Spurs have dispensed with the man once thought Europe’s hottest guru manager (don’t believe in guru managers). Villas Boas was a failure as manager but he was a mere symptom of their problems. Splurging circa £100m on vagrant misfits should be enough to disguise the fact that you don’t have a sustainable strategy. For a while. But primary responsibility lies with whoever authorised the budget in the first place.
Selling that chap with the funny hair to Madrid went some way towards offsetting the cost of this summer’s acquisitions, but Spurs wage bill for the new arrivals will dwarf the money paid to those who departed. This is the more serious problem.
They are left with players on long and expensive contracts who look like they auditioning for a West End show. Forget about Spurs recouping their ‘investment’, the chances of players attracting contract offers which match the cash the Cockerel coughs up each month is zero.
The Bale money is gone and those new contracts written in the summer will inhibit the club for years. What next: downsizing, or another visit to the roulette table, gambling with even bigger stakes next time?
Here’s what happens when you sell your star player: everyone and their grannie wants the money spent. “The [Insert club name] board need to show their ambition”. This comes from fans, the media, the manager, scouts, family members and every taxi driver in a 30 mile radius. And why wouldn’t they spend an apparent windfall, that’s what the money’s there for, after all.
It’s at this point clubs lose all self-awareness. Reinforced by the success which led to the development and profitable sale of a prime asset in the first place, the organisation’s view of its reach, not to mention competency, is obliterated. “We have spent money well in the past, look, here is the evidence, therefore we can spend this even larger amount of money well now”.
With this belief now orthodoxy, every pore in the organisation secretes an intoxicating scent attracting the club to market. Unfortunately, the rewards for spending big are heady and instant, though they seldom last as long as the hangover.
Directors are celebrated, ticket and merchandise sales get a short-term kick. The manager and coaches get to play with more expensive toys; quite literally, everyone is happy. This is narco-football, only accommodated by ever-bigger hits. For some, this narco-football offers proof that management share wider stakeholder aspirations. I contend otherwise.
The heresy to this orthodoxy reads differently:
Clubs should mistrust their successes, they are evidentially more random than most are prepared to accept.
Windfall transfer income is more likely to draw clubs away from the part of the market they are most competent in. It is an acknowledged fact that sellers and agents literally see them coming.
Don’t go searching for the instant hit, you’re more likely to miss. If necessary, take some short-term pain while using resources to enhance recruitment infrastructure.
Heresy in any area of life is seldom met with quiet contemplation. Narco-football heresy is more likely to be met with a rationalisation that the heretics don’t share orthodoxy’s core values – sustainable success of the football club – no matter how many references to “sustainable success of the football club” they make. It’s Salem-esque.
The orthodox-heretic analogy is evident where three or more are gathered in any club’s name. The first club who manage to unite everyone behind the heretic’s charter will clean up/reach nirvana/find salvation/achieve ultimate enlightenment/do lunch with Tom Cruise.
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And while you’re at it, could you ask yer da about this thriller?
http://byteful.com/media/v/Photography/Travel/Field-Museum-Chicago/Remains+of+a+Coffin+_ie+Michael+Jackson_s+ancestor_.jpg.html
PS Elvis was born in Memphis…
the green man
11:24 on 18 December, 2013
Snap….I’ve been going for 58 years, but not to away games……wouldn’t give the bigots one penny of my money…..
When I said…”you could have fooled me”……was expecting your retort to be ” I know, you’re easily fooled”……..hahahahahahahahahaha…..HH…..(seriously, though, i get slightly irate when I read negativity, in an era when our yearning to see the back of them has come to fruition, and our current Board have contributed to this. )………HOOPY DAYS
Ahm tellt that when the rocket returns,
Cape Canaveral has been spurned,
in favour of a hard landing on…………… Irvine……
That would work…..
67Heaven
In what manner do you think, “our current Board have contributed to this”? (the demise of the huns)
There seems to be a slight misunderstanding here.
Loving the Celtic team is what its all about….but
Just because you may happen to dislike and mistrust the board, that does NOT, make you any less of a Celtic supporter.
Ive no time for businessmen pretending to be supporters, but for the Celtic players and supporters, I have nothing but love and respect.
HH
Theres nothin’ our enemies like better
than an oul’ bit o’ divide an’ conquer!
Aye.
Elvis was born in Tupelo.
DBBIA/GracelandCSC
67Heaven
Differentiate please, between love for the team….and mistrust of the board
They are different things entirely.
And yeah….you did reel me in there:)
HH
Natknow
Ask Auldheid, I’m not restarting the old cheese debate.
however, in saying that I have just had two slices of toasted bread, with some sliced cheese and a smear of green pesto, bunged in the microwave for 30 seconds.
elasticwaistedtrousersforme.csc
Bankiebhoy1
Chuck Yeager? Was he not married to the singer from Middle of the Road. Bald chap supports St Mirren. A lot less believable than the moon landings I’d say.
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
Dontbrattbakkinanger
11:37
Elvis was born in Sanquhar.
Elvis Presley was not born in Memphis. He was born in Tupelo. { some 100 miles from Memphis.}
LiviBhoy – God bless wee Oscar @ 11.30 hrs.
“Does that mean Peter Lawwell told the truth about a bid for Gary Hooper from another planet in another galaxy?”
Yes, unfortunately it was the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy and he was on pan galactic gargle blasters at the time.
HH.
DBBIA
Goshdarnit! I never should have trusted David Icke, especially not when he blinked like that….
Have ming and mccoll ‘shot the craw’ ……..if so, they must have seen this agm outcome coming………
Actually,
Kings of Rock’n’Roll aren’t born, they just are
Elvis may have been born in Tupelo,
buried in Graceland……
…………but his heart was “Forever Dalmellington”
FACT.
There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis.
His fritters are out of this world, by the way.
jimbo67,
Naw, was that no neganon2?
Sally Carr was married to the pretend Buddies fan.
C1st-that doesn’t surprise me.
over the years the lot of strugglin’ humanity has often been eased by the wondrous gifts of the people of Shangri La.
are we all lunatics?
hamiltontim is praying for oscar
11:34 on 18 December, 2013
We frugally maintained a level of corporate / playing success / challenge PRIOR TO, and throughout, the recession which forced them to panic / overspend , with the inevitable / wonderful consequences …..
Antipodean Red
We are all Neganon2 surely?
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
Dharma Bam \o/ stands up for Neil Lennon
11:39 on 18 December, 2013
Natknow
Ask Auldheid, I’m not restarting the old cheese debate.
however, in saying that I have just had two slices of toasted bread, with some sliced cheese and a smear of green pesto, bunged in the microwave for 30 seconds.
elasticwaistedtrousersforme.csc
Has the world gone mad?!
Dharma bam
I believe he used a Police box piloted by an eccentric Dr whose name escapes me.
” Elvis first watched the Celtic nearly 60 years ago,
his first game was agin Cowlairs Athletic in the auld McFuttock Cup
where he watched greats such as Shin-Splints O’ Shaugnessy and Growler Gribben demolish a very tidy Cowlairs outfit.
Even at this early stage in his career, Elvis was sure to differentiate between his love of the Club and his disdain for the board of management……….which at the time included Colonel Tom Parker…….”
FACT.
dharma bam \o/ stands up for neil lennon
11:48 on 18 December, 2013
are we all lunatics?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Well, I don’t know about you (or others), but I certainly am…..
Who did
Natknow,
I’m not proud of it
From FrPaulStone
The ASA text – http://t.co/Me7ANhT5g7 Same coefficient…really? So the ASA ask Sevco AGAIN “are you the same” and again get lies in return.
$1m prize money to anyone who can tell me how something which only exists “in common speech” can be owned. http://t.co/Me7ANhT5g7
Same reg. number with the SFA? http://t.co/Me7ANhT5g7 Yet the SFA have stated no club has a registration “number”. http://t.co/82dL7kxwqU
Same Club coefficient? http://t.co/Me7ANhT5g7 Yet Unirea Urziceni (liquidated in 2011) also have the same club coefficient.
Same coefficient? http://t.co/Me7ANhT5g7 Yet they were not allowed to play in Europe last season, despite qualifying by coming 2nd.
SFA Membership transfer? http://t.co/Me7ANhT5g7 So the membership is the club then? RFC formed 1872, SFA formed 1873.
Uefa website? http://t.co/Me7ANhT5g7 Uefa website lists their last game as against St Johnstone in May 2012. History cannot be erased.
In summary, the ASA have allowed themselves to be lied to and deceived by Sevco once again. The asked Sevco “are you the same?”…again.
Elvis invented the cheeseburger, shot Col Parker live on telly and had a SERIOUS Batman fixation – it’s all in this book;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Elvis-The-Novel-Robert-Graham/dp/1899344195
A complete and utter shambles from the ASA. That statement is just riddled with nonsense.
Same coefficient ASA? http://t.co/Me7ANhT5g7 Dod you ask why they were not in Europe last season then?
How odd they consulted with UEFA about Rangers but got general answer that didn’t say they considered them the same club
So the ASA asked the ECA (a private members club, like a bowling club) and Sevco if they were the “same”. Little surprise re the answer.
@AndyMcCrimmon Exactly, complete nonsense. I told you a few weeks back that that ASA statement that appeared on CQN was a fraud too.
@AndyMcCrimmon @FrPaulStone farcical & ASA report full of inaccuracies & failed to uphold their CAP codes/previous rulings on liquidated cos
One with which RFCs membership status has changed, did they explain that to the ASA?
@Tighe77 @pmcn888 @FrPaulStone Love that the ECA haven’t given them full story, why no mention that there ECA membership has been downgraded
But but but they are still the same, honest. Did the ASA care that the ECA had a deidco employee McLelland EBT recipient on its board?
” At times of stress Elvis would often take out his “eukele”
and play a few notes of the rarely acclaimed Jimmy Shand ‘classic’ – The Norther Lights of The Malecon”
Frank Lynch
Whilst I do appreciate and recognise your points we must move on. As I
said earlier the Yes campaign is not just about the SNP. Neither me or any other Scot can be held responsible for the sins of our fathers.
I wish you would also appreciate what I seek. I am the father of four and I desperately want an independent country for them to live in. Ireland has partial independence and I fully understand and support their wish for full independence.
If we get independence I will then vote for a Scottish Labour Party which
will rid us of the Bedroom tax and the proliferation of Food Banks.
It won’t be plain sailing but we will live in a more egalitarian and caring
society where folk count.
As I said earlier I just don’t get it why anyone who supports an Independent Ireland actively canvasses against independence for Scotland.
bankiebhoy1
If I remember that Cowlairs game correctly, there was some running aboot to get the ball back when a goal was scored, because nets had yet to be invented:)
HH
Nat Know
Which world?:)
I’m staying out of the roasted v toasted cheese debate regardless of fillings as I do not know what version of the Spitfire was involved.
The earlier MK2 versions powered by the Rolls Royce Merlin engine would have produced a bit less heat than the much later MKXV1powered by the Griffon engine and unless I know which one is involved I could only speculate on whether the cheese produced was roasted or toasted depending on the heat generated.
Suffice to say with a moon full of cheese there is enough of either type depending on distance from any crash site to go around
Not sure if green pesto is available in similar quantities though.
Aff oot, ma nurse is warming up my zimmer.