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We constantly here bad timing or just rotten luck when does it change to we have done it we are a success.World leading training facilities ...check
World leading stadium ...check
World leading football ... In progress
Levy has always wanted spurs to be at the top table when it comes to football it's just how you get there and step by step was/is the plan.
Building up the infrastructure whilst being competitive (to a certain degree) is commendable.
My view is that the poch team peaked too early in regards the new stadium being finally ready for action. If we had the team that finished the final year at the old WHL at the new stadium we might be talking about a very different story now.
The fact that after the stadium was up and running more money was spent on the football side i.e player wages & bigger signings (Tanguy, GLC etc) should not be brushed aside. The reason for that was because our cashflow increased in magnitude. Our debt is long term and very serviceable in the normal course of events.
Remember when a player is bought the cost is spread over a number of years (all clubs do this). If our cashflow is higher i.e the amount we are able to generate then we can afford better players (and their wages).
Obviously covid has literally killed our cashflow and hence we are back to more frugal times just for a while I would think. But it has had a material effect on the plan.
Seems to me spurs is tale of bad timings. Had peak poch team and stadium delivery dove tailed or covid not happened it could be very well different.
As for Levy credit where credit is due. He's delivered on the infrastructure (even thou stadium was delivered later than expected).
People keep saying ambition this ambition that. What they really mean is spend more money on the football team which was always the plan.
To me ambition is building a multi purpose stadium (where the football playing surface splits in three parts - an engineering marvel) to increase our cashflow so that we can sit at the top table.
The stadium is highest quality in terms of spec and I believe that football matters will eventually follow that.
I would highly doubt those words will ever be uttered as at some point soon along will come another set back only to start again.