Daniel Levy - Chairman

[SirPercyHotspur]

Kane and Son were both on more than that weren’t they?

According to Capology , Kane was on £10.4 million when he left , don't think he would have been equal top earner at the club at 22 years of age , for Simons to come in as equal top earner at his age seems to be a change from previous years.

PS Again all Capology figures if you go back to when Kane was 22 in 2016 he was on £3.4 million , above him in wages were Lamela, Sonny, Lloris and some others.

 

[Gazza Dazzla]

According to Capology , Kane was on £10.4 million when he left , don't think he would have been equal top earner at the club at 22 years of age , for Simons to come in as equal top earner at his age seems to be a change from previous years.

Kane at 22 was a completely different profile of player than Simmons at 22 though, Kane made his first start for us at 21 years old... Trying to think of someone we’ve bought before of the profile of Simmons that young to compare with, I’m drawing a blank?

 

[Daisuk]

The protestors are just stubborn at this point - the kind of people that would deny the existence of a rock even if you shoved it in their face. What are their main argument for wanting change? We've won a European cup, signed excellent players, hired a great coach, started the season well, we're very clearly being run very well - what the fudge do you want? I'm 100% sure all of the protestors are all laughing at Chelsea for buying every player around - yet they somehow wish the same for us.

Oh well, the 12 of them will be quite easily outsung by say 3 tables at No8 banging out the new Xavi song. I wonder if they'll refuse to sing along.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Think we're finally at the point in "the rebuild" where we no longer have to fill a squad, but can focus on quality over quantity. Also have gotten a lot of very talented young players in (key to our strategy imo) and again can focus on individuals, quality, a bit more here and now.

To me the natural evolution of the plan that's already been in place. Low wage to turnover ratio to allow for more spending on transfer fees, build a squad with real talent and potential. When most of the squad is in place move towards highest end quality we can get and with both new signings and contract extensions up the wage spending.

Blowing our entire budget on a couple of attacking stars when we had one good enough CB, no LB we rated and limited future potential quality in the squad wouldn't have sense to me.

The star dust moment
Said it loads before
We needed to add quantity of quality
Then we needed to pick just quality
It’s exactly what Arsenal did and got lauded for

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Kane at 22 was a completely different profile of player than Simmons at 22 though, Kane made his first start for us at 21 years old... Trying to think of someone we’ve bought before of the profile of Simmons that young to compare with, I’m drawing a blank?

Eriksen
Obviously he had only played at Ajax but was one of the most in demand younger players in the world
Differed era admittedly

 

[billyiddo]

The protestors are just stubborn at this point - the kind of people that would deny the existence of a rock even if you shoved it in their face. What are their main argument for wanting change? We've won a European cup, signed excellent players, hired a great coach, started the season well, we're very clearly being run very well - what the fudge do you want? I'm 100% sure all of the protestors are all laughing at Chelsea for buying every player around - yet they somehow wish the same for us.

Oh well, the 12 of them will be quite easily outsung by say 3 tables at No8 banging out the new Xavi song. I wonder if they'll refuse to sing along.

The people running it have now had a taste of the online limelight - they will be more concerned with keeping that going than whatever they are protesting about

 

[Bedfordspurs]

The protestors are just stubborn at this point - the kind of people that would deny the existence of a rock even if you shoved it in their face. What are their main argument for wanting change? We've won a European cup, signed excellent players, hired a great coach, started the season well, we're very clearly being run very well - what the fudge do you want? I'm 100% sure all of the protestors are all laughing at Chelsea for buying every player around - yet they somehow wish the same for us.

Oh well, the 12 of them will be quite easily outsung by say 3 tables at No8 banging out the new Xavi song. I wonder if they'll refuse to sing along.

There want change because they blame ENIC and in particular levy for everything that is wrong in the game … that’s their fundamental belief but they can deal with it rationally

ENIC control the purse strings and spend everything the club has
Yes there are other ways they can add money in but that’s never been their model… not on this scale

The issue is ENIC are doing it all the “right way” or “by the rules”. Others are bending every rule going in some cases. Then add in state funding etc …. And it’s why we are where we are

That’s what ENIC can’t control But what triggers fans. “How can they afford such and such yet we can’t, here Deloitte TURNOVER table says we’re the 10th richest club in the world” (not sure where we are in the daft thing now).

How come their owners selling the ladies team to his mate from the pub and we aren’t

How come their owners have put in £MMM and ours haven’t

It’s constant dingdong measuring IMO. The scary thing is ENIC have managers to grow our dingdong, keep it relatively hard and every now and then use it.

As I’ve said, repeatedly, no one I know of would not like richer owners, but we as fans don’t know who or where they are. So we can either complain our dingdong isn’t big enough or accept what we have until there is a magic pill that makes it work even more somehow

And apologies for the dingdong analogy

 

[SirPercyHotspur]

The irony of wealthy owners is that we are only about 10th/12th in the list depending on which site you go to , the reality is that most owners don't don't put money in to their clubs , have the wealthy owners of Fulham or WHU ever put money in ?
The PL rules on selling assets to yourself are perfection , the clubs make the rules themselves and could have voted to make that particular ruse not allowable.
The moan that a lot fans go on about on other forums is that Levy doesn't like to take risks and the infamous wage/revenue ratio, maybe with the latest signing of Simons things are going to change.

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[Bedfordspurs]

The irony of wealthy owners is that we are only about 10th/12th in the list depending on which site you go to , the reality is that most owners don't don't put money in to their clubs , have the wealthy owners of Fulham or WHU ever put money in ?
The PL rules on selling assets to yourself are perfection , the clubs make the rules themselves and could have voted to make that particular ruse not allowable.
The moan that a lot fans go on about on other forums is that Levy doesn't like to take risks and the infamous wage/revenue ratio, maybe with the latest signing of Simons things are going to change.

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West Ham and Fulham are not who our fans compare us to
It’s city…. Funded by a country
United…. Not reality sur show Thea re funded now but debt seems to be their answer to everything
Chelsea… literally a trust fund baby (BlueCo making signings FFS)
Arsenal… owners now finally putting money in but in reality mainly self sufficient
Pool… see Arsenal
Villa…. Great owners IMO, who’s want to invest but can’t.
Saudi Sportswashing Machine… state funded but a country who like to do things quickly and their way
And because of our size and scale they are the right clubs to compare us too
We’re very much like Arsenal and Liverpool in reality but haven’t had CL money to spend lately

 

[Grays_1890]

Not really sure what there is left to protest? Yes we have made mistakes in the past, but is that really protest worthy? All abit howling at the moon now

 

[Gazza]

Not really sure what there is left to protest? Yes we have made mistakes in the past, but is that really protest worthy? All abit howling at the moon now

I agree but when there were protests when you could possibly agree with (just about it at a push) it was downplayed like Levy was infallible.

It’s silly to even get into protests now that the team and the club seem to be pushing in the right direction.

 

[Grays_1890]

I agree but when there were protests when you could possibly agree with (just about it at a push) it was downplayed like Levy was infallible.

It’s silly to even get into protests now that the team and the club seem to be pushing in the right direction.

I would have agreed with them at times, I think i actually said did and respected people's right to, just the messaging all over the shop.

I like to think we could be on a siege mentality page now.....we have alot to be happy about

 

[Gazza]

I would have agreed with them at times, I think i actually said did and respected people's right to, just the messaging all over the shop.

I like to think we could be on a siege mentality page now.....we have alot to be happy about

Well ultimately the opinions of attacking and defending Levy go all quiet when matters on the pitch are going well

 

[Grays_1890]

Well ultimately the opinions of attacking and defending Levy go all quiet when matters on the pitch are going well

Alas we have just described football

 

[Daisuk]

Wherever I've worked there has pretty much always been a culture for slagging off the boss - fair enough if he's acting like an arrogant psychopath - but even miniscule things, everything just relentlessly criticised, as if the criticiser would be able to do the job perfectly.

Critique is fine, of course, and to be expected - just try to be a bit realistic about it and have some perspective. What's the alternative? Is it possible to be successful every time and in every decision?

And again, look at City, Liverpool or Bayern - even they have all these geezers who will never be happy. Fair enough. Maybe we should just learn to live with them like an annoying fly knocking its little fly head continously against a window.

 

[SpiderSpurs]

So about 20 brave souls at the protest today. Probably the 'right type of fan' so CFT will be happy.