DubaiSpur
Ian Walker
Re: O/T Financial Fair Play
I've consistently maintained that Levy's focus on the United States as a revenue generator is a masterful idea given the growing interest in football stateside, the relatively more substantial disposable income available to the average 'soccer' viewer and the stronger protections for copyright and licensing rights (precluding large-scale illegal shirt/merchandise sales) in the States as opposed to in Asia or Africa. However, it is somewhat disheartening to note that despite the Bale tie ins and the summer marketing blitz we conducted there, we apparently remain unable to leverage said exposure to secure the kinds of 20 million+ shirt deals Levy seems to be looking for (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...HARLES-SALE-FA-fire-womens-super-leagues.html), and will for the foreseeable future remain a club with revenues only marginally larger than Real Madrid's routine summer net spending on transfers alone. We should be thankful, I suppose, that we're at least on this list (can't say the same for everyone else in the PL bar the current top four), and the success of clubs like Roma and Atletico in recent times does prove that success can be achieved on a smaller budget....but I'm still somewhat discouraged when I look at that yawning gap even between us and Liverpool, whom we have managed to finish above for the last four seasons running.
We dearly need another CL run to generate the exposure necessary to pull that zombie stadium project out of the ditch it's seemingly stumbled into. Even our focus on the States as a Spurs-branded market is just swimming against the tide to an extent, because apparently (http://espnfc.com/blog/_/name/relegationzone/id/1365?cc=5901) we're not even in the top four most supported English clubs there, as United and Chelsea steadily gain ground and City establish themselves via their tie-ins with the likes of New York City FC.
Come on, Full-time Tim. Lead us on into the light again.
I've consistently maintained that Levy's focus on the United States as a revenue generator is a masterful idea given the growing interest in football stateside, the relatively more substantial disposable income available to the average 'soccer' viewer and the stronger protections for copyright and licensing rights (precluding large-scale illegal shirt/merchandise sales) in the States as opposed to in Asia or Africa. However, it is somewhat disheartening to note that despite the Bale tie ins and the summer marketing blitz we conducted there, we apparently remain unable to leverage said exposure to secure the kinds of 20 million+ shirt deals Levy seems to be looking for (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...HARLES-SALE-FA-fire-womens-super-leagues.html), and will for the foreseeable future remain a club with revenues only marginally larger than Real Madrid's routine summer net spending on transfers alone. We should be thankful, I suppose, that we're at least on this list (can't say the same for everyone else in the PL bar the current top four), and the success of clubs like Roma and Atletico in recent times does prove that success can be achieved on a smaller budget....but I'm still somewhat discouraged when I look at that yawning gap even between us and Liverpool, whom we have managed to finish above for the last four seasons running.
We dearly need another CL run to generate the exposure necessary to pull that zombie stadium project out of the ditch it's seemingly stumbled into. Even our focus on the States as a Spurs-branded market is just swimming against the tide to an extent, because apparently (http://espnfc.com/blog/_/name/relegationzone/id/1365?cc=5901) we're not even in the top four most supported English clubs there, as United and Chelsea steadily gain ground and City establish themselves via their tie-ins with the likes of New York City FC.
Come on, Full-time Tim. Lead us on into the light again.
