Why would there be zero net spend for the next 15-30 years?You could always ponder whether we would have won something if we'd had a proper backup striker in the last 6 years (to cover periods where Kane was out) or whether a zero net spend for the next 15-30 years is more important...
We’ve always spent in the same kind of way under ENIC, new stadium or not.You could always ponder whether we would have won something if we'd had a proper backup striker in the last 6 years (to cover periods where Kane was out) or whether a zero net spend for the next 15-30 years is more important...
Possibly. I think that I just prefer to just deal with where we’re at simply because there’s nothing I can do to change it!
we might find on examination that the stadium was being saved for from around 2008, after the league cup. We saved £400-500m towards it which is why our loans are £673m or thereabouts.
We passed on Mané because of wages, not fee. That was more than Kane was on at the time and Mané didn't warrant a higher salary than our homegrown boy wonder.
Agreed - in an ideal world we would have started to see income flooding in with not just matchday income but concerts and the NFL but obviously that’s up the creek for now. With the extra income and knowing that the loans have been refinanced into long term bonds, it would have been easier to judge ENIC on their commitment to the on the field budget but at the moment it’s definitely more difficult.
True, there are definitely extremes but I think that many, like yourself are more balanced in their views.
And yet Liverpool are the ones with the two big trophies?
Obviously won single handed by Mane. A guy who was a decent player for a lower to mid table club. A guy who, if we’d signed him, many on here would have been questioning the ambition of the signing. Easy to look back and see it was a mistake now. If only time travel was a thing, eh?
Do you realise a lack of proper backup striker is not a ENIC fault?You could always ponder whether we would have won something if we'd had a proper backup striker in the last 6 years (to cover periods where Kane was out) or whether a zero net spend for the next 15-30 years is more important...
That's why I specifically stopped at 17/18. Since then, in 18/19, another enourmous profit has been announced (over £60m) and, together with some money that was left after all the finances were sorted last year, has since been invested back into the team (as you rightly say, c.£120m net since 1/7/19).
I might be wrong on this, but I think we've regularly come out near the top in terms of agents fees paid as well.
We finished above Liverpool for something like 8 seasons in a row. They made a few key acquisitions in the right places and now have two fantastic shiny trophies. We are found wanting having underinvested in the team for a very long time.So we should have made him our highest earner and paid him more than Kane thus we would have automatically win the CL and PL, gotcha.
This thread keeps on giving, every time I come in people constantly make up new inventive ways to get at ENIC, don't you lot get bored of this?
