Yes, it is unrealistic to expect the club to spend exactly what it is projected to earn. Hence, the club have probably decided not to have a net spend at all, or even a break-even spend, preferring instead to put us above Burnley (I think) in 19th on the table of PL net spenders over the last five years, with operating and player trading profits to boot.
In any case, that wasn't the thrust of my initial point. The thrust of my initial point was that a period of academy youngsters being used prominently and austerity imposed upon the club (along with record player profits) will only be accepted if there is genuine trust at all levels, between the manager who has to put his faith in youngsters over transfer targets, the chairman who handles all the money, and the fans who expect to see both forward progress and home-grown youngsters making it in our colours. The fans in particular need to trust that he knows what he's doing, and trust that the chairman will act in a considered way to provide the manager with as much backing as he needs to get the players he feels can't be produced by the academy.
A manager like Arsene Wenger was routinely derided for going down this route, and that's with having a considerate board who trusted him implicitly. And this is the same Wenger who led Arsenal to the best times they've ever had. Penny-pinching Levy, his boss in the yacht and Poch: Spurs fans are going to be asked to implicitly trust that all of them are compromising with each other and using the ever larger profits made on player sales (Due to the academy replacement system) to get what we really need. The same Levy who came up with Nelsen-Saha during a title-chasing run, and of whom several former managers have had less than positive things to say. The same boss in the yacht who will walk away with a tremendous profit regardless of what happens to us in the interim between now and our sale. And Poch, who is likely to be subsequently asked to trust the academy to a degree that even he probably won't be comfortable with.
The point is, I don't think Spurs fans will have nearly as much patience as Arsenal fans, given our motley upper management and their track records compared to those of the Arsenal board and Wenger. I don't think they'll be very comfortable with even larger profits being made in transfer windows and not being used, despite the happiness they'll get from seeing Spurs lads on the field. Not just malcontents like me, but regular Spurs fans as well. And that doesn't bode well for club harmony. So, if Poch is genuinely serious about utilising the academy to its full potential, then we've interesting times ahead, is my point.
