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Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
How do you know we will struggle? Do you think we'll have brought in no one before the season starts? Funny how all the Lukaku talk has died down since Moshiri and Koeman came in.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
Not having this excuse anymore, it's worse than "the Euros are still on mate". You don't need a week in Austria "assessing" the squad to see that we need a first team goalkeeper
No one is saying they need to sign the players now to appease the fans. In fact I was getting worried they may sign Wijnaldum for that reason.
I just had a problem with people starting to take the position that our squad is strong enough or almost strong enough. It's not and not even close.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
He can't be any worse than Martinez. Osman Pienaar Hibbert barely played last season and Howard was a known liability. Hardly an insurmountable loss.
Maybe he has been told to shut his mouth and he will get his move. Who knows? At this point all we are doing is speculating either way.
Carlito
Player Valuation: £40m
You're conflating two separate issues here. I'm not bothered about there being no activity yet, as there's still a bit of time before the season starts.
I've been saying for a long time that I want to see the back of the majority of this squad, and a seven game run that briefly shot them up the league two years ago - after which they managed to throw away fourth place anyway - isn't going to change that.
People are saying that though. Zat is, in particular. I replied to Zat........I think..
You hum it, I'll sing it.....
dholliday
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We're 4 players down: experienced players that could come in the first team and do a job. Granted, a job that was only good enough to get us mid-table, but now we don't even have that.
4 players down is 4 players down.
dholliday
deconstructed rep
The point is we're leaving it last-minute again: it's a big reason why we often start seasons slower than our rivals.
DennisWilson
Player Valuation: £150k
Last three played approximately 10-12 games between them last season, they are more than adequately replaced by Davies, Dowell, Pennington etc. Goalkeeper is an obvious area for strengthening. And we will.
The Esk
Player Valuation: £70m
To improve a squad in order to improve the chances of winning a trophy & competing at the top end of the table we need to spend more money.
The business plan as such will be focus on three areas (i) to progress us up the league of wage spenders (ii) bridge the current income gap through bringing players through the academy and (iii) develop the academy and our recruiting to generate future profits from player trading.
Looking at the first point we look to match the spend of Spurs initially and then to continue to progress our spending as new streams of revenue are created from sponsorship, commercial revenues and ultimately our new stadium.
I wrote a while ago that the biggest 6 clubs financially will between them generate £4-5 bn in extra revenues over the next 5 years. Not all of that will go on salaries. Much will be reinvested in their clubs or be returned to shareholders. So we have a huge challenge ahead of us. We won't bridge all of that income gap but we will generate sufficient levels of income to compete.
If Moshiri did not believe we could compete why would he have acquired his shareholding in us (with further share acquisitions ahead) ?
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