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Pro/anti-Levy stance dictates your view on wages and transfers


Pro/anti-Levy Stance Dictates Your View On Transfers

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Your Pro/ant Daniel Levy stance, dictates your view on wages and transfers

Does your Pro/anti-Levy stance dictates your view on Spurs transfers?

Last summer Gary Mabbutt said he felt Spurs didn't need to spend big money to improve the Tottenham squad.

Panic driven or agenda driven fans took a different view and saw rivals buying, thus believed Spurs should be matching them, rather than waiting for the right targets at the right price.

No doubt we will get more of the same this summer.

Transfers have to come from revenue generated by the club and the wage bill is restricted by how much it can rise over a season, thus our structure can't just be blown apart as some would irresponsibly wish.

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During that time we are left standing while others are moving forward. What's the point of being at the top table if we're not eating.

This almost smacks of wanting Spurs to return to a mid-table broke club with no hope of European football and no hope of winning anything. The 7th richest club in the country has been Newcastle United and look how they are run. Aston Villa, who were finishing above us when Daniel Levy took over, aren't even in the same division.

Chelsea are struggling, Arsenal are struggling, West Ham are struggling, while Tottenham are growing. To maintain a place at the top table you need the infrastructure to generate the income that enables a sustainable presence at the top, which is hat we all want. Wages can't take a jump until income jumps consistently, not just one season. Player contracts are 4 or 5 seasons, the income must be there to afford that, not on the never never.

We now have to start winning trophies as we have grown, but, we are not the finished article yet, we are still growing as a club and still yet to see the income from the new stadium and new commercial opportunities.

Building Spurs is a long-term project, it may not be fast enough for some, but the sensible business approach Daniel Levy has taken has clearly been in our best interests.

Pochettino only recently explained the stadium and the team are growing together. They are linked, one impacts upon the other and the balance he talks about is how much is available for the team and how much for infrastructure to grow income to invest in the team.

“It’s an exciting project but we cannot get ahead of ourselves on one side or another. The balance is so important. The club will be in a very good position in the next few years to start to compete in the last level."

I find it amazing some fans can't understand those simple facts of life. How many times have they told their children money doesn't grow on trees or refused to buy them every toy they want? Why, because the money isn't there. Spurs are no different.

Th income has to be built before you can take a major hike in wages, it has to be coming in, not potentially coming in. This is no time to gamble with a successful future by being impatient now. Spend and don't qualify for the UEFA Champions League and our income goes down, prize money goes down, commercial revenue is more difficult to obtain and that all impacts the wages budget.

Christian Eriksen told the US media last summer that it is only the British who equate spending to success. Therein we see part the problem. If an individual can't see past that, then they limit their thinking and limit the number of solutions they can accept.

Build a young side, play a set system and keep them together so they grow together and improve. Regular readers know where they heard that all outlined years ago. Poch has been talking winning mentality recently too, glad to see him getting on board. LOL.

So far, so good.

We have clearly improved under ENIC and Levy, our league positions show that.

The pro-anti-Levy debate shows why some people need to be employed and told exactly what to do, yet expect the same wages as the guy who builds a business, devises a growth plan and implements it. One has no risk, one has all the risk, yet to some, shouldn't be allowed to reap the rewards.

The words of Hugo Llrois last season.

"A winning mentality is already in this team -- we just need some chances and opportunities, and we have a few before the end of the season. When you have a chance, you have to take it. 
"It's true that at some other clubs, in England, France, Spain, Italy or Germany, they are used to winning a lot of trophies. It was the case 50 years ago, it was the case 20 years ago and it will be the case in a few years. Because they are big institutions and all the players respect those institutions. 
"That's the way to follow, but you cannot arrive one day and say, 'I want to change everything', and then win. You need to take time, build up something strong step-by-step, and you need to live through experiences like last season. 
"Even like this season -- in the Champions League it was a failure but we need to go through this kind of moment to improve. It's a process."

Sustainable success is built and we continue to build towards it. Will the anti-Levy crowd celebrate when we lift a trophy under him? I bet they will.

COYS
The author took two coaching course 10 years apart, has studies and seen the impact psychology and mentality has on lives, not just sportsmen and teams.

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2 comments

  1. Whilst I agree entirely with your post Clive the problem is that Walker, Kyle has left and received a significant increase in salary and is pretty much guaranteed two winner's medals and quite possibly a third.
    I would, therefore, not be surprised to see both Toby & Danny leave in the summer transfer window to seek similar fortune.
    It's all very well for DL to say that no player will be sold that MP wants to stay but, we all know too well that it's impossible to prevent a player leaving who does not want to stay.
    It's a conundrum that, IMHO, needs further attention.
  2. We can't meet rediculas wage demands but we also can't sell to our rivals. That's a double whammy and all the team building in the world can't replace that % swing.