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2017/18 Ross Barkley

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mikeh72 said:
I find it hard to believe, on the strict budget that they're operating on, that they'd be willing to make Barkley one of their top earners over the likes of Alli, Eriksen, Alderweireld and Rose who have been there years and got them to where they are. Don't forget, Spurs were willing to let Barkley go to Chelsea in the summer without even tabling a bid, they can't rate him that highly.
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Rose will be off. Leaves a big chuck of wages to throw about
 
mikeh72 said:
I find it hard to believe, on the strict budget that they're operating on, that they'd be willing to make Barkley one of their top earners over the likes of Alli, Eriksen, Alderweireld and Rose who have been there years and got them to where they are. Don't forget, Spurs were willing to let Barkley go to Chelsea in the summer without even tabling a bid, they can't rate him that highly.
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Spurs have the 11th highest wage bill in world football. I also don't see a massive depth within there squad a lot of this is paper talk about them being so well ran.

It highly unlikely that they pay the figures quoted as it really doesn't add up. The reports must be basic wage which won't be an accurate figure of a players final annual salary.
 
Simon baker said:
Spurs have the 11th highest wage bill in world football. I also don't see a massive depth within there squad a lot of this is paper talk about them being so well ran.

It highly unlikely that they pay the figures quoted as it really doesn't add up. The reports must be basic wage which won't be an accurate figure of a players final annual salary.
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But they've been the 2nd/3rd best team in the richest league in the world for the past 3 years. I'm willing to bet every single other top 6 club is well above them on the list, so when you look at it like that it doesn't look so good. In reality they should easily be in the top 10 of that list if they want to have any hope of achieving their ambitions to establish themselves as a top club. Losing their best players and replacing with lesser players on more money is the wrong way to go about that. Which is exactly why I think it's very naive to believe this Barkley to Spurs thing is a done deal, there's much more to it than simply him wanting to go there.
 
mikeh72 said:
I agree, but that process is going to be sped up if there's unrest among the squad and they start making noises about leaving. That will happen if Ross Barkley swans in as their highest earner for no reason, a player they weren't even interested in bidding for despite him clearly wanting the move and being on the verge of signing for their rivals.



If that is the case then they need to start acting like a big club and change their wage structure to try and keep these players. They're never going to be able to build on what they've done so far by selling their best players and replacing with inferior, they're just going to end up like Liverpool over the past 10-15 years. The odd good season in 5, sprinkled in amongst Europa League - mid table finishes.
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I can't see them changing anything whilst they're spanking nearly a billion on a new stadium but once the revenue from the new place starts kicking in you'd expect to see them compete more on a wage front. Just hope for their sake it's not too late because Kane especially will look at the likes of Rom and what he's earning at United and quite rightly expect something similar.
I'm envious of them. it wasn't that long ago us, them and Villa were regularly battling for 5th. They're now title contenders with a great squad, great manager about to move into a massive new stadium and we're still just plodding along at our own pace, occasionally tapping on that glass ceiling and waving to the teams above us but never breaking through it. Villa on the otherhand.
 

Doesnt mean much but he is in the team photo
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Stuartisitc1878 said:
I can't see them changing anything whilst they're spanking nearly a billion on a new stadium but once the revenue from the new place starts kicking in you'd expect to see them compete more on a wage front. Just hope for their sake it's not too late because Kane especially will look at the likes of Rom and what he's earning at United and quite rightly expect something similar.
I'm envious of them. it wasn't that long ago us, them and Villa were regularly battling for 5th. They're now title contenders with a great squad, great manager about to move into a massive new stadium and we're still just plodding along at our own pace, occasionally tapping on that glass ceiling and waving to the teams above us but never breaking through it. Villa on the otherhand.
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Sometimes we wave through the glass ceiling but we get ignored - nobody waves back :(
 
That team photo set up definitely means something - surely there's thought into who sits on the front row, cos everyone except Bolasie (unless he's signed for 10 years) make sense on the front row - maybe Mcarthy, Mirallas and Williams might have been there as senior or long-serving pros.

I wonder what it means - shall we speculate? Back in the fold Ross

Koeman's press conference:

"OK it's football. Many things I have done so far are a mistake - David Unsworth is my new no.2. I am going to play attacking like the best Total Football Dutch-Barcelona teams of the 70s 80s and 00s. Don't worry. Ross will be captain next year, and is secretely actually NOT injured, but retraining in secret with Big Dunc, Thierry Henry, Gary Lineker, Sharpy and Samuel Eto'o as a striker. "
 

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