ENIC...

[Archibald&Crooks]

the reasons are still fucking dumb

Of course they are, because it isn't you spending your time dealing with it all.

Apologies for the inconvenience of the additional click

 

[Trix]

Get the ****s out ASAP

Ok then how?

Short of someone stumping up the money they'd want IT IS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN. There is not a queue of people wanting to spend that sort of money on anything let alone a football club, and they won't sell on the cheap just because some fans are shouting they should.

 

[Fredo]

Ok then how?

Short of someone stumping up the money they'd want IT IS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN. There is not a queue of people wanting to spend that sort of money on anything let alone a football club, and they won't sell on the cheap just because some fans are shouting they should.

ASAP - as soon as possible, so when the opportunity arrives to sell to a willing buyer valuing the club something similar, they really need to sell as soon as possible.

Wish it was tomorrow, but obviously it could take years.

 

[Kaboul'sForehead]

I’d agree with that

When your Chairman sacks a serial winner a week before a chance of silverware in a Cup Final and gets very little backlash I don’t see a ‘falling out’ with Conte as being a game changer (unfortunately)

It was the final straw for me and I gave up my ST (which I’ve had since God was a boy)

Yes, a few more thousand won’t renew but most will and they’ll be joined by more ‘newbies’ and tourists

Our fan base is not particularly radical or anywhere near as militant as others and because our finances are in good order, we have a lovely shiny new stadium and a state of the art training facility most supporters will continue to go with the flow

Love is blind, for a very very very long time….

You've detailed where my thoughts were perfectly, cheers ?

 

[Wheeler Dealer]

ASAP - as soon as possible, so when the opportunity arrives to sell to a willing buyer valuing the club something similar, they really need to sell as soon as possible.

Wish it was tomorrow, but obviously it could take years.

It is more than likely that a future buyer is also an investor / Institution like ENIC, as we are more of a business than a hobby for a crooked oligarch or a Middle East state to have any interest, Rich benefactors don't want to pay £3bn for the finished article, as they can pick up a West Ham or a Newcastle for £300m and pump £1bn into buying the best players and subsequently winning silverware. It's winning trophy's that appeal to benefactors as this is great for their ego, as opposed to having the best cheese room in the Premier League

 

[Goobers]

I am still totally confused by the ENIC conundrum. They have improved so. much in terms of the infrastructure in their 15 or whatever years. The club is almost unrecognisable in terms of where we were. I think some of the things Daniel has done have been incredible and have given him a huge amount of credit for it.
BUT we are on a very long trophy drought and whilst we have made great strides during that 2015-2019 period we have to try to recreate that and there is no doubt that some of the decision making has been poor. However it is so very easy to be wise after the fact.

 

[Sp3akerboxxx]

Of course they are, because it isn't you spending your time dealing with it all.

Apologies for the inconvenience of the additional click

Ahh some confusion by my outrage. My bad.

I was banned probably 10 years ago for disliking a post by trix(?) ???

 

[Finchyid]

I am still totally confused by the ENIC conundrum. They have improved so. much in terms of the infrastructure in their 15 or whatever years. The club is almost unrecognisable in terms of where we were. I think some of the things Daniel has done have been incredible and have given him a huge amount of credit for it.
BUT we are on a very long trophy drought and whilst we have made great strides during that 2015-2019 period we have to try to recreate that and there is no doubt that some of the decision making has been poor. However it is so very easy to be wise after the fact.

TBF the Redknapp period was actually better than the poch period given what Redknapp had. Redknapp achieved more than poch did imo. I know 99% of spurs fans will say I am talking bollox

 

[dudu]

I think our attempts to do a loan deal for Traore suggest that we have no money to spend.

And the reported bid for Diaz?

 

[Pimp_Spur]

And the reported bid for Diaz?

Please don't tell me you actually believe that we have made a bid?

 

[Trix]

Ahh some confusion by my outrage. My bad.

I was banned probably 10 years ago for disliking a post by trix(?) ???

Sounds like you deserved it then

 

[dudu]

Please don't tell me you actually believe that we have made a bid?

This entire thread is made up of peoples assumptions about things they have zero idea about and you ask me that question about something that has been reported quite widely by who some believe to be respectable sources?

 

[SecretLemonadeDrinker]

I’m sorry but I don’t believe that at all, Newcastle if they remain in the Premier league will spend huge. The game is awash with rich owners getting around stuff. Saying Newcastle won’t spend huge is just wish fulfilment. Newcastle will join Chelsea and Man City as grotesque spenders. I don’t like it but the writing was on the wall the moment the Premier League allowed the takeover to go through.

Thats 3 of the top 4. Saudi’s are not buying Newcastle to spend years waiting to join the top.

City and Chelsea have the advantage of having done all the heavy lifting before FFP came into being. Newcastle's new owners will be operating under FFP from the off. They absolutely will not be able to spend as City did - £500m in the first four seasons under Abu Dhabi......at a time when £500m would have bought maybe 2-3 times what it would buy now.

No doubt that Newcastle will spend massively but, as I said, it simply can't be on the same scale as the oil rich clubs before them. As it stands, Newcastle could spend £166m this year. Thereafter, they could spend within their means plus £35m per annum. Bear in mind that, especially at the outset, they will have to offer well over the going rate in wages to attract players. So whatever dodgy sponsorship deals they sign, that extra income will quickly be swallowed up. Bear in mind, also, that they will be fleeced by every selling club. So that £166m won't go anything like as far as it should. And they'll need all of that just to get to Wolves' level.

Additionally, there are moves afoot within football to plug the in-house sponsorship loophole. The likes of Man Utd and Liverpool, Barcelona and Real Madrid, Juventus and Bayern Munich (all snake pits of skulduggery themselves) will see to it that the oil clubs' wings are further clipped.

So while there's little doubt that Newcastle will become a serious player in time, they won't be able to do it anything like as wantonly as Chelsea and City did before them.

 

[SirNiNyHotspur]

Dragging all the transfers to the last minute, all over the place with targets with no clear strategy, Danny again having to google half the players we're linked to, bidding a large amount for a transfer last minute that will inevitably run out of time, haggling over loan fees to save some pennies and costing us in points, it's like Paratici and Conte were never even here or that the stadium was still under construction... #noambition

 

[IfiHadTheWings]

I know we recorded a loss on last year accounts but does anyone know if we are properly double skint?

 

[13VanDerBale13]

Tic Tac this thread is going to be ? come next week ?

 

[mrlilywhite]

Tic Tac this thread is going to be ? come next week ?

Well I'd not say for def it will, but history would suggest I'm likely to be taking cover in some bomb shelter for the shit that Is likely to rain down on this thread, come the 31st. A few years back I'd be 'fuck this and fuck that', 'The bald **** couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery', etc, etc. Not now though, Levy has won & I'm defeated as much as I am deflated nowadays, and as a supporter of this club I think if we truly fail to back Conte & the signs look ominous, I reckon that'll be just about it for me

 

[Dougal]

Tic Tac this thread is going to be ? come next week ?

What’s the ‘tic tac’ bit all about?

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

What’s the ‘tic tac’ bit all about?

 

[yankspurs]

What’s the ‘tic tac’ bit all about?

A spanish football program has a guy who breaks stories & uses that phrase. Announced Ronaldo leaving Juve before anyone else & actually prompted that initial mealy mouthed word salad non-committal committal to juve from Ronny in response.