Pretty sure it's HIAG's company that are building the stadium. No S106 agreements needed @Hoddle Is A God
^^^^^ This Spurs are where Arsenal were 10 years ago. A new stadium to pay for, with other clubs sniffing around their top players and the manager saying that they'll invest in youth because the market is too expensive. I've said it before, but Spurs are going to struggle to keep their best players at the club over the next few seasons, because (1) They have to pay for the stadium (2) Their wage structure cannot compete with the big clubs (3) Unless they actually win something, players will move to clubs where they can. We'll see how much Spurs fans value the 'top 4 trophy' IF they can maintain top 4 over the next decade. We saw last season the collective **** fest they had at achieving something that they've been mocking Arsenal over for years.
Bottom Line on the Yids statement is him & Joe do not intend spending their money on forwarding the clubs fortunes. They've come second in successive years and its patently clear to all and sundry the team is crying out for two or three marquee signings to move up to the next level. Sadly for spurs fans the managers been butt ****ed and reduced to kissing frogs hoping a prince will appear.
The subject of this was that Spurs are a selling club. I.e. The insinuation that they deliberately look to sell players for a quick profit. As I've shown, that's not the case. All the major players that we sold was with great reluctance and only after written transfer requests, tantrums, threats of strikes, and in two cases actual strikes. Walker was sold only on MP's o.k, as he deemed that no significant weakening would be done by letting him go.
ENIC are an investment company, and Spurs are just another part of their Portfolio. Uncle Joe and Danny will want to see a return on that investment. Ploughing money into new players is clearly not on their agenda, despite @Hoddle Is A God being 'certain a marquee signing' is coming in this summer.
I don't think the insinuation is that you deliberately look to sell for a quick buck, but you paint a rosey picture of defiance that isn't actually there. All chairmen will say that their top players aren't for sale, but every player has his price as has been demonstrated at Spurs (and Arsenal). For all the bluster and guff from Levy, all of those players, Carrick, Bale, Berbatov, Modric, Bale etc were all sold. In the future, with the financial commitments of your new stadium, it's going to be even harder to keep hold of players like Dier, Erikson, Kane, Alli etc when the big clubs come sniffing. Especially if you're not bringing in top quality players to augment the team and ensure that you stay successful on the pitch.
Like I said, the facts are there. All of them put in written transfer requests. The only one I can remember who didn't chuck all his toys over the situation was Carrick. Berbatov and Modric both actually went on 'strike' - refused to train, and Bale threatened to do so.
You're feeding the bigger fish in the pond, when you stop doing that (Kyle Walker being the latest) then we can all agree.
That's been a rumour since January 2016 mate... But yeah they're upping the ante this time. He'll go, but I suspect it'll be next summer.
Levy talks ****, he got tens of millions out of Boris for the stadium, when really he should've been thrown in jail for hiring electronic surveillance operatives to tap phones of the LLDC.
