Designer Label Fans
The next in our Facebook A&A series takes a look at a long held misconception perpetrated by media guesswork and thus assumed to be fact, when in fact it's complete rubbish.
This confirms what I have been telling my readers all along, that Baldini did not buy the players of 2013, that Andre Villas-Boas had the final say on all transfers, that Redknapp had the final say when signing players like Louis Saha and Ryan Nelsen, not Daniel Levy or subsequently Franco Baldini. That's simply a total misconception of his role, people want someone to blame and he is the man.
Some fans have a grudge and want to blame things on the wrong people, they refuse to see, or believe, the obvious. It has been said before that the coach has the final say, Tim Sherwood said the manager should always have the final say, not as interpreted by some, that managers at Tottenham didn't have the final say.
Anti ENIC fans, who rarely have a good word to say about a club they claim to support, see what they want to see, not what is real, a bit like that Daily Mail article I spoke about recently where he couldn't see any signs of improvement, he must have missed Harry Kane's 31 goals. A scotoma, a blind spot in their vision. The truth won't go down well with them but I doubt the anti Levy will let a simple thing like the truth get in the way of their prejudice.
Football and success has to be assessed in the current football climate, take wages the gap between ourselves and Arsenal has doubled since 2005, we can't keep pace because we don't have the income and each year it gets worse, it gets harder. We had a team who was second but we also had Gareth Bale who carried and outgrew us. He made us more than we were.
Now it is harder and in 2 years time it will be even harder, our ability to buy to compete will become less and less. When Arsenal built their stadium there was a 5 year down turn before they could buy and their fans were clamouring for purchases. We are going to have something similar and if we spend spend spend now, not only will borrowing become more difficult but we won't be able to sustain the level of team we will require, the money won't be there.
Wages have to be kept under control and so that means who we sign now we must sign on wages within our structure. The trouble is agents see more money coming in from TV and they want their clients to have it but only an extra £4 million (US$6.11m - AUS$8.02m - €5.5m) of it can actually be spent on wages next season.
Regular readers know I have been suggesting the path we are now actually taking, although we are undertaking it to an even greater extend than I had envisaged. We have gone wholeheartedly to build a team, to build a squad, not just for now but for the future. It's a strategy to prevent the stadium from draining us, a young team that grows together under the same head coach. We do have to guard against the stadium being a noose around our neck as has happened in Span.
We are where we are because different coaches have bought different players and some are not interested in playing under the latest coach. Unless you have one head coach in charge for an extended period of time, then you have different coaches buying for different styles and we end up with a squad not suited to any style. Fortunately we now have our long term manager I believe and he can build the club to take us where we need to be. The very policy some fans want us to adopt can be a route to disaster, especially if we spend the money we don't have.
Too many of our fans are designer label fans, if the player doesn't have a star name they don't want them, it's not a healthy policy unless you have the deep pockets we don't have. We don't have an owner who pumps in money, so what, get over it. Fans should look at what the club is actually trying to achieve, understand the football landscape, support a strategy where we produce 'one of our own' more than once every 10 years, actually support the club instead of constant moaning. It's a radical idea I know.
The transfer strategy is in place so we can compete for the next 7 years while we get ourselves into a position where can compete on a more even footing. If you want the club sold then it needs to be in the most saleable condition, that's free off debt, with a stadium built, with a team competing.
That will only be achieved if we don't designer label spend. Harry Redknapp wanted England not Spurs, he wasn't building for the future but bringing in players like Saha for the short term, he has had that policy everywhere we have been. He was offered a contract and didn't sign it while Andre Villas-Boas not only bought poor players but alienated himself within the club. There are reasons why we have had a turnover of managers, it's not you've failed get out.
We now have a guy we are right behind, we are building, see it, accept it, support it.
Related Article: Developing Youth
This confirms what I have been telling my readers all along, that Baldini did not buy the players of 2013, that Andre Villas-Boas had the final say on all transfers, that Redknapp had the final say when signing players like Louis Saha and Ryan Nelsen, not Daniel Levy or subsequently Franco Baldini. That's simply a total misconception of his role, people want someone to blame and he is the man.
Some fans have a grudge and want to blame things on the wrong people, they refuse to see, or believe, the obvious. It has been said before that the coach has the final say, Tim Sherwood said the manager should always have the final say, not as interpreted by some, that managers at Tottenham didn't have the final say.
Anti ENIC fans, who rarely have a good word to say about a club they claim to support, see what they want to see, not what is real, a bit like that Daily Mail article I spoke about recently where he couldn't see any signs of improvement, he must have missed Harry Kane's 31 goals. A scotoma, a blind spot in their vision. The truth won't go down well with them but I doubt the anti Levy will let a simple thing like the truth get in the way of their prejudice.
Now it is harder and in 2 years time it will be even harder, our ability to buy to compete will become less and less. When Arsenal built their stadium there was a 5 year down turn before they could buy and their fans were clamouring for purchases. We are going to have something similar and if we spend spend spend now, not only will borrowing become more difficult but we won't be able to sustain the level of team we will require, the money won't be there.
Wages have to be kept under control and so that means who we sign now we must sign on wages within our structure. The trouble is agents see more money coming in from TV and they want their clients to have it but only an extra £4 million (US$6.11m - AUS$8.02m - €5.5m) of it can actually be spent on wages next season.
Regular readers know I have been suggesting the path we are now actually taking, although we are undertaking it to an even greater extend than I had envisaged. We have gone wholeheartedly to build a team, to build a squad, not just for now but for the future. It's a strategy to prevent the stadium from draining us, a young team that grows together under the same head coach. We do have to guard against the stadium being a noose around our neck as has happened in Span.
We are where we are because different coaches have bought different players and some are not interested in playing under the latest coach. Unless you have one head coach in charge for an extended period of time, then you have different coaches buying for different styles and we end up with a squad not suited to any style. Fortunately we now have our long term manager I believe and he can build the club to take us where we need to be. The very policy some fans want us to adopt can be a route to disaster, especially if we spend the money we don't have.
Too many of our fans are designer label fans, if the player doesn't have a star name they don't want them, it's not a healthy policy unless you have the deep pockets we don't have. We don't have an owner who pumps in money, so what, get over it. Fans should look at what the club is actually trying to achieve, understand the football landscape, support a strategy where we produce 'one of our own' more than once every 10 years, actually support the club instead of constant moaning. It's a radical idea I know.
The transfer strategy is in place so we can compete for the next 7 years while we get ourselves into a position where can compete on a more even footing. If you want the club sold then it needs to be in the most saleable condition, that's free off debt, with a stadium built, with a team competing.
That will only be achieved if we don't designer label spend. Harry Redknapp wanted England not Spurs, he wasn't building for the future but bringing in players like Saha for the short term, he has had that policy everywhere we have been. He was offered a contract and didn't sign it while Andre Villas-Boas not only bought poor players but alienated himself within the club. There are reasons why we have had a turnover of managers, it's not you've failed get out.
We now have a guy we are right behind, we are building, see it, accept it, support it.
Related Article: Developing Youth
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