Hi all, I have another article for you by Don Scully, this time, he looks at the top 10 richest clubs in the world and their spending (to win trophies). You’d be surprised that Levy & Lewis are not at the bottom of the spending league table, however, they are where trophies are concerned. Agree or disagree, but I would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks, Glenn
Levy’s club is tighter than a duck’s Uranus (and no sighted landings)
By Don Scully
To win trophies, you need to invest in the best, as do United, City, Chelsea and the rest of the top 5 clubs. Even the European top clubs (Bayern, Barcelona, Paris etc.) invest heavily to bring in the trophies for their clubs’. I said top 5, however, there are six top English clubs (rated by their wealth), but I didn’t mention Levy’s Spurs as he doesn’t invest in the same way as the other top European clubs do. That is why we’ve won nothing (other than a League Cup in 2008) while Levy has been in charge, and it is unlikely we are going to win anything while he is running things, other than a minor trophy (such as the League Cup).
Since 2013 the net spend of European’s top clubs:
- Manchester City have spent £825m and won 10 major honours (only beaten by Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona, Bayern Munich & Real Madrid in the trophy stakes).
- Manchester United have spent £717m and won three trophies (don’t forget, this is since 2013).
- Paris Saint-Germain have spent £452m and won17 trophies.
- Barcelona have spent £541m and won 11 trophies in 8 years.
- Arsenal, yes, our dreaded neighbours have spent £431m and won 4 trophies
- Chelsea are in sixth place and spent £302m and won 5 trophies.
- Liverpool have spent £215m and won 3 trophies.
- Bayern Munich have spent £207m and won14 trophies
- In 9th, but not 10th, is our very own Levy & Lewis purchased club, and they spent £172 and won fuck all.
- However, in 10thand spending 5m less than us, but still have won more trophies, is Real Madrid. They won 12 trophies in 8 years.
Now, one club hasn’t invested as much as the others (including Spurs), but that doesn’t matter if they have something to show for it (such as 12 trophies). To be fair, we couldn’t care how much Levy invested so long as he had some significant silverware to show for his tight-fisted grip on the club’s money. He hasn’t and only a minor league Cup in 21 years of stroking the white cat in his chairman’s chair.
But to be fair on Levy, he has channelled all the money into a brand new spanking stadium that makes more money than the rest, which allows him to be one of the wealthiest well-paid chairman, if not the richest, in the world.
Why spend money on winning trophies when you can spend the profits feeding rich the rich? Making themselves so rich that even if they lived another 100 more years, they still wouldn’t be able to spend it all. And now they’ve been cheated out of their European Superleague money machine, which would have made them even more billions. So back to the drawing board for Levy & Lewis.
Maybe we should get a statue erected in honour of Lewis & Levy for what they’ve done for themselves while director/ owners of our once proud Trophy-winning historical team/ club (then again, that might all change in the future… that is, we start to win trophies).
By Don Scully
I have been following Spurs since the sixties and work in London. My current job is as a professional writer (working in the media), and I have work connections to the club and had previously worked for them. Including working at the old White Hart Lane stadium.
I also have my own blog and have written for the SpursWeb app & its website.
