What the pundits & media are saying about us

[HobbitSpur]

Foreign players wages are often are listed as wages after tax

So Marcelo and Isco are on double that and Alaba too

What Tax Threshold does 80k per week fall below?

 

[Classof17]

Where does job satisfaction factor in football anymore? If you cant manage your life with 65k per week resources, then you may need a brain transplant.

The best things in life are god damn free anyway...the air we breathe, the birds and the bees....

 

[Classof17]

I dont think ive seen the sensible and probable suggestion that the current players we have might improve their performances in lieu of signing new players. You'd think the pundits are on commission the way they see the signing of players as a guarantee of success.

For the life of me were they in a cave when leicester won the league. Ironically the unpredicted success allowed leicester to go on and sign players and theyve been shit ever since.

Why cant these pea brained pundits see this. If we have players improving like son did and lamela, rose...etc seemingly all our squad are on an upward trajectory value wise and consistency wise for performances, then our results might improve.... Winks would be a new player in our team in that respect seeing as hes just breaking through

Theres not much improvement left until trophies and titles, pochs learning to, weve seen a better reaction to lessons learned from our first title challenge where we collapsed and lost our cool at the tail end.

Just because we ain't signed nobody, it seems to guarantee to the pundits and most fans that we will be a lot worse off? I mean it takes time for all these other signings to acclimatise as well for the other teams

 

[Classof17]

Could be

However, I think for that to happen Kane would have to continue his excellent development and score 35 league goals, or perhaps alternatively the likes of Alli, Son or Jansen step up their goalscoring exploits

Or just turn draws into wins, losses into draws, afterall we had the best offensive and defensive record so no need to really improve on that

 

[beats1]

Do you have a source? Cause I've searched high and low for these guys' wages on the Internet and literally every source says they are getting paid or round about that much.

Im not disputing that

When we were after Sniejder years ago, the internet said he was on £80k a week, the guardian podcast, highlighted that we would struggle to match that as the foreign press often give the net wages figure rather gross

 

[Shadydan]

Im not disputing that

When we were after Sniejder years ago, the internet said he was on £80k a week, the guardian podcast, highlighted that we would struggle to match that as the foreign press often give the net wages figure rather gross

Ok well as I've said I've searched around various sources and I can't find anything about wages being listed after tax, that's what I'm after really.

If that is indeed the case then Ronaldo and Bale are being paid £750k and £700k a week respectively which I find hard to believe personally.

 

[Chris Flynn]

Jenas needs to stop coming out with a new BBC article on this same subject, saying the same things, every two days.

If everyone could just fuck off and stop talking about how much we pay that'd be great, thanks.

To be fair to JJ he did pretty badly out of Levy, i mean he was available for at leat 5 games a season and he now lives in a bedsit id imagine. Fing Levy

 

[Chris Flynn]

Sherers vid in the link was good, at least one pundit has spoken some sense about all this

 

[RichieS]

I wish there was one pundit who would just come out and say that on MotD.

Sherers vid in the link was good, at least one pundit has spoken some sense about all this

Yep - JJ was peddling this article on MoTD on Sunday and Shearer fought the club's corner, pointing out that were well paid as a squad already and that Rose might want to raise his points again when a) he hasn't just been sitting on his arse for 6 months and b) has helped the club to win something.

 

[kungfugrip]

I liked what Shearer was saying.....BUT in my view we won't win the league unless we change our wage structure to attract one or maybe even two high profile signings. I think that's what we're missing....proven winners. So whilst I agree with Shearer that these players haven't won anything, I think the players' views are we would have a damn good chance of winning something if wages were slightly higher to attract key signings.

 

[Bobbins]

Yep - JJ was peddling this article on MoTD on Sunday and Shearer fought the club's corner, pointing out that were well paid as a squad already and that Rose might want to raise his points again when a) he hasn't just been sitting on his arse for 6 months and b) has helped the club to win something.

Shearer' argument was a good one (who exactly are these players demanding winner wages when they've achieved nothing) but what I really want is for a pundit to point out the total absurdity of football wages in general and to praise Spurs for being the only top club not giving in to insane wage demands from players, just because the other clubs do.

 

[RichieS]

I liked what Shearer was saying.....BUT in my view we won't win the league unless we change our wage structure to attract one or maybe even two high profile signings. I think that's what we're missing....proven winners. So whilst I agree with Shearer that these players haven't won anything, I think the players' views are we would have a damn good chance of winning something if wages were slightly higher to attract key signings.

It is a bit of a "chicken and egg" scenario I suppose.

 

[kungfugrip]

It is a bit of a "chicken and egg" scenario I suppose.

Yep. We've got an egg, just need the chicken to sit on it to make it a bit warmer for it to hatch!!

 

[Lighty64]

I liked what Shearer was saying.....BUT in my view we won't win the league unless we change our wage structure to attract one or maybe even two high profile signings. I think that's what we're missing....proven winners. So whilst I agree with Shearer that these players haven't won anything, I think the players' views are we would have a damn good chance of winning something if wages were slightly higher to attract key signings.

so what was the excuse for Leicester winning it, and their wage structure was way below ours when they did it.

what wins the league is players putting in a performance, getting the breaks, the club not have a heavy injury list.

the last 2 seasons for definite have been won by the team that's not had any European commitments, and have been very fortunate with being able to field the same XI the majority of the season.

if players want to win trophies they also need to make sure they give 110% every week.

 

[Shadydan]

so what was the excuse for Leicester winning it, and their wage structure was way below ours when they did it.

what wins the league is players putting in a performance, getting the breaks, the club not have a heavy injury list.

the last 2 seasons for definite have been won by the team that's not had any European commitments, and have been very fortunate with being able to field the same XI the majority of the season.

if players want to win trophies they also need to make sure they give 110% every week.

Not having that, it's a fact that if we doubled our first eleven's wages we'd win the treble

 

[Lighty64]

Not having that, it's a fact that if we doubled our first eleven's wages we'd win the treble

unfortunately there isn't a rating for this post, I know what your posting so don't forget the agree on the post above

 

[smallsnc]

I know you've acknowledged that XI is debatable, but Dier has been in the first XI for three seasons now. I think you're just including him out of necessity to make the numbers up. Also off the back of a 21 goal season, Son is clearly a first choice player.

Not including FBs and Keeper, we have basically 9 "starters" for 8 positions as I include Dier and Son in that group. Winks is pushing to get in that group.

 

[Snarfalicious]

I kind of feel like it's easy to overlook us, still. We didn't NEED to make a bunch of high-profile signings. Our First XI is just as good as anyone and Pochettino knows that.

And, we've just gone and (hopefully) secured the signing of one of the best young center backs in the world. Keeping a strong defensive group in order is incredibly important but so often overlooked by other clubs in an attempt to secure the flashy attacking talents. It's served us incredibly well over the past couple of years and for pundits I think they naturally look at the attacking talent of a side first and create expectations off of that (see: Lukaku, Lacazette, Morata, etc.).

 

[beats1]

Ok well as I've said I've searched around various sources and I can't find anything about wages being listed after tax, that's what I'm after really.

If that is indeed the case then Ronaldo and Bale are being paid £750k and £700k a week respectively which I find hard to believe personally.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bale-expects-real-to-match-ronaldos-750k-a-week-zkwsxhh89

 

[Matthew Gilbert]

http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2017/08/17/paul-merson-slams-tottenham-hotspur-signing-davinson-sanchez-in

"Told by presenter Simon Thomas that Tottenham are set to complete a deal for Davinson Sanchez [SkySports], Merson offered a short response: He said simply: "Never heard of him." He added: "I think they could get left behind. It's not that far between first and fifth."

Well going on your lots performance last season, it is exactly 18 points you coke snorting c*nt!! Hell, there was a 11 points gap between us