We've currently got at least three players on £150k or more per week Five years ago we had just the one
That's a fair point. But as I've pointed out previously, the place to look is at our highest earners. Compared to other teams (City and Liverpool for example), the mean gap between the top 2 earners and the rest of the top 5-6 is extremely small. So for example when Harry was on £200k a week, Perisic and Romero weren't on that much less than that despite being exponentially less important to the team. By comparison, Salah and KDB/Haaland were on much more than the chasing pack, and still are. This is I think where the problem lies. I'd much prefer paying one genuinely superb player £300k per week and 3 good players £150k, than paying 5 good players £150k. I'm not sure why the club is so reluctant to do this. We comfortably have the financial bandwidth to do it.
Not a dig at you or anyone else but these wages make me hate what football's become. I've been in my current job for 9 years and have earned 170k before tax in total. Players bitching about needing to earn more is sickening tbh. Clubs should be allowed to spend a set amount on wages and bonuses and should not be allowed to charge more than 30 quid a ticket. Will never happen but it should
The issue is that if we start offering wages along the lines or Arsenal or Liverpool (because the truly doped clubs are out of reach) we would still end up in a situation that we wind up signing players on big club wages while finding out why those big clubs didn't seem too fussed in signing them Late stage Wenger was the epitome of this: Aubameyang was on whacking great wages in spite the fact Arsenal had a clear run to sign him as Barca, Los Ladrones, Bayern, PSG et al had no interest in signing him because they could see that his mercenary attitude was one of his more endearing character traits, and this continued with Emery in charge when they offered Nicolas Pepe the sort of wages that beg the question if there was a typo when drawing up the contract ...not that we're blameless in this regard, considering we were paying Lewis Holtby £65k a week and made him one of our higher earners for reasons that have yet to be explained, and that's before mentioning The Ndombele Experiment
Again, very fair point. We're in a position to pay players circa £300k, but nowhere near a position where we can attract the talent that is actually worth that money. Side note for RCL: no one who kicks a bouncy sphere around a field is 'worth' that money.
There were pictures going around Twitter the other day of what looked like a BTS of an interview that people were assuming was his new contract. I think right now, along with about 5-6 other regular starters, a lot of fans would probably say “sell” but I can’t help feeling it’d be a mistake, most of these players just need a decent manager/ coach and I’m almost certain we’d see many/ all back to their best. Biggest grift Postecoglou’s managing to do at present is convincing fans so many of our players are now crap.
We don't need Ange to do that Our fans decide our players are crap for totally arbitrary reasons all of their own
The Son slander is the one I can’t get my head around. Probably past his best but still the best attacker Spurs have.
The players are no more crap now than when Redknapp had Modric and Krancar playing in a midfield two and we were getting battered regularly. Redknapp was not a crap coach and neither is Ange. The squad is unbalanced. Redknapp went on to balance the squad and build one of the best teams we've seen. Ange hasn't had that opportunity as the rebuild is a deeper proposition. Conte ended with a more balanced squad than Ange has now.
Ange has had plenty of opportunities to balance it though, but we keep signing wide attackers. We currently have six in the squad, seven if you count Kulusevski. Plus another three out on loan. Five of them were added under Ange: Tel, Odobert, Brennan, Yang, Werner. We could theoretically play Vicario and an outfield team made up entirely of wingers. That is absurd.
I’m all for differences of opinion but let’s not change history, please. Here’s the game’s Modric and Kranjcar played in the same Spurs team together: https://www.transfermarkt.com/luka-...=2&wettbewerb=&liga=&verein=148&pos=&status=0 There is no period where we got “battered regularly”. We suffered two heavy defeats to Arsenal and City and only one of them involved them playing in the pivot together, to which Kranjcar was subbed off at HT with the score at 0-2 to City before we lost 1-5. When you also factor in that one of Redknapp’s first signings was Palacios for the ball winning CM spot, which was followed down the line with more of that ilk like Parker and Sandro, it would’ve been very tough for Kranjcar and Modric to have ever played in the pivot together.
When you consider that Porro and Spence are more wing back than full back, just add Mikey Moore and that is your 10 Outfield players who all prefer to play wide and further forward!
