Are we back to this? fudge .. this is why I take breaks from Spurs fans/forums ..
Let's get this clear, two options
1. You just want a sugar daddy, and you are willing to not give a fudge where that money comes from, how many people are enslaved, murdered, suffer for your enjoyment
2. You want some modicum of respectability with your club
If you want option 1, and you are willing to own that .. great, because to
@Bedfordspurs point, at our current value as a club, only money from very shady sources would even be in the conversation, So we become the next Chelsea circus (end of conversation)
If you want option 2, lets address the points (including from the threads above)
- Joe and ENIC back the club, how the fudge do you think you get a low interest loan for 750M? it's just not direct cash injection
- More importantly, other than Directors payments and asset increase, Joe/Levy/ENIC don't pull money out of the club, it re-invests (unlike United as example)
- If you look at
@Jon's chart, here's what I see, the 3 highest wage spenders suck in results, Liverpool is middle of the pack, and City is 2 spots away from us, so does it mean anything?
- But more importantly, you cannot discount the investment in the club over last 10 years (facilities, stadium, training ground), yes it would be nice for that to have gone into players, but we could not compete without it and it stays with the club, vs. we could have spent money on 2-3 big flops and got nothing back.
- Covid has fudged everything up, the new multi-purpose stadium with large capacity, NFL and non sporting events was supposed to give us more revenue and we started to put that money into players (we spent last summer), the problem is we are now forecasting a loss over 100M and we have no idea when revenue streams will return to normal. Barca will have to sell/get rid of players to upgrade their squad, but we expect Spurs is different?
And to the last point, where are the glory nights? why don't you ask Poch and the team why they didn't fudging turn up when it mattered .. because we had a shot at the biggest glory of them all and we didn't take it .. nothing to do with Levy/Joe/ENIC
I had this conversation with
@DubaiSpur a year ago I believe, and my view then was
- Once the stadium was up and running, and we knew what our revenue and income streams were, we absolutely should hold Levy accountable for putting investments into the squad (as that was the whole point of playing the long game, and Spurs revenue has increased to being competitive with everyone bar Pool and United)
- The issue is Covid has delayed that, and made it more unpredictable than ever
Final two points ..
- Levy is not going to sell, it's been 20 years, and we are now almost unbuyable anyway.
- Can we get over the Spurs expectation/nostalgia of winning things? I want to win a trophy every year, I really fudging do, but I'm on the wrong side of middle aged and have seen 8 trophies in my time supporting Spurs, Jose has more trophies in his career than Spurs has in it's existence, the run of league results in the last 12 years is actually our best run in the history of this club. So could/should we have won 2-3 trophies between Harry and Poch? sure but Spurs has never been a club with any history of multiple trophies every 5-10 years ..
