Tottenham have spent an amazing £150 MILLION in just 16 months - and still have managed to register record pre-tax profits. That is more than any of the Premier League's so-called 'Big Four' - Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool - and only less than megabucks outfit Manchester City.
The details are revealed in Spurs' latest financial results, which cover the year up to June 2009.
Yet despite that astonishing outlay, the club still managed to make a record pre-tax profit of £33.4m. That is a substantial achievement when you consider the debt other clubs currently have hanging around their necks.
Spurs ins and outs:
INS: N Kranjcar (Pompey, £2m), S Bassong (Newcastle, £8m), K Naughton, K Walker (Sheff Utd, £10.4m), P Crouch (Pompey, £9m), J Defoe (Pompey, £15m), P Chimbonda (S'land, £3.5m), W Palacios (Wigan, £14.5m), R Keane (right, L'pool, £12m), V Corluka (Man City, £9m), R Pavlyuchenko (Sp Moscow, £14m), J Bostock (C Palace, £2.75m), D Bentley (B'burn, £15m), G dos Santos (Barcelona, £8.6m), H Gomes (PSV, £8.8m), L Modric (Dyn Zagreb, £16.6m).
TOTAL SPENT: £149.15m.
OUTS: D Zokora (Sevilla, £8.5m), C Gunter (N Forest, £1.75m), D Bent (S'land, £10m), P Chimbonda (B'burn, £2m), K Prince-Boateng (Pompey, £4m), D Berbatov (left, Man Utd, £23.4m), Y Kaboul (Pompey, £8m), T Tainio (S'land, £5m), S Malbranque (S'land, £5m), P Chimbonda (S'land, £4m), P Robinson (B'burn, £3.5m), A Gardner (Hull, £2.5m), R Keane (L'pool, £19m).
TOTAL EARNED: £96.65m.
