The College Dropout

How much did they sign Nunez for? Argh PIF man. It wasn’t meant to end up like this. Biggest concern is that Eddie leaves next summer. He’ll give us the full season no doubt.

Wissa or Larsen for £60m is going to be the final nail in the coffin. We’ll start some games Elanga Larsen Gordon and we’ll realise we have a midtable strike force.

We’ll 100% overpay for another striker. I’m so certain.

This isn’t a massive PSR fix. His replacements will cost us 35-40m in PSR costs each season. Villa sold a homegrown talent for £100m 4 years ago? They’ve been fucked with PSR for the last couple seasons. What you need is a conveyor belt of sales. Young lads through the academy or you bully from smaller clubs at a young age that you sell for £15-40m. Then you sell decent first teamers for big money like Diaz and Nunez. It keeps the wheels turning.

It’s a shitshow.

They were all coups. Isak had been linked heavily to Arsenal 6 months prior. The shit season put everyone off but Isak is a long time wonderkid. He cost £60m after a bad season for a reason. Tino and Hall - we all thought we had signed future England fullbacks and that has turned out to be the case. Man U did a transfer review and said ‘why did we let Tino Livramento go to Newcastle?’ Similar with Hall. I do agree that we paid a premium for all of them. Botman, Trippier, Bruno all coups. All of these players heavily linked to clubs at a higher level or earmarked for international football. Like Dibling is a coup for Everton. Elanga, Thiaw, Ramsdale, Ramsey (injuries), not the same level of regard in the game. Larsen, Wissa - these are all Nick Pope level signings but on a massive fee. Nick W granted, emerged as a top talent in 2025. If Amanda was here we would’ve landed Guehi imo. Thats the calibre of player we were signing when she was around. Nobody else was after him then either, 12 months later he’s off to Liverpool.

Levy worries about actual profit mind. Not paper profit. But actual profit. He’s frugal as fuck. Spurs often actually make money. Spurs is Levy’s cash cow. He’s in this for actual profit.

This is the thing man. Nick W has been signed for a premium. The other lad will be signee on a premium. Even Isak himself wasn’t signed on a premium. Selling him for a decent price means he only pays for his replacements for 3 years. He’s not funding a rebuild of the squad. Spurs bought half a team with the Bale money. Most of them failed but still.

Mitchell was a clown and parasite.

The Isak replacements are going to cost us all of the £100m PSR profit in 3 years. He’ll have paid for his replacements for 3 years nothing else.

Disagree. It’s been a shit show ever since. Last summer was a joke after she left. This summer has been a joke. Massive rifts in the club are open for people to see. She seemed to be close to everyone. Yasir to the players to the coach. She had Influence over all of them. She was a unifying force. We don’t have that figure anymore. Tha bald blokes didn’t have it. I believe her drive convinced players to join the club. We made a lot of coups under her. Tino, Hall, Sandro, Isak etc. Nick W aside we’ve struggled to land primary targets. And even he wasn’t a primary target.

No. I said if he didn’t sign a new contract everyone would know where they stood. We could’ve been firm and fair then. Not talking about a contract for the best part of a year created a gap that we could never close. We lost control of the situation as we thought we had leverage.

For all the criticism he gets. Levy wouldn’t have folded like this. Spurs is his baby. We don’t have anyone like that.

Then we don’t sign a new contract and make it clear we intend to keep him for the next 3 years. The reneging on the contract and no further discussions created the space that led to this situation. We rested on our leverage of 3 years and didn’t even use it to get a premium.

Of course we could. A 2-year contract extension would mean we could double his wages and barely add a net cost to his PSR costs. And we would probably get more than £130m for him if we had to sell him this summer.

Only city wanted Kane that summer. A year or two later he went to Bayern. PSG has a free run at Kvara in January. It means fuck all man.

Giving him a new contract would’ve been the right thing to do. He would have less of a leg to stand on if he had just signed a new contract 12 months ago. She got stuff done. Brought everyone on the journey and vision. As soon as she left - everything off the pitch started to crack. Starting with that Mitchell interview. She brought unity from the top to the bottom.

That’s in large part the system. The system is designed to feed the main striker.

Modric was Chelsea bound 12 months before he went to Real.

I didn’t want him gone unless we got £140m + a replacement where we aren’t getting bent over. I suspected that wouldn’t be the case. PIF haven’t done anything to show me the can handle difficult situations.

All of the good football decisions were Led by Amanda. This regime of Elanga, Thiaw, Osula, Ramsey, the GK, and Nick W are unproven.

Yep at least one of them would’ve put a premium price for their striker and held firm. The other is likely to get a premium price. We have achieved neither. No premiume price. No player. With 3 fucking years left on his contract.

It’s going to be Wissa or Larsen man.

It’s so weak. There has to be a response. And that response is PIF starting to be aggressive with upping our PSR limits and taking up loopholes. Get us some loans from Saudi at least. But if I’m being honest they just don’t care that much about this. All that talk is bluster. The actions prove it’s not that deep for them.

Agreed.