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Irrespective of whether that £250m actually exists or not?Be a happy clapper, everything is fine...
You can easily see the club spending 250 million in the summer.
Irrespective of whether that £250m actually exists or not?Be a happy clapper, everything is fine...
You can easily see the club spending 250 million in the summer.
The NFL today has weirdly made me feel better. When you hear the NFL commissioner speak and see the sheer scale of what Levy has achieved with this stadium. I find it very hard to believe he’s gonna leave us or be happy with a mediocre team playing in it. And people will say he’s only interested in the bottom line. But ultimately a better team on the pitch means more bums on seats, better commercial deals and more prize money. He’s not an idiot he realises there’s no way people will pay top dollar to watch a shit team. Whether it’s with Pochettino or someone else I’m pretty confident we will be fine.
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They are not building that and then putting a shit team in it. Like I said, they will increase the player budget in line with revenues. I reckon our commercials on a match day are insane - it’s a beast of a stadium.
It’s what I don’t understand from the anti levy brigade. There’s no way we build a new stadium to not try and kick on to the next level. The current situation will be giving him sleepless nights because he won’t want to sack Poch but he may well have to. It’s a difficult decision for him.
We all hope that's the case but a new stadium didn't kick Arsenal onto the next level did it. But the owners are raking in the cash. Some recent ITK said he wouldn't be changing his ways so it's hopeful to think we'll suddenly be spunking money everywhere.
We all hope that's the case but a new stadium didn't kick Arsenal onto the next level did it. But the owners are raking in the cash. Some recent ITK said he wouldn't be changing his ways so it's hopeful to think we'll suddenly be spunking money everywhere.
It’s what I don’t understand from the anti levy brigade. There’s no way we build a new stadium to not try and kick on to the next level. The current situation will be giving him sleepless nights because he won’t want to sack Poch but he may well have to. It’s a difficult decision for him.
Winner of a sentence, right there...but it goes to show that you have to balance on-field and off-field development, which we simply haven't done.
He won't sack Poch for two reasons. Number one, he doesn't want to pay him off and number two, is that the likelihood he'll end up at Man Utd and make them a success.It’s what I don’t understand from the anti levy brigade. There’s no way we build a new stadium to not try and kick on to the next level. The current situation will be giving him sleepless nights because he won’t want to sack Poch but he may well have to. It’s a difficult decision for him.
I'd be curious to know the impact in terms of sponsorship, the current situation is and how sticking or twisting will also affect things. The current Spurs brand has been for the most part the house that Poch built. Of course the infrastructure is all Levy but the on-field has very clearly been because of Poch.
Eddie Howe is nowhere near as big a name.Doubt it would have any effect and I’m sure our next manager will be just as big a name.
Do you believe ENIC are going to start taking large amounts of cash out of the club?We all hope that's the case but a new stadium didn't kick Arsenal onto the next level did it. But the owners are raking in the cash. Some recent ITK said he wouldn't be changing his ways so it's hopeful to think we'll suddenly be spunking money everywhere.
Eddie Howe is nowhere near as big a name.
This is true, but the relative size of the club / Spurs brand was closer to the level that Poch was at at the time than it is to where Eddie Howe is now. At the time we weren't a CL regular, so the step up for Poch wasn't as great. Eddie Howe has never had managed a European game (let alone a Champions League one) with Bournemouth. Expecting him to step up would be a big ask. I'm not saying he's not equal to it - there's no way of knowing if he can until it actually happens to him. But it's a larger risk to appoint Howe now than it was to appoint Poch in 2014.Pochettino was not a big name. Spurs made him a big name.
Seing those NFL pictures made a little part of me die inside.