Tottenham Takeover Talk

[jay2040]

No, high transfer fees and high wages plus good coaching and scouting win trophies. City and Liverpool as examples. Brighton are probably the best at scouting, they won’t be winning the league. Our issue is wages, we don’t pay that of elites so we don’t attract elite players. There is only so much picking up gems and getting innovative managers can do.

Agree. The other problem potentially is that the gems become elite and want to move on as there is no progress so constant cycle of shit!

 

[ginola99]

Had a dream last night that the club was bought by a billionaire with fans rejoicing at the sale. One point the players were sat in the press conference with the new owner talking about their ambitions for the club.

I woke up and thought meh, never gonna happen. Move on.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Had a dream last night that the club was bought by a billionaire with fans rejoicing at the sale. One point the players were sat in the press conference with the new owner talking about their ambitions for the club.

I woke up and thought meh, never gonna happen. Move on.

I have a lot of those sort of dreams. But mine usually involve Kelly Brook, a Japanese Admiral's uniform, an electric shock buttplug and two litres of ice cream.

 

[Mark_147]

Yes I did and I also mentioned the difference is the interest payments on the stadium, if we did not have to pay it then where would the money go?

It's not a regular occurrence though is it, their wage bill dropped £32 Million before that happened. Every top class player at some point in their career was Cheap. High transfers fees and wages don't win trophies. Top class scouting and coaching do.

It's funny how all of a sudden when clubs like City and Chelsea started to pay high transfer fees and wages, then all of a sudden they had top scouts and coaches.

 

[Westmorlandspur]

Had a dream last night that the club was bought by a billionaire with fans rejoicing at the sale. One point the players were sat in the press conference with the new owner talking about their ambitions for the club.

I woke up and thought meh, never gonna happen. Move on.

We are already owned by a billionaire, what’s new!

 

[ginola99]

We are already owned by a billionaire, what’s new!

Talking about one that wants trophies, not real estate.

 

[Gb160]

Love to see it

Obviously Ali has links to the club, but if anything was going on they sure as fuck wouldn't be telling him the opposite.

I doubt anyone hears anything until it's done. This isn't like a player transfer where all manner of agents/relatives and third parties will be privy to information.

 

[brasil_spur]

Love to see it

One thing I do know is that Jerry Jones is big into property. He bought up a lot of the farmland in northern Texas and his property companies have developed into a mix of commercial and residential real estate, on a scale that is hard to imagine without seeing it first hand.

There are literally thousands of houses, dozens of massive retail commercial units, multi-story car parks and a range of other stuff in northern Texas that follows the pattern of "build it and they will come" - some of this is quite eery to walk around and visit as it's setup for a population of thousands / tens of thousands which haven't yet moved there but will do over the next 5-10 years.

My point being - he has a lot in common with Levy and Lewis in terms of the sports team being the thing he's well known for, but the property development side being the thing he makes most of his money from.

 

[aliyid]

I understand all of that but (shame on me) I don't care about any of it really

For me, It all takes away from what the actual problem is. It's deflection, it starts to make the actual problem irrelevant. Talk long enough about wages, net spend and all the other magic things and it starts to look like a justification or excuse for the complete lack of ambition shown at the top.

Of course, I do understand that a lot of people won't see it that way, this is IMO of course

So what is lack of ambition if it's not taking a risk on higher profile players through wages / transfer fees?

The lack of ambition people see is us opting for a cautious approach by signing cheaper prospects in the hope they'll turn into top players rather than the bolder / more ambitious approach of looking to sign ready made players that can be slotted straight into the first 11.

We've been sold a strategy of the new stadium generating more money that will go into increasing our spending power but how long before we start to see that extra income actually feed into the playing side? Stadium has been operating for 5 1/2 years now so you'd imagine it should be soon

 

[C1w8]

The Dallas Cowboys are basically the NFL equivalent of Tottenham Hotspur (currently). Beautiful house furnished with particle board furniture. Terrible coaches allowed to hang about long after it’s obvious they weren’t good enough, a team that once was successful that is mediocrity personified. 4 playoff wins in the last 25 years. Also Jerry Jones is a shithead.

Given the average tenure of recent coaches im not sure that one applies!

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

So what is lack of ambition if it's not taking a risk on higher profile players through wages / transfer fees?

Well, for a start, everything stems from it. Everything

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

We've been sold a strategy of the new stadium generating more money that will go into increasing our spending power but how long before we start to see that extra income actually feed into the playing side? Stadium has been operating for 5 1/2 years now so you'd imagine it should be soon

With Levy in charge? There aren't enough 'shrooms in the world that'd make me imagine that

 

[thebenjamin]

So what is lack of ambition if it's not taking a risk on higher profile players through wages / transfer fees?

The lack of ambition people see is us opting for a cautious approach by signing cheaper prospects in the hope they'll turn into top players rather than the bolder / more ambitious approach of looking to sign ready made players that can be slotted straight into the first 11.

We've been sold a strategy of the new stadium generating more money that will go into increasing our spending power but how long before we start to see that extra income actually feed into the playing side? Stadium has been operating for 5 1/2 years now so you'd imagine it should be soon

when the stadium's paid off in 2103

 

[THOWIG]

Whoever it is. There will always be a large percentage of unhappy fans.

 

[barrie]

With Levy in charge? There aren't enough 'shrooms in the world that'd make me imagine that

DM’d you…

 

[Danfunkel]

Way too fucking old if we’re wanting someone to come in and invest into the team for the long term.

Yes we need actual money invested into the team, but we also need some ambition and desire. I don’t think an 82 year old American will have any hunger to win the Premier League anytime soon.

 

[TOLBINY]

I have a lot of those sort of dreams. But mine usually involve Kelly Brook, a Japanese Admiral's uniform, an electric shock buttplug and two litres of ice cream.

What flavour ice cream?

 

[Yiddo1982]

I have a lot of those sort of dreams. But mine usually involve Kelly Brook, a Japanese Admiral's uniform, an electric shock buttplug and two litres of ice cream.

What flavour?

 

[tottenhamlad]

To be fair hands on or not at 82 he wouldn't be hands on for long.

Depends who we would leave it to and what they are like.

 

[Booney]

When will these people learn?

What we really want is a benefactor with countless billions that is prepared to spend them freely on players without any significant say in how they are invested and no expectation of a return. And scrupulous morals. And to be young, energetic lifelong Spurs fan.

This needn’t be that difficult.