Excitement at Spurs
In football money talks, if you have it you win things if you don't you don't, it really is that simple.
Dutch coach Louis van Gaal has spent more in one year as Manchester United manager than Ajax have spent on players since they were founded on 18 March 1900; 115 years ago. The model at Old Trafford is to mirror Real Madrid and try to create their own Galacticos squad, not only to be the dominant force in the Premier League but to commercially dominate and pay for the enterprise.
Matching that will be a tough exercise but we shouldn't just roll over and accept it. We have to build through our own strategy, at our own pace, within our own capabilities. We have to work out a way of changing that potential dominance or the top four will just keep pulling away, they are pulling away from Liverpool who are richer than ourselves.
Tottenham are trying a two-pronged approach, one they are trying to change their own financial position and two they have devised a clear strategy of developing youth. Developing youth in itself is perhaps not a recipe to break into the financial dominance club and steal their trophies but developing youth that are expected to become top bracket players may be possible.
This window Tottenham have clearly targeted the top young talent, not yet the superstars of the game but players you would expect the very top clubs to be interested in. Barcelona have drawn up a list of the next big things, they scout and chase the ones they want. Our very own 16-year-old (17 in December) Englishman Marcus Edwards in on that list.
It is pointless us trying to compete to sign the best players, we simply can't afford the wages. Why come to Tottenham and earn £70,000-a-week when you can go to another club and earn £150,000-a-week? Why sign for Spurs when there are five clubs is a stronger financial position to win things than when you can go to an Italian, French or German club where there is perhaps only one club you are challenging.
We will be signing players the top clubs though not good enough to sign, sending our wage bill above the Financial Fair Play limit. It's a fantasy some fans with a chip on their shoulder over Chelsea and Manchester City cling to, but it simply isn't possible.
Success takes vision. We were a broke mid table team, we have climbed above our then competition and taken ourselves within touching distance of the top. The stadium was and is our key to joining the group moving faster forward than the rest. Tottenham didn't ask for legal objection after legal objection, hurdles that have to be overcome while negotiations to potentially propel us to another level took place with the NFL.
Until the day we can financially compete then we have to cut our cloth, we have to make the sum of the whole greater than the sum of the parts to challenge. In a nutshell, that is why Pochettino is here, to put in place a system, to build the club to produce the star names.
Atlético Madrid sells players every year, yet when it comes together as it did a couple of seasons ago they won La Liga and nearly won the UEFA Champions League. They buy and improve players, what is so wrong with Tottenham doing the same if that is where we financially are?
It really is an exciting time for Tottenham right now, the next five seasons we may still be financially where we are in the scheme of things, the Tottenham name has to grow, the brand has to be built further, the NFL tie-up will help that and in turn lead to commercial deals which in turn allow us to start competing financially and therefore on the pitch.
Until such time we have to try and build something to challenge, we have improving players, Rose, Bentaleb, Dier, Kane, Chadli, the team will improve as our players do. Trying to buy the best young talent around and developing it is the next best thing to buying the stars we can't afford.
Grasp what we are trying to do, grasp why we have to do it and you grasp excitement, you grasp hope, you grasp a future.
Further Tottenham Reading
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A further delve into the financial side of Tottenham
Dutch coach Louis van Gaal has spent more in one year as Manchester United manager than Ajax have spent on players since they were founded on 18 March 1900; 115 years ago. The model at Old Trafford is to mirror Real Madrid and try to create their own Galacticos squad, not only to be the dominant force in the Premier League but to commercially dominate and pay for the enterprise.
Matching that will be a tough exercise but we shouldn't just roll over and accept it. We have to build through our own strategy, at our own pace, within our own capabilities. We have to work out a way of changing that potential dominance or the top four will just keep pulling away, they are pulling away from Liverpool who are richer than ourselves.
Tottenham are trying a two-pronged approach, one they are trying to change their own financial position and two they have devised a clear strategy of developing youth. Developing youth in itself is perhaps not a recipe to break into the financial dominance club and steal their trophies but developing youth that are expected to become top bracket players may be possible.
This window Tottenham have clearly targeted the top young talent, not yet the superstars of the game but players you would expect the very top clubs to be interested in. Barcelona have drawn up a list of the next big things, they scout and chase the ones they want. Our very own 16-year-old (17 in December) Englishman Marcus Edwards in on that list.
It is pointless us trying to compete to sign the best players, we simply can't afford the wages. Why come to Tottenham and earn £70,000-a-week when you can go to another club and earn £150,000-a-week? Why sign for Spurs when there are five clubs is a stronger financial position to win things than when you can go to an Italian, French or German club where there is perhaps only one club you are challenging.
We will be signing players the top clubs though not good enough to sign, sending our wage bill above the Financial Fair Play limit. It's a fantasy some fans with a chip on their shoulder over Chelsea and Manchester City cling to, but it simply isn't possible.
Success takes vision. We were a broke mid table team, we have climbed above our then competition and taken ourselves within touching distance of the top. The stadium was and is our key to joining the group moving faster forward than the rest. Tottenham didn't ask for legal objection after legal objection, hurdles that have to be overcome while negotiations to potentially propel us to another level took place with the NFL.
Until the day we can financially compete then we have to cut our cloth, we have to make the sum of the whole greater than the sum of the parts to challenge. In a nutshell, that is why Pochettino is here, to put in place a system, to build the club to produce the star names.
Atlético Madrid sells players every year, yet when it comes together as it did a couple of seasons ago they won La Liga and nearly won the UEFA Champions League. They buy and improve players, what is so wrong with Tottenham doing the same if that is where we financially are?
It really is an exciting time for Tottenham right now, the next five seasons we may still be financially where we are in the scheme of things, the Tottenham name has to grow, the brand has to be built further, the NFL tie-up will help that and in turn lead to commercial deals which in turn allow us to start competing financially and therefore on the pitch.
Until such time we have to try and build something to challenge, we have improving players, Rose, Bentaleb, Dier, Kane, Chadli, the team will improve as our players do. Trying to buy the best young talent around and developing it is the next best thing to buying the stars we can't afford.
Grasp what we are trying to do, grasp why we have to do it and you grasp excitement, you grasp hope, you grasp a future.
Further Tottenham Reading
Europe League is important for Tottenham
A further delve into the financial side of Tottenham
14 comments
There is no reason we shouldnt be seriously challenging for the Europa League but we dont.
The next best thing from buying quality is to buy potential then sell it on when it finally starts producing.
Excitement, hope and bright future.
Losing mentality breeds losers!
keep searching for them positives in the midst of mediocrity
A. N. Brain washed Levy liver!