Only Tottenham will buy, not for Newcastle anymore. If you check the closed news around Newcastle, this summer we will change Owner, Chairman and every insider staff. Pay for success is not our plan anymore. Just Tottenham did so leave us alone.

Saying Tottenham struggle to qualify for europe each year is a bit harsh, fair enough they were poor in the league this year but everyone seems to forget that they qualified with ease the 2 years Previous, only missing out on champions league by 2 or so points one season. Im a United fan and even i see their the closest to breaking the top 4 right now, so why shouldnt they spend and increase their chances? poor article!

Being a TOON supporter, I know we've spent way too much money of players who have flopped big time, ie Boumsong, Luque, etc but then again, the 2 time we have spent £16m, its been on Englands top 2 strikers, so saying that we waste that sort of money on crap players, isn't quite true, unlike the Spurts did on Bent!!

To add to John's defence of Spurs, the assertion that Spurs have spent nearly as much as Chelsea is just plain wrong. We've spent a lot, but not nearly anything approaching Abramovich's Chelsea since he took over. Furthermore, our wage structure is far more rigid, stricter i think than Arsenal's even. The fact that we can spend as much as we do is testament to the huge fanbase we have, despite limited success in recent years. That is something which makes me very proud.

Is this article a joke? Spurs have qualified for Uefa 3 times in a row, I wouldn't see that as struggling. Yes the league performance was disappointing this season and yes they wasted 16m on a player we didn't need last season. But now the Manager is having a say in the transfers it's totally different. Ramos obviously see's Modric as an vital player to have in our squad next season and 16m for a player nowadays is hardly breaking the bank - especially for a player of Modric's calibre. As for the toon, yes they've spent big in the past as well, but not to the extent this article makes out.

16 million buys half the Arsenal team that finished 37 points above Newcastle or Spurs....

You are on the wind up mate. As stated above we have qualified for the Uefa three times on the spin, so hardly struggling... I trust Ramos's judgement with transfers & signing Modric so early on without anything being leaked to the media was a fantastic bit of business.

If Spurs keep improving at the rate they are, they should be relegated next year. 60 points last year, 47 points this year, 34 points next year Bye bye! A bit like the seventies all over again!

good one son. i dont even think they spent £16 million on bent, it was prolly closer to £50million dont u reckon? i think spurs being ambitious going for modric is idiotic, why dont they realise that if they want to be a sucessful club challenging for the CL they shouldnt sign anyone or if they have to, just sign championship players?? i reckon spurs have really under performed the past 3 seasons qualifying for the uefa. i also think that villa, pompey and everton in recent seasons have shown signs of relegation candidates coming between 10th and 5th! Keep on writing these great articles PLEASE

£16m for Arsenal Team. Which Arsenal team?

what an awful write up...mate you need to go home and read about football and then throw away those beano comics. You dont even know what your talking about lol...pathetic!!!! obviously a gooner scumbag

16 million does not buy half the Arsenal team you mug. Our transfer budget would have been lower than Arsenal's for the last 5 years, with Bent being the only blip. Its probably also worth mentioning that Spurs are the 11th richest club in the world and the richest not to be playing champions league football or winning any major trophies for 9 years. With that kind of foundation, imagine what a 50,000 seater stadium and Champions League football in the future could make?

Has Darren Bent flopped? We have a new manager who has made purchases on defenders after a string of injuries. It was widely agreed that there was a weakness in defence and he played safe and decided to buy in . Who could blame him? It seems to have worked. We got off to a bad start to the season which may have been due to the defence but could also be due to the loss of michael carrick in midfield .He has purchased Modric to remedy this. Berbatov wasnt that expensive. The top four have spent a lot more money than Spurs.Man City bought the whole team!

If the author of this dire scribble is over 8 years old it is confirmation of the disastrous state of the UK education system. Saying that spurs have spent anywhere near the amount that Chelsea have defies even economic illiteracy. My six year old understands finance better than this imbecile. Abramovic has put in in excess of £1/2 billion of his own money to finance players so perhaps wizard Evans can explain how spurs have spent somewhere near that without any infusion from ENIC or raising debt. Their financial statements are in the puiblic domain. Perhaps Evan can respond by giving us his analysis of the finances. Teacher can help if the accounts have too many long words.Then perhaps the erudite Evan can give us his assessment of the strengths and weeknesses of Modric as he seems to be more aware than the major clubs that wanted to sign Modric. Lastly perhaps some background on Evan which demonstrates who he supports and the attributes that make him such a knowledgable journalist wannabe. The internet has a lot to answer for when it provides a platform to people like Evan who seem to have an ego way beyond his IQ. Reckon his UK shoe size is higher than his IQ!!!!

They post these ridiculous posts to make you open them to anger you and to post over and over to view the other replies, if you stopped the site would die as they are doing it not to write good articles but to earn money of your clicks because of the google adverts on the right hane side, every click earns money, don't open them, this site is all about bull$hit

but spurs havent spent hardly anything compared to chelski. We also finshed 5th the last 3 seasons with ease, and one of these we should of finished 4th, if it wasnt for the spammers and a dodgy lasangue. Also you cant judge Modric when he hasnt even played yet, and he did make our English midfield a laughing stock when we played crotia. As for you spammer/arsenal lot you dont know who Ramos is gonna buy in yet so dont speak to soon as he will be thrown right back at you soon.

Right I'm going to concentrate on just one paragraph of this rubbish: 1. Tottenham have spent nearly as much Chelsea in the last few years In the two years prior to the last two years how much of Abramovich's money did Chelsea spend to set up the club? Hundreds of thousands! Chelsea are buying in a couple of players at a time to bolster their already quality squad. 2. can’t really say they have topped anything worthwhile aside from the Carling Cup There's quite a few teams outside of the CL4 who'd be rather happy with finally getting their hands on a trophy this decade!! 3. They blew the same amount of money on Darren Bent that Barcelona spent on Thierry Henry and though they both flopped So he's done nothing for one season and he's a flop? How realistic was it ever going to be that Bent was going to get in front of Berba and (the main striker at Spurs) Keano? Spurs definitely over-spent on Bent (mainly due to West Ham sticking their oar in - grr) and he's obviously not in Henry's class (even now!). Finally - Tottenham Hotspur PLC runs in the black each year. We're leveraged but so is every other PLC! We might spend, but that's because, unlike Everton and other clubs (without their Sugar-daddies) we can afford to. That'll do for now - I'll come back later if you write any more crap...

What a silly, uninformed article

Spurs is such a well run club that spending 16m on a player is obviously no big deal so whats your problem ?? I can think of no other reason for this article other than pure green eyed monster , how terribly sad

What kind of crap is that D. Bent flopped? How many games has he started for Tottenham and how many games has Henry started for Barcelona?? Bent must of got about..7 starts and Henry has played for Barcelona non-stop and I bet D. Bent's scored more goals than Henry has this season If D. Bent is given a chance, he'll be scoring goals, don't talk so much crap people.

Of the top six leading premiership goalscorers this year, Berbatov and Keane are both in there. How do you expect Bent to get a decent run in the team with those two ahead of him? If you add up what we spent on Bent and Berbatov together, it is still less than either Drogba or Shevchenko on their own. Grow up and spout your crap elsewhere!

The Arsenal team that played Man U at the Emirates this season cost 37.1 million to assemble if you would like to DIVIDE that by two eighteen and a half million....

Chris , is that the same team that has won sod all 4 years running ? hmmmmmmmmmmm

Lets look at facts they both cost the same(ish) Bent is alot younger than Henry and so has a future. He was a a really bright prospect who probably needs a season to make the transition from big fish in a small pond to being just one of the team blah blah. Henry on the other hand great player that he WAS he did have the tendancy to choke in the big games and Arsenal fans dont kid yourselves if Spurs had qualified for the CL 2 years ago Henry would have quit a season earlier, it was amazing how he wouldn't commit himself until after that last game.

No they have won the same amount of cups as your mob in that time!!! (didn't argue about the cost I notice)

I don't think that a 'ridiculous amount of money' has been spent on Luka Modric; all informed observers agree that it has been a transfer coup by Spurs in signing a fine player, possibly 'world class' in the old-fashioned, genuine sense of that now over-used term. Darren Bent cost about the same amount, and with each match appearance he has made and every goal he has scored, the transfer-price of each goal scored by him has fallen. Anyway, that's a couple of serious points in reply to a silly article, sadly not the first I've read on here.

To the gloating gooner scum, we can spend 16m on bent, because we are a very well run club, one of only 3 who are debt free. whereas you lot are 360m in debt and will be paying 25m a yr until the year 2030, ( according to edelman ) when some of you lot will be picking up your pensions. You've won nothing for the third year running, the last thing you won was the fa cup, displaying the crudest piece of negative tactics against utd seen since george graham did against s.wed. - not the BEAUTIFUL game that day. your day has come and gone , move over , JR's are on their way . 5-1 suckers !!

16 million can buy a lot. Its short sighted managers buying the player in their prime, in blind assumption they will carry their form to their new team, and businessmen horrendously overpricing average players. Latest example- Bosingwa. He won't set the world on fire, he'll probably do a steady job but no better than someone who could have been obtained for half the price. Maybe so many clubs would't be in debt if players like Gareth Barry and Darren bent were priced upwards of £15 million.

Aaron , Spurs are looking to move to a new stadium soon are you going to build it bit by bit or do you think you may borrow a few quid?

Everybody hates Spurs!

Shevchenko cost twice what Bent did, is on three times the salary and is about 5 years older!!!!

Yes but Abramavich is richer than spurs.

The one element missing from this uninformed pile of garbage is that any transaction that Spurs make must be registered as we are a PLC and therefore accountable to our shareholders...I.E. We cant spend what we aint got!, so if we've got it ...we spend it on players, which is a really good idea for a football club, isnt it?

I love the PERSONAL ABUSE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. It is tolerated here more than anywhere and I think article are written to pit fans against each other Bent is a great striker but not as great as Keane and Berba and paying that much for a third choice striker is a little daft. NUFC have bought some flops but thats due to recent shit managers. Souness with boumsong and Luque for chrisats sake. I think with our new manager and owner they will be looking to make intelligent buys. Bottom line is that every single player is a gamble as you never know how they will fit in in a new team.

And we beat you 4-1......again....so what does that say to you buddy?

Wasnt Drogba, Henry & adebayor labeled a flop in their 1st season?? And you can hardly call him a flop based on his Charlton days! If/When Berba leaves i truely hope we dont sign Etto as i can think of a few Defenders/Midfielders we can spend 27m on! also i think in Darren Bent we have a great player who can take his 16m flop label and shove it down every envious football fans throat next season! NO Darren Bent is no flop! when someone gets 15-7 mins a game whats he ment to do? we will see the best of him next season, I garuntee he will become our best player! watch this space! As for this piss poor article words fail me! just ask Mr Wenger if 16m buys you nothing! COYS

He didnt cost s 16.5million, he was intially 5mill, and the remainer to be settled over 5 years I think?, however that aside; he was bought because of Defoes reluctance to sign a new deal, and walk for nothing hence the reduced 7million Pompey paid, secondly there was also a strong possibility that Berba would leave last summer, so where would that leave us;? it was a fair assumption that he along with Keane would be our spearhead for this season, with another striker coming in later.

£16m does buy a fair bit actually if you know what your doing. Arteta - £2.5m Cahil - £2m Lescott - £5m Pienaar - £2.5m And enough money left for deep fried Mars bar on the way home