Do me a favour. We’ve been in CL about 5 times in last 10 years. Its been fun but it really really isnt the be all and end all. If you’re a spurs fan then you know:
- we have no chance of winning it
- its not going to make us sign any better players than we would normally
- we’re not going to push on and win the league
- we were in it last year ffs and how did that turn out for us?
Our best signings have been without CL (apart from van der vaart). In fact majority of our big signings have been embarrassing - sissoko, sanchez, johnson, richarlison - thats about just under £200m on 4 average to awful players.
Long story short, to any spurs fan giving it the “i care about our club, i always want us to win, i want CL", then why do you want it based on the points I made above? Or what is your counter argument- do you genuinely, truthfully believe things would be different this time? And you genuinely don’t care about seeing our biggest rivals not only win the league, but laud the fact that we will have won it for them??
Its a no brainer for me and I’m genuinely shocked others see it differently.
Champions League qualification
posted on 14/5/24
comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 17 minutes ago
comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club over there (U18109)
posted 10 minutes ago
Worth repeating again, due to FFP, Spurs if they chose to could outspend anyone else in the league this summer - we have that much FFP wriggle room.
Chelsea are almost certainly going to have to sell just to be allowed to play in Europe as they exceed the threshold.
Newcastle may have to sell a star player to balance the books.
Villa, despite qualifying for the CL are not going to be able to bring a high profile player in without selling first.
The revenue the likes of Spurs and United generate means we will still be financially competitive season after season. Levy found the workaround, even Real Madrid are looking to copy it with their new stadium. It’s why Chelsea are so desperate to build a new stadium. United want to upgrade, Liverpool will.
West Ham are hamstrung by not owning their ground.
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I've read that Chelsea have discovered yet another loophole as they're planning on selling the land the Cobham training ground sits on to another company within their portfolio, just as they did with the hotel. This means that they won't have any financial requirements to meet by June 30th and no need for further sales. It's an absolute joke they're getting away with this.
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That’s fine, imagine they finish 7th - very likely, and have to resort to these desperate measure just to play in the Conference league.
The longer FFP continues the bigger their issues become without CL football - they will run out of things to sell.
By far the most interesting side in the league off the pitch - they are a car crash waiting to happen. I hope Michael Lewis is already working on the book
posted on 14/5/24
comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club over there (U18109)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 17 minutes ago
comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club over there (U18109)
posted 10 minutes ago
Worth repeating again, due to FFP, Spurs if they chose to could outspend anyone else in the league this summer - we have that much FFP wriggle room.
Chelsea are almost certainly going to have to sell just to be allowed to play in Europe as they exceed the threshold.
Newcastle may have to sell a star player to balance the books.
Villa, despite qualifying for the CL are not going to be able to bring a high profile player in without selling first.
The revenue the likes of Spurs and United generate means we will still be financially competitive season after season. Levy found the workaround, even Real Madrid are looking to copy it with their new stadium. It’s why Chelsea are so desperate to build a new stadium. United want to upgrade, Liverpool will.
West Ham are hamstrung by not owning their ground.
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I've read that Chelsea have discovered yet another loophole as they're planning on selling the land the Cobham training ground sits on to another company within their portfolio, just as they did with the hotel. This means that they won't have any financial requirements to meet by June 30th and no need for further sales. It's an absolute joke they're getting away with this.
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That’s fine, imagine they finish 7th - very likely, and have to resort to these desperate measure just to play in the Conference league.
The longer FFP continues the bigger their issues become without CL football - they will run out of things to sell.
By far the most interesting side in the league off the pitch - they are a car crash waiting to happen. I hope Michael Lewis is already working on the book
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Money always finds a way around rules. Always.
posted on 14/5/24
Hearing there’s loads of tickets available for tonight!
posted on 14/5/24
Hope we lose
posted on 14/5/24
Interesting Poll on SC asking do you want us to beat City tonight?
YesVotes: 154 54.0%
NoVotes: 138 48.4%
Total voters 285
Very surprising. If ever there was a Brexit game, this is it 😂.
posted on 14/5/24
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 21 minutes ago
Hope we lose
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Agreed - the match thread will be fun. I’ve jacked my ticket in for this one, would be a truly depressing game to go to
posted on 14/5/24
comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club over there (U18109)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 21 minutes ago
Hope we lose
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Agreed - the match thread will be fun. I’ve jacked my ticket in for this one, would be a truly depressing game to go to
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Match thread should be at the top shortly!
posted on 14/5/24
comment by Automatic For The People (U21889)
posted 1 hour, 23 minutes ago
Hearing there’s loads of tickets available for tonight!
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Just checked the website, tickets available from what I can see in every block. Loads and loads of empty seats tonight
Should help City
posted on 14/5/24
comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club over there (U18109)
posted 44 seconds ago
comment by Automatic For The People (U21889)
posted 1 hour, 23 minutes ago
Hearing there’s loads of tickets available for tonight!
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Just checked the website, tickets available from what I can see in every block. Loads and loads of empty seats tonight
Should help City
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Mental.
posted on 14/5/24
comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club over there (U18109)
posted 3 hours, 43 minutes ago
comment by Gillespie Road. (U18361)
posted 10 minutes ago
It's like you've gone back 6 years and read all the optimistic comments we used to make back then.
As I said, it all sounds like a good idea at first.
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It’s not an idea is it? No one is saying let’s avoid qualifying for the CL because the new F1 karting will make up the shortfall.
What we’re saying is that the revenue generated by the Emirates is minuscule in comparison to our ground, may as well be different leagues.
Our wage/turnover is the best in the league
Therefore, 10 years out of the CL is not going to weaken us significantly in terms of finances against the top sides because we are far more competitive in other financial areas than those sides - particularly Arsenal.
These are just facts. What would be a huge issue for us is if FFP rules are scrapped. That would faaack us as suddenly Chelsea, Newcastle, Villa would all be outspending us with no handbrake alongside the usual suspects.
That would also really hurt Arsenal as well though
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I think the point was that we were in exactly the same situation when the Emirates was new, but then the TV money came in and completely negated that advantage which we'd worked towards for so long. You never know what's around the corner and the best tactic should always be geared towards getting you sat at the top table for when things like that happen.