Spurs the only team to make a transfer profit

[JimmyG2]

• Manchester City by some margin biggest net spenders at £124.4m
• Eight of 10 bottom-half sides spent more than Arsenal.
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Read the full article at Guardian

In view of the extra income this season, TV, CL money, league position
and the fact that we have the attraction of CL perhaps Levy might be tempted to splash some cash.
I hope he's not too tempted.But finishing third and making a profit is a neat trick.

 

[max cady]

oh my that brought a smile to my face

 

[minesadouble]

Interesting so far as it goes. Demonstrates its 'how', not how much, money is spent on transfers that matters. BUT ....

Transfers are only half the financial story. You have to consider salaries (total remuneration) too. Chelsea's net spend on transfers last season was low (due to sale of Luiz, I think?) but their wage bill is huge. In that respect they grossly underachieved, as did City, United, even Arsenal.

There is usually a much closer correlation between total salary spend and league position than there is on transfer spend. So Spurs overachieved versus not just transfer trading per this Guardian article but our salary bill too (I think we're about 6th/7th in PL salary spend and our salary percentage to total income ratio is financially sensible too).

 

[Maske2g]

6 seasons running. Brilliant achievement.

Weve won nothing, but at least we did it prudently......

 

[avonspurs]

6 seasons running. Brilliant achievement.

Weve won nothing, but at least we did it prudently......

there's lots of teams that didn't win anything, but would've done so spending millions.

 

[Twizzle]

nothing to brag about in my opinion

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

I can't see how we can improve with this model for next season.
Either we sell a big name or we sell a lot of players to make up the funds.
Can you see any big names leaving this summer? Is the squad big enough to sell a lot of players to make the money?

Levy is going to have to spend.

 

[KingKay]

Impressive considering our final league position, but imagine what we could have achieved if we'd invested in key areas.

 

[Bilko]

'fraid the previous year Bale money makes it deceptive and not quite honest

 

[Bilko]

See what happens -gonna be hard competing with teams like spam fluttering the wads in front of everyone already ( although thanks to free stadium ).

 

[avonspurs]

'fraid the previous year Bale money makes it deceptive and not quite honest

why is it not quite honest? I'm assuming all the clubs net expenditure took into account their sales? We just happened to have a very impressive sale!

 

[Bilko]

why is it not quite honest? I'm assuming all the clubs net expenditure took into account their sales? We just happened to have a very impressive sale!

I mean in terms of what it portrays- anyway,we'll see how we stand next year -even if we buy carefully -which I'm sure we will

 

[dagraham]

I can't see how we can improve with this model for next season.
Either we sell a big name or we sell a lot of players to make up the funds.
Can you see any big names leaving this summer? Is the squad big enough to sell a lot of players to make the money?

Levy is going to have to spend.

This is it in a nut shell. We have previously relied on selling star players for big money or getting rid of the mistakes we've made in the transfer market.

Now we finally have a bit of stability, in order to improve the squad we are going to have to invest.

 

[avonspurs]

This is it in a nut shell. We have previously relied on selling star players for big money or getting rid of the mistakes we've made in the transfer market.

Now we finally have a bit of stability, in order to improve the squad we are going to have to invest.

I agree, but it's about investing 'smart', not just spending money. Alli is a smart investment, Alderweireld is a smart investment. It's about paying the right money for the right player and not just spunking loads of money because people want a marquee purchase.

 

[sebo_sek]

Impressive considering our final league position, but imagine what we could have achieved if we'd invested in key areas.

Totally disagree
We didn't lose to Leicester or Stoke because we didn't have depth.
We bought Nije but he got injured - hardly the club's fault.
We finished a disappointing (in hindsight) 3rd, which would have caused fireworks if we were handed it at the start of the season.
What were our key underinvested areas anyway?
Attack - most goals scored
Defense - least conceded
Creativity - best goals + assists player in the league.
I've got no complaints regarding investments for 2015/2016

 

[KingKay]

Totally disagree
We didn't lose to Leicester or Stoke because we didn't have depth.
We bought Nije but he got injured - hardly the club's fault.
We finished a disappointing (in hindsight) 3rd, which would have caused fireworks if we were handed it at the start of the season.
What were our key underinvested areas anyway?
Attack - most goals scored
Defense - least conceded
Creativity - best goals + assists player in the league.
I've got no complaints regarding investments for 2015/2016

We didn't invest in quality back up options, all your points are relevant for the starting 11, but dig a little deeper and the quality in depth just wasn't there.

We burnt out towards the end of the season due to lack of cover in key areas. In truth we were incredibly lucky our lack of depth didn't cost us more points.

Sounds like I'm being negative, but we shouldn't gloss over the fact that a few astute signings, or an older head, would have lead us to greater things this season. Glass half full or glass half empty, it's an opportunity missed.

 

[DCSPUR]

We didn't invest in quality back up options, all your points are relevant for the starting 11, but dig a little deeper and the quality in depth just wasn't there.

We burnt out towards the end of the season due to lack of cover in key areas. In truth we were incredibly lucky our lack of depth didn't cost us more points.

Sounds like I'm being negative, but we shouldn't gloss over the fact that a few astute signings, or an older head, would have lead us to greater things this season. Glass half full or glass half empty, it's an opportunity missed.

respectfully disagree - on paper at the start of the season Nabil and Ryan would have been starters and certainly good enough to be back ups. Son was someone we had high hopes for as cover/ pushing to start.
An older player is what we have had in abundance and Poch moved them all along - for good reason (including the guy he made captain).
The ONLY place where we clearly needed back up at the start of last season was for Kane and we got lucky that he had the season he did.

Now for this summer it is clear that we have good cover for the back four, decent attacking midfield cover but need to probably swap out some combo of Ryan, Nabil, Tommy for 1 additional player who can switch out for D&D. We also need that striker - maybe Bat man?

 

[Shirtfront]

Limited article. Everyone knows the correlation is to wages, not transfer fees, as that is what secures quality players.

And they can't even make their mind up:

"The figures show there is no correlation between spending on transfers and sporting achievement....

The need for teams promoted from the Championship to invest heavily in their squad is demonstrated in the final positions of Watford, Bournemouth and Norwich City, the three sides that joined the top flight at the start of the season."

Is there a correlation or isn't there?

 

[Maske2g]

there's lots of teams that didn't win anything, but would've done so spending millions.

I dont support other teams

 

[sebo_sek]

We didn't invest in quality back up options, all your points are relevant for the starting 11, but dig a little deeper and the quality in depth just wasn't there.

We burnt out towards the end of the season due to lack of cover in key areas. In truth we were incredibly lucky our lack of depth didn't cost us more points.

Sounds like I'm being negative, but we shouldn't gloss over the fact that a few astute signings, or an older head, would have lead us to greater things this season. Glass half full or glass half empty, it's an opportunity missed.

Wimmer, Trippier, Davies, Mason, Son, Chadli, Nije - our backups. They would have walked into most Prem squads.
Wimmer and Trippier were terrific when needed. Son was hot and cold but for a few months in England, I'd say he was damn good. Chadli never really featured that much, but that's down to Eriksen and Alli being virtually injury free.
The one I'm disappointed with is Mason, and I don't see him being here come August.
I'd say that on the budget we had, there is no one better we could have realistically got as back up.