Oso planning to go pro
North London remains lilywhite!
Not a Spurs supporter, but I love Jose and think football, especially English football, is better with him at the helm of a club playing well. We all know his lifecycle, but having Spurs make a run at a title and other silverware would be amazing both in the sense that people have claimed he’s lost his touch and that he would be doing it at a club like Tottenham and not a big money behemoth like in his past
Tottenham isn't exactly Little Sisters of the Poor. Mourinho is the 2nd highest paid Manager in the league. Spurs more than doubled their revenue the prior half decade before his hire. Increased broadcast money, sponsor money, other etc... They were 8th in World Revenue for 2018-2019 (better than Chelsea and Arsenal), 4th richest English Club. They may be less marketed as some of the others at and near the $ top, but they are a big money club.
Dont think anyone is saying that Tottenham are not a huge revenue club. But they dont spend like United, RM, or Chelsea.
Their spending has been in a similar range to Chelsea the past five years, which doesn't include the money spent on their new $1 Billion plus stadium.
Still looking for five-year figures, but over the past decade, Chelsea has spent 1.38 billion pounds in the transfer market, second only to Man City. Tottenham has 626 million. This year, Chelsea spent 226 million pounds to Tottenham's 62 million.Doesn't seem a similar range.
Mourinho didn't become the manager 10 years ago. That is the discussion. In my opinion, he isn't going to go somewhere without the chance to win at the highest level. Spending similar to Chelsea for the past 5 years, a place where he managed twice before, overtaking them in revenue, entering a new $1 Billion stadium, with team friendly deals for Heung-min Son, and Lucas Moura. (How you spend also matters in addition to how much). Vastly increased revenues, improved results. Mourinho is also the 2nd highest paid Manager in the league, so he's certainly getting his money. As for the team, we'll see, with the new stadium, new revenue streams and increased revenue, if he gets to field championship caliber teams. There is certainly the expectation going there that Spurs will be more competitive spenders more so than in their past.
Source?
Transfermarkt.
Five year expenditures, according to Transfermarkt:Chelsea - 983.73 millionTottenham - 512.6 millionStill not seeing how you categorize this as a "similar range." That's a gap of nearly 100 million per season.Not sure this link will work, but if not you can use the sorting tool yourself.https://www.transfermarkt.us/transfers/einnahmenausgaben/statistik/plus/0?ids=a&sa=&saison_id=2016&saison_id_bis=2020&land_id=189&nat=&pos=&altersklasse=&w_s=&leihe=&intern=0
My numbers are the period ending 19/20 not 2021. And they include selling not just buying.
Selling isn't spending.And changing the years doesn't change the spending difference. For the five-year period you're using, it's 817.96 million to 469.15 million ... a difference of about 70 million a year. Still not similar.
I used net spending.And again, it doesn’t change anything about the same point made over several posts.
I'll stick with my opinion on Gold. He'll be in foul trouble within the first eight minutes.
Gedson Fernandes hasn't played much at all, he was a stopgap loan last winter when The Goat got hurt. He's not even registered for Europa. I wouldn't be surprised to see his loan terminated in January. Bale is a unique situation, in that Madrid was desperate to unload at least part of his wages, as he wasn't going to play at all under Zidane. Call it a "hometown" discount, but i dont think there is any other player in any league in Bale's situation. Reguilon was 3rd choice LB at RM. the buyback has to include the player agreeing to return to RM in the next two years. RM cant just trigger the buyback. Would he go? Maybe? This alwas a great piece of business feom Levy.Vinicius is a backup to Harry Kane. Buying a backup has proven next to impossible (Llorente, Janssen, using Lucas out of position.) Son and Kane getting injured during the same time last year just reinforced how important getting a backup striker was, at least until Parrott/Scarlett are ready.
I'm not saying that it's not smart in some aspects, but it does contain some risks that buying players straight up doesn't have, which is why you don't see many of the top clubs doing it all that frequently. It is also part of the explanation of why the total spent in the windows varies so much. There are plenty of ways to (legally) manipulate your books. Edit: Also, while I don't know what going on in his head, I would find it very hard for a Spanish International from their academy to turn Real down if they come calling. Nothing against Spurs, that'd just be an awfully tough sell considering Reguilon represented them at every level.
Edit: Also, while I don't know what going on in his head, I would find it very hard for a Spanish International from their academy to turn Real down if they come calling. Nothing against Spurs, that'd just be an awfully tough sell considering Reguilon represented them at every level.