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Ah, yes. There was something nagging away at me but I just couldn't put my finger on it.
The impressive stats relate to Redknapp's transfer deals here. A man who is normally associated with reckless spending has to date spent £145m, but recovered £130M. net spend over 3 years at £15m. In comparrison Ramos spent £135m and recovered £82m, with a net spend £51.5M.
In defence of Ramos, Bale, Modric, Kaboul and BAE are included in his spend, although £31m of recovered sales via Berbatov counteract this a little.
In regard to prudent management over the last 3 years, Redknapp/ Levy's business has been excellent in terms of balancing the books, whilst team remaining competitive.
Wouldn't us spending more money over the last 6 years make sense considering how far we had to come to get into third. We couldn't have exactly gone from mid table obscurity to top4/title challengers without spending money.
What we have done better than almost all teams in the league is spending money on the right players at the right time.
It just sounds little sour grapes and making excuses for why they are currently 10 point behind us. Lets be honest if the arse were willing to spend some money then they could have bought VDV, Kaboul, Lennon, Bale and Modric but Wenger's stubbornness when it comes to keeping average players on very high wages means he isn't able to keep his best players whilst to it with players that can really make a difference.
All I can say is long may it continue. :lol:
The impressive stats relate to Redknapp's transfer deals here. A man who is normally associated with reckless spending has to date spent £145m, but recovered £130M. net spend over 3 years at £15m. In comparrison Ramos spent £135m and recovered £82m, with a net spend £51.5M.
In defence of Ramos, Bale, Modric, Kaboul and BAE are included in his spend, although £31m of recovered sales via Berbatov counteract this a little.
In regard to prudent management over the last 3 years, Redknapp/ Levy's business has been excellent in terms of balancing the books, whilst team remaining competitive.
in:
defoe £15m
palacios £12m
chimbonda £3m
keane £12m
walker £4m
naughton £4m
crouch £9m
bassong £8m
kranjcar £2.5m
kaboul £5m
sandro £6m
vdv 8m
khumalo £1.5m
pienaar £3m
coulibaly £1.5m
parker £5m
falque ?
saha ?
total = 99.5m
out:
ghaly £1m
zokora £8.5m
taarabt £1m
bent £16.5m
o'hara £5m
kpb £4m
gunter £2m
hutton £4m
palacios £6m
chimbonda £2m
keane £3m
crouch £10m
pav £8m
total = 71m
Van Persie made a comment today, as others have, that we've spent lots over the last few years and that's basically why we're third.
Does anyone have a comparison for us and Arsenal over the last few years, re ins and outs figures. I'm sure we've spent more but would be interested to see how much more. Cheers.
No he isn't he's dead wrong!!
I did this thread last year:
http://www.spurscommunity.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=65692
Since when Man City have moved up the list.
Basically looking at net transfer spend on it's own is daft.
First of all it's a fraction of the total spend on players. If you consider we spend about £16m a year on transfer fees, but that that figure is dwarfed by the £80m or so on wages, you can see that focussing on that aspect of a player's cost over the major one is plain daft.
As it stands Arsenal are spending £16m a season less than us on players, but £30m a year more on wages. That's £14m a year more than us they spend on their players.
So in fact we've closed the gap spending less each year on the team than they do.
It's dead right if you look solely at the transfer fees. As I pointed out in a later post (as did others), those don't give the whole picture.
If you look at current squads though, I bet our nett wage spend isn't as far apart as it used to be. Anyone got any ideas as to the figures ?
So my guess is that the gap is wider than ever, I reckon they could have spent as much as £50m more than us on wages this current year.
Arsenal's net expenditure is lower than spurs mainly because of the high value of their sales fabregas, nasri, clichy, adebyaor
spurs £91m
arsenal £124m
"Funnily enough, the gap between Arsenal’s wage bill and Tottenham’s of £33 million is exactly the same as the difference in 2005. Go figure."
Where did you find these figures please?