Tottenham Hotspur Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2024/25

Deleted User wrote: »

Tottenham ask Pochettino to take pay cut.

Jesus, ENIC have a pathological desire to accumulate money.

Ormus wrote: »

He was a monster that season, such a joy just watching him run. I remember in the return game against Inter he tore them apart again. Good times.

greenspurs wrote: »

Good man Daniel....


"Tottenham have overtaken Man City to become the most valuable club in the Premier League, according to a recent study.
Despite not winning a trophy since 2008, Spurs did reach the Champions League final for the first time in their history last season, and have achieved four successive top four finishes domestically.
Football finance experts at University of Liverpool Management School found that Spurs' low wage budget and improved on-field fortunes have helped increase their value.
That is in addition to the opening of their new £1billion stadium, which draws in significant commercial income.
Kieran Maguire, who is part of the University’s Centre for Sports Business Group, said: "Spurs are top of the valuation table because in 2018/19 they delivered a Champions League final and a top four Premier League finish on a wage budget that was £100-150 million lower than the rest of the 'Big Six'.
"As such they made more profits, and this was reflected in the final valuation number."
There were no strangers among the top six with regards to valuation, with Man Utd coming third ahead of Liverpool, Arsenal, then Chelsea.
Wolves were the highest ranked club outside of the Premier League's elite in seventh.
Over the course of the 2018/19 campaign Tottenham's income grew by 21 per cent to £461million.
Daniel Levy runs a tight ship at Tottenham with
only 39 per cent of that total income taken up by player wages, compared with top four rivals Leicester, who splash out 84 per cent on wages in comparison.
Daniel Levy's frugality in the transfer market has also paid off, with Tottenham recording the second lowest net spend on transfers in the division at £22m, behind only Watford (£21m).
In contrast, those competing with Spurs at the top end of the table forked out huge sums.
Chelsea's net transfer spend amounted to £290m, in a season where they signed Jorginho (£50m), Kepa Arrizabalaga (£70m) and completed a deal for Christian Pulisic (£57m).
Liverpool were following close behind with a net outlay of £223m, ahead of Man Utd (£135m) and Man City (£87m)"
(Daily Mirror)

DeanAustin wrote: »

He f**ked me off no end towards the end of his reign but even then I could accept that he was reacting (very badly) to the bad hand he was dealt.

But f**k me, I love him. He's still the manager to me any time I see him. Mourinho deserves a fair shot at this and hopefully he brings success but I'd love it if Poch came back when Jose's reign runs its course. I welled up a bit watching that interview. Poch is one of us.

Maybe this will be a Bobby Ewing moment and I'll wake up one morning and realise that our collapse under Poch, the appointment of Mourinho and the coronavirus were just one long, bad dream as I reach for my DVD of our Champions League victory over Liverpool.

DeanAustin wrote: »

I'll sit on the fence a bit here in that I agree and disagree with you. I think Poch, naturally for any manager, wanted to see some reward for the incredible things he'd done at the club now that we were in the new stadium. He actually thought longer term that most managers but he'd done the hard part and felt he should be rewarded for it and, as you say, almost gave up because it wasn't happening for him. I think he behaved badly but ENIC created the conditions that caused the resentment and they should take most of the responsibility for the souring of the realtionship.

On the flip side, I think Levy always has an eye on the longer term. In my view, he does want to win things but has different ideas about how to do that to most people. While the appointment of Mourinho would seem to contradict that opinion, I think Levy reckons that Jose can bring trophies and short-term onfield success with sustainable spending while Levy continues to grow the club off the pitch. It's a big gamble given Mourinho's history.

Ormus wrote: »

Poch was such a good coach that we were able to buy decent players and turn them into star players. The problem was that we couldn’t afford to pay them star wages, so it was difficult to get them to sign new contracts.

In my opinion the mistake was in not getting rid of the players who were dithering over signing. I honestly don’t believe Eriksen intentionally dropped his level of effort, but I do think it’s a lot more difficult to play with intensity when things are up in the air.

Anyone who thinks things went sour cos Levy didn’t give Poch enough money to spend just doesn’t know Poch. I’ve just finished reading his book and he talks several times about Levy offering to buy players for him and him saying nah I’d prefer to just work with what I have.

greenspurs wrote:

I watched the Ajax game on Bt again last night.

greenspurs wrote: »

On this Day 1981

Ricky Villa scores "that" goal Vs Man City …….

beer enigma wrote: »

Lads visiting from Arsenal forum but born close to Leyton Orient, this is an amazing gesture from Harry Kane, the guy is a legend.

https://www.leytonorient.com/2020/05/14/breaking-the-os-announce-groundbreaking-shirt-sponsorship-guess-whos-back/