Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 52
Another day and another chat on Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 52, how time has flown, having said that it dos appear to have gone on for a while this window.
Perhaps that is because we did the bulk of our business early in a change from the normal Spurs routine.
My thanks to Blind Willy McTavish for his comments and his comments about me chatting about my Grandson, which is a truly magnificent experience to have (a grandson that is).
Unfortunately he was born during Covid so nobody could see him for quite a while which meant he wasn't used to other people and wouldn't let them go near him, but in no time he accepted me, but not his grandmother on my daughters side.
Children instinctively know who the 'child friendly, play friendly' adults are and gravitate towards them. He would clamber onto me and sit on me, even though I could only see him every few months after Covid, happily be carried by me and when he first started walking held my hand to go to the shops, something he simply wouldn't do with anyone but his Mum and Dad.
Something as simple as that, a grandchild holding your hand is so uplifting, you are happy for days and can't wait to see them again.
I visit him and my daughter at least every 2 weeks now and there is something new every time.
You come home, go on social media and wish to see joy, not negativity so blocking a raft of people was the best thing I could have done and many have followed suit.
Moving on from my brilliant curly haired grandson, let's have some Spurs Chat.
If we had had investment 10 to 15 years ago, we wouldn't have a cash cow stadium generating money now.
Our short sighted bunch would have seen up rack up debt, because all money 'given' to the club by ENIC would have need repaying at some point.
These very debts would have prevented us from gaining, along with Manchester United, the best credit rating in the Premier League and therefore access to funds at the cheapest rates, such as the Bank of England loan to help our cash flow through Covid.
The bank of England would only lend to Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United at the incredibly low rate we were able to obtain, 0.5% I think it was.
Chelsea have been unable to build a stadium so are not future proofed and the new owners are not going to keep loaning Chelsea money every year to keep it afloat.
Over the coming years Chelsea are going to have to cut their cloth, Dembele, Raphinha and Jules Kounde have all turned Chelsea down this summer.
I expect Chelsea, over the coming years, to dip and for it to be more of a fight for them to stay in the Top 4, they could be in financial trouble if they do with their wage budget.
I see Tottenham taking over Chelsea's mantle as the solid third team with Chelsea joining the others chasing 4th.
I see that over the next 3 years by which time Newcastle United will have secured dodgy sponsorship deals from pals to finance their challenge.
The Premier League really must do something about a football club owned by a country as it is ripe for abuse as we have seen and UEFA don't have the financial muscle to stop them.
Manchester City threatened to take UEFA into a legal battle they would just keep going to bankrupt them, even though they were guilty as hell, as the "inadmissible" emails proved.
The task of Tottenham now is to use the stadium income to build a winning team on the field, hence bringing in the best manager in the business to do so.
I have written pieces and explained before the £100m-£200m extra revenue the stadium brings in giving us a £100m+ war chest every summer on an ongoing basis, without fear of Financial Fair Play sanctions.
This is free money, this is not an owner loan than needs paying back, there are no strings attached and when we break into the American market with an NFL franchise being based at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium then those figures could easily be doubled, easily.
Couple that with a subscription streaming service sold to fans around the world and a full-time self-funded Spurs Exhibition XI developing the brand, whose game could be streamed live over the subscription service and Tottenham's income would be pushing towards £1 billion a year.
And I fervently believe I could double that within 3 years by embracing the Internet in a way no club is doing at present.
A £2 billion a year income is perfectly possible, indeed a lot more, a huge leap from less then £450 million now.
And all this income would be sustainable income, not reliant on a wealthy owner.
That vision would see us as the richest club in the world, not just competing with Barcelona and Real Madrid but overtaking them.
With that money coming in we would be able to buy the Messi and Ronaldo of the next generation in their prime together.
Just like Daniel Levy, I have a vision, a big vision, the vision that sees the end product and how it can be achieved, a vision way beyond the vision of any man in the street supporter.
However, I don't judge the club progress against my vision, but the clubs vision, I merely look at how we could grow sustainably and make suggestions.
My record of suggestions which have been taken up by the club is unrivalled, a proven track record demonstrating my calibre.
There is always more to learn, there are always fresh ideas. Striving to improve going forward is a winning mentality and the club needs to fill the staff ranks off the field with winning mentalities in key positions as well as on the field.
Has the club ever asked it's staff how improvements can be made?
How many of these would have had vision?
The sort of vision a think-tank can produce, a brainstorming session where any idea can be noted and evaluated by separate groups to see what ideas come out of it.
We are delving into off-the-field running now, perhaps we'll save that for another day.
The point is Tottenham are in a far better place now and going into the future than we would have been if we had shackled ourselves with owner loans, that would all become payable if the club were sold of course.
So had we gone down the Sugar Daddy route, then if ENIC sold now, the club would have to pay £1.5 billion loans back from half the income we now have and with no new stadium to generate funds in the future.
We couldn't afford to pay it.
We would have to be bought by a country and not an investment form or individual owner and we would have to engage in financial doping to avoid Financial Fair Play.
That isn't good for football.
Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 52
Ben Brereton Diaz
Tottenham have made initial enquires about the availability of Chilean forward Ben Brereton Diaz.
The 23-year-old (24 next April) isn't a new name, I and others have mentioned the Blackburn Rovers striker before, but he is homegrown qualified.
From the age of seven he was with Manchester United and at the age of 14 joined his hometown club Stoke City.
Two years later he joined Nottingham Forest and three years after that Blackburn Rovers.
He played for the England U-19 side 19 times, scoring 5 goals and the England U-20 side once.
His elevation to the Chilean national team is thanks to some fans who were playing Football Manager and noticed he was half Chilean.
They began a social media campaign that was picked up by the Chilean national media.
This all proved successful as Brereton Díaz was called up to the Chile squad for the first time on 24 May 2021.
National manager Martín Lasarte selected him for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Argentina and Bolivia and then the 2021 Copa América.
Ben Brereton Diaz would be a homegrown player for the Premier League squad and an England Association Trained player for the UEFA Champions League so not affect our foreign player quota for that tournament.
That would leave the one place available for the UCL squad once Rodon completes his move to Rennes, allowing us to possibly sign Zaniolo from Roma.
News from Italy
AC Milan, in the shape of Sporting Strategy and Development Director Paulo Maldini and Director of Football Frederic Massara, continue to talk to Tottenham, namely Fabio Paratici, our Managing Director of Football.
Discussions revolve around Pape Matar Sarr, born in 2002, among the playing who won the African Cup of Nations with Senegal.
He is increasingly becoming a target of theirs on loan, and they have renewed negotiations for English central defender Japhet Tanganga,
Despite winning the Italian title, AC Milan are only looking for loan deals now.
Alvaro Morata remains the Juventus #1 attacking choice but they are monitoring the situation of Memphis Depay at Barcelona.
More important news from Italy tomorrow.
Dejan Kulusevski
'Gazzetta.it' reported to the Italian market what Dejan Kulusevski said about the difference between the Italian and the English Premier League:
“I work hard to be competitive. My best results are yet to come. I like to work hard to become a champion. In the Premier League, football is faster and stronger."
Marc Cucurella
I struggle to comprehend how someone can ask this, given the situation of our UEFA Champions League squad (which clearly they don't know about) the players we need and the players we have signed.
We have two left centre-backs in Ben Davies and Clément Lenglet and at left wing-back we have bought Ivan Perišić and have Ryan Sessegnon.
Who in their right mind would spend £50m for a third?
He will no doubt eventually join Manchester City for around £30m who will target Lucas Paqueta once they sell Bernardo Silva..
Money is not unlimited!
Sergio Reguilón
Barcelona sporting director Mateu Alemany met with super agent Kia Joorabchian to discuss the potential transfer of 25-year-old (26 in December) Tottenham Hotspur left-back Sergio Reguilón last week.Barcelona sold part of their TV rights for the next 10 years to raise capital to overhaul their squad this summer after being in financial difficulty.
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