More top players may want to leave Spurs, says Mauricio Pochettino

[YiddoTom90]

Sadly loyalty is a thing of the past unless you are a big team like madrid and united winning stuff each year with higher wages to boot.

 

[Spurslove]

Not keen on Jenas as pundit or when he was a player. Seems to want to knock the club all the time.

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I don't get that impression at all, in fact as far as I'm aware, he's always been very complimentary about the club. If he mentioned that some players will soon be wanting to leave, I assume it's because we haven't won anything for ten years and our wage structure is nowhere near some of the other clubs around us.

I'm afraid, that's just a fact. I know it's hard to admit it, but there it is.

I used to hate him as a player (well, not hate but you know what I mean) but as a pundit, he's always been very fair to us.

 

[WorcesterTHFC]

Sadly loyalty is a thing of the past unless you are a big team like madrid and united winning stuff each year with higher wages to boot.

To put it another way, Real or United players are the most loyal people that money can buy.

 

[Spurslove]

To put it another way, Real or United players are the most loyal people that money can buy.

City too. Isn't is amazing what a bottomless pit of hard cash can do for a team? So far, about £3 billion and counting.

City may currently have one of the greatest teams in Premier League history, but the fans of all the other clubs are always very cynical about how much money they've ploughed into the club to get where they are now.

BUT...

All those City fans don't give a monkeys arse what the fans of other clubs are saying and to be fair, we'd probably be the same if we were in their position. Who knows, one day we might be.

 

[DCSPUR]

City too. Isn't is amazing what a bottomless pit of hard cash can do for a team? So far, about £3 billion and counting.

City may currently have one of the greatest teams in Premier League history, but the fans of all the other clubs are always very cynical about how much money they've ploughed into the club to get where they are now.

BUT...

All those City fans don't give a monkeys arse what the fans of other clubs are saying and to be fair, we'd probably be the same if we were in their position. Who knows, one day we might be.

would bother me a lot:
https://medium.com/@NcGeehan/the-me...coming-soon-to-a-cinema-near-you-14bc8e393e06

 

[Spurslove]

would bother me a lot:
https://medium.com/@NcGeehan/the-me...coming-soon-to-a-cinema-near-you-14bc8e393e06

My ex-boss was from Moss Side Manchester and a life long City fan. Used to watch from the terraces at Maine Road when he was a lad.

We had a chat just before I retired a few months ago and he told me this current City side are an excellent side, but he doesn't feel as if he has very much of an emotional attachment to them.

So much money has been thrown at the club since the money turned up, and so many players have come and gone, and so many new managers have arrived to get where they are now, that he doesn't have quite the same level of empathy with them, so he feels that something has been lost.

It's not a view we hear too often because it doesn't fit in with the image the sports media likes to put out to us, but I'm sure he's not alone in what he was saying.

Interesting, I thought.

 

[Japhet]

My ex-boss was from Moss Side Manchester and a life long City fan. Used to watch from the terraces at Maine Road when he was a lad.

We had a chat just before I retired a few months ago and he told me this current City side are an excellent side, but he doesn't feel as if he has very much of an emotional attachment to them.

So much money has been thrown at the club since the money turned up, and so many players have come and gone, and so many new managers have arrived to get where they are now, that he doesn't have quite the same level of empathy with them, so he feels that something has been lost.

It's not a view we hear too often because it doesn't fit in with the image the sports media likes to put out to us, but I'm sure he's not alone in what he was saying.

Interesting, I thought.

I'd feel the same if we became a plastic club. I'd feel like I was being allowed to watch somebody else playing with their toys if I was a City fan. It's a great shame that what was always essentially a working class passtime has become the playground for the mega rich to indulge themselves and the man on the terraces is only really there to provide a bit of background noise.

 

[Spurslove]

I'd feel the same if we became a plastic club. I'd feel like I was being allowed to watch somebody else playing with their toys if I was a City fan. It's a great shame that what was always essentially a working class passtime has become the playground for the mega rich to indulge themselves and the man on the terraces is only really there to provide a bit of background noise.

...and to spend his hard earned readies on SKY, season tickets, and club merchandise. The vast majority of our cash goes to paying player's salaries and their agents (parasites).

And of course, background noise inside the stadiums is also important for the advertisers.

Don't worry about me, I'm just an old cynic.

 

[mawspurs]

it's the then vs now point you are missing.

We are not paying now, what he was receiving back then.

Don't forget though Spurs are an incentive based payer. We pay lower basic wage with high bonuses for success, one of the highest in the premier league. Jenas would know this too so he knows he is not comparing like with like when he says this, which is a bit naughty of him.

I do have a lot of time for Jenas as a pundit though.