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Its very interesting that our team performance has been getting gradually better over the last three years despite there being no net spending.
I've not had time to look but I suspect that a team which we've sold to English rivals over the last few years would have raised about the same amount of money to buy last nights starting XI but would be clearly worse. Something like
Gomes; Hutton, Bassong, Caulker, Naughton; Capoue, Livermore, Huddlestone; Siggurdsson, Townsend, Defoe
Seems to show that our player trading process is now working very well
 
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Operating profits excluding player trading

2009/10 23.2 m
2010/11 22.7m
2011/12 14.2m
2012/13 10.5m
2013/14 26.4m

Nearly 100m in those 5 years WITHOUT player trading where we have also made profits.

Club statement:

WE HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN DELIVERING
ON OUR LONG-TERM VISION FOR THE CLUB. WE HAVE
ALWAYS HAD THREE KEY PRIORITIES AND YOU WILL
HAVE HEARD THEM OFT REPEATED
–
INVESTMENT IN
THE FIRST TEAM
,
A NEW TRAINING CENTRE AND AN
INCREASED CAPACITY STATE-OF-THE-ART NEW STADIUM

I still fail to understand why you are trying to suggest that no provision is being made to finance the new stadium.
 
"I still fail to understand why you are trying to suggest that no provision is being made to finance the new stadium."

Where is this "provision" in the accounts ??
Has a cash surplus been built up with the sole intent of being spent on new WHL ??

Similarly you should have the collective statements of all expenditure that the
club have made that is specifically for new WHL (ie the cumulative cost) .

I don't see either.
As always, I am not perfect so please feel free to show me where I have missed
some serious info.
 
True they don't have a box marked 'Savings for new stadium'

Have you looked under Levy's bed? <laugh>
 
PowerSpurs said:
Its very interesting that our team performance has been getting gradually better over the last three years despite there being no net spending.
I've not had time to look but I suspect that a team which we've sold to English rivals over the last few years would have raised about the same amount of money to buy last nights starting XI but would be clearly worse. Something like
Gomes; Hutton, Bassong, Caulker, Naughton; Capoue, Livermore, Huddlestone; Siggurdsson, Townsend, Defoe
Seems to show that our player trading process is now working very well
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Developing top young players and buying others to form a team that can train together from an early age like Barca, Southampton and us certainly looks like the way to go. But there’s no substitute for having the eye for talent that’s been more evident since Paul Mitchell arrived. I just read a Kane interview where he says just what you’d expect, and credits hard work for the team’s success. While hard work may be necessary, sheer talent is an even more important ingredient. The trio of Kane, Alli and Eriksen, for example, are too technically adept and athletically gifted for most defenses to handle.
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
Fazio says he's unclear about his Spurs future.

You'd think it'd be crystal clear given he hasn't featured in a single Premier League, Europa League or FA Cup game this season and got loaned to Sevilla even though Verts is injured and Vejlkovic was also sold...
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No need for him to burn his bridges or say anything silly, though.
I'm sure that he knows he's gone, but he's still a Tottenham player on paper.
 
Yeah really didn't work out for him here, had one or two good games but he was a walking yellow/ red card machine and had at least one ridiculous lapse of concentration in him per game. I'm sure he'll rebuild his reputation back in Spain and have some interest over the Summer.

As for Josh, great news tying him down to a further year, he's a fantastic prospect. That's now McGee, Glover, Ogilvie, KWP, CCV, Winks, Onomah, Ward and Harrison all committing futures to the club over the past 6 months. I don't expect every one of them to be a first team player in years to come but there's a shed load of potential in some of them.

Edit: To add, a shame we lost one in Veljkovic but that was probably a problem created from our own success in that there are so many good young players in the academy right now that eventually one would suffer from it being overcrowded, a lovely problem in some ways but also unfortunate to see Milos go as he looked a really good young player, Bremen will soon realise they got themselves a bargain.
 
Going by what he said to the Serbian press back in November, Milos had been wanting to leave the summer - he even went so far as to say he was upset the club exercised the option to extend his contract for a year while he was at the U20 World Cup. Naturally there's a few theories doing the rounds, the oft-repeated ones being that Poch felt he didn't move the ball fast enough to be a DM or that he simply felt that CCV was the better option as a right-sided centre back (or a combination of the two)

It's odd that in the last five years we've had two centre backs coming through our academy that were tipped for great things, first Caulker and now Veljkovic, but it never really happened. No pressure on CCV there, then...
 
We may obviously still go after Mous(s)a Dembele in the summer from Fulham but I don't think we should stop there.....

Leicester City are monitoring Rennes winger Ousmane Dembele, 18, who has also interested Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Southampton. (Daily Mail)

Lets just go the whole hog and confuse the hell out of commentators!

All together now...

(to Yellow Submarine)
# Tottenham have a team of Dembele's
A team of Dembele's
A team of Dembele's #
 
NotSoMightyEastbourneBoro said:
We may obviously still go after Mous(s)a Dembele in the summer from Fulham but I don't think we should stop there.....

Leicester City are monitoring Rennes winger Ousmane Dembele, 18, who has also interested Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Southampton. (Daily Mail)

Lets just go the whole hog and confuse the hell out of commentators!

All together now...

(to Yellow Submarine)
# Tottenham have a team of Dembele's
A team of Dembele's
A team of Dembele's #
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We can go one further by signing CSKA Moscow's Ahmed Musa, then we would have a lineup of Mousa Dembele, Musa, Dembele and Moussa Dembele
 
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