Daniel Levy Whinging Hypocrite

[mancityvstoke]

Who gives a fuck about Spurs........bunch of ****s since 1981

 

[JPBB]

Regardless of what teams are mentioned when it comes to people moaning about spending getting out of control, ruining football and bizarrely, cheating as one daft spud accused us of ;-)
They are all referring to Manchester City, that's a simple fact... I am loving it and long may it continue, every City victory is that much sweeter these days for me, with the bile and utter bias against our club...!

I am not sure he is having a go a City.

City, United, Arsenal and Chelsea can afford these fees and wages. He is having a pop at Liverpool who could spend £200m this window. Or Everton spending £150m. They certainly can not afford it.

And yes, he is getting his excuses in early. Whatever he says, the stadium build will limit Spurs' spending. Alli will go. Kane will go. But does he care? Not one bit. In the medium term, the stadium and other commercial activities will establish Spurs along with City, United, Arsenal and Chelsea at the top table and they will be able to afford these fees too. Meanwhile the likes of Liverpool and Everton will be crippled by debt or sold to the Chinese.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Debt accrued as a consequence of infrastructure investment was specifically excluded from FFP restrictions.

Debt was never part of FFP but you can exclude depreciation on fixed assets and I think interest on any loans or other debt specifically taken out to finance infrastructure.

But if taking on debts you can't manage fucks you up then it really doesn't matter why you took the debt on. We took over £40m debt on when we moved to the Etihad. Most of that was for work on the stadium we needed to do but the move didn't generate enough net additional revenue to fully cover the interest payments.

 

[dickie davies]

I am not sure he is having a go a City.

City, United, Arsenal and Chelsea can afford these fees and wages. He is having a pop at Liverpool who could spend £200m this window. Or Everton spending £150m. They certainly can not afford it.

And yes, he is getting his excuses in early. Whatever he says, the stadium build will limit Spurs' spending. Alli will go. Kane will go. But does he care? Not one bit. In the medium term, the stadium and other commercial activities will establish Spurs along with City, United, Arsenal and Chelsea at the top table and they will be able to afford these fees too. Meanwhile the likes of Liverpool and Everton will be crippled by debt or sold to the Chinese.

Everton have received in excess of £75m for Lukaku, so of course they can afford to spend 150m
Not forgetting that the 150m will be divided by five, so it's 30m per year for five years plus wages

 

[ancoats]

He was neither whinging nor being hypocritical. He was being interviewed by the chairman of NASDAQ and didn't mention any other club. He merely gave his honest response when asked for his opinion about the current transfer market. He suggested that a club spending more than it earns is unsustainable in the long term. I don't see what's so wrong about that. He wasn't having a dig at City. It was quite clear that he was referring to the prospect of clubs getting themselves in financial difficulty - not something that City have to concern themselves with. In fact, the focus of Levy's comments on the matter was primarily Spurs, with him being keen to stress that he is only a temporary custodian of the club and that he has a responsibility to hand it over in a healthy state to whoever might succeed him.

Seems to me that you're getting yourself worked up about this for no good reason.



Considerably less than a billion, actually! But how is that relevant? It's perfectly clear, surely, that Levy was specifically talking about spending on players.

it was a dig at manchester city and even the stadium dig was at manchester city and being built by the council but people forget maine road was used as the fee in moving what other club in the premier league spent close to £200million and west ham have moved in to the olympic stadium but not spent that much its plain to see the dig was aim at manchester city

people are running scared already and doing a chicken little running around town shouting to everybody that the sky's falling down

 

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daniel levy

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[Prestwich_Blue]

Spurs haven't been big spenders for many years. They run a very tight ship financially with a strict wage ceiling and generally keep net spend well down. Anything they get from the seasons they're in the CL is a bonus, rather than being part of the budget. That's their business plan and it seems to work for them. They're part of that group of clubs, along with Liverpool & Everton, who will chase a CL place if any of the usual suspects slip up. Everything fell into place for them last season with some great youngsters making it under a manager who brought it all together.

I'm sure they aspire to being CL regulars but I suspect it's not their ambition. If it was, they'd be spending big money on someone decent to play alongside Kane and another really good, creative midfielder like Eriksen. They should be the team chasing Sanchez, not us.

If they had ambitions then they'd also make a statement by hanging onto players like Walker and Bale but they can't resist when a decent offer comes in. The players know that they're unlikely to win trophies with Spurs so if a more ambitious club come calling they'll be off.

They had a chance when the market wasn't so stupid but haven't taken it. I've was saying years ago that Joe Lewis should have put £100m in and effectively secured the top 4 spot that Liverpool vacated. He'd have had his money back well before now if he had but he didn't.

So it's somewhat hypocritical that he's now saying that the transfer market is unsustainable. Not for the clubs with ambition who invested it isn't.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Spurs and Arsenal have the same business models. They rip-off their own fans with ticket prices while taking as much TV cash as possible to give to their foreign Directors. Like Arsenal most of the money ends up being invested outside the UK. Just like Arsenal it will take Spurs fans about five years to realise they are being taken to the cleaners. Levy will use the stadium as an excuse, and their so-called development of young players, to avoid givng anything back to their fans and as little as possible to their local community.

 

[inchy14]

I'm not sure how the guy who demanded £52million for Walker or £80 odd million for Bale can then start complaining about the transfer market. If he wanted to keep the market down he should have sold those at lower prices!! How much did they pay for Paulinho, the shit Spanish striker or Sissoko?

Hypocrite is correct.

 

[waspish]

Levy budgets the club on staying up anything else is a bonus. There fans are being taking for a ride like the Arsenal ones are.