Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 37
A jolly good day to all you spiffing chaps and chapesses out there if the Tottenham family who have the foresight and five minutes to read the Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 37 ramblings for the #1 Spurs Blog Tottenham Hotspur Blog News (THBN).
The Open
Dustin Johnson - 5th -9 (4 shots off the lead, in the e/w places)
Christiaan Bezuidenhout - Tied 66th Even Par (13 shots off the lead, 7 shots off an e/w place)
Djed Spence has passed his medical and was doing all the media work yesterday at Hotspur Way.
Over the last few days and weeks during the Spurs Summer Transfer Window, Tottenham have been chatting about wages and how they affect a squad, homegrown players and how they impact on transfer business, non-homegrown players, mentality and probably the best chairman Spurs have ever had, even if he is misunderstood by the vision challenged.
Compare if you will the Limited Capacity Thinking that restricts the anti-Levy George's and a player like centre-back target Jules Koundé.
The off the pitch has to be achieved before the on the pitch can be achieved, as it pays for it.
This was ridiculed by our own fanbase, clueless how to build a club by that magnitude and dismissed as a pipe dream.
They wanted and still want us to aim lower. That is the province of failure.
Tottenham are structured in a fantastic way, self sufficient, unique, sustainable income from inside and outside of football, multiple income streams, if you remember that post years ago.
Daniel Levy aimed us incredibly high because then you rise higher than you would if you aimed lower and then tried to grow.
That will be illogical to people who don't build huge businesses but if you aim lower, you achieve lower.
If you build a club to low sights, then all the additional income wouldn't be there, the stadium would be smaller, everything would be smaller and I guarantee you we would not have the best manager in the world at our club now.
Conte is here because of what Daniel Levy has done and is proposing to do, not because of it, he simply wouldn't be here otherwise, you all know that.
Like I have said before, twice I think, I believe I could make this club the richest club in the world, from sustainable income within 2 years.
I could see this club out muscling Manchester City in the transfer market. While City would have to undertake more financial doping, Spurs would be funded by creating a legitimate sustainable worldwide source.
I have the vision of how it can be achieved.
I don't think small.
I can't give out that vision as someone else would take the opportunity.
So much of what I talk about comes to pass, which is why George and his mates keep reading, they don't want to miss out!
But let's get back to the reason for this chat, a reason I haven't even mentioned 497 words in, no I didn't count them individually, there are tools for that.
Gian Piero Ventrone is more than a fitness trainer.
His task as Antonio Conte's fitness trainer is to get the players fitter than they have ever been before and emotionally more resilient.
Harry Kane was vomiting on the side of the pitch at the intensity of the training session in the Seoul World Cup Stadium but it is the emotional resilience that interests me.
Football is a mental game, it controls your performance.
I have written posts about anxiety and how it affects your decision making and thus your performance.
In a nutshell the more anxiety you experience, the more mistakes you will make, the more you will revert back to your default setting, your happy place, your comfort zone, your basic game.
In those anxiety pieces, I wrote we had to use mental training techniques to minimise stress levels and thus improve decision making and overall performance.
We have a fitness coach tasked with this and a first team sports psychologist.
We have a set ball coach.
We have sought left-footed centre-backs for a left-sided position, remember that post too?
To a winning mentality all these little improvements add up, the Kaisen effect, another regular theme, you see why now.
You see that, a serial winner, Conte and I think alike.
It will be an interesting season to watch at times of high pressure to see how individuals cope, you can be sure Conte will be keeping an eagle eye.
How do you think Christian Eriksen would have coped with this training?
James Maddison
Tottenham would like to discuss James Maddison but Leicester City are not interested in talking at the moment.
Spurs were originally quoted £80m for Maddison, that has come down to £50m but obviously we aren't interested in that price either with only 2 years left on his contract.
What price will he be next summer?
Benjamin Šeško
We are looking to sign 19-year-old (20 next May) striker Benjamin Šeško and loan him back to his existing club for this season.
The Slovenian international (13 caps, 2 goals, 1 assist) is very highly regarded as seen as the next Erling Haaland in Austria, where he plays for Bundesliga club Red Bull Salzburg.
If he is going to develop to those levels then buying him young and loaning him out could well be a shrewd investment.
Spurs Investment
OK, social media tells me that more explanation is need for the anti-Levy George's who don't understand the effects of investment.
Right, let's tackle his point.
It was not possible for the level of investment fans wanted 10 years ago.
First you need to understand the cost of buying a player.
If you buy a player on just £100K a week for £40m, it costs the club over £100m over the 5 years of the initial contract, so £20m a year.
If you pay then £150K a week, it's an extra £26m including bonuses so an extra £5.2m a year.
If you pay them £200k a week it's an extra £52m including bonuses so an extra £10.4m a year.
- £40m transfer fee, £100k = £20m a year
- £40m transfer fee, £150k = £25.2m a year
- £40m transfer fee, £200k = £30.4m a year
If the transfer fee is £60m:
- £60m transfer fee, £100k = £24m a year
- £60m transfer fee, £150k = £29.2m a year
- £60m transfer fee, £200k = £34.4m a year
OK, now you understand the basic cost of a player, there are other costs, look at our income, which was £142m 10 years ago, before the stadium was £250m and after the stadium £450m.
Now you all want £60m players on £150K+ so £29.2m per player per year.
How many can you squeeze into the £450m available?
Just stop and do some simple maths.
I know 10 years ago wages and transfer fees were different but so was our income.
Spurs are in a far better financial place now as a result of the club being built first.
Contrary to what these anti people will tell you, money does not come pouring in from winning trophies, the money has to come first, thus building the business comes first.
Just think how you have got to juggle a 25 man squad, quite apart from anyone else.
Play the game, do some maths yourself, take our income, how much you are prepared to pay (fees and wages) for a player each year.
This will give you a far better idea of the transfer market and certainly a far greater understanding.
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I'm stunned at how much money the stadium can bring in per annum (after covid restrictions eased).