Harry Redknapp gone
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Levy now has a hell of a summer ahead of him.
Get signings in
Keep Modric and Bale
Get a new manager...
No pressure
Laurent Blanc would be good imo.
I liked 'Arry. 
This Summer is going to be make or break for us now, I really don't know who we should get in to replace Harry that will take us up a level.
On initial thinking it does seem like a strange decision, however after the implosion that happened during the England manager debacle it actually seems like this outcome was inevitable.
I shall be waiting with baited breath to see who we get in.
On initial thinking it does seem like a strange decision, however after the implosion that happened during the England manager debacle it actually seems like this outcome was inevitable.
I shall be waiting with baited breath to see who we get in.
I would be very surprised if it's anyone currently working in the Premiership. While Levy has been in charge, he's had Jacques Santini, Martin Jol and Juande Ramos before Redknapp, so I would suspect it will be someone like Frank de Boer, an up and coming European head coach, with an experienced Director of Football again.
Summer of change at the lane anyway.
Summer of change at the lane anyway.
No idea if the figures are right or wrong as I'm not Spurs accountant
but the increased turnover and a lot of the money that allowed Spurs to break even in 2011 would have come from playing in the Champions League.If that data is correct they could easily be £40m in the red this year if spending has stayed the same.
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I'm going for Laurent Blanc, not a bad punt at 40/1. I think he is out of contract after the Euro's. He did well at Bordeaux and if he can turn the French team around from the shambles it was at South Africa to the quality side it is now he can't be that bad at all.
Whoever it is has probably already been tapped up before they sacked redknapp. I can't see it being moyes for that reason. Spurs wouldn't want to look idiots by sacking Harry and not having someone willing to instantly step up.
Can't get the site as I'm at work, but just look at transfers in 2011, and then look at the figures you've quoted. It's way out. I can only imagine they have quoted the figures from the 2011 AGM rather than up to the end of the year, but still, there certainly won't be a 40m shortfall or something silly like that.
Would you have taken 4th in January though?
I still don't believe those figures are correct, and even so considering the players that have left, I would bet the figures for 2012 are much lower. Still it's not like spurs are spending beyond their means and are suddenly going to go bankrupt now Redknapps gone, to actually think that is ridiculous.
I wasn't suggesting they would go bankrupt either, my point was if those figures are correct Spurs have structurally gambled on qualifying for Champions League, without the Champions League money they will either be running a ~£40m deficit year after year or will have to sell some key players just to break even.
Again, I'm just reading into the figures that have been posted.
Again, I'm just reading into the figures that have been posted.
What have we spent this £40million on? Because it certainly wasnt players.
Here we go, only copying in last seasons -
Players Purchased Fee Players Sold Fee Net Total
Season 11/12
Brad Friedel Free Jamie O'Hara £5,000,000
Cristian Ceballos Free Jonathan Woodgate Free
Souleymane Coulibaly £2,000,000 Paul-José Mpoku Undisclosed
Yago Falqué Undisclosed Robbie Keane £4,350,000
Scott Parker £6,000,000 Alan Hutton £4,000,000
Callum Tapping Nominal
Peter Crouch £10,000,000
Wilson Palacios £8,000,000
Roman Pavlyuchenk £8,000,000
Nouha Dicko Free
Total £8,000,000 £35,000,000 -£27,000,000
So 27 mill profit on fees. Then think of wages saved on O'Hara, Woodgate, Keane, Hutton, Crouch, Palacios and Pavlyuchenko. Bentley, Jenas, Corluka and Bassong were also all loaned out, and I would suggest these players wages far outweigh the wages we were paying to Adebeyor, Parker, Friedel, Saha and Nelson.
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Primarily increased wages & salaries/other expenses according to the chart.
Unfortunately there will never be a breakdown of that wage figure, but I can't see how it's possible that player wages jumped 25 million in the space of a year, considering the wage cap and players who came in and out in that space of time.
As for the 66 mill, take the 27 off that and your down to below what Wolves have apparently spent up till this summer, Spurs are hardly massive spenders.
As for the 66 mill, take the 27 off that and your down to below what Wolves have apparently spent up till this summer, Spurs are hardly massive spenders.
