It is honest but reflects his feelings for the club. He and Levy have managed the club's funds very well. We've had a long-term plan and stuck to it. In football, that's pretty much unheard of. Sure, ENIC will make a fortune when it comes time to sell but the club will be left with an incredible asset base and a bright, sustainable future - infinitely better than when they came in. The suggestion is that the club is pretty much at ease about the level of debt, having cheap money available. Apparently, in Canada, for a debt of the size Spurs are running, according to an expert on SSC, you can buy £600m @ 1.875% fixed, repayable in 2031. That's just £12m a year in interest. That's a comforting thought.
I wonder if Chelsea could save money and share the taxpayers stadium.I can see it now:- Hackney Wick Hammers and the Hackney Wick Pensioners.
Former Fulham striker Pavel Pogrebnyak was criticised today for his rather bigoted view of national team players. He suggested that black people being selected for the Russian team was "laughable". "I believe that any football player who plays well and has Russian citizenship has a right to represent the Russian national side." "The colour of their skin, eyes, hair and everything else has no significance. This should be obvious to anyone." "This statement by Pogrebnyak smacks of racism." This response was from Mikhail Fedotov, head of the presidential Human Rights Council and advisor to Vladimir Putin, rather surprisingly.
Is Pavel black? I never thought I'd see a black Irishman but if he's born there that's it.He's Irish.
No, but he appears to be feeling uncomfortable because the following teams he played for have black in their kits FC Khimki Fulham FC Tosno FC Ural Yekaterinburg
I must sound like a broken record but the full list is frightening... Leicester (recovered) Southampton (recovered) Wimbledon Leeds Sheffield United Bradford Barnsley Sheffield Wednesday Ipswich Bolton Blackburn Charlton West Brom Norwich QPR Wigan Portsmouth Coventry Swindon Notts County Blackpool Aston Villa Derby Middlesbrough Luton Sunderland Forest Hull Swansea Stoke Birmingham 29 clubs...since the late 1990s. Only Notts County were never in the Premier League. Only Barnsley, Bradford and Swindon were not established prem teams. Leeds were Champions in 1992 and CL semi finalists in 2000. Blackburn won the league in 1995 and the league cup in 2002. Birmingham won the league cup in 2010 ish Swansea won the League cup in 2014 ish. Wigan won the FA Cup in 2013. Portsmouth won the FA Cup in 2008. Stoke, Hull and Villa were FA Cup finalists this century. 14 of them have played European football in the past 20 years or so. I have not included City or Chelsea (who were both saved by being rescued by billionaires when things were grim). Nor have I included Fulham who have hugely spent and could well be in deep **** next season. And pundits, "experts", the press tv and radio only every talk about Leeds and Portsmouth. 29...that is a shocking testament to the incompetency of not only those who run those clubs but also of those responsible for allowing reckless owners to jeopardise the future of these teams and all they represent to their local communities and economies. I'd rather our club be overly cautious than be run by a bunch of cowboys (or porn barons)!
Trust us to go the way of Colin’s list instead of the other way. After all every ambitious club who’s owners back the manager go bust. That explains why we have had two barren transfer windows!
Nope. Owners + ambition + STUPID = football club in dire financial straits. Irving Scholar went one better than that, by making his "stupid" absolutely nothing to do with on-pitch matters.
There’s a balance to be struck...thus far it’s a bit lop sided. Business>Football is the ENIC way I refuse to buy into the notion that we risk going bust if we spend in the transfer window.
Which transfer windows ?? Those of 2018-19 ?? If so, the manager stated why there were no incomings. Whether you believe him (his decisions, the rationale behind them) or not is your business.
I still don’t get how it is possible to get business success without football success. The two are massively correlated.
So you can’t separate how the emphasis is one but not the other? Orareyou telling me they are in perfect harmony?
