Tottenham under Levy

Liverpool opened their cheque books and are now being tipped for the title. If that happens we can just add that to our list of "that could have been us" along with our "best team over a 2 year period" trophy

 

Ok, so we should argue they shouldn't do it because something hasn't happened yet, and might never? More likely is they felt they had the money to spend

 

Like Everton? If they get relegated god help them. And where is Villa in that table? They needed a benefactor to bale them out.

 

Pool have a lot more money than us though. I'm not saying we shouldn't have signed anyone, far from it, but they were in a position to splash big. The Coutinho money also massively helped, that dough alone paid for Keita, Shaqiri and Fabinho, probably a bit of the Allison fee as well.

 

Presumably it's a list of teams that have been in the prem over the period. Villa getting relegated hurt them no doubt. They needed a benefactor OR to sell some players, let's not miss out some facts.
Everton won't get relegated.

 

Spurm You have to look at individual teams and their balance sheets , you cannot just produce a list of teams and a list of spending because it is not comparing like for like. It depends how a club is funded for example like City or Chelsea or based on income like United & Spurs. You also have to look at how much each club has spent in infrastructure during that same period.

You can bang on all you like about lack of spend Spurm but it doesn't alter the fact that Spurs have had the most success in those years (2014-) of any of their rivals apart from the two (Chelsea & City) who are funded by an Oligarch and a Country. and personally I would hate to be supporting either of those clubs where success is simply purchased.

It is not any particular spend that sends a club into financial problems it is the overall strategy. Leeds adopted your policy when they were a champions league club riding high in the top division as did Ipswich, RCL has spelt it out above.

 

MY policy? Did you miss the part where i said i didn't want to be funded by a sugar daddy? I want to spend the money we are MAKING. We make profit every damn year. The tv deal gave all the clubs extra money. We were told the stadium wouldn't affect the team, so where is the money that other clubs are spending going for us?

Man Utd and Leicester (off the top of my head) also had way more success than us over that period. We won nothing

Leeds and Ipswich in the CL is from a bygone era. You can't seriously tell me you don't think the finances of the game have moved on since then.

 

I dunno why everyone seems to think i want to go out with a blank cheque book. I CLEARLY stated there is a position in between sugar daddy and net spend champions. That is where i'd like to be.

 

I can remember when both Spurs and Manure got relegated, no one expected that.

 

As i've mentioned before, once we got to the position of being title contenders, i wanted us to spend our money on 1 or 2 proven players per summer transfer window instead of 3 or 4 gambles.

 

The BBC are reporting that we tried to sign both Anthony Martial and Juan Mata but Manure wouldn't do business. that would have been two proven players.

 

agreed

 

What a crock of ****

 

If Man Utd agreed to sell us a player, then I wouldn't want him. There'd be something seriously wrong with him.

 

Or on the other hand something wrong with the manager

 

What is being reported on Toby ?? Anything similar ??

Or just a case of a hack unsettling campaign that Man Utd
did not believe actually worked well enough to engage
with Levy ??

 

you beat me to it

 

They said that there was one meeting between Ed Woodward and Danial Levy and Alderweireld was not discussed, only Martial and Mata. Daniel inquired about their availability but got knocked back.

 

Martial AND Mata?

Getting the feeling Poch was looking to just cancel CMs this season.

Line up of:

Hugo
Toby, Dave, Jan
Lucas, Eriksen, Alli, Mata, Son, Martial
Kane

 

Maybe play Eriksen in a deeper role or switch to a 4-1-4-1?