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The 'jealous of Chelsea' minority

I wrote a recent article surrounding wages and once again we have our two sets of supporters coming out to speak, one jealous of Chelsea wanting Spurs to be totally reliant on a sugar daddy, which Financial Fair Play rules were brought in to prevent and the larger second group who understand the club has to be built to produce the income to produce the team.

It's a mirror of society and the 'I want it now' world we live in, whereas in the past you used to save up for something you wanted.

There are positive people and negative people, positive people are successful, negative people are not. I recall someone leaving a comment to an article that we were not Leeds United and they were right we are not, Leeds United were finishing higher than us in the table and got to the semi-final of the UEFA Champions League by spending money they didn't have.

We were mid-table nobodies finishing 12th in 200/01 while Leeds United took out loans against future Champions League revenue, unfortunately, they didn't qualify, had to play in the UEFA Europa League the following season and couldn't pay their loans. They had to start selling players, Rio Ferdinand went to manchester United and the loans killed the club. That was 15 years ago and they haven't recovered.

Tottenham from being a broke club have climbed to being the sixth richest club in the country and regularly finishing 5th. The next jump is a bigger one as we don't have the revenue to generate revenue that the others have. A wage bill determines success, the UEFA Champions League is won each season now by a team with one of the top six wage budgets in the competition. The Premier League and UEFA Champions League qualification go to the clubs with the biggest wage bills.

Anzhi Makhachkala was bought by Dagestani billionaire Suleyman Kerimov in January 2011 and he started investing money in the club. In August 2013 he then decided to cut the annual budget by two-thirds. There was a mass fire sale of players and Anzi finished last in the Russian Premier League.

That is the sort of risk the grass is always greener minority want us to embrace, a club that can't support itself without someone pumping their own money in, which new proposals mean they can only do if they don't want a return on it. presumably they would like us to sell our soul as well.

Jealousy is not a becoming trait, what has happened at Chelsea has happened, jealousy won't change that. It's an I want what they have got approach.

Sustainable success is the goal and that means a sustainable club, not reliant on one income stream as so many clubs are with TV money, what happens to them when we have another crash and TV deals get smaller?

Having Tottenham on a sound financial footing is planning for the future, it's the first part of it, next is the building of the stadium, which is underway, building of commercial income and building of a team. All the while the fanbase needs to grow to increase the commercial revenue potential, that is taking place with our concerted effort to grow Tottenham in America particularly. The NFL deal could turn out to be the best deal we have ever signed.

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5 comments

  1. No matter how many times or ways you explain where we are as a club, the "call of duty, where's my trophy, why aren't we signing Messi" band of idiots will never get it.
  2. hmm another fluff PR piece for Levy...who is jealous of Chelsea and who is wanting it now? there is more than one way to succeed -a sugar daddy or a huge stadium debt are not the only solutions...you may want to ask yourself how we managed to get top4 two out of three years in row? Also how long will the stadium take to pay off? will all the revenue it creates go to THFC or washed around the group companies and back to ENIC?....plenty of questions need to be asked but the idiots never get it, they just swallow the PR from the billionaire about 'living within their means'
  3. How did we get top 4 in two out of three seasons? And come very close twice more in fact, beaten by a dodgy lasagna in one year and an even dodgier lastday WBA goalkeeping performance in another. And finished 5th under AVB with a points total that would have got us 4th in any other season. Easy to answer.....we had three or four world class players who we picked up relatively cheaply (Rafa, Bale) free (Ledley) or before they reached their prime (Modric and Berbatov). So that combination is hard to replicate and it didnt involve breaking the bank or wage structure. As the difference between 4th and 5th is very marginal...often just 1-2 points .....luck comes into it (eg Mendes " goal" at Man Utd that cost us a crucial two points in another season). So does events at our rivals......Liverpool were largely rudderless; Arsenal had a stadium to fund; Chelsea didnt have Mourinho; Man City had bought the players but not a team. Everton and Newcastle were almost at our level brief…
  4. we re-invested our sales proceeds and added a modest transfer budget (net) year after year...
  5. We ended up 5th with none of the "world class" players that you mentioned! Its working. Rock n roll baby, rock n roll!