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thoughts on this?

too gimmicky IMO
 
woppy101 said:
Wow spurs have received a £175m loan to see them through the Covid19 crisis, how the **** can they need that much money
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They're highly likely to miss out on the CL and possibly even the Europa League, putting as much as a £100m hole in their finances (including lost matchday revenue for those extra games) even before you get to the corona situation. With the TV rebate and games being played behind closed doors for the rest of this season (and likely reduced commercial income linked to that) they're likely to be another £30m odd down. Then you we're facing a very real prospect of no fans in stadiums for at least part of next season and only limited capacities when they do initially return. Spurs matchday revenue (exluding the CL games I already accounted for) would have likely been worth another £80m odd - most of that will now be gone. And then of course you have all the non football events - the NFL, Joshua fight etc which have now been cancelled.
 
BaZ87 said:
They're highly likely to miss out on the CL and possibly even the Europa League, putting as much as a £100m hole in their finances (including lost matchday revenue for those extra games) even before you get to the corona situation. With the TV rebate and games being played behind closed doors for the rest of this season (and likely reduced commercial income linked to that) they're likely to be another £30m odd down. Then you we're facing a very real prospect of no fans in stadiums for at least part of next season and only limited capacities when they do initially return. Spurs matchday revenue (exluding the CL games I already accounted for) would have likely been worth another £80m odd - most of that will now be gone. And then of course you have all the non football events - the NFL, Joshua fight etc which have now been cancelled.
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Fair point with regards to all of that except the European qualification part, they had no chance of champions league next season and very little chance of europa qualification, so shouldn’t be able to borrow money from the government almost interest free to cover that short fall(it should come from the owners), Unless they have to give detailed justification for the amount they require and haven’t included the European shortfall.
 
The lost European money is just an added issue. All clubs are going to be hit with no supporters in the stadium and no more so than Spurs having just built a £1bn stadium. Unfortunately for them they were already facing a touch situation by missing out on the CL, the corona situation just made it doubly hard.
 
BaZ87 said:
The lost European money is just an added issue. All clubs are going to be hit with no supporters in the stadium and no more so than Spurs having just built a £1bn stadium. Unfortunately for them they were already facing a touch situation by missing out on the CL, the corona situation just made it doubly hard.
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Yep I totally agree and there are clubs even at championship level that are at risk of going to the wall because of Covid19, if they are borrowing money because of stadium payments, lack of fans and loss of non-football events for the next 8-12 months then that is fair enough, but I disagree if they are borrowing money due to the lack of European competitions that should come from the owners.
 
BaZ87 said:
The lost European money is just an added issue. All clubs are going to be hit with no supporters in the stadium and no more so than Spurs having just built a £1bn stadium. Unfortunately for them they were already facing a touch situation by missing out on the CL, the corona situation just made it doubly hard.
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Is there a possibility they could 'do a Leeds'?
 
woppy101 said:
Yep I totally agree and there are clubs even at championship level that are at risk of going to the wall because of Covid19, if they are borrowing money because of stadium payments, lack of fans and loss of non-football events for the next 8-12 months then that is fair enough, but I disagree if they are borrowing money due to the lack of European competitions that should come from the owners.
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They're not borrowing because of a lack of CL football. Had corona not happened then their finances would have been very tight but they'd have mananged. The corona situation has made a tight situation into a very very bleak situation.
dpbadger said:
Is there a possibility they could 'do a Leeds'?
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No. They're owner is a multi billionnaire that would step in if the **** really hit the fan. He's happy to take very cheap government loans instead though.
 
BaZ87 said:
They're not borrowing because of a lack of CL football. Had corona not happened then their finances would have been very tight but they'd have mananged. The corona situation has made a tight situation into a very very bleak situation.

No. They're owner is a multi billionnaire that would step in if the **** really hit the fan. He's happy to take very cheap government loans instead though.
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Just goes to show how teams can “do a Leeds” and massively overextended themselves, I suppose I’m one to talk our parasite owner put our club staff on government furlough so he didn’t have to pay them out of his own money, even though the club made just under £40m profit this year, shows what kind of person he is.
 
Those fixtures have now been confirmed. Venues for Everton - Liverpool and City - Liverpool are yet to be confirmed but all others, including Liverpool - Palace (which is the most likely title winning game) will be played at home stadiums.
 
BaZ87 said:
Those fixtures have now been confirmed. Venues for Everton - Liverpool and City - Liverpool are yet to be confirmed but all others, including Liverpool - Palace (which is the most likely title winning game) will be played at home stadiums.
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Don't worry we'll spank City so you can win it against Everton.
 
rebel rebel said:
Don't worry we'll spank City so you can win it against Everton.
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In which case I hope the game gets moved to Old Trafford. Imagine getting to beat Everton at Old Trafford to win the title - it would only be better if our next game was City and they had to give us a guard of honour.
 
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