Tottenham Talk on Thursday 29th
Tottenham Talk on Thursday 29th
Good morning once again my connoisseurs (an expert judge in matters of taste).
Spurs Chat, Tottenham Talk, Tottenham Transfer Talk all raise their heads today in various forms, bur we'll begin with an Englishman living abroad, financial expert Swiss Ramble.
Swiss Ramble (@SwissRamble) has produced an excellent thread on Twitter about Barcelona's finances and the crisis they are in, which I gave you a couple of screenshots of yesterday.
This will help you understand the scale of trouble football clubs are in and help you appreciate there is a problem, that money does not grow on the trees some of you seem to think it does.
Until the club makes saving of over €200m it's new signings will not receive LaLiga registrations and be unable to play.
He reports that LaLiga applies a spending limit each season which can be spent on wages and transfers.
The figure is arrived at by taking the clubs annual revenue and deducting operational costs and debt repayments.
That leaves a figure of how much they can spend in the upcoming season.
All very basic and the way a club should be run, no club should be allowed to be propped up by a Sugar Daddy. All loans from owners should be calculated at commercial interest rates in my view.
I talked in an earlier article about Miralem Pjanić and the €200m savings Barcelona have to make.
It puts buying clubs in the driving seat.
Incidentally, one of my tangents, Pjanić, as reported by this site right at the outset, looks nailed on to return to Juventus.
Why would he choose Tottenham over Juventus, guaranteed entry into the Champions League, guaranteed trophies and until last season when Juventus were unusually poor, no competition.
"We have Cristiano [Ronaldo], who is good at shooting from distance, as well as [Paulo] Dybala, who is good from a closer range," Juve head coach Massimiliano Allegri said.
"And soon a good right-footed player who can take freekicks could be arriving."
That player is Miralem Pjanić, as soon as they clear some players off the wage bill.
You see, clubs around Europe have players lined up, deals done, but no announcements made and no signatures on documents.
Journalists don't seem to understand that so have to write it's getting closer and all that nonsense or write about a fee not being agreed when, in fact, everything has been agreed.
The gullible fan laps it all up and moans about the club, Tier 5 and below these type of supporters.
End of tangent.
Miralem Pjanić is on high wages.
Back to the LaLiga rule that means a salary cap for Barcelona and the need to make around €200m before any new signings will be given a registration to play in LaLiga by LaLiga.
LaLiga President Javier Tabias explained the rule.
“When a club goes over its salary cap, it can only include players who represent 25% of the savings.
“If Barcelona sell a player for €100m, they can only spend €25m. If they want to bring in a player who costs them €25m a season in salary, they must earn €100m, either by transfer or salary reduction.
“Barca are currently exceeding their salary cap. The efforts made to reduce the wage bill are on the right track, but there will not be a special rule for Messi. I hope they can include Messi’s wages, but to do so, they will have to leave out someone else.”
Fans over here in the UK haven't grasped the impact Covid has had on football finances and expect clubs to operate just as if the pandemic never happened.
A few of them need to wake up.
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How to keep your club in the news.
𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆: Away kit launch
𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆: Heung-min Son new contract
𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆: Pierluigi Gollini arrival announced
𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆: Day of rest
𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆: Bryan Gil arrival announced, Érik Lamela departure
𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆: Toby Alderweireld departure announcement
Buy the 23-year-old (24 in October) Serbian international for €15m (£12.79m - US$17.75m - AUS$24.10M) on a five-year contract and he is instantly worth at least double that but more likely treble it.
𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆: Heung-min Son new contract
𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆: Pierluigi Gollini arrival announced
𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆: Day of rest
𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆: Bryan Gil arrival announced, Érik Lamela departure
𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆: Toby Alderweireld departure announcement
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Toby Alderweireld
Toby Alderweireld has been offered the chance to obtain his UEFA Pro Coach Licence back at Tottenham when his playing career finishes.
Spurs have offered him the chance to join the coaching staff to get the practical coaching required to obtain coaching badges.
I'm sure, should he decide to take the offer up, that our youngsters will benefit from the input such an experienced and accomplished player can impart to them and being an ex-Spurs player, will take even more notice of him.
Jules Koundé
We all know Jules Koundé wants UEFA Champions League football and Chelsea can provide it so we may have to move on and look elsewhere, even if Sevilla want to sell to us.
The are plenty of irons in the fire should that be the case so nothing to be worried about.
Fiorentina centre-back Nikola Milenković is certainly one of those irons and with only a year left on his contract comes at a considerably cheaper price, which isn't a true reflection of his value if he had, say, three years on his contract.
You could say it is a cheaper alternative that isn't a cheap alternative.
Moussa Sissoko
Fabio Paratici and possibly Bakari Sanogo (players agent) are trying to find a club for French international midfielder Moussa Sissoko.
His agent was the subject of a journalistic investigation produced by French newspaper L'Equipe, over allegations of "dubious practices of money laundering" as reported by French Football News.
"In August 2017, a Swiss investigating judge is alleged to have issued an arrest notice for Bakari Sanogo, as well as two of his relatives and another four individuals. Currently, Sanogo has not been heard by French or Swiss authorities."
Anyway, several clubs have been in contact to make enquiries but nothing has happened as yet, but the last 2 weeks of a transfer window is when deals get done, with clubs applying time pressure in an effort to get players at a lower price.
A large portion of fans haven't caught on to this and spend the whole window complaining.
Sissoko has been told he isn't going to be a first choice starter but getting his 80,000-a-week wages matched is a problem for a 31-year-old (32 in August).
Toby Alderweireld had to go to the Middle East to get his wages, The Times ask if Moussa Sissoko will follow suit.
Aaron Wan-Bissaka
I said at the time that Aaron Wan-Bissaka was overrated and not worth £50m, for the simply reason that he spend far too much time on the floor.
I was told he made X number of interceptions, X number of tackles, yes,but if he is on the floor after making a tackle, which he invariably was, then he is out of the game.
Football has moved on unfortunately, tackling is a thing of the past virtually, today it is all about staying on your feet, shielding, shadowing and forcing your opponent, who invariable doesn't take you on these days, to pass backwards or simply sideways onto someone else.
Clueless Spurs fans helped to drive Kieran Trippier out of the club and now Manchester United want him, when quite frankly, we still need him and haven't replaced him.
Tottenham Transfer Talk
I thought I ought to remind you all that a club like Atalanta, selling Cristian Romero to us, the mighty Spurs, have to line up a replacement, negotiate, get a provisional agreement from all parties, or even a full agreement, before they release the Argentinian defender to sign for us, the mighty Spurs.
When I refer to you, I am of course referring to all the journalists, whose ranks I most definitely do not want to join, and Twitter ameba's that follow their every word.
Atalanta are strongly interested in23-year-old (24 in December) German and FC Ausburg defender Felix Uduokhai, who is currently at the Olympics representing his nation.
The Olympian is a potential replacement for Cristian Romero, as is Lille's 21-year-old (22 next January) Dutch international centre-back, Sven Botman.
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