As I've explained already you lost players because they either desperately wanted to leave or you ****ed up their contract situation and made it easy for them to leave. Your own accounts showed that you had over £100mill in the bank, didn't it? Again as I said before, no expanding business does that. It was a lack of ambition that led you to not renew contracts early enough and poor business that led you to squandering what you did spend on players, a lot of which weren't up to task. Pretending you had no money is nonsense and if Wenger's said that and you've lapped it up, inspite of the bank balance and the fact that you paid off your loans way ahead of schedule, then you're more than a bit blinkered. I could go on about the rest but I get the feeling there's little point you're desperate to twist to suit the idea that Levy would sell Bale to fund a stadium. Tell you what if that ever happens I'll put Judas as my picture on here
If someone playing in CL football came in with a silly money offer for Bale and doubled his wages do you think him or Tottenham would say no?
Sorry, but you are wrong. Don't take my word for it, Wenger came out himself and said that our transfer activity - ins and outs was directly affected by the financial restrictions on the club. Your citing that we have a large cash reserve now is precisely because we were prudent and didn't go down the route of City and Chelsea, which would have ended up with us financially crippling ourselves. We haven't been sitting on a huge pile of cash since we moved from Highbury, we have built that reserve up because of how we handled our finances and it's only now that we have a healthy financial cushion and have been able to pay off our loans early. Your assumption that we just sat on the cash for years (when in fact we didn't have it) and subsequently showed a lack of ambition for not spending it, just shows how badly you understand the situation.
Just to remind people again, Bale said this year that: 'If we don't qualify, (for the CL) we'll have to see what is best for myself' He's clearly wanting to play Champions League football and if Spurs can't offer it to him, then it would be wrong for them to hold him against his will, like they did with Modric; which ultimately ended up costing them £10m when Levy played hard ball with Chelsea and lost.
No sorry, you are still wrong. We have been prudently paying off our debts and increasing our balance. But we have not been 'sitting on a big cash reserve for years'. In fact, as I already told you, it's precisely because of our sound financial management over the years that we've been able to build up this money, where we are now in a position where we can spend. That also means that we don't have to go out and spend it all at once, simply because we've got it. That would be stupid. If you think we have been simply sitting on a massive pile of gold like a dragon since we moved from Highbury and refused to spend any of it, then you are simply not understanding how our finances work.
Reports today are that Levy is resigned to losing Bale in the summer. Apparently he has told Real Madrid that they can buy him for £55m. Which will probably mean he'll accept a £35m - £4Om. I doubt he will try and hold out for so much like he did with Modric, which ultimately cost him in the end. Like Modric, Bale has made it clear that he wants to play Champions League football.
One of the problems with bale is that he doesn't really have huge marketing potential, while he is a great player, of the pitch I dont see real making a lot of money out of him. Therefore I don't see them paying and more than 35 million, it was different with players like ronaldo, as they would make huge amounts of him commercially hence the reason they were prepared to pay big, same with players like zidane. Spurs could find it difficult if no one is willing to pay big for him, and he wants to move.
Seeing Bale haul the Spuds arses off the floor each week and turn an average team into one that grabs points, makes me convinced that a big team are going to come in for him in the summer. I have a feeling that if Utd don't win the title, they will make a move for him.
Although losing Bale will be a big loss to Spurs, it wouldn't be as big a loss to them as when we lost RVP. I can also see them reinvest the money they get from Bale, into a quality left winger. Also, speaking as a neutral, they have a very good squad, with a very good spine and a very good manager in AVB. With a little more investment (top quality striker), they should be more dangerous come next season.
Personally, I think Bale has masked some very average performances from Spurs. Without him they would really struggle. He's by far and away their best player and whilst losing RVP was always going to hit us, we're actually coping pretty well, having scored more goals without him (yes, I know the argument about scoring lots in single games, RVP making the difference in tight games etc) But the raw figures speak for themselves.
The problem is if they get some massive fee for him they'll reinvest it all in the squad and come out stronger
I think you underestimate the financial situation at Spurs, they have just posted a loss because of no Champions League football and they want to build a new stadium. If anybody thinks Spurs are going to go on a spending spree like they have in the past, they are mistaken. If they do lose Bale, they would have to try and replace him, but players like Bale don't come along often, certainly not unless you want to break the bank to get them. I would have thought that Levy will see selling Bale as a key factor in financing a new stadium.
Two players have been key for us this season - Wilshere and Cazorla. Without them, we wouldn't have been able to generate so many goals this season. Add RVP to the mix and we would be comfortably in 3rd, close to Man City. RVPs raw figures speak for themselves. RVP for Man U this season - 18 goals and 9 assists.
Im not convinced by the new stadium for spurs, i think they'll need to be getting regular champions league football first, especially as the talk has always been of them building a 60,000 seats to match ours..
And yet as a team, we've scored more without him. You can't really apply the goals he's got for Utd and add them on to those that we've scored without him though and say we'd be sitting comfortably in third as a result. That scenario would obviously mean that Giroud, Walcott and Podolski would have scored a lot less too. It's a totally different set up this season and we're scoring more throughout the squad. I'm not saying that having RVP in the squad wouldn't obviously help us, but he's not here anymore, so the comparisons with where we could be are a bit speculative.
I think it will take them a few years to even get into a position to be able to start building. If and when they do, they will discover how difficult it is to maintain a squad that can challenge and meet the financial commitments that a new build brings. The Spuds 'taunt' us for 15 years of Champions League 'failure', they haven't even been in it - and already they are posting losses due to the lack of revenue that no CL football means. Getting back to Bale, he has indicated that he may have to move to another club to play CL football, I think Levy would try and get as good a price for him as possible so as to inject some life into their stadium project. But like Modric, where he lost out trying to hold out for more and more, whilst the player was begging to leave, Levy might have to take a realistic offer for Bale, rather than trying to force somebody to pay £40m+
