The Moonlit Knight
Banned
I normally pay very little attention to what is bandied about in the media. Most of the time it's there to sell papers, rather than give an accurate indication of what is actually going on. Or it's agents trying to get their players better deals (or a move) by tapping up their journo mates and getting them to write a story.
One paper is different for me. The Telegraph footballing view tends to be balanced and certainly more accurate than the majority of other media outlets. There is a section in the below that could well confirm what myself, and many others, have long feared. That we really don't have the expendable income that so many of our fans believe we have. Possibly because we can't afford to whilst we try and bulld a new stadium. I have always felt that Wenger covered for Arsenal's lack of budget for years, willingly taking the public flak for not investing when in reality there was no money to seriously invest with. At least until the new stadium was paid off. I think we may well be in the same boat, and may even explain our change in transfer tact over the last couple of seasons.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...e-for-being-a-maverick-like-Brian-Clough.html
The part that really stood out for me is below. Especially as someone already told me that Moyes was Spurs's number one target.
"The fear however was that Redknapp had taken this north London club as far as it will go without investment on the Emirates Marketing Project or Chelsea level.
Levy was said to favour a low-spending replacement - a Brendan Rodgers or David Moyes ÔÇô should Redknapp take the England job. Only last week the man known as ÔÇÿArry remarked that he had asked for Carlos Tevez and Gary Cahill in the last transfer window and ended up with Louis Saha and Ryan Nelsen.
Friction between Levy and Redknapp goes with the territory of dreamer-manager and money-conscious chairman. It was set to get worse this summer as the manager pressed his case for bigger spending."
If Redknapp does go, it's going to be interesting to see if he was the cause of these older short term signings.....or a victim of them.
One paper is different for me. The Telegraph footballing view tends to be balanced and certainly more accurate than the majority of other media outlets. There is a section in the below that could well confirm what myself, and many others, have long feared. That we really don't have the expendable income that so many of our fans believe we have. Possibly because we can't afford to whilst we try and bulld a new stadium. I have always felt that Wenger covered for Arsenal's lack of budget for years, willingly taking the public flak for not investing when in reality there was no money to seriously invest with. At least until the new stadium was paid off. I think we may well be in the same boat, and may even explain our change in transfer tact over the last couple of seasons.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...e-for-being-a-maverick-like-Brian-Clough.html
The part that really stood out for me is below. Especially as someone already told me that Moyes was Spurs's number one target.
"The fear however was that Redknapp had taken this north London club as far as it will go without investment on the Emirates Marketing Project or Chelsea level.
Levy was said to favour a low-spending replacement - a Brendan Rodgers or David Moyes ÔÇô should Redknapp take the England job. Only last week the man known as ÔÇÿArry remarked that he had asked for Carlos Tevez and Gary Cahill in the last transfer window and ended up with Louis Saha and Ryan Nelsen.
Friction between Levy and Redknapp goes with the territory of dreamer-manager and money-conscious chairman. It was set to get worse this summer as the manager pressed his case for bigger spending."
If Redknapp does go, it's going to be interesting to see if he was the cause of these older short term signings.....or a victim of them.
