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[BlueCityfan]

Harry - Spurs can't compete
Manager insists top stars are out of Tottenham's league

Harry Redknapp claims Tottenham are not in a strong enough financial position to compete with the Premier League top four.

Spurs have enjoyed an impressive season under Redknapp, climbing to a current fifth in the table as well as progressing to the last 16 of the UEFA Champions League on their maiden campaign, and staking a strong claim for a spot in the quarter-finals with a first-leg triumph at AC Milan.

But Redknapp insists the club's restrictive wage policy means Tottenham are unable to bring the highest-quality players to White Hart Lane, which puts them at a disadvantage to Premier League giants Manchester United, Arsenal, Manchester City and Chelsea.

Rivals
Redknapp said: "You need top players if you are going to compete with your top four rivals.

"But the wage rise makes it hard for us to compete with the top teams because we have a stadium that only holds 36,000, so we can't be paying the wages that Manchester City or Chelsea pay.

"If the top players get offered a £150,000 a week at Manchester City they are not going to come to Tottenham for £60,000 a week, are they? Their wage bills are far in excess of ours. You only have to look at Man City's squad and it's absolutely frightening.

"We were looking at an extra striker in the January transfer window like Andy Carroll or Sergio Aguero, but it's impossible. We could never have afforded them."

Redknapp feels moving to a new stadium is imperative if Spurs want to keep competing alongside the Premier League's elite.

"We need a stadium that will hold 60,000 people so we can compete and you can't expect the owners to keep funding everything," he said.

"If you want the top players you need to pay top money and you need a stadium that will hold the crowds - and you will get crowds at Tottenham.

"We would sell out every week; 60,000 would be no problem for us, we have 26,000 on the waiting list for season tickets."


Improving
The Spurs boss believes making some additions to his squad over the summer will boost his side's ultimate aim of bringing league success to the Lane.

He added: "I think we need to keep improving the strength of our team in a few positions over the summer if we are going to push on.

"Of course we want to win the league, that's the ambition. We're not far away.

"If we hadn't thrown away some silly points we'd be on the coat tails of Man United right now."

So he admits they can't compete with us. But also say they are not far away from winning the league.

Using us as an example again.

Do you agree with him? Can they compete with us?
I just hope he will not change his mind after a couple of wins :D

 

[Juddaman83]

Harry is a tool.

The article is nothing but a bout of self promotion.

"We can't compete, but are competing therefore I am the dogs bollocks"

 

[BlueCityfan]

Do you think he is taking the dig at us? We got a bigger stadium but aren't filling the stadium.

And he says that Spurs have only 36k but they have 26k people on the waiting list for season tickets.

He always says the amount! It's really weird :D

 

[Dom38]

It's great how he says he can't compete because his stadium is too small, knowing full well that Spuds charge twice as much as we do and pull more money from Match days.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Harry is a tool.

The article is nothing but a bout of self promotion.

"We can't compete, but are competing therefore I am the dogs bollocks"

It's yet another 'victim' plea of Scouse proportions. The minute this fella becomes England manager I'm applying for Bosnian, Belgian or Serbian nationality.

 

[stony]

He's just getting his excuses in early. Then if they do pip us to a champs league place everyone will say how brilliant he is.

 

[whp.blue]

twitcher is just towing the company line

levy wants everyone at spurs to bleat about how hard done by they are after wet sham were given the olympic stadium

the bin dippers will have to move over spuds are the new victims !

some one ought to point out to twitcher that spurs probably make more in gate reciepts than we do so thier chairman needs to put his hand in his pocket if he wants spuds to compete

 

[fbloke]

He is only saying what everybody knows.

Now that West Ham have the 2012 stadium Spurs simply cannot afford to build at WHL.

They are destined for an era of 'not quite enough' -

Not quite enough money

Not quite enough players

Not quite enough capacity

Not quite enough pulling power

It's a shame but to be honest I dont quite care enough to be bothered.

 

[Dom38]

Just to clarify, spuds earn £15 mil more per year than we do from Matchday, with a smaller stadium.

 

[squirtyflower]

Just to clarify, spuds earn £15 mil more per year than we do from Matchday, with a smaller stadium.

because they charge ridiculous prices that you can get away with in rip-off city