Reaction to Konoplyanka is wrong
Trundling around the web and reading other websites, as we all do, an article caught my attention and just can't go by without further comment.
HITC first up has Twitter reaction from Tottenham fans to Yevhen Konoplyanka's substitute appearance for Sevilla against Barcelona last night. The Twitter folk show exactly what is wrong with many a fan, they think money grows on trees.
He was a free transfer I hear you cry, well yes and no, there was no transfer fee but instead he was demanding a £5 million signing on fee plus £100,000-a-week in wages, putting him in the Emmanuel Adebayor bracket.
What would you do if you were Christian Eriksen Nacer Chadli, Jan Vertonghen, Harry Kane etc when you hear a guy with no Premier League experience and no experience in a major league has been signed on £100,000-a-week? Sit back and say no that's fine or start demanding parity?
Logic dictates that signing him was not possible on those figures and why should he drop his demands when so many clubs were after him so to merely suggest we should have pushed harder to get him is naive. Paying anything for anybody is not an option, you only buy a player at a price you want to pay and on a wage that fits into your wages budget, which does have FFP restrictions and is not a bottomless pit.
With a stadium to build and therefore credit worthiness to build so we can get the best possible rates, keeping a tight check on the wages to income ratio is vital. Certain players you can pay £100,000-a-week to but only if they are a marketable commodity so you can recoup the money through commercial deals. A player like Gareth Bale with huge worldwide popularity, especially in Asia where he can earn several millions for three days work, can be accommodated, but players without that pull can't.
If you look at things with an understanding of the football landscape we are in and the situation Tottenham are in, you reach logical conclusions rather than decisions simply made with the heart and no thought.
The future of Tottenham is the most important thing, we have been building for just a year, to build a squad for the long term, sometimes building long term means short term pain, but let's not forget we reached a Cup Final and finished 5th in the Premier League, we certainly didn't go backwards as some suggest, when was the last Cup Final we reached?
Once again we finished above a club who can pay £100,000-a-week wages, how many players have they had who have flopped? Both they and us demonstrate where we are, we can't afford the elite players and have to buy a rung or more further down and those players can go to other countries with a greater chance of UEFA Champions League football and domestic trophies.
Fans may not like where we are in the food chain but we are where our finances put us and thus there are often better options for players, even if they can be less lucrative.
Signing Konoplyanka on our terms would be a good deal, signing him on his terms would not, unfortunately he was under no obligation to sign for us on our terms.
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HITC first up has Twitter reaction from Tottenham fans to Yevhen Konoplyanka's substitute appearance for Sevilla against Barcelona last night. The Twitter folk show exactly what is wrong with many a fan, they think money grows on trees.
He was a free transfer I hear you cry, well yes and no, there was no transfer fee but instead he was demanding a £5 million signing on fee plus £100,000-a-week in wages, putting him in the Emmanuel Adebayor bracket.
What would you do if you were Christian Eriksen Nacer Chadli, Jan Vertonghen, Harry Kane etc when you hear a guy with no Premier League experience and no experience in a major league has been signed on £100,000-a-week? Sit back and say no that's fine or start demanding parity?
Logic dictates that signing him was not possible on those figures and why should he drop his demands when so many clubs were after him so to merely suggest we should have pushed harder to get him is naive. Paying anything for anybody is not an option, you only buy a player at a price you want to pay and on a wage that fits into your wages budget, which does have FFP restrictions and is not a bottomless pit.
With a stadium to build and therefore credit worthiness to build so we can get the best possible rates, keeping a tight check on the wages to income ratio is vital. Certain players you can pay £100,000-a-week to but only if they are a marketable commodity so you can recoup the money through commercial deals. A player like Gareth Bale with huge worldwide popularity, especially in Asia where he can earn several millions for three days work, can be accommodated, but players without that pull can't.
If you look at things with an understanding of the football landscape we are in and the situation Tottenham are in, you reach logical conclusions rather than decisions simply made with the heart and no thought.
The future of Tottenham is the most important thing, we have been building for just a year, to build a squad for the long term, sometimes building long term means short term pain, but let's not forget we reached a Cup Final and finished 5th in the Premier League, we certainly didn't go backwards as some suggest, when was the last Cup Final we reached?
Once again we finished above a club who can pay £100,000-a-week wages, how many players have they had who have flopped? Both they and us demonstrate where we are, we can't afford the elite players and have to buy a rung or more further down and those players can go to other countries with a greater chance of UEFA Champions League football and domestic trophies.
Fans may not like where we are in the food chain but we are where our finances put us and thus there are often better options for players, even if they can be less lucrative.
Signing Konoplyanka on our terms would be a good deal, signing him on his terms would not, unfortunately he was under no obligation to sign for us on our terms.
Recent Tottenham Articles
Njié terms agreed
Squad photo reveals seasons plan
Lyon try for Fazio on the cheap, WBA interested also
P.S. Once again, for those of you who missed it, a thank you for anyone clicking the ads. You can find that thank you and site infor here - Redknapp, Dele Alli & history made
There are 297 Spurs products available now at the Football-Shop.net and nearly 4,000 in all incliding NFL, rugby and genuine autograhed shirts.
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