Why is top 4 so important?

[Mullers]

I'm not sure we could so he made no effort to keep us there. Players got improved contracts, we signed a world class player in VDV and a future superstar in Sandro. But that said, you can't completely re-organise a pay structure off the back of one year of increased revenue. We didn't qualify the following year, and whilst you may want to argue that we would have if the 'necessary' signings had been made there is no guarantee that we wouldn't have ended up in the same place. You can't pay regular CL money to a batch of players if you don't have regular CL money. It's pretty simple and straight forward, I really don't get why you struggle to see it. No one is saying we don't want to win cups, but the only way we will progress as a club is getting into the CL regularly.

VDV and Sandro would have come to us anyway. VDV cost 8 million, no great shakes. I don't think improved contracts came off the back of CL football, I'm sure the budget was there to do that already.

Buying the necessary players wouldn't have guaranteed CL the following season but it would have given us a better chance of doing so. This is what the whole for argument for CL football is about.

 

[Mullers]

Don't know why people think we'd spend more money on transfers, we didn't last time.

We might only spend more on transfers when/if we get the new stadium

Levy will keep to the model of buying last year contract players, players who have cheap get out transfer fee clause in their contract and buying young players for cheap, stadium or no stadium, champions league or no champions league.

 

[SteveH]

VDV and Sandro would have come to us anyway. VDV cost 8 million, no great shakes. I don't think improved contracts came off the back of CL football, I'm sure the budget was there to do that already.

Buying the necessary players wouldn't have guaranteed CL the following season but it would have given us a better chance of doing so. This is what the whole for argument for CL football is about.

No its not.

Putting it simply its wanting the best for your club. Wanting Spurs to be in the the very top international club competition which has a myriad of benefits.

Attracting players is just a part of this.

Why is the CL so hard for 'some' of our Luddite fans to grasp?

 

[Mullers]

No its not.

Putting it simply its wanting the best for your club. Wanting Spurs to be in the the very top international club competition which has a myriad of benefits.

Attracting players is just a part of this.

Why is the CL so hard for 'some' of our Luddite fans to grasp?

A very, very big part of it. But as I say I don't see Levy changing the model we have and I don't know what players we can attract if we have CL football that we can't attract now.

 

[SteveH]

A very, very big part of it. But as I say I don't see Levy changing the model we have and I don't know what players we can attract if we have CL football that we can't attract now.

Yes it one part of CL qualification. The media bang on about this perceived attraction for players but I believe money is the major pull.

Missing out on CL qualification for a club like Spurs is a bad thing, which ever way you try to spin it.

 

[Mullers]

Yes it one part of CL qualification. The media bang on about this perceived attraction for players but I believe mone is the major pull.

Of course money is the major pull, that is what the CL is all about.

Missing out on CL qualification for a club like Spurs is a bad thing, which ever way you try to spin it.

I didn't say it wasn't a bad thing.