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I didn't quite get this sentence, can you explain it to me BO.
The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - The Weekend Edition 8/9th June 2013
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I didn't quite get this sentence, can you explain it to me BO.
Blake Griffin
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all signings have their risks. i may as well say should we sign no one in case it doesn't work out? i wish you'd stop peddling this idea that one signing could send us spirraling into financial meltdown as well. we've spent £7.5m net in 5 years now, it's about time this period of frugality started to allow us to loosen the purse strings a little.
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Of course not and I certainly wouldn't advocate doing that but Ade was always going to be risky (which doesn't mean I don't think he's a great player on form) and he alone wasn't and isn't sufficient enough. Defoe is best employed as a supersub and the rest of our strikers were too junior for the job. There have been several perfectly good and affordable strikers that we could have brought in who may have made the difference. To be honest, we've never really made up the shortfall after selling Keane, Crouch and Pav. The last really decent striker partnership that we had was Keane and Berbatov. I may well be wrong, but I think it would have made a difference.
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Its the difference between betting a few grand on the horses and chucking your house on it, one you can absorb, dust your self down and carry on the other could ruin you.
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Lets be honest, we will not sign anyone over £15 million unless we sell Bale. We will sell some fringe players and spend at most £10 million extra from what we bring in. If we sell bale we will have to reinvest some of that in order to keep the fans happy. I love the idea of buying Barnard, Damiao and Villa but at best we will only get one player of this caliber.
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Unless the Moutinho and leandro failed bids we fake we surely have about £20m available to us for the right player, time we realised Leandro isn't the only striker in the world
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Would that be Lee Barnard.......... although I thought we had him once, why would you want him back??
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we do not need to sell bale to be able spend 15M, extra tv money, n last two seasons we have spent what we have sold. we have money.
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maybe, although recent history suggests we can't afford a great deal more than breaking even:
and before someone points out how wonderful arsenal are doing, you have to remember their wage bill is a good £50m a year more than ours.
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What a load of Bollox, you have absolutely no idea how THFC is run, just making wild assumptions to make it sound like you know what you are talking about.
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Last year we sold arguably our two most influential players for about £40 million and still did not spend more than £15 million on any one player. I agree that we can spend more but it does not seem to be Levy's way of doing business.
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To be fair, you could make that your signature to save yourself from posting it 500 times a day. We're all in that boat
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maybe, although recent history suggests we can't afford a great deal more than breaking even:
and before someone points out how wonderful arsenal are doing, you have to remember their wage bill is a good £50m a year more than ours.
whats the source?
Blake Griffin
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Mister Jez
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sorry A&C, brain is in neutral, mouth in overdrive..........To be fair, you could make that your signature to save yourself from posting it 500 times a day. We're all in that boat
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maybe, although recent history suggests we can't afford a great deal more than breaking even:
and before someone points out how wonderful arsenal are doing, you have to remember their wage bill is a good £50m a year more than ours.
Manchester City and Chelsea... Now those are clubs ran the right way! Nothing but honor in buying your way to the top.
Their fans don't care how they got to the top - they're just happy to be there and have the success
Plus all around the world no one cares either, football is a global game now and really and truly people just see the success not how it was acquired
Really it seems to me the only people who care are fans bitter and jealous of the success
The only hope is that the FFP rules some how put a stop to this type of excessive spending, but I have always been very skeptical as to how effective they will be in practice
Either that or hope Spurs become one of the bank rolled teams (but of course Spurs being Spurs if we did get that type of cash injection the rules would instantly take effect and prevent us from using the money)
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Where else would Baldini go where he would recognise the job as "work in progress"? What's the point of him going to a club that is the finished article (or almost finished).
With a new coach in AVB, young team, great new training facilities and a new stadium on it's way just where else could he go to help create a legacy?
If Levy wants a "One Spurs" club then he could do a lot worse than start with Baldini as a good hire, that will drive quality throughout the club's player structure.
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