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Dunno, it’s all guesswork. Spotrac says Son (190), Maddison (170), Romero (165) - the three team “captains”. Then Kulusevski (110, seems high), and Hojbjerg (101, probably moving on). That seems generally plausible but heaps of salt required.

Because of everything he’s said and everything he’s done. We don’t know any of it as fact really, but I think it’s pretty clear. And no because of FFP but in theory yes because I suspect Bruno is on similar albeit less pw. Not the point though - I was responding to a post that seemed to suggest that you were choosing between Maddison at 200Kpw and Barnes at 100Kpw. Like you, I was sceptical that you’d have offered 200Kpw not least because it’s guessed that we’re paying him appreciably less.

I’m not sure I am . Will def shut up now though,

Yeah, Son. Wages are all conjecture anyway, and since ours (and now many others) have been bonus-driven for ages they’re even more impenetrable. That Sportrac site or whatever it is seems to make plausible guesses, but they are guesses.

Me obviously . The only reason I pipe up is that every once in a while a new mole pops up with the same nonsense and I feel obliged to whack them with the mallet.

He didn’t choose us because we offered him more money than you. He chose us because he wanted to play for us, The fact that you think he’s our highest paid player now too doesn’t bolster your credibility

You were going to pay him £200Kpw? Presume that would have made him your highest earner, would be more than anybody at Spurs is rumoured to be on as well.

They’ve done really well here. Not seen Southampton for a while and Leeds have looked good recently but this feels like the best two teams. Think the ref’s done a good job in a difficult game, by and large.

Enjoying Leicester-Ipswich, pity it was such a soppy goal.

Meanwhile both of our guys are going through. Great but also annoying

Yes it does…because it would have been odd, because it didn’t happen Honestly, I feel like there should be a sticky thread saying “Maddison wanted to go to Spurs” at the top of the page .

How do you know? Imagine how far ahead everyone else would be with no regulation and Mike Ashley in charge for over ten years. Maybe Liverpool is owned by Saudi Arabia, Man City by UAE, West Ham by Qatar, Aston Villa by Indonesia - whatever. Who knows?

We’ve seen the sort of responses he’d get time and again for decades and at so many clubs The stick Levy gets (and will always get, whatever he does) from some Spurs fans blows my mind. Maybe you could do a Man City or West Ham and just hang around until Birmingham hosts an Olympics and then move into a new stadium in Digbeth or wherever for a song

Nah, really appreciate the long post, was kinda dreading sorting through everything on VitalVilla or wherever It all sounds very much like the sort of issues we were dealing with throughout our own process. I read that statement without really knowing anything about what you guys had been dealing with and it looked to me as though he was saying “we may have to build a new stadium” while simultaneously avoiding saying “we may have to build a new stadium.” Your last two paragraphs are the crux of the matter in general.

Just caught up. Your next game’s Saturday, right? Five days to hold out.

Supposedly Al-Nassr (or Christiano Ronaldo’s team if I’ve got that wrong) have made an offer for Emerson Royal. Can’t see us accepting unless it’s bonkers money.

I’m finding it so hard to decide. Worst case scenario for me is Arsenal winning, then Villa, then maybe Liverpool, then maybe Man City (out of the top four). I also genuinely think we have a chance if players come back when we’re still there or thereabouts. So whenever Arsenal win I kinda want Liverpool and Man City to win, even though that theoretically is bad for us.

That’s the rub. We talked about it for years. You guys have done the same once it became clear that you were restricted on one side.

You couldn’t pay us.

It’s just bent now? Oh you sweet summer child.

Cheers. Yeah that’s peculiar. He doesn’t say “we don’t have the money” (unsurprisingly) but instead he doesn’t think they should tear down the one stand intended for expansion “while we’re playing like this…I think everything should be about all fans and not just one particular stand”. I’d have to look into the fan discussion but on the face of it that suggests that rather than not having the money for redevelopment of Villa Park, they might actually be looking to build a new ground. Unless @Stifler you have something that says they don’t have the money? My understanding is that a few clubs around Europe are looking at the Tottenham Stadium and thinking that a multi-purpose stadium is the way forward. Maybe Villa are thinking the same.

Got a link for that? Wifey is Villa and I want to check it out.

Yeah, that’s one reason why our financing and construction was such a massive ballache. Everything was stratospherically more expensive than, say, when Arsenal built the Emirates. Levy seems to have managed to secure long-term, relatively low-interest (effectively) loans that we can cover using our revenue and in particular revenue generated by the stadium itself (Beyoncé etc). Compare and contrast that with Man City and West Ham who were each effectively gifted a stadium. It makes a massive difference. It’s why I’m presuming that you’ll need a new custom-built stadium to bridge the gap, and the main question is whether Saudi Arabia will just build it themselves.

Good open game.

That was definitely the feeling we got all along with Kane, and during the Dragusin stuff a couple of journos suggested it was the case in Germany - for example when they wanted other Bundesliga players. I don’t know what wages they offer in general, but we heard that their late offer to Dragusin included higher wages than ours. Wouldn’t surprisenme at all if they could offer Trippier a lot for a couple of years.