Tottenham Talk
Hello once again folks in this lockdown January.
The news of Turkish interest in Danny Rose is not new, he has rather ruined his career through his own persecution complex.
Quite frankly, with a sports psychologist this situation wouldn't have arisen.
Now he is just behaving like a spoilt child who has had his toys taken away and may just have ruined his career in the same way that David Bentley did.
He never regained his game and had to retire, he was another who would only perform on his terms, an individual, rather than a team player.
The offer to Rose is apparently a 3½ year deal if he moves permanently, with the offer of €500,000 for the remainder of this season and then €1m next season.
That works out at £443,404 roughly £21,114 per week, he gets £60,000 at Tottenham and doesn't think that is enough.
A full season wages would therefore be £886,308 which is £17,044 and if there is still no tax for millionaires then that would be his take home pay plus bonuses one presumes.
Is money or football more important?
As I reported straight away, he is on wages we simply are not going to contemplate.
Inter want to raise money and reduce their wage bill, Eriksen will be allowed to leave.
Leicester made an inquiry but as soon as they heard his wages that was the end of that.
Football Problems
Alas, we are still trying to tackle football related problems with outdated weapons.
It is claimed Mayer Amschel Rothschild once said …
A player can't "walk through the door" if he has demands, if he will only do it on his terms, if he isn't fully on board.
There are other factors of course, like adapting to the Premier League and adapting to a new language, as Carlos Vinicius has to do.
Great that we can play him in the Cups and know that he can score.
He may have six goals and assists to his name but we need to see him make himself a threat against stronger opposition.
I think the plaudits he is getting are not entirely warranted yet, for me he is a long way yet but it often takes a season to adapt, especially if you don't speak the language.
We must remember he is coming from a lower league too, but he has perhaps made a better start than some of the other strikers we have bought.
Gareth Bale isn't producing enough, despite willing noises, he has 4 months left to transform his time at Spurs.
If he doesn't perform in the next 4 months, then he won't be here next season, which will free up wages for, potentially, another star player.
Mourinho is not interested in carrying passengers.
In the last few days we have heard that Tottenham remain above Arsenal in the financial stakes and that we are now the 8th richest club in Europe.
Those figures were when we were earning from the stadium, income which has slumped somewhat during this pandemic.
Off the field we are fighting an economic war.
It could ages to explain all that but the decisions taken by Daniel Levy and his board affects our survival, our performance on the field and our continued ability to compete at the top table.
The fact that we have overtaken Arsenal speaks volumes about UEFA Champions League football and what it financially means to keep you able to mix it with the best.
You only have to look at their transfer targets now, they are not the top draw they once were, they can't compete in that market without Champions League football.
“Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws!”
Football is much the same, money matters, those with money win things, those without don't.
The Premier League era has proved that with, if memory serves, 95% of trophies going to sides who have had more money than Spurs.
The League Cup has been won 5 times in the last 6 years by Manchester City (2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020), Chelsea 2015 (beating us and the biggest attendance since 1988), Manchester United 2017.
Since our win in 2008 and we were fiddled out of it in 2009 when John O'Shea should have been sent off early in the first-half, only 2 sides with less money than us have won the trophy.
Birmingham City in 2011 (beating Arsenal) and Swansea City in 2013 (beating Bradford City).
I don't think a great swathe of our fans correlate that money and trophies go hand in hand.
Without money, you can not regularly win trophies.
The other battle we as people are involved in now is an information war.
“Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.”
It is believed that is the origin of the Mayer Amschel Rothschil quote.
The "songs" are currently made by the media (in all forms … news, social, entertainment),
Football journalism is an eyesight into that.
Journalists report their opinion while phrasing it in such a way that you believe they have a source within the club and the myth grows with fans that what they are actually saying is true.
It isn't, it's opinion and news from around the Internet, that may be true or maybe a smokescreen.
Journalists no longer check sources, they just reprint, usually without quoting the actual source (usually a foreign source).
When you know you are being bombarded with fake news, you can question it but we also have to deal with the children and their podcasts, who don't have the wherewithal to question what a journalist reports.
Your opinion is shaped by what you read and see and usually the first you see on a matter is the opinion you form and fervently believe that you have arrived at that opinion on your own.
Science has proven otherwise.
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