glasgowspur
Paul Stewart
In fairness I've not read further than the headline, but if he is type of signing we are looking to make then if by some miracle we survive this season I doubt will survive next season.
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The *WHEN* we go down thread
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In fairness I've not read further than the headline, but if he is type of signing we are looking to make then if by some miracle we survive this season I doubt will survive next season.
Welshspur60
Bobby Zamora
Ive watched some of their games. It amazes me how poor Winks is and how he ever gets picked. He just strolls around being as far away from the action as possible. Banking 90k a week in the process. We did well to get 20 mill for him.
clownfoot
Steed Malbranque
In an ideal world Lange and VV aren’t at the club past the final whistle against Everton, regardless of what league we’re in next year. Useless planks who are too scared to make a decision and come primed with excuses.
The Nepos on the other hand? The rumours of them wanting to sell will be up in the air now as the price of the club will be drastically less than it currently is if we’re relegated.
Years of downward trajectory sped up by an injury crisis with no one willing to take responsibility. Laughably bad way to run a club
The Nepos on the other hand? The rumours of them wanting to sell will be up in the air now as the price of the club will be drastically less than it currently is if we’re relegated.
Years of downward trajectory sped up by an injury crisis with no one willing to take responsibility. Laughably bad way to run a club
SirPercyHotspur
Steven Caulker
Relegation is going to mean redundancies and massive cut in the wage bill and I just wonder out of our squad who goes and who stays , a lot of them are going to find getting anywhere near what they have been getting at Spurs hard to match.
Had a look at some Championship club wage costs, we probably have twice as many employees as some of them , our total wage bill in the last accounts was £255 million.
Leicester it looks like had a bill of £152 million , no wonder they have broken financial rules, Southampton £80 million, Sheff Utd £45 million and Birmingham £36 million.
Had a look at some Championship club wage costs, we probably have twice as many employees as some of them , our total wage bill in the last accounts was £255 million.
Leicester it looks like had a bill of £152 million , no wonder they have broken financial rules, Southampton £80 million, Sheff Utd £45 million and Birmingham £36 million.
SteveAWOL
Willie Hall
There’s so many ominous parallels to ourselves, what with owner’s children taking over the club (albeit under tragic circumstances in their case) and then proving to be utterly incompetent leading to protests from the fans and ultimately relegation…
I guess that, like many of our overpaid players, Winks considers himself too good for such a lowly club and knows that he’ll be able to move somewhere better this summer… perhaps in the back of his mind Harry’s thinking it’ll be even easier to secure a move if they get relegated
Daisuk
Barry Daines
I think you’re right, unfortunately. We will be everyone’s cup final and team to beat.
SteveAWOL
Willie Hall
Surely now our squad have proved that they have a winning mentality by becoming CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE then that’ll play into our hands and we’ll set a record points tally on our way to becoming the first invincible team in Championship history?!
Daisuk
Barry Daines
Surely!
Mr Gogolak
Richard Gough
I see Mourinho launched a scathing attack on us yesterday, basically saying we are getting what we deserve. It's always nice to feel the love from the audience...
Robbo
Tom Huddlestone
Just a question; we have the wages we have, will it be considered breaking the FFP rules if we simply freeze our wages after relegation? Or are we expected to lower them to accommodate Championship FFP rules?
SteveAWOL
Willie Hall
Leicester halved their wage bill last time they dropped down to the Championship and if we don’t bounce straight back up then we’ll have to do similar (seen some financial gurus estimate we’ll need to trim wage bill by 75%) to avoid breaching 3 year cycle PSR rules which would result in a points deduction that might see us joining them in Division One.
Is the Championship heading for financial 'catastrophe'?
BBC Sport takes a look at if the second tier could be facing a "doomsday scenario" as club accounts reveal the significant scale of their losses.
www.bbc.co.uk
Leicester recorded £71m pre-tax loss for 2024-25: What would relegation to League One mean?
The club said the large loss was mainly due to lower player sales and the absence of non-recurring other income.
www.nytimes.com
SirPercyHotspur
Steven Caulker
Not sure exactly what the EFL rules are on PSR/FFP or squad ratios but Leicester's wage bill compared to their revenue was ridiculous , we are nowhere near the mess they are in.
Many say that a relegation clause is included in players contracts whether that is true or not I do not know , if it is then our wage bill will fall and others will leave we are certainly not going to pay Simons 200 grand a week in the Championship.
We do have a bit of a financial buffer with the fact that we can stage up to 30 other events a year at the stadium, that is bringing in around £50 million or so which is more than many Championship clubs revenue alone.
Baleforce
Terry Naylor
And the lack of VAR will fudge us over every week.
DeanoAustin
Ian Walker
I don’t think you could say the board had us on this trajectory for years. We were on a downward trend from 2018 but it wasn’t trending near relegation.
No established club I can remember went from 4th, 8th, 5th to 17th and 18th. Forest in 1992/93 is as close a parallel as I can recall but there were some unique circumstances there (Clough’s control of the club and the grip alcoholism had over him). They also didn’t have the financial advantages that we have.
Something cataclysmic has happened over the last two years, most likely a perfect storm of many factors.
glasgowspur
Paul Stewart
A lot of it is of our own doing, a lot has been out of our control and some circumstances that you just couldn't make up.
We have also though become this club that everyone really dislikes and wants to see suffer.
Other than for the briefest spells under Poch and ange no one wants to see us succeed. Even then it was a case of do well, but not too well.
City and Chelsea are cheats.
Man utd and Liverpool are bully's.
Arsenal play the dullest football imaginable.
People would rather they won than we did.
It's an intangible, but it's also now a narrative and affects how other clubs approach us, how we are reffed, all fueled by a media and socials that can see a row ££££s from a narrative they are driving.
When we go down, and we are going down, this club, from owners, boardroom, coaches and players all the way down to us fans are going to have to toughen the fudge up or face being eaten alive.
Mikey10
Paul Walsh
Like Conte, he’s bang on.
DeanoAustin
Ian Walker
F**k it, I’ll say it now. I don’t think we are going down. Our form has to turn and it will. This team has more than enough ability to get out of the mess and we have a good manager in place to get something good out of them. These lads have what BoL described as the yips when it comes to PL wins. One good result changes that IMO.
If I’m wrong, bring me back to this post but, in my opinion, this is the bottom. The nadir of my Tottenham supporting days. We’ll look back in years to come and say “remember that week when we were in the relegation zone in April, that was scary and mad wasn’t it”.
COYS
Diamond Lights
Kasey Keller
I fudging hate Tottenham.
But it still comes down to the top of the house. As i've said time and time again, if you want to act like Brighton, charge Brighton prices. Instead we charge the second highest prices in the league and fleece the fans continously, buying children to try and finish high in the PL. Eaten alive.
Truly, they should study this in the generations to come about mismanagement and the dangers that come with it. Unfortunately we are the ones that suffer.
dont disagree with this. Up and down the league and commentators are DESPERATE to see us go down.
But it still comes down to the top of the house. As i've said time and time again, if you want to act like Brighton, charge Brighton prices. Instead we charge the second highest prices in the league and fleece the fans continously, buying children to try and finish high in the PL. Eaten alive.
Truly, they should study this in the generations to come about mismanagement and the dangers that come with it. Unfortunately we are the ones that suffer.
SteveAWOL
Willie Hall
Yeah, the fact that even Postecoglou stuck the boot in after his sacking just shows the issue is ENIC and it’s probably only a matter of time before RDZ joins the chorus of criticism directed at those bungling nepo-babies
Mikey10
Paul Walsh
Yeah, the fact that even Postecoglou stuck the boot in after his sacking just shows the issue is ENIC and it’s probably only a matter of time before RDZ joins the chorus of criticism directed at those bungling nepo-babies
No matter what is being said publicly, I’ll be very surprised if RDZ is our manager on the first day of next season if (and, personally, I think it’s when) we go down.