He’s also had meltdowns to suggest he’s back tracking and is unsure himself...I certainly believe what my eyes show me
I think bring through the youngsters is almost in harmony. However, what is missing is a few wise old heads, these don't have to be expensive and can be on short contracts, the likes of Davids is an obvious example.
You made the claim. Explain how decisions would be different to optimise value to shareholders or trophies.
I’ve made the claim based on what I see and have seen to be the result of all the number crunching everyone enjoys doing Great business model and currently no panic because we are not missing out on CL thus far with not much real intent on creating a team equipped to seriously challenge for anything. So long as we are doing enough to get CL football all is well. ENIC who you worship aren’t very good at optimising trophies so you can’t expect me to help them out, they are hopeless so far...fantastic stadium and spreadsheet though.
I’d take that but there’s a few fans who think everything the owners do is part of some grand scheme to take us to the promised land...whilst I have my doubts about them ever being so focused on the team, ever.
I don't agree, the first investment was the state of the art training centre. That was directed at improving the on field side of things.
The Academy appears to be nominally working. Specifically, producing talent that reaches the seniors and : 1. Endures, and are so good they cannot be acquired for love nor money (Kane) 2. Become reasonable squad players (Winks) 3. Do not endure but can be sold to other clubs (resulting at the minimum in break-even for the club and a decent career for the player) .
Which clubs are good at "optimising trophies" then (how many million do they spend to get each trophy, are they spending far too much for each one etc) ??
I guess the real litmus test of this will be if ENIC sell up in the near future. The impression I get is that Levy does care deeply for the club. He grew up watching us from the terraces. Lewis on the other hand is about as disconnected an owner as has ever existed in the history of football. My gut feeling is that his long game has always been to grow us as an asset and then sell high. As long as Levy remains chairman making the actual decisions I couldn't care less if some American or Chinese magnate bought us.
I can believe that but ultimately Joe's vision reflects on Levy and he seems content with that. I've also said Levy should stay on as chief accountant...it's the least he deserves if we get sold.
Of course we will benefit from some of ENICs decisions but I'm not convinced much is done to improve the team...that's just the collateral to building an attractive asset(training facilities) for future sale. Some people think to suggest the owners dip into their own pockets to strengthen the team is criminal but I think it's an obvious thing to do if you think you own a brand worth north of a Billion quid. But I'm talking about owners who take pride in seeing their team become winners not ENIC
Not sure anyone has said that...my point is about the ****ers like Harryhotspur and pundits/ media outlets demanding we take risks. We didn't buy cos pochettino did not want those players who were affordable...he has said this himself...apart from Grealish who we appeared to have screwed up the deal for (thankfully ). If we fpend £150m in the summer I would trust it was because they have properly costed it...unlike the 29 clubs listed.
Sort of. If uncle Joe wanted to, he could legally pay off the monies outstanding on the stadium, in fact the whole Northumberland development and not fall foul of the FFP regs. This would then free up monies to sign players, which would otherwise be used to pay the stadium mortgage.
That's true from now on, but would have a very limited effect in the past as the debt outstanding has only recently become material. Even now I doubt we are paying more than £20m per annum interest and less in depreciation so that would be the maximum additional expenditure we could make.
Yes, but it will not interest only, there will be capital repayment as well. Probably about £50M per annum. I'm guessing it would free up £70-80M per annum.
You may be right, but the goons did theirs sooner. I think it will be flexible with regular reviews dependent on success on field.
