Spurs Banter Archive May 26 2012

 

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26 May 2012 22:13:23
Just type in vertonghen into google under past 24 hour results. 90% of all results are gooners stated on itk sites saying "we should steal vertonghen from spurs".

Keep dreaming Gooners.

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26 May 2012 19:51:25
Interested to see how the young Norway player Markus Henriksen gets on tonight, meant to be a player for the future.

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26 May 2012 18:26:34
If Engelbert Humperdink wins the Eurovision Song Contest tonight, he takes Spurs place in Europe!

Forever in our shadow!

Cammy out!

xxx

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If engelbert Humperdinck wins tonight then ars ole whinger will prob try to buy him to replace RVP.
He likes European nobodies. Will be great alongside the greats called gervinho and chamakh.

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Cammy he's welcome to it! :-)
Mo

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26 May 2012 15:12:19
Hurry up Levy and get Vertonghen done, if Vertonghen had more years left on his Ajax contract he would cost 20m so i wish Daniel Levy would get an ffing grip and get this done. We are lucky he wants us but good ole Levy being a tight arse, yet again.
Got to say that ive been happy with Mr Levy over the years but the last few windows have been pathetic and cost us and Levy must take the blame aswell as Harry for his stupid signings.

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You are right: Levy has some very solid achievements. In the last 7 seasons we have finished 5th on 3 occasions and 4th twice. He has built our revenue up to £165m with only one Champions League run and with a pokey little stadium that has been driving away thousands of fans. But we have to be realisitic.

Tottenham's finances are in reasonable shape but we cannot currently compete on income with United (£331m) or Arsenal (£256m) and of course we cannot hope to match the 'money no object' Chelsea of Man City.

We all want to see the squad strengthened but we cannot continually pay over the odds for players. That is a game that only Abramovich and Sheikh Mansour can play. We have to remember that Spurs still has a net debt of £57m and that is more than the debt that has crippled Everton for years.

Our best hope of maintaining a challenge for Champions League football is that UEFA's 'financial fair play' rules will actually be enforced.

Fat chance of that.

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Our income may not match that of Man U or Chelsea. But neither do our expenses. I think you will find that both of them and Liverpool to name another have serious debt levels, the result of paying high transfer fees and high wages. Thank goodness of Levy.

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A year ago, United's debt was a staggering £300m and this was costing them £50m a year in interest. Liverpool's debt was a more modest £65m, but they had a high ratio of wages to income (73%). With a generally poor season in the league, offset by two good cup runs, it is difficult to say how their finances stand today, but the noise coming out of Anfield is that costs must be cut and transfers must be funded by sales. However, at least these two clubs are on the same level playing field as Spurs.

The real scandal is that City reported a debt of only £43m, despite wages that exceed income, massive transfer fees and record operating losses.

Then there is Chelsea: last year Arsenal's debt was £98m (due to the Emirates development) and Chelsea's was £92m. However, Arsenal paid £15m in interest but Chelsea only paid a miniscule £800k. With interest rates like that I am going to switch my mortgage to Abramovich.

I fear this is just a foretaste of the bogus numbers that UEFA will have to confront and 'financial fair play' will be a bonanza for accountants and lawyers but an insult to clubs that actually try to pay their own way
KM

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26 May 2012 11:05:47
Why does Damiao keep on coming up every transfer window? Ed, is there any chance this is ever likely to happen or is it just endless wishful thinking on our parts? {Ed001's Note - it was close to a deal at one point, I guess it is just lazy journalism that it keeps coming up even though the deal fell through. Easy to link a player everyone knows was of interest, no one can really deny that there was interest at one point.}

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26 May 2012 09:41:13
With Remy injured and out of the Euro's and Vertongnen
wanting to join us big style is there any chance Levy will do deals early for once and maybe attracting more big players cos they see we mean business next season

ou812

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That means spending money, wont hold my breath

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