' Spurs plan to rip up the wage structure and invest in the squad if the club avoid relegation. '
Tottenham’s owners are planning to rip up the club’s rigid wage structure before a major overhaul of the squad this summer if the team avoid relegation.
There is an acknowledgement at Spurs that the club have underinvested in player salaries for yearsTottenham’s wage bill is the lowest of the so-called “big six” clubs.
It was £222m in the most recently published accounts for 2023-24, little more than half that of Manchester City’s £413m over the same period.
Economies had to be made to pay back loans taken out to build the club’s £1bn stadium but the 2023-24 wage spend was 42% of revenue, very low by Premier League standards.
A source close to the owners said the Lewis family recognised greater investment in salaries was needed because finishing positions in the league correlate more closely to wages than to transfer spending.
Tottenham’s chief executive, Vinai Venkatesham, hinted last month that the club was ready to loosen the purse strings, a position reinforced by the struggles this season.
Mauricio Pochettino is the favourite to return in the summer, more than six years after his sacking.
- TheGuardian
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@georgebann@Daily_Hotspur@guardian Important to note that they also said if they continue to underachieve this season then they won't rip up the wage structure
@pokeefe1@rosspb@TheSpursExpress@JacobSteinberg Interims that do well and then get the permanent job at the end of the season don't historically work out too well 😬
Di Matteo
Craig Shakespeare
Paul Hart
Christian Gross 👀
Ole - meh
I hope they don't fall for it and they have a plan for the the summer that they stick to 🙏
@TheSpursWatch Exactly why we need a LB, such as Robertson, to come in this window.
Porro has no competition or rotation because Spence has to make do at LB to cover and rotate for Udogie.
Bizarre that any fan was opposed to the Robertson signing
@pokeefe1@Dembellly @Andrex_THFC @SpursTTalk@simonyemane@thisismyback Looking at West Ham's fixtures, you're probably right with that figure.
It's all about what the picture looks like on the other side of the next 6 gameweeks!
@pokeefe1@Dembellly @Andrex_THFC @SpursTTalk@simonyemane@thisismyback There must be some concern internally though? There's a real possibility that we enter the last 8 games on 34 points or less.
If West Ham's uptick in form continues, we could be under a lot of pressure 🫣
@ben_bowman_ Nah, means that Spence can provide rotation and competition at RB to Porro.
However, his LW cameo against Dortmund may lead them to believe he can do a job at RW and let them off the hook for not signing a winger this window
I always heard "you won't even notice the repayments", when what was actually meant was "it's effectively an additional 9% tax on your earnings until you're in your 50's and the interest rates will be so ridiculous that you might never actually clear any of the £27k you borrowed"
Just heard someone on radio say "spendthrift" to mean someone who was tight. Actually it means the opposite a spendthrift is someone who spends a lot, extravagant, wasteful.
I wonder are there other words are often wrongly used to mean the opposite of what they actually mean?