i didn't get that far, what was his answer?good question from the audience at 42 mins to Levy about how do you balance cost of new stadium with finances for incoming transfers.
Sell Kane & Allii didn't get that far, what was his answer?
i didn't get that far, what was his answer?
So I assume that when Poch said last season that lessons had been learnt etc etc he'd identified academy players he wanted to promote already ?we are more likely to promote from the academy than buy, unless we can find a player who will make a massive improvement - we haven't found a player like that this window yet
Not necessarily, he always seems to be on these pre-season tours.Quick bit about a naming rights partner being the next step and the interviewer joking they would lock the doors until someone in the room paid up.
So thats actually what Levy is up to out there.
Daniel Levy said:we're not yet in a place where we've found the player who we definitely want to buy but can't afford to buy."
Not necessarily, he always seems to be on these pre-season tours.
Serie A 30 years ago was the top league financiallyHe mentioned that the current transfer climate is unsustainable, and seemed to infer that is the reason they haven't been as aggressive.
I don't know that I agree with him about the sustainability. I understand that the money is dumb, but there's no sign that there is going to be a market crash. Has that ever happened in sport? If there is a decline, it seems it would happen relatively slowly, not a giant crash where "oh you just paid 200M for Mbappe but now no one can afford to pay more than 20M for him". You may not make a profit on the player, but you should at least be able to get CLOSE to what you paid for him if you want to sell in a year or two.
Serie A 30 years ago was the top league financially
He mentioned that the current transfer climate is unsustainable, and seemed to infer that is the reason they haven't been as aggressive.
I don't know that I agree with him about the sustainability. I understand that the money is dumb, but there's no sign that there is going to be a market crash. Has that ever happened in sport? If there is a decline, it seems it would happen relatively slowly, not a giant crash where "oh you just paid 200M for Mbappe but now no one can afford to pay more than 20M for him". You may not make a profit on the player, but you should at least be able to get CLOSE to what you paid for him if you want to sell in a year or two.
Wouldn't want to bet the farm on the back of some tv deals. Not with the way technology changes.
I was going to say this. And it's not just TV, it could be any principle sponsor that decides that they just can't keep supporting the financial investment they are putting in.
TV itself is changing - Sky have already changed the way they have delivered their sport package due to people going elsewhere - if that declines continue where are sky going to get the money to continue supporting the deals they want to sign? May not be apparent this year, or next, but in 5 years it could be.
Problem with these high transfer fees and Wages is that they have a knock on effect as well- when one player goes for 50 million, another goes, when another player gets £150,000 a week, another player will - before you know it prices are balloning, and it takes just a couple of dominoes to fall to potentially have a negative affect on any given club.