The quality of thought invested into most football coverage these days is abysmal. That’s the polite version. Quite why so many have opted to infantilise their content is beyond me. That said, back in the day, if one had asked Brian Lester Glanville to produce tens of thousands of words a week, he would have probably snapped and been found in just his underpants, eating typewriter ribbons.
The news that Tottenham Hotspur has shuffled the pack in order to rustle up a cash injection of some £150million has in the main been presented with all the decorum of a scratch card win in a Glasgow off-license.
This isn’t a new thing, of course. Some of us will recall much of the fanbase reacted to HSBC granting the club a £350million facility in 2017. Perhaps the deterioration in football content stemmed from unscrupulous editors realising that there was plenty of traffic available for news that was presented in a facile fashion.
The devil is in the detail with Levy, and we are told, “The equity injection provides the Premier League club with greater financial flexibility and the ability to further invest on and off the pitch.”
ENIC must be hitting Colombian drug cartel territory with off-the-pitch investment. What else is needed, gold toilet seats and mother-of-pearl embellished training cones?
The maths are straightforward enough, £150million minus whatever missing pieces of the infrastructure puzzle, minus the wrong end of £50million for Cuti Romero, divided by the 6 (the transfer deals the previously mentioned journalists told us about), leaves a war chest, really?
