before the stadium started to really hit our spending we wasn't the lowest of spenders. in fact we were 3rd highest spenders, but hey ho Levy doesn't spend
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honestly if we dont sign anyone this window after hearing the kane news, let alone the sissoko news, all hell will break loose as if things werent already looking grim
I am not going to blame anyone because it is what it is - if we have no money we have no money - its that simple really
But, and this isnt being said in light of todays defeat but a question that whenever i watch us or even think of Spurs I wonder - where do we go from here and particularly after this season? I do think we are at a crossroads this summer and it will be telling on where we see ourselves and the short to medium term future.
It’s results dependant. We fail to win Sunday then go out against Chelsea, which looks likely, ( more ) people will lose their shit.
A few interesting quotes from 18 months ago. I've included the whole article but really there are only one or two bits that caught my eye.
July 2017
“My view is that it’s totally unsustainable,” Levy said after ringing the Nasdaq opening bell in Times Square on Spurs’ pre-season tour of the US. “I’m not sure if that’s the view of the other Premier League clubs, but certainly the prices that are being paid for other Premier League players, I can’t see it being sustainable in the long term. We’ve managed the club, we think, in a very appropriate way.
“I think I am a custodian of this football club. This club has been around since 1882 and when I leave it will be somebody else. I think we have a duty to manage the club appropriately. I don’t think that long term for any club it’s sustainable to spend more than you earn. You can have periods where you do but over the long term you can’t.
“I think that some of the activity that’s going on at the moment is just impossible to be sustainable. If somebody is spending £200m more than they’re earning then eventually it catches up with you. You can’t keep doing it. We’ve invested a lot of money in physical facilities for long-term growth. So we’ve got one of the world’s best training facilities. We’ve invested over £100m in that facility.
“We’re now investing in the stadium. The stadium is fundamental because with that we get more fans and more income and that’s the way to clearly have a more sustainable business. At the same time the academy is important because we can produce our own players. We don’t have to go and spend £20, £30m, £40m on a player and obviously that homegrown player has an affinity with the club that a player we buy doesn’t.
“That’s what the fans want to see. They want to have that passion. That’s what you get with a homegrown player and that’s why people love Harry Kane and sing that he’s one of our own.”
Tottenham are currently building their new 61,000-seat stadium, which is expected to cost around £750m and is scheduled to open next year.
“Obviously when you’re building a stadium of this magnitude and it all has to be privately financed – there’s no state help whatsoever – it is a challenge,” Levy added.
“We have to find the right balance but I can honestly say it is not impacting us on transfer activity because we are not yet in a place where we have found a player that we want to buy who we cannot afford to buy.”
I find the bit I've put in bold particularly interesting but also, the part about homegrown players. If you've ever sung 'he's one of our own', look at what you did
A few interesting quotes from 18 months ago. I've included the whole article but really there are only one or two bits that caught my eye.
July 2017
“My view is that it’s totally unsustainable,” Levy said after ringing the Nasdaq opening bell in Times Square on Spurs’ pre-season tour of the US. “I’m not sure if that’s the view of the other Premier League clubs, but certainly the prices that are being paid for other Premier League players, I can’t see it being sustainable in the long term. We’ve managed the club, we think, in a very appropriate way.
“I think I am a custodian of this football club. This club has been around since 1882 and when I leave it will be somebody else. I think we have a duty to manage the club appropriately. I don’t think that long term for any club it’s sustainable to spend more than you earn. You can have periods where you do but over the long term you can’t.
“I think that some of the activity that’s going on at the moment is just impossible to be sustainable. If somebody is spending £200m more than they’re earning then eventually it catches up with you. You can’t keep doing it. We’ve invested a lot of money in physical facilities for long-term growth. So we’ve got one of the world’s best training facilities. We’ve invested over £100m in that facility.
“We’re now investing in the stadium. The stadium is fundamental because with that we get more fans and more income and that’s the way to clearly have a more sustainable business. At the same time the academy is important because we can produce our own players. We don’t have to go and spend £20, £30m, £40m on a player and obviously that homegrown player has an affinity with the club that a player we buy doesn’t.
“That’s what the fans want to see. They want to have that passion. That’s what you get with a homegrown player and that’s why people love Harry Kane and sing that he’s one of our own.”
Tottenham are currently building their new 61,000-seat stadium, which is expected to cost around £750m and is scheduled to open next year.
“Obviously when you’re building a stadium of this magnitude and it all has to be privately financed – there’s no state help whatsoever – it is a challenge,” Levy added.
“We have to find the right balance but I can honestly say it is not impacting us on transfer activity because we are not yet in a place where we have found a player that we want to buy who we cannot afford to buy.”
I find the bit I've put in bold particularly interesting but also, the part about homegrown players. If you've ever sung 'he's one of our own', look at what you did