Spursmad321
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in my opinion. Keep up the great work Daniel!!
We have the best chairman in the PL....
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penfold_99
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in my opinion. Keep up the great work Daniel!!
I couldnt resist, top of the selling club list. Get in!
Kranjcar on Ice
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That is heavily skewed by the Bale sale. The negative net spend is more impressive.
penfold_99
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not really if you take bales fee out we are in 2nd behind chelski who spent 220m more and sold 30m more
Spursmad321
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Running a business is all about reinvesting the money that you earn and making a profit from sales where possible, which in turn creates the opportunity to build a state of the art training ground and a soon to be brand new world class stadium.
Damn you just posted a split second before I did.
cliff jones
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Hee hee , this will confuse one or two levyites who say net spend means nothing, which in isolation is probably true.
Wrong time for this thread i reckon. Better to have a debate when the prizes are dished out I'd say.
Cheers.
Wrong time for this thread i reckon. Better to have a debate when the prizes are dished out I'd say.
Cheers.
Spurger King
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It's almost as if there's some serious long-term planning taking place.
Arsenal moved into their new library then had to spend years unable to spend much on new players (even if the wages remained high). It seems that we're doing things the other way around - several years of very low spending so that when we do move into the stadium we'll be good to go.
It really does feel as though Levy is doing all he can to ensure that when the new stadium is ready we'll be able to hit the ground running. We have a young squad that will be entering its prime by then (if we can manage to keep the squad together), and a manager with a record for developing young players without having to spend big.
The dream scenario would be keeping this team together, having them reaching their peak as the stadium opens, then having significant funding from ticket sales and sponsorship to really challenge.
What Levy wouldn't want would be for the new stadium to have poor attendance because of us having a mid-table team and a huge rebuilding project ahead of us.
Arsenal moved into their new library then had to spend years unable to spend much on new players (even if the wages remained high). It seems that we're doing things the other way around - several years of very low spending so that when we do move into the stadium we'll be good to go.
It really does feel as though Levy is doing all he can to ensure that when the new stadium is ready we'll be able to hit the ground running. We have a young squad that will be entering its prime by then (if we can manage to keep the squad together), and a manager with a record for developing young players without having to spend big.
The dream scenario would be keeping this team together, having them reaching their peak as the stadium opens, then having significant funding from ticket sales and sponsorship to really challenge.
What Levy wouldn't want would be for the new stadium to have poor attendance because of us having a mid-table team and a huge rebuilding project ahead of us.
DaleMurphy
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Except the Bale sale does count why wouldn't it?
Blake Griffin
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that table doesn't includes townsend's sale either.
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I think Levy has been playing the long game ever since he started. The academy products in the first team now prove that. 10 years in the making.
ecce_tottenham
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Not really because if we hadn't sold Bale, we wouldn't have spent half as much.
Spurger King
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Like every other Spurs fan, I would have loved the ENIC years to have brought us more trophies. However, if Levy's legacy ends up being that he's left us with a state of the art 61,000 seater stadium, one of the best training grounds in Europe, a competitive team, and a production line of top class youth players, we'll all have a lot to thank him for.
ENIC are an investment company so I won't be expecting Levy to hang around much longer once the stadium is finished.
DaleMurphy
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if u just take out the largest sale in the history of football...
lol can't even imagine why one would make that post not trying to be a dick but c'mon man
lol can't even imagine why one would make that post not trying to be a dick but c'mon man
HotspurFC1950
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We spent all the Bale money.
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Absolutely. Enic and Levy never counted on Oil money entering the EPL...Take that away from Chelsea and Manchester City, we would of probably qualified for champions league many times over given our perennial 5th place finish which i hope is now over.
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Wow I though the point of all the above was not to see who could win the spending league, but who could win the Premier league.
Gross and net spend take you so far, but as we have seen this season they obviously do not tell the whole story! Ask Chelsea, Pool, and Leicester!
BTW, if one is looking at the total commitment undertaken by the club, including Training grounds and new Stadia, I am sure that we would be much closer to the top of that list! If not in the top 2 or 3.
If we end up the season winning something or coming top 2-4, then it really does not matter, How much our net or gross spend is .....does it?
Surely, we are proving that a young talented squad can achieve incredible things, like the the Class of 92 did for ManU?
When we get in our new stadium we will be able to compete with anyone, this season is just a glimpse of things to come!
Gross and net spend take you so far, but as we have seen this season they obviously do not tell the whole story! Ask Chelsea, Pool, and Leicester!
BTW, if one is looking at the total commitment undertaken by the club, including Training grounds and new Stadia, I am sure that we would be much closer to the top of that list! If not in the top 2 or 3.
If we end up the season winning something or coming top 2-4, then it really does not matter, How much our net or gross spend is .....does it?
Surely, we are proving that a young talented squad can achieve incredible things, like the the Class of 92 did for ManU?
When we get in our new stadium we will be able to compete with anyone, this season is just a glimpse of things to come!
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