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I must admit, I did laugh..
That's pretty funny? Mourinho's turning into a coked up old game show host...and a deteriorating one at that.
I must admit, I did laugh..
He’s a silly man. They can still come in and offer a ridiculous fee that only a super rich club like them wouldn’t bat an eyelid at. Would/Could we do that? no, therefore he’s talking out of his jole.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46407066
The Tottenham example
In June 2006, Sir Alex Ferguson went to Tottenham to buy a replacement for Roy Keane, paying £18m for Michael Carrick, a member of Sven Goran Eriksson's England World Cup squad.
Two years later, he broke the club transfer record by paying £30.75m for Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov, who had been 5 correct.Tottenham's top scorer for the previous two seasons.
Mourinho compares that situation to the one that exists now, where United can, theoretically, be interested in Tottenham skipper Harry Kane, but have no chance of completing a transfer for the England forward.
Mourinho said: "Is Manchester United, by its history and dimension, bigger than Tottenham? Tottenham is an amazing club but I think everybody would say yes. Can you buy Tottenham's best players? No.
"Football has changed. Can we go there now and bring Harry Kane here? Dele Alli? Eriksen? Son? No. So who is more powerful now? Them or us?"
Don’t knock it. It’s how many fans come to support their football teams. As a person who’d never been to London before his teens, I only supported Spurs because of what I saw on TV
Just to play devil's advocate we made something like £117 million profit two years ago on a £305 million turnover.
Last years turnover was £380 million so I would suspect a similar potential profit.
Whilst I agree we wouldn't pay that, it doesn't mean we couldn't.
The thing is, I'm not from London but I'm Spurs because of my dad and granddad, who both grew up in North London. But I couldn't imagine just supporting a random team that I have no connection with purely on the basis that they're successful. I'm not having a pop at you, I just can't really imagine doing that myself. For me it would be hard to feel any real connection to the club that way. As you say though, plenty of people do it that way.
"All the teams they got better, Spurs was the team that did not make a direct investment, but the best investment is to keep the top players that you have. So every team got better and we didn't."
https://www.skysports.com/football/...ot-improve-unlike-their-premier-league-rivals
The snippet I’ve posted above interested me, seems odd as Mourinho is saying everyone improved apart from Man U then when mentions us (as obviously we didn’t sign anyone) says that best investment is to keep top players.
But Man U kept all their best players and signed two - Fred isn’t really lighting things up at present and Dalot who was more for future but seems promising.
So if anything they technically did strengthen more than we did (and the argument about a centre back he may have is guff as well as he signed Lindeloff last summer).
He really does seem to be losing it more and more...
I'm surprised more hasn't been made of this.
He's pointing out that they are no longer a bigger club than us (except historically) and no-one seems to bat an eyelid.
He might be self-destructing but he still says it as it is and he's 100% correct.
I don't think it has really sunk in with many of our fans yet and I don't think it really will for another couple of years until they really see the earning potential for this club.
would mourinho be a better POTUS than trump?He’s like Trump and no journo challenges him
would mourinho be a better POTUS than trump?
"All the teams they got better, Spurs was the team that did not make a direct investment, but the best investment is to keep the top players that you have. So every team got better and we didn't."
https://www.skysports.com/football/...ot-improve-unlike-their-premier-league-rivals
The snippet I’ve posted above interested me, seems odd as Mourinho is saying everyone improved apart from Man U then when mentions us (as obviously we didn’t sign anyone) says that best investment is to keep top players.
But Man U kept all their best players and signed two - Fred isn’t really lighting things up at present and Dalot who was more for future but seems promising.
So if anything they technically did strengthen more than we did (and the argument about a centre back he may have is guff as well as he signed Lindeloff last summer).
He really does seem to be losing it more and more...
I think that is crap from Maureen. Their problem is poor leadership and coaching from the Manager and his coaches. Can you imagine what Poch would do with that squad ? They’d easily be a top four team by now.
They can't steal our players anymore but we're still not able to compete with them for players we both want to sign imo.