BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
That's not what happens. It's about the scale. If Kane becomes 300k a week, that means the level slightly below him (I assume Eriksen and Lloris) becomes 250/275, Sissoko becomes 150, KWP becomes 40 etc.
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OMT - Tottenham Hotspur vs Internazionale
- Thread starter Daisuk
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That's not what happens. It's about the scale. If Kane becomes 300k a week, that means the level slightly below him (I assume Eriksen and Lloris) becomes 250/275, Sissoko becomes 150, KWP becomes 40 etc.
Legohamster
Ian Walker
Think that’s a Poch weakness.
No other club has this issue
Toby/Wanyama/Son came straight into side
Also signing those players before pre-season would help
thfcsteff
George Hunt
OK.
I don’t disagree but we are where we are and I think it is a factor.
People laughed when I said the pitch at Wembley was a factor, and it was!
Sitting on my porcelain throne using glory-glory.co.uk mobile app
Back in the good old days Dele and Dier....
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
Poch isn’t perfect but more than happy with him for the next couple of seasons. My only real doing about him is our inability to win the crunch games at the end of the season. We seem to freeze far too often when teams grit their teeth against us or when the pressure is high. The players have to shoulder responsibility too but there must be a reason why we don’t win the bigger games?
I think you're seeing something entirely different to me if you think Klopp and Liverpool have been under more pressure than Pochettino and Spurs to win a trophy these past few years - I'm genuinely flabbergasted here.
If anything i predict the external pressure to drop off after our lack of summer activity and the media to be focussing on Liverpool City and a resurgent Chelsea
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Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
If the result of our last two games were taking from the minutes that Lamela was on the pitch we’d have won both of them.
Daisuk
Dimitar Berbatov
milo
Jack L. Jones
Or it's a strength when they come good and fit our system. None of the managers we are comparing him against are working on his budget.
Yeah it's called The Emirates
DeanoAustin
Jimmy McCormick
I like your posts even though I don’t always agree and I don’t agree with some of this.
Like a lot of fans, you’re almost inferring that this was a “risk it on one season or think long term” choice. We could have both.
If we don’t make CL, if we go out in the group stages this year and if Eriksen, for example, runs down his contract because we’re not progressing, we are going to lose more than we have saved by not splashing out on a couple of players this summer. I honestly believe we could have added a couple, made a strong statement and strongly improved our chances of doing well this season without risking our future if it still didn’t work out.
Levy has put all his eggs in the long term basket. I really hope I’ll look back in 10 years and say he got it right.
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
That will always happen and you have to manage that but that’s not a valid reason not to go and sign players who may improve us.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Always think that and then he does something decent to change my mind
It’s the constant change do formations that annoy me
I don’t think we have played the same system for more than 60 minutes of a game
Robspur12
Nick Barmby
But over the last two seasons we have been fine without him. He is a very good option to have and I love him but he is not the game changer people make him out to be.
Legohamster
Ian Walker
Liverpool are always under more pressure than Spurs as they are a bigger club
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
I thought lamelas play was poor but his work rate was fine
But taking off an attacker for a midfielder is inviting pressure
Taking off a CF for a left back is criminal
milo
Jack L. Jones
That said, it's doubtful that he would've been able to do much about the equaliser. Our hard work was undone by a wonderful strike, not poor substitutions, changes in formation, the manager or lack of heart.
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
I think it’s fine to point out that we can’t afford the same players as City or Madrid, but we have no excuse when it comes to scouting and coaching infrastructure, that’s where we can find an edge, that’s where we can fail.
(Clearly not a direct retort to your point and not meant as one)
BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
It absolutely is a valid reason. It's the whole reason we have a wage budget. It's the whole reason the club is in good financial health. It's the whole reason we have a platform that enables us to build a stadium etc.
Take for example, Sadio Mane. Liverpool signed him because they could offer him 125k per week, and at the time our highest earner will have been Kane or Lloris on anywhere from 80-100k. If we sign Mane on 125, that means Kane and Lloris at the time would have gone to at least 150. And then every other player's agent demands more because the scale has increased. Players get annoyed, unrest starts, and the club either relents and puts themselves on a more risky financial footing or they refuse everyone else which creates friction in the dressing room, because we've given a good player but not our best player the top earning. And as soon as they can, our actual best players would jump ship, because they have no loyalty at this point.
It's hard to see that when things are going bad, alternatives over the mid-long term might not actually be better strategic decisions, even though they will be different.