Poch is the second highest paid manager in the Premier League mate. He also got all four of his targets this summer. I've said similar on our board but I think it'll be fairer to judge ENIC/ Levy's spending over the next 18 months to really see what they're about. Our tight spending over previous years has generally been because we've been building and saving towards the long term goal of making Spurs a 'Big Club'. We've now got the training facilities, got the stadium, got a good enough team and manager despite it underperforming of late, I'd say we can finally now call ourselves a fairly big club, we're still not at the stature of the Utd's and Pool's of the world but we're on the map and should start acting like it. If in the next few windows - starting with January - we still look for bargain bucket signings more so than Ndombele's and Sanchez's etc, then I'll fully back anyone who criticises them.
I suppose he would be now that Wenger, Mourinho, Conte et all are no longer in the PL. Its probably because he has been there for 5 years, Spurs and Pool are the only ones in the top 6 who havent switched managers in the last 3 years. Aye I realise you are not of the those Levy fanboys. I mean, there is being a shrewd businessman, and then there is just being a miserly ****. Look at what Mourinho spent when he came to Chelsea or when he went to Inter, and look at what Pep has spent at City, ridiculous sums. Even the so-called "Best" managers like to have massive financial backing, and Levy probably doesn't strike confidence in the big names.
Poch is going no where soon. As for United, if they do find themselves in a relegation struggle (which was being mooted on TalkSport, this morning), they’d be silly not to go for a specialist, such as Big Sam. I know he turned down Newcastle, but I think he’ll be licking his lips at the prospect of stepping into the shoes of Sir Matt and Fergie.
You're one of the few who gets it with Levy. He's a glass ceiling chairman because his primary interest is making dough for ENIC. Most of your fellow Spurs fans worship him like some cult leader though. Gullible twats
That’s sort of his ****ing job tbf. I find it amusing when football fans think that Billionaires invest in football clubs because of some altruistic desire to deliver ‘success’ for football fans. They don’t. They all have their motives and reasons but spunking cash up the wall is never one of them.
True, and most billionaire owners are simply looking for a return too. But the financial bar for success at the top level has been set by City now since their oil money got pumped in. It stinks, but that's the way it is.
Correct if I am wrong, but havent Sheikh Mansour and Abramovich lost billions investing in City and Chelsea? I mean, if you are a billionaire, there is a **** ton of easier ways to make money.
Mansours total investment in City stands at £1.3BN (from the accounts) plus the £200m he paid for it, so his total investment stands at £1.5BN. Forbes value City currently at £2.1BN, so on paper he’s actually had a return on investment, should he sell. When you consider what the purchase was actually all about in the first place i.e. providing an advertising hoarding for his oil state in its desire to reinvent itself as a tourist destination akin to Dubai, then even City have proved to be a great investment, as he’s had all of the TV, paper and net coverage of his brand for a net cost of **** ALL.
See my post about City above. As for Abràmovich, his driver was to gain respectability in the West, he’s put circa £1BN in and Forbes value Chelsea at £1BN. The club is now self financing and it he chose to sell he’d get his money back.
Yep and he's been able to launder a **** ton of dirty oil money through the club via their training facilities etc The investment has paid off on the pitch too, albeit to the detriment of all the other clubs as, like Chelsea did previously, it's grossly inflated the transfer market
While we can all fantasise about our managers and who can do what, the fact is if we want your manager you are absolutely powerless to stop us taking him. #NaturalOrder
They get the blame for inflating the market, yet their record signing is £12m less than yours, £15m less than the RS, and £20m less than Uniteds......................facts eh.
The market is ****ing barmy due to truck loads of TV cash mate. I’m not saying City haven’t had an effect btw, but they’re far from the sole cause that some try and make out they are. There’s lot of bollocks talked about City’s spending imo, the facts are, that they’ve done it rather well over the years.
£50m for Stones, £50m for Walker, £50m for Mendy. 3 unbelievably forgettable turds of modern football.
The TV money is a big factor and I'm not saying it's City alone who have inflated the market, but along with clubs like Real, Barca, Chelsea, PSG and Utd and Liverpool, they've thrown a ton of cash at their squads, even on bit part players. I think I'm right in saying that City have spent the most out of that lot at something like £1.5bn over the last decade. That is an obscene amount whatever way you look at it. That said, they've matched it with on field success. My point is that they've made it that much harder for other clubs to match them because most simply don't have that kind of spending power.
