It's interesting that a lot of people forget that Levy is not the owner he is just an employee . No one argue that he has built an amazingly stable and financial strong club . We now need to increase the quality of the playing staff with Ange in situ as manager of the football club . We need to be able to compete for the top of the table and look to consistently be there . We don't have a divine right to win things but would be good to be in the hunt .

The trim looks unreal in this one, Ali. Good comb.

100% with you on Lo Celso coming in for Maddison.

Genuine questions... 1. Why have spurs only had 1 pen all season? The least amount of any prem club. 2. What happened to the share dividend thing the board did a year ago to release £100m into the transfer kitty. Did they spend it? 3. What's the latest with the sky bar above Paxton Road? Stadium has opened for a while now, and it doesn't look like it gets used.

West Ham game was frustrating and the result disappointing but if we put things in perspective, there is progress since last season but Ange is the first to tell you that Spurs are very far from a finished product and there is along way to go Actually somehow Spurs overtook The Uniteds ( Manchester and Newcastle) and went miles ahead with a young squad and without Kane. Unthinkable a year ago. Tottenham finished 11 and 15 points respectively behind them. Now they are 13 and 9 points behind us.

Please ask him about set pieces, defensive. Thanks. I look forward to his answer about how it's not a problem and it's the attacking third that needs focus on

Thanks, Ali. I think the only way we could challenge for the PL is if the league continues their stance on punishing teams with points for FFP violations. This will curb spending and recruitment will become more important than ever. If our recruitment team is on point combined with Ange’s coaching and man management ability will give us a good chance. We can’t be like Man U, Chelsea, and Everton where we’re spending like drunken sailors on players who are overly expensive on huge salaries and not good. Plus, Ange needs to take the domestic competitions seriously because if we can win the Carabao Cup or the FA Cup, winning can breed the right mentality and confidence. Thanks again, Ali. COYS! 🙏🏾👍🏾

Hi, very good analysis of our financial situation!!! But why O why are we still conceding so so many set pieces???! That’s what will cost us, re lost points due to the set pieces turning into draws or losses???! Anyway that beer is slowly evaporating??? Maybe Sunday???? 😊

Forest this Sunday will be my first ever tottenham game live and my first time in London. They better score a lot of goals and keep a clean sheet

Good job on the subject of Daniel Levy and his bonus, if you got a bonus would you take it, he's an employee it's in his contract, like it or not he did what he needed to to earn it same as you or any one else would do whatever it takes to earn your bonus. That doesn't mean I agree with him getting it potentially at the expense of seniors but if it's in the contract Spurs are obligated to pay it. Second thing I'd like to note is the difference between the top 3 teams and 4th and 5th is about 15 goals conceded as you point out our defensive set pieces are costing us, maybe we don't to invest millions in new defenders just invest in better defensive coaches, we'd be challenging top 3. Shortly after the start of the season I mentioned frequently Son wasn't taking any shots from outside the box, I would reference the goal that won him the "Golden Boot", he did at some point score a goal similar to that, so I stopped mentioning it, but hasn't done since I'm glad you've finally noticed. One final thought going back to the financials I have on occasion wondered what would have happened to the club if Terry Venables had gotten his way and taken ownership of it, where do you think we'd be now? Would we have the new stadium? Would we be in the financial position we're in now? I'm pretty sure we'd have had a few more trophies because he was more of a football man, what do you think Alasdair? Have a great day, take care of yourself and enjoy.

Hi Alasdair, thank you so much for all your insite on your updates. Stay safe and well. COYS.

Maybe Tanganga has found his level, along with Rodon. Same as Jack Clark, Winks etc, its okay to accept the reality.

The weather definitely played a part in our difficulties against West ham. We are a speedy team that likes to play in space. That downpour certainly slowed the game down significantly. Also Sonny was playing his 4th game in under 2 weeks. He was probably and understandably tired. Maybe Richy starting would have been better and bring Son on later. I know Sonny would have hated it but sometimes you need to protect players from themselves.

Something struck me about a third of the way through when you said this season that's meant to be a "building season" is miles ahead of last season that was meant to be a "pushing on season". Which is just the same as the year before when Conte's "building season" ended far better than Mourinho's "pushing on season". It's a worrying sign that when there's no expectations, we play well but as soon as there's pressure to push on it all goes pear shaped. Hoping that trend doesn't continue under Ange but when Conte said "the club doesn't like to play under any sort of pressure"... It rings a bit too true for my liking.

Ange can't publicly criticize set pieces without damaging the career prospect of one of his coaching team - Ange doesn't clean linen publicly.

Why cant we shoot instead of trying to walk it in and do think we have no luck with the refs again yesterday he a lot go for west ham but we get pulled up for the slightest touch its happening to often

Alasdair, I watch everything you put out and enjoy your views very much. Can you tell me why, when the embargoed section of Ange’s press conference comes on, the reporters microphone is cranked down???

Re: goals conceded. 5 most goals scored, so it’s all relative and reflects his risk/reward football. Having said that I feel defensively we were much stronger in the first half of the season when it came to free kicks/dead balls. Re the result, Ange will never admit they were happy to take a point and banking on City to thrash Villa, in which they’ve copped a minus 3 on the goal difference now. An interesting approach, but you could see they were set up as so and if they scored a second in the second half it was a bonus. Ironically, Ange said the players in the final third are rushing, for me I don’t think they’re rushing enough. Almost like Arsenal 15 years ago trying to walk the ball in, I’d like to see more shots on sight.

We have been vulnerable at corners all season. Several free headers which missed too. Son and BJ not tall enough to help there. WE ought to have players practising jumping higher to help GK

A tough West Ham away earning a point there isn’t the worst thing in the world. We move on to Sunday’s home game against Nottingham Forest.

I’d rather just take the investment. Say what you like about Levy, he always protects the club’s financial future. In terms of playing staff, it’s not so much about buying a £100m player, it’s more about getting the right player. That’s been the biggest problem. I believe we’re heading in the right direction, and Levy continues to deliver for us, off the field.

Thanks for the video Ally. On the financial side we’ve just had planning permission granted for the 180 room hotel/apartments. I think it’s clear the club don’t want to increase the existing debt to build that and other new phases of the development so they are going to get cash in from investors instead. I doubt very much any new money will go on big transfers unless the slice of the pie sold is very large, I think the club will say “the more we invest the better the future returns will be” which based on what we’ve seen in these results is hard to argue against. Villa lost tonight so a point away at West Ham now feels less terrible and may make a big difference come the seasons end……well let’s hope so.

Once again another fantastic and informative video Alasdair.

The tippy tappy passing, trying to get through a packed defence and keep taking an extra touch instead of shooting, drives me crazy.

Westham’s goal deflected off the player’s back. More luck than skill.

Thanks for the vid Ali!

I have a serious question: you started the video talking about the large amount of revenue generated with all the extra things going on a the stadium ect then be confused about DL bonus? Everyone at work will have targets set in order to A: get a pay raise B: get a bonus: Why should DL be any different? The club also makes no bones about maximizing revenue streams: how can people not understand that they are a revenue stream I really don't get the fuas

Great insight as always Ali. Let's get that champs league place and challenge for the title next season. COYS

Thank Sir Gold for your usual clear analysis of Tottenham's football, also for the insight into the operations of the club. Whilst I enjoyed watching the team at West Ham, there were moments of frustration. i understand that the team is playing a game of patient football, but sometimes that patience causes the team to lose the ball, because there is just too much side ways passes trying to get that through pass into the 18. Can they no longer take a shot at the top of the 18, especially when they have created the space to do so? Maddison now isn't' the same Maddison before the injury and I do believe that Lo Celso is a better player in the Maddison position and I know that he (Lo Celso) is a frustrated player especially with the role he played when we had all those injuries. Looking forward to our next encounter. COYS!!

I'm pretty sure there were more goals from the counter attacks... Off the top of my head: Wolves, Brentford, Luton... And apart from direct goals, they also lead to all those corners and throwings that we often struggle from...

Ali. Thanks for the hard work. What will the investment injection be spent on?

Taking money out of seniors pockets, most of whom would have been supporting the club financially for years, which in turn has given the chairman his opportunity to vastly increase his personal wealth, and helping the club to a half billion turnover, is a disgrace.

Hey remember us overseas fans in awful time zones. The night games means a 6am game here instead of 2am. We like the night games.

Why is that at every set piece we look so vulnerable and weak. I get so nervous when teams get corners on us with the goals with let in this season.

Let us have some honesty here boys, we need investment, Ange is hinting at being ready to challenge the top 3 after the summer window, I consider my self to be a glass half full person, but to be challenging the top 3 next season is certainly a big ask. Onwards and upwards with Ange ✌

Firstly I’d like to salute u for the direct question on kulu’s position on the left 🫡on the game I feel Johnson was actually trying to deliver crosses, not sure if the deliveries were not good enough or Werner positioning? Also am I being harsh when I say porros passing for someone that is very technically good has been kinda poor lately and his decision makin ? I wasn’t a fan of kulu being brought on before gio in the 10 either

There were a few too many times last night where Johnson was ready to put a cross in and Werner or co weren’t gambling enough, add in a few misplaced passes from Porro and Werner and we just really lacked service. Maddison was better, but often the player lacking that pass from someone in key areas

Class Ali - would be good to do a video soon if you are keen! 👀

The investment will also cover the building of the hotel/residential project adjoining the stadium... They seem to mention it as an addition to the players.

Hi Ali, I worry for skipp’s future with spurs if hojberg keeps getting in ahead of him who is supposedly allowed to leave. Do we need to sell both and raise funds for a Bissouma alternative that way? Will we need home grown player signings - going to be interesting to see what happens. The club really needs to get some transfer fees in this summer rather than all this loaning out. You’d think most are sellable if they mostly have 12 months left as other teams may now be more willing to meet the player values with 12 months left

I got frustrated in the West Ham game with the number of times we gave away possesion cheaply. Either easy passes going astray or 'hollywood' passes never going to come off. We need sharper ball control and I hope our summer transfer window will look to that. I agree with you Alasdair, Gio would have been a much better substitute for Maddison. Hey ho, never mind, if we draw all our away matches and win the home ones then we're guaranteed that vital European football, I've missed it. (PS Levy's bonus is two months wages for Rashford. Yes, I know he's Man U but worth thinking about for context).

Hey Ali, I wonder if Levy's bonus is tied to the off the pitch business contracts Spurs finalized last year such as the formula 1 partnership and NFL renewal deal along with possibly hitting certain revenue benchmarks from concerts, boxing matches etc.

Levy awarding himself a bonus based on last year relates to his Conte appt, his decision to keep Conte 2.0 in place (Stellini), and the abysmal end to the season. If I performed like that at my job, I'd be looking at my P45, not a bonus! Not a Levy-Out extraordinaire, everyone has their flaws, but he certainly doesn't help himself.

Thanks Alasdair COYS

Thanks, Alasdair! On to the Nuno derby!

I felt with the game Sonny was always out of the box when the opportunities did come into the box. I’ve found the last few games he has dropped deep to help move the ball. Sonny created the most chances on the day which is okay I suppose but our main striker shouldn’t have that stat

Just noticed the new profile pic! Alli and Indie. Cheers for the ever-flowing amazing content, Alli. COYS

Thanks for the video Alasdair. The West Ham game just reinforced my view that finding a new striker, or giving Parrott or Scarlet regular first team football is a priority in the summer. I don’t care what the data say. As Col. Kilgore might have said - Data don’t score goals. 😃

In the picture I saw, there were 6 Spurs players in the freeze frame photo of Zooma deflecting it in.

I love Ange ball and the new playing style. However, Son, Johnson, Werner and Maddison are not the biggest or most physical players and it’s starting to show against the low block and big players like Zouma etc

Staggered why Spurs did not keep feeding Werner on the left. They should stretch the opposition on both flanks and then have space in the middle for Madison to exploit. Far too predictable at the moment which is why they seem to get goals early on during each half.

When you done your little Britain impression I spat my tea out in the Coffee shop 😆.

Yes Ali we’ve been there before but I am hopeful that this time we are not going to take a wrong turn

If we don’t finish where we want, Tuesday’s game will not be the one to rue. We’ve had worse results and performances this season.

We need to do man marking at corners. Everyone then takes responsibility for their opposition player and you can also avoid mismatching between markers at corners by knowing who your player is to mark. . I don't think we are good enough for zonal marking . Also any opposition player(s) annoying Vicario at corners will be taken care of by their marker(s) . A point at West Ham is not a bad result.

The midfielders where too hesitant in getting the ball quickly out to Temo he was out there open many times calling for the it ,was only when Hojberj came on he saw it and was trying to get him behind

The Levy salary situation is strange. In terms of optics, he shouldn’t be paid a salary from the club at all. As a partner in ENIC, he should be earning from cap gains and/or a salary from them. Let’s not forget Levy is a Billionaire in his own right, via shareholdings. Salary doesn’t mean much to him. The potential equity sale is his big payday.

I see a version of "The Waterboy" where Ryan Mason is coach Red Beaulieu, and Gianni Vio is Coach Klein. Robbery of the special notebook!

Yes Mr Gold, my notifications popped up and I had to press play straight away. Never a dull moment as a Spurs fan is it? Thank you as always and get a well deserved rest. #COYS

I’d imagine levy bonus is based on bringing in f1 and new NFL deal - but like with all ceo how they get bonuses regardless of how company performing a joke

I've got a question for you Alasdair,first of all,when Daniel Levy finally decided to have talks with his investors,so this is the question I'd like to ask you. What does it mean for the club and the future?. Thanks Alasdair!.

As disgusted as I am about Levy’s bonus, my concern about a new owner would be how much money they would take out of the club. I notice no dividends were taken again in that year. If a new owner has to pay 2 bil for the club, he’s going to want a return. There’s good and bad owners out there ( Boehly, Glaziers etc). I think if we have a decent sunmer window I’d still rather the devil I know. As for the seniors, it’s bang out of order, but let’s not pretend we’re the only club doing it. It doesn’t make it right, but new owners could do the same thing. There no guarantees in life, and certainly none in football.

So Levy is paid about 70k a week. Is that a lot compared to the players? I dunno.....

investment to build flats etc ?

Not great timing announcing that Levy had a bonus paid out last year when people are still peed off over the season tickets going up, but it wouldn't have been earned in that financial year only paid in it. I doubt there is public disclosure anywhere of the full nature of any long term incentive/ bonus plan that was put in place for him and other executives by the remuneration committee (which will be a non exec committee of the board) so we can only guess whether the bonus solely relates to the 2021-22 season which began with the nuno experiment and ended with qualification for the champions league or whether it was a result of hitting a series of long term performance targets.

maybe the new investment is for the new Hotel?? but praying it goes into the team..:)

Another good video mate we didn't create enough west ham were always going to defend better after Newcastle I would keep gio but not sure if he ŵill get enough game time

Only 2 goals conceded from breakaways. That did surprise me.....!

I always considered Son as a world class player, but now I have to chuck in Van De Ven there aswell. He could be the best CB in the world right now. Do you agree ?

There is still £50m not spent from the supposed £150m Enic said they were investing?

Regardless of the finances, nothing will change. I hope fans realise that. Every year we think something will be different. It’s been 23 years now? Don’t expect anything ground breaking this summer, especially with an 80m loss. We’ll buy Werner, maybe another forward, possible another midfielder, and a few kids. I don’t expect a proper player like Eze, Olise, Gimenez, or Palhinha to come in. Look out for a curve ball though like selling Romero, it wouldn’t shock me.

With our goal I could tell exactly what was going to happen and how and who were going to score as soon as we got possession - seemed like the perfect ange goal that could tell they work on a lot - but then when West Ham changed we’ve yet to know how break down diff defences

THE GOAT!!

Yay, been waiting!!!! 😁

Wonder if thhe reason for not bringing lo celso on earlier is becuase like hojberg ange knows hes going in the summer. And since he is after team progression he would like to see how Deki performs there. Oh and werner needs to attack the back post a lot more

So how would that injection work? If Levy values the club at roughly 4bn (remember that being a figure that was bandied about last year) and some investment fund wants to buy say 25% of the club (just to keep the maths simple!) what percentage goes to Enic and what (if any) goes into the club? Is that then released into the club or are they told “now you need to stump up 100 million a season to top up our budget”? I assume it would be the latter?

Best run club in country, Levy has done wonders in transforming the club for those who remember the state we were in financially. He deserves more praise & less ridicule for building a magnificent stadium & structure...the long term plan is coming to fruition & all those Levy bashers will eat their words...yes its been frustrating at times & yes been a few appointment errors (but he is advised by so called football experts at club)..but look where we are as a club now...still 2 much negativity...im an older fan & seen nearly 50 years of football at the club & never seen us in such a great position...COYS

Another disappointing result and I’m really hoping Ange is going to get his ideas across to the forwards during the off season as it’s becoming increasingly frustrating that either the defence has an awful showing or the forwards let us down. I’m trying to remain optimistic and listening to your videos help with this!.. 🙏🏼

Lo celso needs more game time!

I thought Maddison was dropping far too deep to pick the ball up. When we’re playing a team that drops off so deep the front three+ needs to be a lot quicker in rotating, so static in a lot of games

Not the end of the world that result if you ask me,coys

Another excellent vid ! Thank you Alasdair. Yeah I'm worried, not for the first time, about our poor defending on corners. I repeat, a defender needs to protect Vic on corners as every opponent now knows this is a Spurs weakness. They simply block Vic and so it is difficult for him to get out and punch the ball away. Just put a defender between Vic and the opponent trying to block him. Also, our defenders need to jump and not watch on ! Like you, I think the lack of variety and creativity was an issue, but West Ham were there for the taking ! They didn't impress me at all. By the way, Woolwich beat them 0-6 !!!... So yeah it frustrates me to see we can't beat an average team like West Ham. If they were a good team they would not have lost 0-6 vs the others down the road. I'm a bit worried, Alasdair, our last results have not been great except for the Villa game. We don't have the excuse of tiredness, and our squad is full. So what is happening? I really love Big Ange but the team has been frustrating me lately. Can we please win at last convincingly and easily on Sunday? COYS

A point at West Ham is not all that bad as long as we can back it up with a win I hope no-one takes it to seriously

Half of not more of this club’s fan base is never going to be happy with D. L. and Enic even if the club go no to win trophies 🏆 in the future they just want him gone but I will say be careful of what you crave for. For now I am comfortable with the direction under Ange and long May it continue.

Ali, what happened with the hotel they were supposed to be building next to the stadium? Maybe that comes under “capital projects”

"A little bit about Nuno". We don't talk about Nuno oh oh🎶 I love Encanto. 😁

Hey Ali, Zwolle is roughly pronounced "SWO-lah" but most Dutch fans refer to them simply as PEC (pronounced "peck") instead of Zwolle

Ref was so shocking last night I had a dream we brought in Rodrygo and Nico Williams. Just a dream but one can no ?

Hey Gold.... have you been watching Shogun, whaddya think?

Tottenham could be a bannana peel for some of the teams above them and could take vital points that could have a big impact on who wins the trophy

Ah another evening of pillow talk from Ali 😂

when is gio gonna get a proper chance at this club? shud hav sold him then if they werent going to play him. pls ask ange about this. and also about set pieces. like arsenal does against low blocks is to score set pieces.

I’d have thought less goal from corners tha last season - but more due to not having persic taking them this season

Finally, I have a question for you Mr. Gold...will you recommend for me your favorite coffee shop in London? Do you like espresso? Sorry for the non-football related query. COYS Thanks for the video as always, much love

What people also need to understand is that it's also investment in the ladies teams so players like Beth English. That part of the club is losing money I wonder if the trust that holds the shares of joe Lewis will look to sell a part of their stake because they won't have any money of their own to invest.

Its a disgrace that we conceded from the catkicker

Spurs are terrible in set pieces. They look lost not knowing what to do. Who's coaching this bunch in set pieces?

I can’t see us getting too many points from 3/4 of the remaining games, I I think realistically 5th is where we”ll finish, which is way above where most people expected us to finish, in my mind that’s a progression I didn’t expect, we have 4/5 players playing under Par for a number of games, that’s why I concluded the potential 9 point loss that’s possible just around the corner, to emulate Cities achievements, we have to play with the same intensity and consistency, Mr Spursy has to vacate the build forever😂

Our players should have the sacks to take shots from range , effective as it is especially on low block teams .

Rothchilds being involved with my club is very unsettling