Pochettino has the aces as he ponders whether to stick with Saints

yiddo59

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/15/mauricio-pochettino-saints-southampton-tottenham%3FCMP%3Dtwt_gu&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb&gws_rd=cr&ei=UdR0U42GOKHR7AbQsYDICg

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

That's some good copying and pasting, there, Lou -

Dublin Spur

Joe Lewis 2014 UK rich list Rank: 25

Wealth: £3,350m

Source of wealth: Foreign exchange, Investment £150m

Lewis, 77, built his first fortune in the London hospitality business. A foreign exchange trader and global investor, he has interests in more than 150 companies via his Tavistock operation. He owns Tottenham Hotspur FC and has a £509m stake in the Mitchells & Butlers pub chain. Lewis has lent the National Gallery works from his art collection, and has homes in Argentina, the Bahamas and Florida.

2nd Row Donkey

Pity he's not a football/spurs fan or we'd be going toe to toe with City in the summer transfer market.

irishmover

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Pity he's not a football/spurs fan or we'd be going toe to toe with City in the summer transfer market.

And their fines/squad restrictions.

SuprSi

irishmover wrote: »

And their fines/squad restrictions.

Which hardly impact them at all, to be fair.

irishmover

SuprSi wrote: »

Which hardly impact them at all, to be fair.

Ofcourse it has. They let it happen again and what do you think will happen the next time? To me that was a warning message to them.

Would you be happy if that was Spurs?

mickman

irishmover wrote: »

Ofcourse it has. They let it happen again and what do you think will happen the next time? To me that was a warning message to them.

Would you be happy if that was Spurs?

If we had just won the league then I would be fine with it

Ormus

irishmover wrote: »

Ofcourse it has. They let it happen again and what do you think will happen the next time? To me that was a warning message to them.

Would you be happy if that was Spurs?

I certainly wouldn't. I support Spurs for the football. What City have achieved isn't by playing football.

To me it'd be pretty much the same feeling I'd get if we won with all our players taking performance enhancing drugs.

Ormus

Dublin Spur wrote: »

Joe Lewis 2014 UK rich list Rank: 25

Wealth: £3,350m

Source of wealth: Foreign exchange, Investment £150m

Lewis, 77, built his first fortune in the London hospitality business. A foreign exchange trader and global investor, he has interests in more than 150 companies via his Tavistock operation. He owns Tottenham Hotspur FC and has a £509m stake in the Mitchells & Butlers pub chain. Lewis has lent the National Gallery works from his art collection, and has homes in Argentina, the Bahamas and Florida.

Are you derailing another thread?

SuprSi

Ormus wrote: »

I certainly wouldn't. I support Spurs for the football. What City have achieved isn't by playing football.

To me it'd be pretty much the same feeling I'd get if we won with all our players taking performance enhancing drugs.

They did play football though, and some bloody attractive football as well! I get what you're saying though, the fact that they have been penalised means they cheated the system, and like you I'd rather everything the club did was above board.

That doesn't mean we'd have to be bankrolled in the same manner as City or Chelsea, but a little bit of help wouldn't kill Joe, you'd think. Maybe he already helps and that help has been poured down the drain through poor manager selection, bad luck, players not fitting in etc.

Still, when all is said and done, if we had just won the league for the 2nd time in 3 years playing the football they did I don't think I'd be caring too much about some fairly minor (relatively speaking) sanctions imposed on the club!

Ormus

SuprSi wrote: »

They did play football though, and some bloody attractive football as well! I get what you're saying though, the fact that they have been penalised means they cheated the system, and like you I'd rather everything the club did was above board.

That doesn't mean we'd have to be bankrolled in the same manner as City or Chelsea, but a little bit of help wouldn't kill Joe, you'd think. Maybe he already helps and that help has been poured down the drain through poor manager selection, bad luck, players not fitting in etc.

Still, when all is said and done, if we had just won the league for the 2nd time in 3 years playing the football they did I don't think I'd be caring too much about some fairly minor (relatively speaking) sanctions imposed on the club!

I'm not really talking about them being penalised. That only serves to further confirm what we all knew anyway: that they bought the title.

It's not the fault of their players but it does make it fairly meaningless as far as I'm concerned. The players are incidental to the whole thing. If those players hadn't won the title they would've bought a bunch who did. The success of that team was down to football but the success of the club is down to money and nothing else.

I know obscene amounts of money are par for the course nowadays and there's no point going on about it, but I really wanna support a football club. Spurs are a proper football club and I love that.

Also gotta admire Atletico (and Arsenal) who have kept it real and succeeded.