Even United, who spent big in the summer are not that far away from Spurs now, and whilst City admittedly have the best squad in the league, they have spent hundreds of millions doing this, and are still struggling in Europe.
Yes, money is needed to an extent – the reason for Everton’s lack of progress is not a poor manager or bad players, it is simply a lack of funds to do anything at all – whilst hundreds of millions are not always needed for success, some amount of money clearly is, and Spurs have not been without this over the last few years – hence their progress.
It is the ability to do a lot with not that much that it commendable, and I read somewhere that if Arsenal were Barca lite, then Spurs are becoming a lesser version of Real Madrid – here I would differ. Both Real and Barca – although I am sure Rosell would attempt to state otherwise – have spend big in recent times, I would actually compare Spurs with Valencia.
The widely acknowledged ‘best of the rest’ in Spain for a number of years now, even winning the title under Benitiez and making strides in the Champions League. Valencia have a savvy manager in Unai Emery, and a good structure upstairs. They know that financially they cannot compete with the big two, and have sold Mata, Silva and Villa in recent years, yet still manage to somehow manage to remain competitive and challenge for, if not the title, everything else.
One thing that Spurs have managed to do this summer that Valencia could not – for financial reasons more than anything – was keep hold of their top and want away players. Levy stood firm over Modric and will repeat the process with Bale should Barca (who never spend a penny) come calling.
It is this that could well see Spurs surpass Valencia’s achievements and challenge for the title in the near future, not to mention that the top two in England are much less daunting than the top two in Spain, and the quality in their squad, not to mention the potential plans for a new stadium could well keep Harry’s heart ticking for a long time to come – the investigation into his finances however not so much!
Written by Rebecca Knight for FootballFancast.com.
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good article there
Excluding wages, I would say Aresneal have spent far less than us, especially if you include sales in that.
What a stupid and ill onformed article. I suggest you get your facts right and look at how much they have spent in the last 10 years or even 5 years, and you’ll find it’s about treble what Arsenal have spent.
What a dullard.
I appreciate your opinion on the ability of spur to be a top gun on a smaller budget but to assume they have better players than chelsea, liverpool and arsenal would seem farfetched to me. Spurs has an excellent run of games which we all take note of but I think its been partly due to the fact they never played first team in europe which they will have to do at a later stage.I think you should also check how much spurs has spent over the last 3 years and see if you still think they have not spent big. You should also check how much newcastle has spent on players . I guess if ‘arry had 100m he could have spent it on torres. I also suggest we still need a little bit of time before suggesting this season has been ‘arry’s sroke of genious.
Dont forget many of our top Players were here before Harry arrived, Modric, Bale, lennon, King, Bene etc. But we have to buy top top players if we are to seriously challenge for the title, purchases of VDV and Parker have been good but they have a limited shelf life due to their age and loan deals for Adebayor are only stop gap as he connot play against City. He is our main striker, what if we have to beat City to win the title and he cannot play, how sick will we feel !!!!!