New Owners Would Make No Difference at Spurs

Not one for knee jerk reactions like the children on Twitter, I have let the dust settle for a day on another abject performance from a group of players who simply do not want to be playing football.

Personally I don't blame them, football shouldn't be being played. If no crowd can attend, then no football should be played.

It is pointless and our players clearly think so.

There is the usual Mourinho out, ENIC out reaction from the appropriately named Twitterati who have no idea what they want to replace our owners, except the impossible of coure.

You can tell them a hundred times the truth but despite it being written in black and white and indisputable, they still think a new owner can and will pump money in, that the transfer market floodgates will open..

You bump into these people on Twitter all the time and to a man or woman, they don't understand the football world,they don't understand the reality.

An owner can not give money for the purchase of players or to pay for wages, only for infrastructure and even then it has to be paid back by the club to the owner, converted into bonds, that mature and then you have to pay back the owner.

Free money ain't allowed no more.

Money MUST come from what the football club GENERATES AS A BUSINESS.

That means a new owner only has the money the club has now to spend.

As I wrote during lockdown, this pandemic is going to destroy the summer transfer market, everybody is in a poor situation, only Chelsea coming out of a transfer ban and raising £150m on the sale of 2 players seem to have money in the Premier League.

Borussia Dortmund have said they are buying nobody else, Bayern Munich have said money is very tight, Real Madrid and Barcelona have no money,nor do Juventus.

All are looking to do loans, loans with option to buy, swaps, free agents or players with a year on their contract.

Goalkeepers

Hugo Lloris

Paulo Gazzaniga

I have seen ITK suggest we are talking with Joe Hart as third choice, that is complete garbage.

My recent post showed you the situation here and showed you what wages players were on. There is absolutely no way we would pay a third choice over twice what we pay a second choice, even when money was not tight.

We will either have to find a cheap third choice or use one of the academy boys.

Right-Back

Can we sell Kyle Walker-Peters, that is the question?

Could we get a decent price for Serge Aurier?

I ask because unless we can get a decent price for him, the money won't be there to buy another right-back, if as I suspect most of our transfer budget will go in acquiring Pierre-Emile Højbjerg.

Now I discussed this situation a while ago with someone at Southampton who informed me Danny Ings was staying put and that Højbjerg was overpriced at £35m (€39.12m - AUS$63.58m - US$44.27m).

He said negotiations would take place and he would expect something around £20m (€22.35m - AUS$36.33m - US$25.3m) agreed.

Regular readers will remember me reporting that and now that is the figure now being bandied about.

I still feel £15m (€16.77m - AUS$27.29m - US$18.99m) would be more appropriate.

Why did Mourinho throw Walker-Peters an olive branch?

Because we can't buy another right-back as it stands and he is on cheap wages as well as being homegrown.

Of course we have no UEFA Champions League football and possibly no European football to offer anyone so nobody will join us when they can go to a European team, unless we already have an agreement with them, like Højbjerg, who is coming from a club with no European football anyway.

I find it so disappointing that professional journalists don't know what they are talking about, that they don't even understand the game they are writing about.

Not only can they not read a game, they know nothing about the mental side and when it comes to owners they are just as clueless.

Remember all the journalist reports of Everton having money with their new buyer and being linked, therefore, by clueless journalists to every top player?

We where is this money if he is allowed to pump it in?

Answer, he can't, the money isn't Everton's, they can't spend it, they have to break even over the next 2 years, those is the FFP rules.

We see it all again with a potential Newcastle United takeover, they started getting linked to players way above their current level too. 

A new owner at Spurs will make little difference, there will still be the same money to spend until the revenue starts kicking in again. Even then we have to recover economically.

ENIC are not going to sell while the value of the club is low so calls after a poor performance are not only a waste of time but detrimental to any progress.

Also for those of you wetting your pants over Tanguy Ndombélé and complaining I am not, listen to José Mourinho:

“He was the same level as the team, not better or worse."

Well the team were terrible.

I saw signs in the last game and I saw signs in this game from the French midfielder but there is a long way to go before we get a decent performance. He will not start against Arsenal, unless Lo Celso's knock to the ankle reacts.

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