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nope, Union Deportivo Almeria, but you were closeUnited States Of?
nope, Union Deportivo Almeria, but you were closeUnited States Of?
The long term future of our club comes first.
A new stadium is far more important to us than a new striker. At the moment we lose out on £60m a year in revenue from our small stadium.
NO. A WINNING TEAM COMES FIRST!
Can you not see that?
Queen of the South in Scotland had the fifth or so biggest stadium in the world in th 80s. Where are they?
Scum won leagues, cups and qualified for cl every year before they embarked on such a project.
Levy thinks get a stadium get the idiots in paying £70 a ticket THEN build a team.
It's the cart before the horse business plan
Mate they are one of the richest clubs in the world. Don't believe the hype. And furthermore they have an Uzbekistani willing to put in a billion.
It only wenger that has the admirable sense of fair play of stopping them being bigger than barca.
They are 10 to 15 years in front of us.
Pass me your knife when your done.
Yeah and two places behind us.
Ok I give up. You mentioned you were drunk earlier and it's obvious you're not even reading what I'm posting - managing to get the Arsenal points and the knife joke round completely the wrong way, twice. I seem to know a lot more about Arsenal's finances than you do but hey keep ignoring everything I say.
Time for bed for me, not got time to debate with someone who quite literally can't read. I'm assuming English isn't your first language so apologies if that offends but this is a waste of time.
Nah, the pursestrings at Dortmund are tighter. They were close to bankruptcy in 2005 so they are carefull about the money they spend. We spend more than them but for far less success. They actually have no luxury. They take punts on players and hope it works out due to great coaching. They sign talented rejects and turn them into special footballers. Their most expensive player cost 18million euro's(they don't have anyone else on the roster that cost them 10million+). Their net spend post 2008(since Klopp took over) has been a grand total of 8million euros. Our club makes more money than theirs and is worth more too.Dortmund's budget isn't that tight and they have nearly first access to some of the hottest talent in Germany. Don't forget Dortmund pulls 80k a week and is the 2nd biggest club in Germany. We don't quite have the same luxury.
I don't think anyone thinks Dempsey and Gylfi were bad signings. They are clearly talented players with proven success in this league. Glyfi in particular is an obvious talent. They just need to perform better and we need to utilize them better. That is a challenge and they are still early stages in their Spurs careers.
I believe the notion of 'moving forward' is quite rightfully on hold until we get a new stadium. I think the aim is and should be to try and keep qualifying for the ECL. To do this we need to spend and prop up our squad without spending 20-30 million on a player. It is a very difficult task. We need to think long term, have a flash in the pan run of fame and push for a one off title (no guarantees you would even win) or do we want to take a bit of short term pain, hold off our aspirations, build a stadium and spend the next 50 years in the ECL and challenging for titles. The lack of spending now is done so this club can go to the next level in the future.
I know it is hard to accept and look post the immediate future but try people.
Knew I should've used a fucking smiley when I posted that.nope, Union Deportivo Almeria, but you were close
It could be that the reason why we pursue Moutinho and Leandro, and why we are widely said to have interest in Willian, is because these are the players who AVB wants. If you believe in AVB (as I do, and I presume Levy does) then the least that you can do is to make a balls-out attempt to get the players who he wants.
If said players are beyond your means then hopefully the manager (sorry, head coach) understands that and accordingly aims for other targets. But it's surely better to try for them than not.
Why? I don't regard it as a major fundamental. Does me having a different opinion mean yours, or mine, is invalid?
No.
If I regarded a reserve goalkeeper as backup to Brad as a major fundamental, just saying it and then claiming Levy had let us down because he hadn't brought Kasey Keller back doesn't make it a fact. It makes it an opinion.
In your opinion we desperately needed another striker.
In my opinion, we don't. What we needed more than anything was a creative number 10 to replace VDV. We got one in Holtby, in an absolutely steamingly good deal.
So excuse me if I'm not running the knife down the inside of my forearms but I think it was a good window.
You're right in that you get the team to the best position that you can before you build the stadium, and you're right to say that it's what the Goons did. They did it pre-Abrahmovich and pre-Citeh owners, which was why they were CL every year. Look at where we are. Where would we be without the sugar-daddy owners in west London and Manchester? That's right: CL every year.NO. A WINNING TEAM COMES FIRST!
Can you not see that?
Queen of the South in Scotland had the fifth or so biggest stadium in the world in th 80s. Where are they?
Scum won leagues, cups and qualified for cl every year before they embarked on such a project.
Levy thinks get a stadium get the idiots in paying £70 a ticket THEN build a team.
It's the cart before the horse business plan
official site lists 26 incl gomes, rose, khumalo so 23 which then includes sandro and kabul injured so 21 also includes bentley so 20. defoe needs op, demp shit and ade at acon.... that to push on for champs lge... absolute joke... no other backup other than tom carroll and obika... piss poor. say it now we will end up below both scousers...
Ooh, I like this game. Can I join in?
Firstly, I make it only 25, rather than 26. So we're already worse off. And as you adroitly say, we've got rid of Gomes, Rose and Khumalo, so that's 22. Sandro and Kaboul are injured so it's 20. Bentley we are discounting - I'm not sure why as I believe he is still a professional footballer, but perhaps the FA are bringing in a rule that no player can co-own a nightclub, so now we only have 20 players. Defoe is playing... but might not be fully fit. 18. Demp I presume stands for Dempsey, who apparently needs a shit, which we're scheduling for the whole next four months to allow for diarrhoetical complications (I'm your friend here so I'll assume you can't possibly mean one of the most talented attacking-midfielders in the Premier League and a capable reserve striker IS shit. That would be drivel). That leaves us with 17 players. 16 while Adebayor is in South Africa (for the next week).
Our development squad are the best in the country (give or take Liverpool) it seems, but they don't count. Probably as we're expecting them to be involved in a freak dinghy accident on a team building day out.
Of this 16 first team squad, two of them - Brad and Hugo - are goalkeepers so probably can't be relied upon to score more than a couple of goals, each. Hence they don't count.
Kyle Naughton and Walker are "liabilities". I've seen this written several times. Therefore, they're off the list, too.
Vertonghen was poor against Leeds. Therefore I hate him. You should hate him too. Same goes for Parker. So they're binned. And they both have posh hair. Yes, they're definitely sacked.
And you, with the afro? Who do you think you are? What do you mean "Lol". You're sacked too.
Dawson? "Poor-son" more like. Get gone, son. You're never going to get this high line business of AVBs.
Caulker? Do me a favour. It's one thing to look good for Swansea but Spurs deserve better.
Gallas is too old. And too shit. And too ex-Chelsea and ex-Arsenal. And too French. And too shiny headed.
So, where are we? Oh my God we only have 8 players left!!!
And of those 8, one of them comes from Iceland. Iceland! Have you ever heard of such a thing. He's naturally a bag of crap.Apart from when he sets up or scores goals. Seven.
One is called Jake. Enough said. Six.
Gareth Bale is leaving in the summer, so we may as well cancel his contract. Five.
Holtby can't be expected to be match-fit. Everyone knows the Bundesliga is a "lesser" league and inferior to England. Goes to figure he won't be able to play much, not worth counting. Four.
Tom Carroll is seven years old. Three.
Mousa Dembele is an injury liability. We may as well just send him to the knacker's yard. Two.
And I don't trust Aaron Lennon's eyebrows.
So, basically, when you look into it, Daniel Levy expects Andre Villas-Boas to qualify for the Champions League using ONE PLAYER. And that player is Tom Huddlestone.
Nah, the pursestrings at Dortmund are tighter. They were close to bankruptcy in 2005 so they are carefull about the money they spend. We spend more than them but for far less success. They actually have no luxury. They take punts on players and hope it works out due to great coaching. They sign talented rejects and turn them into special footballers. Their most expensive player cost 18million euro's(they don't have anyone else on the roster that cost them 10million+). Their net spend post 2008(since Klopp took over) has been a grand total of 8million euros. Our club makes more money than theirs and is worth more too.
They might have a very large stadium but due to low ticket prices it isn't as much an advantage as it supposed to be. I'd hazard a guess that we make more money on our gate take ins.
How do they do it? Great scouting and even better coaching. It's rare that they sign a player and the player ends up declining. Oh, they also have a great development structure and actually use the players they develop.
I'm sure this drum has already been beaten, but time to retire "ITKs".
you don't think they'll find another way around this? do you really think the FFP can't be manipulated in any way, can you honestly see the money men of both clubs standing by when they try to stop them playing in europe?Mustard please explain how you can disagree? If we spend more money than we have coming in we go into debt, if we keep doing so we go bankrupt. Unlike Spain the government here wont bail us out.
In the summer the first round of FFP comes into force, then we might see a better transfer market that is upset by Russian and Middle eastern billionaires.