You said we don't bank profits. I showed you the report which says we do. You said we spend as much as we can afford in the market every year. I showed you the figures that say that it is not the case - we earn considerably more than we spend.
Yes, we are taking the pain of the 'build'. I just wish Levy would stop lying about it. 'Transfer funds won't be affected by the development of the stadium': b*llocks, to the point where Levy happily weakens the squad by selling Naughton and bringing in the unplayable Yedlin just to make a quick buck. 'We have on-pitch ambitions commensurate with our history' - no we absolutely don't, and woe betide the poor manager (mainly AVB who complained about exactly that) who falls for that spiel in the interview. And all these reports by apparently clued-in people like Hynter about the club 'backing' the manager - pure, unadulterated donkey b*llocks, the manager is a bloody sock puppet you use and dispose of when the short-sighted fans start pinpointing the blame for poor performances on him instead of on the chairman who ensured that the team was weak enough to put in such performances. And throwing in stupidly condescending 10 million pound bids for players the manager desperately wants (a la Schneiderlin) and then sprinting away happily when Southampton turn you down flat is just low.
ENIC want to build a stadium with as little financial input as possible from their side, take the ginormous profits from selling the club after the stadium is built and happily f*ck off afterward. That's it, and I'm reconciled to that: take your profit built on the club's own money and the ludicrous ticket prices you charge, and f*ck right off. But don't pretend to have 'ambitions' while doing so: our ambition is to hover anywhere above the relegation zone until the stadium is built, selling any good players we have to raise some cash, relying mainly on youth players and the odd Stambouli type bargain bin signing, and f*ck the fans, f*ck the manager, f*ck the self-serving 'Audere Est Facere' boards you put up around the stadium and f*ck ambitions of achieving something greater than that: even when we get close to achieving something good, ENIC would rather die than put in some of their own effort to get over the line (See: 2011-2012). Don't lie about that.
And yes, it would have been very different if we were owned by an oligarch. Yet people willingly seem to hate the idea, as if putting yourself through the Byzantine torture of paying huge ticket prices and living within your means so your owners can make huge profits without putting in any real investment of their own is a virtuous, noble thing. If the club were owned by the fans, then living within our means would be absolutely crucial, and would then also have a justifiable air of self-righteousness - but clubs are now just playthings for wealthy people, sadly, and so the idea that people would willfully put Tottenham Hotspur at a disadvantage to the clubs that are owned by owners invested in their success just so ENIC can make their profit is just ludicrous to me.
