Let's all laugh at Tottenham Hotspur thread

[ultimateloner]

I think you've hit the nail on the head and its what baffles and infuriates most of us. It's totally arse backwards and doesn't make business sense.
I just dont get it.

Yes it does, given the priority of money over on-pitch performance of our team.
The stadium can be a venue for other performances, football is one of them.

 

[chinaman]

At triple their normal price. Proceeds go into the 2030 warchest.

 

[spursfan1991]

 

[yido_number1]

Except levy doesn't leave with the players.

 

[SpainSpur85]

It's all getting a bit intense isn't it ?

 

[stevespurs]

Elisabeth Fritzl’s diary publish online.
Monday raped by Dad
Tuesday beaten by Dad
Wednesday tortured by Dad
Thursday offered a ticket to watch Spurs. Decided to stay home instead.

 

[stevespurs]

Let’s not take life too serious. There’s always plenty worse off than us.

 

[wrd]

Let’s be honest the protests are going to look absolutely stupid if 3 or so signings are pulling in and there’s 12 people with signs saying Levy out. I mean that will be the sort of thing that is let’s laugh at Tottenham appropriate

 

[Rout-Ledge]

Let’s be honest the protests are going to look absolutely stupid if 3 or so signings are pulling in and there’s 12 people with signs saying Levy out. I mean that will be the sort of thing that is let’s laugh at Tottenham appropriate

I don’t think this is a big risk, and if it does happen they’ll most likely be second or third rate signings that will barely improve the squad let alone the first 11.

 

[slartibartfast]

Yes it does, given the priority of money over on-pitch performance of our team.
The stadium can be a venue for other performances, football is one of them.

But the money of CL and football is huge.
Take this window for example (please), if we get 2 or 3 players in who'll improve our first 11 we have a very very good chance of getting top 4. I'd even go so far as to say we'd be favourites.
And we have a number of players we want to shift so the outlay isnt as high as just buyig them, especially when you consider one of them we want gone is on 200k a week.
IF we get CL not only do we then have the income from that but in the summer we can attract better players.
If we dont strngthen and then dont get top 4, we arent going to be able to attract top players in the Summer anywa. Also, next season there's agoing to be another bully in the playground called Newcastle going for that 4th spot. Are Spurs even featuring that in our 'fk it we'll do it next season" plans?
It looks like a really poor business strategy to me and doesn't make sense.
Regardless of being able to host other events for any business making more money is better but we dont seem interested.
As I said I dont get it.

 

[spids]

Let’s be honest the protests are going to look absolutely stupid if 3 or so signings are pulling in and there’s 12 people with signs saying Levy out. I mean that will be the sort of thing that is let’s laugh at Tottenham appropriate

Exactly this. The time to protest would after the window has closed, and only if there is good reason. Traore going to Barca - his boyhood club, and Diaz opting for Liverpool - who have been tracking him for a year, is not Levy's fault at all. Levy is probably bemused by all of this as he appointed Paratici to manage the footballing side of things, including player recruitment and sales, and I imagine thought it would take the heat off himself. The only protests that will really bother him are empty seats and season tickets not being renewed. Placards outside the stadium on transfer window deadline day really would be quite pathetic all round.

 

[spursville]

So just checking here. We've pretended to sign a few top players who have now gone to other clubs (again) and FP has signed two players on loan who can't get into the Juve team from the club he used to work for. So looking forward, our strategy relies on Juve developing and signing so many players that they need to get rid of a few each year. Excellent...

 

[wrd]

Exactly this. The time to protest would after the window has closed, and only if there is good reason. Traore going to Barca - his boyhood club, and Diaz opting for Liverpool - who have been tracking him for a year, is not Levy's fault at all. Levy is probably bemused by all of this as he appointed Paratici to manage the footballing side of things, including player recruitment and sales, and I imagine thought it would take the heat off himself. The only protests that will really bother him are empty seats and season tickets not being renewed. Placards outside the stadium on transfer window deadline day really would be quite pathetic all round.

It’s protests like this that make the powers that be completely deaf when there is actually something to complain about tbh. A tough January window where we are clearly getting at least 2 seemingly good players are your protesting for what exactly? Since they last had a protest we have hired one of the best managers in the world and are seemingly backing him. It looks absolutely stupid so when there’s something worth raising as a concern they’ll just point to this and say the fans don’t have a clue.

 

[chrissivad]

 

[noggen]

and FP has signed two players on loan who can't get into the Juve team

A combined 254 appearances from those two at Juventus. But if you say so..

and they're 21 and 24 years old.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Holy fuck. I’ve never been in this thread before, but, Holy Fuck.

 

[chrissivad]

A combined 254 appearances from those two at Juventus. But if you say so..

and they're 21 and 24 years old.

And this season Bentancur has started 13 games with 6 sub appearances (10th most mins this season)
Kulusevski only 5 with 15 sub appearance.

 

[ultimateloner]

But the money of CL and football is huge.
Take this window for example (please), if we get 2 or 3 players in who'll improve our first 11 we have a very very good chance of getting top 4. I'd even go so far as to say we'd be favourites.
And we have a number of players we want to shift so the outlay isnt as high as just buyig them, especially when you consider one of them we want gone is on 200k a week.
IF we get CL not only do we then have the income from that but in the summer we can attract better players.
If we dont strngthen and then dont get top 4, we arent going to be able to attract top players in the Summer anywa. Also, next season there's agoing to be another bully in the playground called Newcastle going for that 4th spot. Are Spurs even featuring that in our 'fk it we'll do it next season" plans?
It looks like a really poor business strategy to me and doesn't make sense.
Regardless of being able to host other events for any business making more money is better but we dont seem interested.
As I said I dont get it.

Your 'invest more to get better' line of thought rests on alot of 'ifs'. Business owners hate 'ifs'. The 'ifs' include:

1) That we can get 2 or 3 players who improve our first 11. It's a big 'if' whether these players perform, given how Ndom etc have failed.
2) That we can shift the players we want shifted; we want to, but who knows if we can and to what extent we subsidize this.

In other words we need to spend before seeing a return, and hope that we see the CL money

In contrat if we do fuckall transfers-wise:

1) We are likely to continue to slip in PL but likely remain above mid-table.
2) We are already profitable as a club.
3) The commercial follow-ons (land appreciation etc) from the new stadium is already there

From the perspective of a business-owner the 'do fuckall' scenario is a better one because of a higher certainty for a smaller amount of money, especially when you are hoping to sell the club to a sovergin/rich individual. This is because the infrastructure is already in place, so all it takes is a rich-person/state to come in (like for Newcastle) to make it a play-thing for them.

It's of course a also less ambitious one than yours.

 

[AnotherSpursFan]

If Betancur and the swedish doherty are any good, we wont be getting them on the cheap. These are brentford signings.

I hope they prove me wrong...i really do

 

[Metalhead]

If Betancur and the swedish doherty are any good, we wont be getting them on the cheap. These are brentford signings.

I hope they prove me wrong...i really do

I'm sure that they hope so too.