- Oct 2, 2004
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You are very wrong on this. We are already 100+ million pounds behind Liverpool financially. The top 5 are CRUSHING us in commercial revenue streams. We actually won't even have financial parity with Liverpool come 2021 when the stadium is built and debt free.
I think a lot of people on this forum need to genuinely sit down and look at the trends in football. There is a clear trend away from gate receipts as a major source of income (it'll likely be less than 15% of our total revenue this season) and towards television and commercial money.
And that assumes Levy or whoever is in charge will ratchet up spending. There is ZERO guarantee that the new stadium will automatically force whoever is in charge to spending hundreds of millions of pounds on transfers and on wage bill increases.
I didn't say anything about gate receipts...did I?
New stadium is what brings in the commercial money and helps put us on a par with Liverpool and Arsenal.
You're right that we won't suddenly be at the same point as them, but it'll be a step in the right direction.
My main point though is that any Spurs fan who things we can sustain any sort of long term challenge to the likes of City, Chelsea and United is being delusional, particularly now that even more money is rolling into the game.