- Jan 31, 2013
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@Barry Mead
The stratford thing wasn't never going to happen as it was crazy for the Athletics board to accept moving however it was necessary to secure funding and make sure no one got a free stadium. As for the funding to be announced there is no reason to announce it as we are still in the process of purchasing the final bits of land.
Well we certainly spent quite a bit of money on proposals and then challenging the decision and had they given us the offer do you really think Levy wouldn't have taken it?
As for the funding or stadium rights or any sponsorship deals well of course they would announce anything that is agreed because it encourages others if there's a deal already agreed for the naming rights, or the funding or any sponsorship. They would be failing in their job not too, it would make no sense to not announce anything
With the velodrome I was using that as an example the original plan wouldnt scupper us in anyway, we would have WHL until the new stadium was bigger and ready however it would mean potentially a longer time building. moving grounds whilst trying to achieve a quicker lead time would result in saving money.
No because you stay at WHL you couldn't use the full stadium if you are having to take down sections so you lose revenue. If you hire another stadium they won't let you have it for free so you pay for hiring, either option costs you
Then you would no doubt lose on concessions at the ground because there would already be some in place. Then there's the issue of the very lucrative boxes, whatever ground you hired would need to have adequate boxes to retain that revenue but there's no guarantees every box holder would want to take up a temporary location
As for the selling players, yes we agree but last season we sold a player for £86million. We aren't going to do that, had we not sold him we would of still be expected to spend big. Its telling that we were the only club with a minus net spend and that was down to Bale.
Well there was also money from selling Caulker, Hudd, Dempsey and Parker so it was hardly only Bale, but if we hadn't sold Bale we probably wouldn't have spent £30 mill on Lamela and may not have spent other monies on some of the others. We were minus net spenders the two previous seasons and we didn't sell Bale those times so I don't see how telling it was last season.
The season before it was down to Modric, VDV, Bassong, Pienaar, Kranky and Charlie, the year before that it was down to Crouch, Pav, O'Hara, Hutton, Wilson and Keano.
This coming season there's no doubt a number of players we shall want to sell and maybe one or two we are put under pressure to sell and chances are we will see the same pretty flat net spend, that's the way we've been doing things and with quite a few players that potentially could be sold chances are that's what we'll do again
This season if we keep hold of Vertonghen and Lloris we won't replace the likes of Siggy, lennon, Ade and etc. with the money we raise we will use the TV money, the money the rest of the league was using last season. Along with factors listed. We should have about at least £20million extra to spend in the transfer market.
Last season we weren't going to be selling Bale and everyone was saying we have TV revenues that we would be spending. Sure we no doubt could have more than £20 mill of cash that could go into the transfer kitty but that doesn't mean it will. Likewise we might say now we won't sell the likes of Lloris, Verts and Paulinho but if, like Bale, they push for a move and Levy gets good offers then you wouldn't bet against them going. As I said before those three alone could probably raise £60 mill, other unwanted and surplus players could raise around £50 mill, even if one of the three mentioned leave thats around £70 mill in transfer funds. If Levy raises that through sales do you really think he'll throw another £20 mill into the pot to spend? I'd like to think he might if there was a chance to get certain more expensive targets, not that I particularly want us spending big money in every position we need, I think there's some excellent options around that we don't need to break the bank for, but either way looking over the last few years there's nothing to suggest Levy will feel any pressure to throw cash into the transfer funds if we can raise enough in sales