Sorry Luke it is not sustainable for Spurs to compete with Chelsea, City or United on wages. It's very easy to use the argument that we need to pay our top players the same as if they were playing at these bottomless pit clubs but if we did we would go broke so it's not realistic. The players will have to make that decision themselves if they help to take Spurs to a higher level that and the new stadium will produce greater revenue that will no doubt see them receive even more.
Excusing Rose by saying he has a point misses the point. He has spoken to the Sun rather than the people he works for. He has allowed that disgusting rag to use his words against Spurs and leave the potential to disrupt the whole squad. I don't care if he is right in what he says or not he is a very stupid little ****.
A player who was one of my favorites aimed a deliberate and carefully planned kick in the balls at everything Spurs-related in the name of player power. This is life at its finest. What to do? Well, if you give him personally what he wants, you'll be walking around with a sign in front of your zipper saying, "Kick if you want something".
On the other hand, we need to de-escalate the crisis as well and as quickly as possible, especially as the season's about to start. This will take all Pochettino's skills. It is possible to turn this negative event into a way to bond more tightly, though you need to be a really good psychologist to do it.
We can't afford to raise wages much, but this has now become a fraught issue. Could we, perhaps, create loyalty incentives or reward loyalty? Kane deserves something extra, I think, and perhaps Alli and others as well for speaking up for keeping the team together earlier this summer.
One thing which would surely help would be a big or biggish signing ASAP. As well as Daniel Levy has done overall with the club, the pattern has been two or three brilliant moves to one glaring miscalculation. This summer, which began with selling a player we could use to a rival for the first time in years and has continued with a complete lack of signings, qualifies as the latter.
