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Summer transfer thread, AvB window wrap up pg 1527

Which player would you like to see take over from Luka Modric?

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Jordinho said:
It's all about cash flow. I don't expect our finance people to stockpile cash for when we need it. I expect we have a banking partner that offer a healthy credit should we need it.
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the banks obviously dont want us to buy strikers then
 
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AdamB said:
Given we only have 13 days til the start of the season, am starting to think that the new stadium is having a much greater drain on our finances than a lot of us believe or are lead to believe. Net spend over the last few windows of a single figure number of £m plus our inactivity this window tend to suggest that.

Maybe we just need to accept that we wont be spending a net double digit millions in any window for the next 3-4 years and that we should accept/expect finishing in say 5th-8th but then us improving thereafter as the spending on the stadium finishes and cashflow improves?
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yeah good point, and i wish AVB and Levy would stop talking about improving, taking the next step, winning the title etc
 
O'Hara 5m
Keane £3m
Hutton £4m
Crouch £10m
Palacios £6m
Pav £8m

Who did we buy? Parker for £5m and Coulibaly for £2m?
 
Spursalot said:
Not a great business plan, because if you finish top 4 and get into the champions league you look to gain 50m+ which would fund a decent number of transfers, or pay off the stadium debt that much faster..
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WOuld disagree. A business plan which involved spending tens of millions in order to try to finish in the CL makes zero sense if you cannot afford that money. We probably cant afford it given the spending which we've committed ourselves to for the new stadium
 
IN:
Scott Parker 6.200.000 €
Emmanuel Adebayor * 2.250.000 €
Brad Friedel free transfer

OUT:
Peter Crouch 11.300.000 €
Wilson Palacios 9.000.000 €
Alan Hutton 4.500.000 €
Robbie Keane 3.750.000 €
Jermaine Jenas * 1.000.000 €
 
and O'Hara. Pav went in Jan, I didn't notice the date stamp at the bottom. It still looks like it's been made by an Arsenal fan though.
 
Those numbers for 11/12 are Jenas, Hutton and Keane. The other moves happened after the data was collected.
 
AdamB said:
Given we only have 13 days til the start of the season, am starting to think that the new stadium is having a much greater drain on our finances than a lot of us believe or are lead to believe. Net spend over the last few windows of a single figure number of £m plus our inactivity this window tend to suggest that.

Maybe we just need to accept that we wont be spending a net double digit millions in any window for the next 3-4 years and that we should accept/expect finishing in say 5th-8th but then us improving thereafter as the spending on the stadium finishes and cashflow improves?
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More likely that we're just paying much higher wages these days.

That has always been the trade off.

We either spend our player budget on high transfer fees or high wages.

We possibly don't, at the moment, have the budget for both.
 
AdamB said:
Given we only have 13 days til the start of the season, am starting to think that the new stadium is having a much greater drain on our finances than a lot of us believe or are lead to believe. Net spend over the last few windows of a single figure number of £m plus our inactivity this window tend to suggest that.

Maybe we just need to accept that we wont be spending a net double digit millions in any window for the next 3-4 years and that we should accept/expect finishing in say 5th-8th but then us improving thereafter as the spending on the stadium finishes and cashflow improves?
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The more likely explanation is that we're just paying much higher wages these days.

That has always been the trade off.

We either spend our player budget on high transfer fees or high wages.

We possibly don't, at the moment, have the budget for both.
 
NaijaSpurs said:
If what you are saying is true then it is an indictment on management that they have been unable to identify and secure the services of the "right" striker, especially as the season starts in 13 days time
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Say that AVB (and the scouts) identified around 10 strikers that we might get that would strengthen the squad, ranked by preference.

What would you prefer?

1. That Levy spent his time going for the top targets that AVB wanted the most accepting the problems with that, extended transfer fee and wage negotiations, waiting until bigger clubs are "done" with their transfers. Essentially what we have seen with Ade last season and most likely this season.

2. That Levy signed the easiest to get of those targets to get them in early.
 
braineclipse said:
Say that AVB (and the scouts) identified around 10 strikers that we might get that would strengthen the squad, ranked by preference.

What would you prefer?

1. That Levy spent his time going for the top targets that AVB wanted the most accepting the problems with that, extended transfer fee and wage negotiations, waiting until bigger clubs are "done" with their transfers. Essentially what we have seen with Ade last season and most likely this season.

2. That Levy signed the easiest to get of those targets to get them in early.
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Good question.

I look forward to the answers!
 
The Sun - Tottenham @SunTottenham

Tottenham target Salomon Rondon signs for Rubin Kazan from Malaga

Just because you claimed he was a target in an earlier article, it doesn't mean he actually was.
 
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