The Official Tottenham Hotspur thread [Vol 14]

[Wonderman]

TEKNOPUG said:

Wonderman said:

I think that describes the proposed brown envelope "luxury tax" idea they had, fine, no points deduction that'll learn them!

As said previously, the severity of points deduction is relative to league position. A 20 point deduction for the bottom 10 would see them relegated. But not for the top 10.

A "luxury tax" potentially hurts more, if it is proportional to a club's income/transfer spend/wage bill. I can also understand why the other club's want "compensating". The things that will really hurt all clubs will be things like future transfer bans or wage bills/percentage aligned to the bottom club's income (or similar that has been mooted).

In Citeh's case, even relegating them to the Championship will only be a punishment for a single season. Limiting their spending for 5 years and annual independent auditing would have a far greater effect.

Probably makes sense to relegate and limit spending, just to make sure

And take Chelsea with them, nice £75m spend on agency fees (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68794902), and may have to turn down European competition https://talksport.com/football/1759385/chelsea-ban...

"Todd Boehly has spent over £1billion on transfer fees in the first two years of his ownership at Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea are only required to comply with the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules (PSR) as things stand.

Such a rule allows them to lose up to £105m over a three-year period, which ended on June 30 of last year.

Clubs in European competitions can be permitted to lose up to £68.5m for the 2024–25 monitoring period.

So, £68.5m over the previous two years, not £105m over the previous three years, if they win the Carabao Cup and qualify for the Europa Conference League next season.

It is likely that Chelsea will need to conduct player sales before the end of June 30 to be able to comply with UEFA's Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules and ensure they are not sanctioned."

[Guvernator]

Don't worry, Chelsea are safely in 9th. Maybe that was the plan all along?

[mickk]

Be nice to see Kane get a brace tonight, for old times sake.

[48k]

Eric Dier has now reached as many Champions League semi-finals as Arsenal have in their entire history.

Eric Dier!!

[TEKNOPUG]

Good player

[S600BSB]

48k said:

Eric Dier has now reached as many Champions League semi-finals as Arsenal have in their entire history.

Eric Dier!!

TBF, he had a decent game. Big Eric.

[Terry Winks]

I see the City and Arse threads are mainly Liverpool and United fans having a pile on and no one else commenting. Can you imagine the hissy fits on their respective threads if that happened?

[Guvernator]

Terry Winks said:

I see the City and Arse threads are mainly Liverpool and United fans having a pile on and no one else commenting. Can you imagine the hissy fits on their respective threads if that happened?

Bitters will always be bitter, notice how the two teams commenting are the biggest drama queen clubs on PH and yes, you are correct in that they like to give it but don't like to take it.

Tbf Arsenal deserve all the abuse they get but imagine picking on City, a team that has no fans. That's tantamount to bullying.

[SWoll]

Terry Winks said:

I see the City and Arse threads are mainly Liverpool and United fans having a pile on and no one else commenting. Can you imagine the hissy fits on their respective threads if that happened?

Love the pearl clutching Terry.

Barely any non fan posts in either thread as far as I can tell, and the only one in the Arsenal thread is this

carlo996 said:

Shame that.

Pretty sure he's on of yours?

[Chris Stott]

SWoll said:

Terry Winks said:

I see the City and Arse threads are mainly Liverpool and United fans having a pile on and no one else commenting. Can you imagine the hissy fits on their respective threads if that happened?

Love the pearl clutching Terry.

Barely any non fan posts in either thread as far as I can tell, and the only one in the Arsenal thread is this

carlo996 said:

Shame that.

Pretty sure he's on of yours?

Zero LFC (or United fans as far as I can see) have posted in the Arsenal thread… just the Spurs fan

One LFC comment in the City thread.

Deluded

[mickk]

See what you've done now Terry, an influx of them

[Fast Bug]

This is an odd thread. There seem to be more posts about other clubs than you're own, I just don't get it tbh.

Maybe all of the Spurs chat goes on in your secret forum section because you're special?*

• There are quite a few secret forum sections that are hidden from other posters. It's nothing special

[Ascayman]

Fast Bug said:

This is an odd thread. There seem to be more posts about other clubs than you're own, I just don't get it tbh.

And people say Liverpool fans lack self awareness

[Byker28i]

So the Arse out and City out means there's no 5th place going now for Europe?

[mickk]

Byker28i said:

So the Arse out and City out means there's no 5th place going now for Europe?

Not to worry, my wallet will remain full.

[Terry Winks]

Ascayman said:

Fast Bug said:

This is an odd thread. There seem to be more posts about other clubs than you're own, I just don't get it tbh.

And people say Liverpool fans lack self awareness

Haha, typical and on point Swoll and Stott just couldn't help themselves as the self righteous of the football boards.

Right, who had them in the betting? Not long odds unfortunately

[dmulally]

mickk said:

See what you've done now Terry, an influx of them

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, actually as a Liverpool fan I feel...

[48k]

Byker28i said:

So the Arse out and City out means there's no 5th place going now for Europe?

Yes.

This is how the coefficients looked before last night's results:



With West Ham losing to a German side as well, England has no chance of getting the extra spot.

[TEKNOPUG]

Villa are still in

[Guvernator]

I've said it before, 5th spot shouldn't get a CL spot. If we can't beat Villa to 4th, we don't deserve it.

Also we are going to need to bring in some serious reinforcements in the summer, we barely coped with just playing the league, imagine having to play on a Wednesday or Thursday night too.