OnlyOneDB You have just won 7 million pounds on the lottery! REPLY Oh **** me! how much will that cost to insure!!
The 'perfect' players are out of our price range tho and we aren't in the CL. Friedel is better than Gomes and Cudicini and Adebayor is better than Defoe, Crouch and Pav so to me it's good business.
PNP -Seems some the supporters are wanting a signing at any cost, no matter who. Can they not see that if Levy does that a real genuine signing might pass us by because we got whatever was available just to satisfy the masses.
With respect their is no chance that we will do a Leeds. We have the resources to spend each year around 25 million and any players sold should be added to this pot( in today's world this is very average). This is not reckless spending considering our resources. That why I follow Spurs because of our cavalier tradition, not Levy's Cromwellian Stance. Dear DP, on drugs, What makes you think that? Yes I am with the Beat Generation, Ginsberg, Leary, Alpert all do it for me. A little counter culture may good for all of us.
The transfer fees aren't the problem though SF, as they weren't for Leeds. The problem is the wage bill.
I still think our wage structure could be improved. Yes we will never compete with City or Chelsea, but we could be far more competive.
Teams like Arsenal and Liverpool have wage bills that are equal or greater than our revenue. We can't match them, so we need to structure our transfers in a different manner. In my opinion we've done this the right way recently, but are stumbling a little now, as we've tried to change it. Bring in promising youngsters and develop them (Lennon, Huddlestone, Dawson) and sign unfashionable targets (Berbatov, Modric). Add some proven Premier League players that are either at clubs that fight relegation or have been relegated (Defoe, Carrick, Palacios) or are from the big spenders and aren't wanted (Gallas, possibly Adebayor).
If Levy wasn't so bloody intransigent over the prices he wants for our "dead wood", then we would be in a position to pay higher wages to those players that we do want to keep!
How do you know this - I've no idea what has been offered or what wages we would save. Levy knows both and is a good enough businessman to get thie right
Surely it is undeniable that letting people go would save money and therefore make funds available to pay the existing players more. You may choose not to do this for long term stability, but it obviously clear that it is an option.
Our ambition is clear and I think our best team would beat City's and there would be a lot of Spurs players in a squad of 25 selected from both our squads. But their strikers are much better than ours. So what is wrong with improving our team by signing one of them - on loan or otherwise.
It is always an option to sell assets at below their real value for short term gain, but is almost never a sensible thing to do in an ongoing business
Their "real value" is what somebody is prepared to pay. I still believe that Levy frequently shoots himself in the foot by hanging on too long for unrealistic prices. All the time he waits, these players contracts are getting shorter, and the players themselves are getting older, and more and more inactive. None of which is exactly going to add to their value. He is paying them, in total, hundreds of thousands of pounds per week, in wages, to do basically, **** all, to boot.
Actually Levy being a businessman is not a problem - football is a business and Spurs have been run as a business as long as I can remember. Since success on the pitch always brings in more revenue there is no reason why this is undesirable. Back in the sixties we were a very rich club of course, but now we are only the sixth richest in England, but any other approach risks destroying the club for short-term gain unless we get our own Abramovich (and we are too late for that because of the new fair-play rules
Your logic is correct but you don't have all the facts to show that Levy is making the wrong calls. He knows all this as well as anyone - why would he get it so wrong?
I can't answer that one, Power. Only Levy knows the answer. However, his actions appear to lack any logic that I can see.
