Good news everyone! Nike have announced that they're ditching the kit templates for next season, so we won't notice how our keeper's kit looks the same as at least nine other keepers' kit
So there's a few new entries in the Oxford English Dictionary that are worth mentioning... Yid, n., sense 2: “British. In extended use: a supporter of or player for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club (traditionally associated with the Jewish community in north…” yiddo, n.: “A Jew. Also in extended use: a supporter of or player for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. See Yid n. 1, Yid n. 2.” https://public.oed.com/updates/new-words-list-january-2020/ So **** off David Baddiel
One for the number crunchers among you Sporting Intelligence have published their global sports salaries survey of 2019, which can be downloaded here... https://www.globalsportssalaries.com/ Although here's the basics Premier League wage bills 1.) The Sheikh Mansour Team (£7.0m p/a) 2.) Man Utd (£6.1) 3.) Liverpool (£5.5) 4.) Arsenal/Chelsea (4.8) 6.) Everton (£4.1) 7.) Spurs (£4.0) All of Europe wage bills 1.) Barcelona (£9.8m p/a) 2.) Los Ladrones (£8.9) 3.) Juventus (£8.1) 4.) PSG (£7.1) 5.) The Sheikh Mansour team (£7.0) 6.) Bayern Munich (£6.5) 7.) Man Utd (£6.1) 8.) Atletico Madrid (£5.6) 9.) Liverpool (£5.5) 10.) Arsenal/Chelsea (4.8) 12.) Everton (£4.1) 13.) Spurs/Dortmund (£4.0) But where it gets really weird is when it starts looking at all sports teams, where we rank at 62nd overall - and the reason why it's weird is that 150 of the top 20 highest wage bills are NBA teams, and a cursory look at the top 50 reveals that a.) I couldn't be bothered to count all the teams to say how many are football, basketball, baseball or NFL b.) There seems to be a lot of money in the Indian Premier League, judging by the glut of cricket teams between 45-60 Also, for any of the stattos, here's the highest wage bill of each sport, with the highest ranked of each country included 1st place: Barcelona, football (£9.8) 3rd place: Juventus, football (£8.1) 4th place: Portland Trailblazers, basketball (£8.0) 12th place: PSG, football (£7.1) 13th place: The Sheikh Mansour team, football (£7.0) 22nd place: Bayern Munich, football (£6.5) 32nd place: New York Yankees, baseball (£6.1) 47th place: Mumbai Indians, cricket (£4.3) 65th place: Atlanta Falcons, NFL (£3.7) 89th place: Minnesota Wild, NHL (£2.6) 158th place: Shanghai SIPG (£1.8) 181st place: Vissel Kobe, football (£1.2) 186th place: Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, baseball (£1.2) 204th place: Celtic, football (£895k) 229th place: Toronto FC, football (£606k) 290th place: Richmond, Aussie rules (£210k) 322nd place: Calgary Stampeders, CFL (£80k) 333rd place: Phoenix Mercury, WNBA (£62k) ...although I guess we're supposed to imagine where the Eredivisie and Primeira Liga (among others) fit in that
Didn't I read somewhere that the Spanish government contribute money to both Barcelona and Real Madrid.....for some reason?
£7m a year? Per player, maybe? City aren't even the highest paying club in the league, either. MAN UTD - £296m, LIVERPOOL - £264m, MAN CITY - £260m, CHELSEA - £246m, ARSENAL - £240m, SPURS - £148m, Everton - £145m.
Is anything that comes from City believable? They were paying a lot of coaching staff out of their franchises a few years ago and I would expect that there's a slew of money being paid to players by companies that can be traced back to their owners (if you wanted to do so...) in relation to some made up bollocks or other. The same probably applies to Chelsea and Everton are heading in a similar direction having recently taken £30m as a down payment on 'sponsoring a stadium', which doesn't even exist as a final plan, let alone having broken ground yet.... It will surprise nobody that the money comes from Usmanov, another crook and former employer of Everton's majority share owner. It's nearly all as dodgy as ****...unless you're UEFA or FIFA, when it's all gravy.
I don't know, honestly. I've looked at a couple of articles on it and I think it's average wages per player per year or something. Sterling, Aguero and a couple of others are on about double that, so it would make sense. £7m a week for the whole squad would be a bit high, even for City.
Season ticket prices and the procedure for renewal has been announced: https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/ne...on-ticket-pricing-and-renewal-timings-202021/ The increase is just stupid, in my opinion. It's a fairly insignificant amount overall, so why bother upsetting people? Mine would go up by less than a pound a game. Totally unnecessary.
We're trying to price Ricky Sacks out of attending games ...well if anyone can think of a better (or, you know, reasonable) reason for this I'd like to hear it
So in today's infographic... please log in to view this image More than anything else this outlines the primary problem that's affected the team for at least eighteen months: in the period of 2015-17 our map would have looked like Chelsea's for the season where Dele and a fully-fit Lamela were snapping at opponents high up the pitch, or more like Man Utd's when the Dembele/Wanyama pivot was basically sitting on opponents in some games - and these are conservative presumptions on my part This season, however, there's very little pressing in the side: the forwards don't (especially with THAT BASTARD DIAMOND, as it was easy for opponents to get around any press attempts) but the real issue is that central midfield doesn't seem to be leaving its stamp on games. Now imagine if our midfield had the same shading as Leicester's: if it did I have no doubt our defence would be closer to beige than pink - which in turn means less potential calamitous errors from various members of our defence that's been a hallmark of our season so far
Our defence had been going to sleep under Poch. I'm hoping it will get better under Jose!!!!!? But to be fair,those injuries have been ridiculous!
I'm pretty sure that the West Ham graphic indicates that they've dispensed with defending altogether. That can't be right, can it? Oh!
It's saying that Lanzini is their most effective defender ...how much are they expecting to make for Declan Rice again?
The first "Is this next season's Spurs kit?" has arrived please log in to view this image Hopefully not, it's like Nike are overcompensating for years of lazy templates
