Blackrat1299
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I'll pay Everton £200 to keep him.
The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - The Concise Edition 10th July 2013
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I'll pay Everton £200 to keep him.
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However, it is also unlikely that we got all the money up front for sales in the last two seasons. Ergo, we don't necessarily have £40 m-£50m in the kitty.
markiespurs
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Surprised we haven't had anything already.
ITK really does seem to have slowed to a trickle this window.
Lilbaz
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But we didn't have the money, we had £11m in the bank to last us for the year. If we had bought those players it would have been on the back of future earnings.
This year future earnings/expenditure might be totally different. I'm guessing higher from the tv deal and the fact that we are after more expensive players.
This is very risky though as we cannot tell what the future holds.
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More than unlikely, simply put, we don't have it.
Madrid supposedly owe us a king's ransom still & it's pretty standard practice anyway.
Well I think it's only been a couple of hours since the ITK was posted, so it's a bit soon.
EnfieldYiddo
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Blimey, mate! Either you have some serious manlove for Jelavic, or you think we'd never in a million years go in for him. Either way you must have more money than sense.
Fancy lending me a tenner?
If we sign him the £200 will be a parting gift as I'll give up on Spurs, and probably life.
EnfieldYiddo
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Why are people talking as if we only have £15 million? I swear we went through this earlier.
Also someone even alluded to JJ's info about evaluating the value of each player and deal.
It's not as black and white with a club such as Spurs that we have a definitive amount... It's more likely to be we will be willing to invest if the potential benefits of a deal outweigh it's financial cost... E.g through the gaining of experience and boost in shirt sales (Villa) Or the potential to move them on in their peak for huge profits (Halilovic and Jedvaj). This is obviously all going to be within the guidelines of a loose budget.
You really think if the deal ticked all the boxes for us we wouldn't be able to find a couple of extra million 'over the forecasted budget'? (In relation to someone above saying about how could we afford 17 million for Croatian lads if we only had 15 million.)
Also someone even alluded to JJ's info about evaluating the value of each player and deal.
It's not as black and white with a club such as Spurs that we have a definitive amount... It's more likely to be we will be willing to invest if the potential benefits of a deal outweigh it's financial cost... E.g through the gaining of experience and boost in shirt sales (Villa) Or the potential to move them on in their peak for huge profits (Halilovic and Jedvaj). This is obviously all going to be within the guidelines of a loose budget.
You really think if the deal ticked all the boxes for us we wouldn't be able to find a couple of extra million 'over the forecasted budget'? (In relation to someone above saying about how could we afford 17 million for Croatian lads if we only had 15 million.)
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Or get wound up, but still masturbate lots!
Glad we're back and running and I wasn't on that list. Must admit I prefer discussions to arguments though.
For my part, although disappointing, the 2 Croatian guys were for the future and we're never sure about how that'll pan out. Yep great, and I'm sure these guys could have been good, but only time will actually tell. We should have our own limits and if they exceeded it then fair enough, let's move on. There will always be more, it just indicates Spurs are now ready to explore these types of routes which is good.
There were some theories going around that we never actually made a bid on Moutinho, so...
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Sorry EY, that pledge now must be part of your signature. Otherwise it'll find it's way into mine!
Well if we're not getting the 2 croat babies, surely that means we have a extra £17mil to spend.........right?
Levy/the committee might have put that money aside to spend on young potential players with big resale value rather than 1st team players who can come in and do a job straight away.
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Well if we're not getting the 2 croat babies, surely that means we have a extra £17mil to spend.........right?
And as its ypu surely thst means we should smack that on top of what is left on Higuain! :-D
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So this transfer window is following the traditional early optimism into mass suicide pattern. Just waiting for the takeover talk followed by the deadline day deal that doesn't happen.
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Well if we're not getting the 2 croat babies, surely that means we have a extra £17mil to spend.........right?
Wrong. In theory I think there are two alternative pots. Current and development. Hopefully a couple of the more senior ITK's will confirm this. The Croats will probably have fallen into development.
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Too much negativity around here tbh.
We will bring in a striker and we will have one hell of a squad this season.
A helluva squad.
We will bring in a striker and we will have one hell of a squad this season.
A helluva squad.
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Why do we have to always have the same discussion?
There is not actually a "war chest" - I.e. a big wooden box full of fucking doubloons - in the corner of Levy's office.
Players need to be paid money as this is their job. They do not do it for free. The better ones get lots of money. So do some bad ones. This means that buying a player is not just a case of taking some of the imaginary doubloons out of the imaginary chest and then counting what is left.
Also, different players being paid different amounts of money means that sometimes we have to get them off the wage bill before we spunk another 5 years of "only" £120k per week and end up paying two players for the same slot in the team. The alternative version of this policy is known as "doing a Leeds" and ends badly.
That is all.
There is not actually a "war chest" - I.e. a big wooden box full of fucking doubloons - in the corner of Levy's office.
Players need to be paid money as this is their job. They do not do it for free. The better ones get lots of money. So do some bad ones. This means that buying a player is not just a case of taking some of the imaginary doubloons out of the imaginary chest and then counting what is left.
Also, different players being paid different amounts of money means that sometimes we have to get them off the wage bill before we spunk another 5 years of "only" £120k per week and end up paying two players for the same slot in the team. The alternative version of this policy is known as "doing a Leeds" and ends badly.
That is all.
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