Daniel Levy - Chairman

[Bedfordspurs]

Seeing as all the other top 6 spend significantly more than us and Everton (not a top 4 team) pay about the same as us I think that probably indicates it's the former.

How do you work that out?

what it means is they have over paid not us... we have done the right thing and fro the better value

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Didn't we sign two of our three new first team squad players on deadline day itself?

No
We signed a first team starter and sessegnon then
So 50% of our signings were made then

 

[scaramanga]

While I mostly agree with you here, some of the problem was that we were susceptible to that last minute hike because we waited for so long to agree the deal in the first place. There was then no time to renegotiate because the first offer close to being acceptable was only made right at the end of the window.

I don't think his agent had any intention of selling to us at anything like a reasonable price. With the rules the way they are in the PL he'd have had to sell that ownership - it would have cost a lot. I'm sure his preference was to keep bleeding his client/property for as long as possible.

 

[Baleforce]

It was a shakedown, you pay once they keep coming back for more, and everyone else tries it from then on.

 

[Bishop]

I don't think his agent had any intention of selling to us at anything like a reasonable price. With the rules the way they are in the PL he'd have had to sell that ownership - it would have cost a lot. I'm sure his preference was to keep bleeding his client/property for as long as possible.

I'm not sure if that is accurate, he moved for €25 the next summer...I don't recall what we offered at the time but it wasn't a dissimilar amount vaguely from memory.

 

[scaramanga]

I'm not sure if that is accurate, he moved for €25 the next summer...I don't recall what we offered at the time but it wasn't a dissimilar amount vaguely from memory.

Porto bought out the sharkagent IIRC as they had a lot more bargaining power. When he moved the next summer it was a straight sale.

 

[Baleforce]

I'm not sure if that is accurate, he moved for €25 the next summer...I don't recall what we offered at the time but it wasn't a dissimilar amount vaguely from memory.

He was a joint deal with James wasn’t he, was it ever officially broken down to 25m?

Monaco were also paying crazy wages then and I can only surmise more likely to pay off 3rd party ownership issues.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

I'm not sure if that is accurate, he moved for €25 the next summer...I don't recall what we offered at the time but it wasn't a dissimilar amount vaguely from memory.

As Scara says we couldn’t buy him as it stood due to the joint ownership issue

 

[Bedfordspurs]

He was a joint deal with James wasn’t he, was it ever officially broken down to 25m?

Monaco were also paying crazy wages then and I can only surmise more likely to pay off 3rd party ownership issues.

No tax either

has a big impact as to why a player would play for a team

 

[Bedfordspurs]

And didn’t we buy Moussa in the end instead ??

 

[Baleforce]

No tax either

has a big impact as to why a player would play for a team

Very good point.

Nicer part of the world too.

 

[Bishop]

Porto bought out the sharkagent IIRC as they had a lot more bargaining power. When he moved the next summer it was a straight sale.

Fair enough, my memory is a bit hazy on the details all these years later.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

Very good point.

Nicer part of the world too.

Better than Tottenham......how very dare you.

 

[Danishfurniturelover]

Very good point.

Nicer part of the world too.

Monaco is a brick hole. But the areas around it are lovely.

 

[scaramanga]

Monaco is a brick hole. But the areas around it are lovely.

My ban hammer is a sensitive soul, and you just triggered him/her/it/they

 

[Baleforce]

I quite like it

 

[Hootnow]

Yet we’ve been taking one of the top four berths so all of those 6 can’t have been getting value for that money.

As it stands, 80% of the qualification for the CL has come under just 1 manager, who's been manager for about 25% of the time they've been here.

Let's see (and hope) that it is a sign of the system overachieving and getting value for money rather than a one off manager before patting ourselves on the back too much.

 

[scaramanga]

As it stands, 80% of the qualification for the CL has come under just 1 manager, who's been manager for about 25% of the time they've been here.

Let's see (and hope) that it is a sign of the system overachieving and getting value for money rather than a one off manager before patting ourselves on the back too much.

To have failed to achieve top 4 with the squads Porch had would be criminal.

 

[Hootnow]

To have failed to achieve top 4 with the squads Porch had would be criminal.

Meh, there's almost certainly an element of recall and outcome bias in there. These players were great therefore of course we should have gotten top 4.

Pretty much nobody was saying that we'd be getting top 4 four times in a row when Poch was hired, nor that we'd be finishing 2nd or getting to the CL final.

There is no guarantee that some of the players who stepped up would have done so in the same way under another manager.

 

[Baleforce]

As it stands, 80% of the qualification for the CL has come under just 1 manager, who's been manager for about 25% of the time they've been here.

Let's see (and hope) that it is a sign of the system overachieving and getting value for money rather than a one off manager before patting ourselves on the back too much.

Jol missed out by a point, Redknapp did it twice, AVB set a points record, Poch did a fine job but it was always coming, under Levy we have only moved in one direction.