Well Spurs is one of richest club in UK and 12th biggest
football club in the world according to Forbes, here the link:
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/34/biz_soccer08_Soccer-Team-Valuations_Rank.html
My own summary on Spurs on UK alone:
Summary for Spurs in
UK:
In term of valuation fifth in whole of UK & 12th in the
world at USD414m.
1) ManU------------- USD1.8b
2) Arsenal---------- USD1.2b
3) Pool------------- USD1.05b
4) Chelsea---------- USD764m
5) Spurs------------ USD414m
In term of revenue, also fifth in UK and 10th in the world
at USD207m.
1) ManU------------- USD394m
2) Chelsea---------- USD382m
3) Arsenal--------- USD329m
4) Pool--------------USD269m
5) Spurs---------- USD207m
Growth in value, 2nd in that list in UK
1) Pool--------------131%
2) Spurs---------- 70%
In term of operating #, 3rd in UK and 6th in the whole
world at USD64m.(Even beat Pool,Chelski, Milan , Roma etc at
that)
1) ManU------------- USD111m
2) Arsenal--------- USD77m
3) Spurs----------- USD64m
So Spurs w/o CL football and only UEFA cup
competition is able achieve healthy revenue as compare to the big
4, but what more impressive is the operating profit which is 3rd in
the whole UK after ManU and Arsenal!
But becos both ManU and Arsenal are heavily in
debt, they dun have much to spend on the transfer mkt whereas
Spurs has little debt, so in reality it could afford to spend much
more than them.
Anyway so far Spurs the net spending for Spurs
before this week was actually very low, here a summary so far
created by someone else afew weeks ago , (please note that some of
the figure are based on news reports and guesstimate rather
than official figures) :
IN
Heurelho Gomes - 7m
Cesar Sanchez - 200k
John Bostock - 2m
Luka Modric - 16.5m
David Bentley - 17m
Giovani dos Santos - 8.6m
TOTAL - £51.3m
OUT
Radek Cerny - contract expired
Paul Robinson - 3.5m
Anthony Gardner - 2.5m
Younes Kaboul - 6m
[Pascal Chimbonda |
Teemu Tainio |
Steed Malbranque] - 17m
Robbie Keane - 20.3m
TOTAL - £49.3m
NET SPEND - £2m
Anyway , having the money and getting the
player you want is 2 different thing.
Some want CL football which Spurs is not in it,
some clubs demand highly inflated prices for their best player
(Ashavin is one example), some players demand high wages which
erode the profit( Eto'o) etc.
Spurs started well in the transfer mkt by
strengthen the midfield but getting the defence sorted face
problems with Dunne and later Corluka, then came Keane demand
for transfer when Pool stepped in with £20m for the 28y.o. and
later Berbatov do likewise.
Well, we have to wait whether Spurs could
get their targeted players which by then allow Spurs to sell
Berbatov(for £28m?).
Here one which should be done by this week,
Roman Pavlyuchenko arrives at Spurs
Lodge.
