“Of course I have an idea,” Mourinho said when asked by PA Sport’s Jonathan Veal if he knows what he wants his squad to look like next season. “Of course we share our ideas. When I say we, I say myself and the structure including obviously the boss. So we know what we want.
“But at the same time, we can all expect a strange summer. I believe that it will be a bit strange in the sense of a different transfer window than in previous seasons.
“But at the moment I don’t think it is about anyone fighting for his future. It is about everyone fighting for the points we need to finish the season the best that we can.”
Over the last year or so, whilst many of you have been tucked up in your homes making Zoom calls and watching TV, businesses have been going to the wall in no small number. Over 17,000 stores closed last year and that doesn’t touch all the ones that are currently shut and will never open again. According to The Guardian, 48 shops, restaurants, and other leisure and hospitality venues closed permanently in the UK. Over 693,000 payroll jobs have disappeared.
The full extent of the carnage won’t be clear for a good while but people in the UK claiming benefits has pretty much doubled in the last year. According to the BBC 4.7million are still being furloughed. That party is scheduled to end in September.
Those fans expecting a lively transfer window this summer are surely in for a disappointment. On top of the concerns we all have at this time, Tottenham is burdened by debt and bar the odd exception, the players they might wish to move on, have little or no sell on value.
Mourinho may well have his targets, but to expect much to happen in the summer seems like a fantasy at this stage.
Fans are scheduled to return, but in numbers that will have so little economic benefit, it beggars belief. The complete fallout for business outside of football has yet to emerge and the same can be said of inside football.
This site along with thousands of others will on a daily basis peddle transfer rumours for your consideration. My advice is to enjoy the analysis where it’s offered and take the salacious, appetite-whetting stuff with copious amounts of salt. Mourinho knows.
The future for most of us is poorer,much poorer.
Yep.
I don’t think he can even be bothered to moan in this job though, it will achieve nothing.
That’s a pretty balanced view, you could be right.
Last summer wasn’t a good window, apart from Regulion and PEH. However, these signings were just to replace players that had left the club; Rose and Wanyama respectively.
The way it’s been handled by both the government and the NHS has been disgracefully amateurish.
When they hike taxes on people’s earnings to help try and pay for all of this, are the going to include the cost of these massive field hospitals that were never touched?
Amazon will be rubbing their hands to gather about the number of retail businesses that have been taken out too, and they pay zero uk tax…
Yep, grealish, fernandes, dybala to name a few
Hope so
Morinho. You mean
I think funny is the blockbuster big money transfer might not happen to start the merry go round. Pep said City can’t buy big so I guess ings for them and no-one will stump up for kane as Haaland or wait a year for Mbappe might prove more more desirable.
I think it’s Covid he’s talking about.
No money to buy top players. No money to pay top wages. Bargain basement budget. Course levy had to hustle to save a few hundred grand here and there. Anyway dem days done. We’ve bought well at the new lane so far. Tottenham gonna be a major player in the money league. Few years time now. We gonna have big transfer budgets. Don’t be surprised if we start buying up the world’s top youngsters/players and loan them out. Tottenham different now. Expect a strong recovery from this covid set back (just like the economy will) it’s all about success on the pitch now. (Money gonna go into a valuable winning team now. (ENIC won’t get top dollar if/when they do decide to cash in without one.
Hahaha old lane levy
Not new lane Levy constrained by huge debt and suffering the additional loss of income through this pandemic
The same man is in charge, he will not change, he cannot change, its who he is. Messing around not buying the right player, welching on spending money on top class players and continually rooting around in the basement hoping to unearth a star we can move on in 3 years for a fortune. The stupid desperate lady minute brinkmanship to save a few quid, all it does is not give the player time to settle, it messes up our start to the season and destabilises the squad.
It’s the thing every year, has been for 20 years, will be for the 20.
All this nonsense about new lane Levy, geez, he is a penny pincher, cheap cheap cheap.
Go through all the players he has bought, look at the money that has been spent and tick off the top quality players. Then look at the bargain basement dross we have bought, that list is endless.
Levy is a problem not a solution
Psychopaths is about right
Not again. I’ve already had to wait 5 years to prove the obvious to the last lot, now we got to do it again just to see the result of something even more obvious. 😭
YES
Property portfolio in tottenham? You’re Clueless.
Just like every year for this club then. Every year is a strange summer….
In the blog yesterday where H mentioned Whitty saying the ‘virus’ will be managed like flu, I didn’t quite cotton on, I thought it was something he said at the very start of this mess, just saw the headline from 2 days ago about , “No more lockdowns, treat it like the flu” etc….I was just trying to work out how after a year of total destruction of livelyhoods, lives, family’s mental and physical health that H pointed out here, how does Whitty come out with such a flippant statement? Of course, it was April 1st. April fool’s. More mockery from these psychopaths. They really are dispicable.
I suppose we will have to wait and see won’t we?
Oh yes ENIC are interested in improving, their property portfolio…
The last 20 years don’t tell me anything regarding the next 20 years
Yes. Enic has acquired the brand, the land and built the retail centre. When we have reached tipping points previously under jol and ‘arry, Enic declined to take the next steps. For sure, the time to “show and prove” was 3-4 years ago. The last 20 years tells you everything you need to know,
There saving grace for our window is clubs across Europe and the UK are struggling to stay a float. There are deals to be done. We in huge debt, but due to structure of it, its not currently considered toxic. We will struggle shift junk, but I can see a few player+cash deals to some struggling clubs. Levy if a shark, and in times like this, he could be excellent for us… That said though, I can’t see us signing players that would turn us into champions, more just add stability and return to top 4. It will be small improvements on playing staff.
The moaners gotta be dropped out fast
You only know old lane levy. Stop talking rubbish
I’m not saying I want Son to go, of course not, but losing one seems inevitable, and of the 2 I can see it being him.
“Uncle Joe” is in his mid 80’s, if he was gonna do something about making Spurs better he’d have done it by now.
The prospects of even being a respectable team look bleak? If you say so!
Like treading water for another 22 years? If you say so. Uncle Joe? Like he’s ever given tottenham money. Do you honestly believe tottenham ain’t interested in improving?
This will only play out one way. We know Baldy well enough by now and we also know Jose. The Amazon thingy was a while ago now…
That would be the transfer equivalent of musical chairs. That would mean relying on Kane even more than we already do and breaking up the best forward partnership in the league. What, to bring in one decent central defender? It won’t happen, besides Rodon is the new defender.
The only way this squad improves significantly is if Uncle Joe does something about it. This idea of the squad being self sustaining financially is fine, as long as you aren’t interested in actually improving. Like treading water for another 22 years… 🤔
Getting rid of the rubbish and the moaners would constitute a successful window IMO. Plus one top end CB. Funded by Son’s sale, not Kane’s – I could live with that.
Ok, so as we have to sell to buy then no overhaul will be possible. I would suggest that PEH was a one off, a diamond in the rough. I would imagine that this summer will look like last summer where apart from the aforementioned Dane, the squad was not improved at all.
Rodon looks good, Sessingnon is doing ok in Germany, Tanguy and Gio look good in flashes. Unless the management (whoever it is) gets a tune out of these younger players then our medium to short term prospects of even being a respectable top flight team look fairly bleak.
I suspect Daniel will have worked this out already…
Mourinho will not work with the same squad again next season, he will want changes, and if low price alternatives are what he is offered then it’s bye bye.