The College Dropout

With the business we need to do and the business we may be forced to do - I would keep Schar as a main 4 CB unless a great deal for a player presents itself.

Tino has played a lot more games too. Tino had a 50 game season last year. Well over 3.5k minutes.

Not with half the league in Europe. There are 4 European sides in the bottom 8 in the league.

It’s been a long time since a non petro club or Real Madrid have won the CL right? In a regular CL campaign. Like Liverpool?

That’s a champions league penalty. In fact it’s a PL penalty too

But they weren't actually in a relegation battle last season. They were throwing games at the end to concentrate on a Cup. This is entirely different. This is a genuine relegation battle. They've never been this close to relegation in my life - last season not even close

last season wasn't close points wise. West Ham beating Arsenal and Leeds beating Spurs would be the best GW of football in a long long time.

I also think it will be a big challenge to replace him. We've not signed an attacker as good as him or well suited to Howe in 3 years. I don't expect us to sell him then immediately sign a better player. I've never been a big fan but he's a good player and I don't want him to leave. I jsut don't think linking up with others is a strength of his. He's good at pressing forward but he doesn't love doing the ugly work of tracking fullbacks in our own half, supporting Hall defensively imo. Willock and Joelinton combination was much more industrious defensively but Gordon added goal threat when he took the position.

Our on-the-ball approach always has the same principles. We attack via the wings and play very direct football. Never play with a 10 because we don't attack through the central lines. When we were linked with Pedro, then Etikite and then signed Woltemade I thought we intended to play 2 uptop more often and play more through the lines with a 10/9 type forward in there. Evidently not. All of our midfielders have low pass completion rates. It's not that they can't pass but they are all encouraged to play percentage balls forward. Bruno and Tonali will play balls where our attackers won't be favourites but helps us get up the pitch and turn opposition.

Think the way we play - we need penetrative passers. So maybe pass.

I don't think that he did. How many assists have they combined for as our two best attackers over two seasons?

I like Curtis Jones a lot

Gordon doesn't link up well with anyone.

They are literally included in the annual reports.

The facts are in the annual reports. You can quibble over the amount spent on cleaners and marketing people and if they are included or not if you want

reports don't include bonuses, which can be significant. If we can't place Capology figures against the real figures ever - then it's a useless starting point. What did capology say the 24/25 wages were?

No doubt your wages will go down. No Europe. Big earners going. But you will obviously spend money again.

So it was £100m+ off? I'm not great at maths but I make that 50%+ off. Then.. what exactly are Capology basing their wages on? Can't be actual numbers, that hasn't been published yet.

But we do know things, we have hard facts. @Froggy because Mbeumo, Cunha, Sesko, Lammens all play for free

Think there has been a lot wrong with German football. Top class teams outside of Bayern barely have German players anymore.

How many would be employees of Spurs football club? Stewards, securityand cleaners almost certainly wouldn’t be. 200 staff on an average salary of 60k is £12m. Throw in the execs it’s what - £15-20m. Any way you cut it it’s sub 10% of total wage bills for most bigger clubs.

But that’s a relatively small amount in total. How much do non football staff cost? Less than Donnarumma’s annual salary. As those are real numbers it’s best to take those with a small caveat some clubs have non football wages excluded (Chelsea, City). The bigger issue is the time lag. But Man U wage bill being £180m on capology but over 300m+ on annual accounts - shows you how wrong capology is. Use the reliable numbers.

Been a long time since a German side put a great shift in at a major tournament. Quarters in the last 2 Euros maybe. Prior to 2016 they were perennial contenders. Semis and finals. In Europe there’s been a pretty big power shift. Away from Germany and Italy where at least 1 would get to the semis of every major tournament through the 80s, 90s, 00s.

The club will be paying for the stadium. The Saudi’s won’t gift it to the club. I don’t get this line of argument.

You can find total salaries in football clubs company accounts. Slightly distorted by non football staff for some clubs but it’s real data.