With 10 games remaining of this Premier League campaign, Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham Hotspur are well positioned to make a late rally for a Champions League berth next season.
While Spurs suffered a somewhat chastening defeat at Fulham on March 16, the 4-0 win at fourth-placed Aston Villa six days previous was significant, with just three points and one place separating the two sides, with Spurs having a game in hand on Villa. Champions League football next season would be extremely valuable for Spurs.
From the start of next season’s competition, the new ‘Swiss Model’ system will be introduced, meaning more teams, more games, and more money. Spurs have put a great deal of emphasis into creating a healthy business in recent years; the jewel in the crown, of course, being the £1bn stadium build that was completed in 2019.
The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has the potential to be a catalyst for the club in the coming years, especially at a time when revenue growth is vital in relation to how much clubs will be able to invest into on-pitch talent in the coming years, something that has for so long been intrinsically linked with competitive success. Spurs fans have had to swallow fallow years in terms of that success for a long while now.
But the club is one of the select few in European football that has the tools to be able to navigate the next decade or so and spend on achieving trophies — a lucrative business. Earlier this month, Premier League clubs convened to discuss the ‘New Deal for Football’ around how to give a more equitable share of revenue to the EFL.
For half the member clubs, they wanted to know what the new financial regulations that are set to replace the current Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR) would look like
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