Wasn't quite like that either though. I said that they are clubs of similar stature but that Spurs have spent more on transfers (net profit aside) To be honest, I'm quite surprised at the hostility towards the idea that Moyes might take over at Spurs. I think he'd do an excellent job for you.
How many times have you won the champions league and premiership? How many millions have you put into trying to do so? As said before, We know where we are in the scheme of things, we have beaten our local rivals hands down in recent years, maybe, spurs can try and do the same one day and overtake Arsenal. I think not.
Net profit aside? Kinda missing the point there Piskie. Not our fault we buy cheap players and then Man Utd want to give us mega money for them, if anything it's a shame Moyes hasn't done it more often or maybe he would of had more money to spend.
I wasn't having a dig so calm down. Just didn't understand why you said - "The way our board has managed the second season syndrome has been great."
I really can't see Spurs going for Rogers at this point in his career tbh. If they poach another Prem manager like Moyes then you may get that club coming for Rogers. At a guess a club like Everton could probably offer him 3x the wages and 3x the transfer budget.
No offence khs, but , as a swans fan, we have heard that phrase more than most. Under Huw Jenkins, we have progressed every year. We have survived SSS in L1, the championship, and to progress our club, the premiership, with style.
Think you jumped the gun a bit there. King was simply pointing out the fact that this is your first season in the Prem, after your comment about the "second season syndrome" - which generally stands for teams that have survived the first year in the top flight, yet suffered the following - perhaps you have a different meaning and there's just some misunderstanding but the need to criticise us was just a bit over the top and uncalled for. But for the record, we too have had a bit of success over our local rivals over the past couple of years, we may not have reached the level of "the unbeatables" or won the Prem yet but we're definitely going in a forward direction, hence the 10 point gap between us and Arsenal at the moment, hopefully it'll stay like that (or increase would be better ) up to the end of the season.
I was, until recently, a firm supporter of the notion that Moyes should replace Arry, should the latter leave- for all of the reasons mentioned above. Having had a good long second thought about it, I have performed a complete U-turn. The one area where Arry is perhaps unparalleled in the PL is his man-management skills. He isn't the greatest tactician, not the best long-term visionary (in terms of effective squad rotation), and does tend to stick with 'his favourites'. However, his ability to coax a playable attitude out of Adebayor, VDV and win back/over Modric in a relatively short space of time are examples of a nature of challenge which Moyes has quite simply never had to deal with. The names and egos walking in and out of the Spurs dressing room are FAR bigger than anything Everton have had to offer during Moyes' tenure. True, Modders was largely tied down by Levy's acumen and toughness; but it wasn't Levy who got him turning out world-class performances days after the window slammed shut on his wantaway little fingers...it was Arry and his top-drawer motivational skills. In 20-odd years following Spurs I have never seen a squad looking more like a single, harmonious unit than the current one. Heck, even players who have a right to be moping and throwing regular tantrums (Niko, Pienaar, Bentley, Jenas, the list goes on...) don't do so. Compare this to other top clubs where REGULAR FIRST TEAM SHOO-INS have highly documented and publicised fall-outs with their manager, thereby ruining training ground atmosphere (Tevez, Rooney, Lampard, RVP etc etc) and Arry's true talent is shown in stark relief. Moyes has never handled players with names and reputations anywhere near as big as Bale, VDV, Modders, Scotty, Kab, Daws, BAE- heck, our entire first team squad! Could you honestly see him uniting the squad with the same camaraderie and team spirit as achieved under Arry? Is Moyes' personality large enough or indeed confident enough to fend off the almost inevitable summer transfer window circus? Could he talk Bale out of Barca? Modders out of United? Not sure. Really not sure. More importantly, could Moyes attract the likes of Damaio? Krasic? Llorente? Not sure. Really not sure. A big name manager, for a big name club, methinks...
Tottenham spending since 2003[TABLE="width: 478"] [TR] [TD="class: xl37, bgcolor: white, align: right"][/TD] [TD="class: xl38, bgcolor: white, align: center"]£308,400,000 [/TD] [TD="class: xl38, bgcolor: white, align: center"]£198,250,000 [/TD] [TD="class: xl39, bgcolor: white, align: center"]£110,150,000 [/TD] [TD="class: xl40, bgcolor: white, align: center"]£13,768,750[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Gross purchase ...........Sold.....................Nett........Average per season http://www.transferleague.co.uk/
See that makes sense now, however the PL is a whole different ballgame to the Championship and League 1. Swansea remind me very much of my hometown side Reading, they came into the PL and played some lovely football and gained a lot of admirers and nearly earned European football in their first season but in their second season ended up getting relegated (ironically by losing to Spurs).
If only you'd put that, you didn't though did you, you had to bring the irrelevant topic of club size into it. As for Moyes, not for me, but as he's so adept at operating on no budget he's more suited to your shower of **** than Spurs. : Spitting of dummies would infer some kind of anger, wrong!, strange as it may seem to you, people swear in real life whilst laughing, something I do at most of your posts!
Why since 2003? And what exactly are you trying to prove by posting these stats? Not one of us has disputed that we haven't spent money on improving the side just not the mega bucks you claim we have.
I have a tendency to swear... Excessively... Even without realising at times! Which usually ends up in getting a back-hander from my Nan. Bad times. But... F*ck iiiiittt!
Don't fall for the myth that Arsenal don't spend money, they just spend theirs on wages. Although go man for man and I bet the Arsenal side didn't cost much less than ours.
Hopefully, we can keep our way of playing going and improve on it. Barca play the best football in the world and have set the precident. Every club comes from somewhere, and since 1912, weve done our bit. Hopefully, it pays off.
The original and salient point was that Spurs have spent much more than Everton, who are a club of similar size to Spurs and thus Moyes might be attracted to a club who, unlike his current one, are willing to spend.
We haven't spent big in the last few years though and with the impending new stadium I can't see that situation changing. Could be kind of like Arsenal except we have to do it with a much smaller wage budget .
I think you're probably right. Any new stadium will prevent you from spending like you have in the past. I think any new manager coming in will have to take this into contention, he may not be given the opportunity to build a squad of his own making. If Spurs can hold onto their best players, then it might not be an issue. But if Redknapp leaving instigates an exodus of the likes of Modric, Bale, VDV, then it could be tough for a new man coming in to keep Spurs in contention.
