Sports Forum - RE: TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR thread season 2009/2010 - Page 45

£3million for getting to the qualifying round.
£3million for getting to the group phase.
Around £20million up for grabs in the group stages, including £1.2million for every game won.
Finalists get around £70million, including TV revenue.

This is just prize money and TV money though, of course.
It doesn't include additional sponsorship etc.etc.

Bale signed another deal, tied to the club until 2014. 8)
We're being linked with Cole, Carrick and Bellamy.
Two are no surprise, surprised by Carrick.
He's no better than what we have, and certainly won't get the goals from midfield we're lacking.
Carrick is the very definition of someone with 'Row Z' shooting ability.

From the Torygraph website, some of the better teams Spurs may face in the qualifiers next season:

Sevilla
Lying fourth in La Liga, Antonio Alvarez’s side will pose a considerable threat should they see off Mallorca and secure a place in the qualifying rounds. Spanish internationals Jesus Navas and Diego Capel form an impressive attacking trident with Brazil striker Luis Fabiano.
Sampdoria
Likely to see off Palermo in Italy’s race for fourth, the Genovese side’s forward line of Chelsea target Giampaolo Pazzini and the controversial Antonio Cassano add class to an otherwise industrious, but limited, team.
Werder Bremen
Uefa Cup finalists in 2009, the German side have spent much of this season rebuilding around emerging playmaker Mesut Ozil, but manager Thomas Schaaf continues to produce attractive, attacking outfits.
Ajax
Former Tottenham manager Martin Jol and his side may have lost out to Steve McClaren’s FC Twente in the Dutch title race but playmaker Luis Suarez is one of the most coveted players in Europe.
Celtic
For all the emotion an all-British encounter would provoke, the impression lingers that the SPL runners-up would be one of the easier sides Tottenham could hope to encounter, whether Robbie Keane remains in Glasgow or not.
Zenit St Petersburg
Not quite the force they were when seeing off Rangers to win the 2008 Uefa Cup, Zenit nevertheless possess far greater European pedigree than Spurs. Packed with Russian internationals and – for now, at least – managed by the well-regarded Italian Luciano Spalletti.
And if they get through that ...
Should Harry Redknapp lead his side through the play-off round, Tottenham could expect to be placed in the third pot of seeds, thanks to their comparatively low Uefa coefficient, guaranteeing visits to White Hart Lane from at least two of Europe's aristocrats.

(Tried to do it as a quote but it ****s it right up...)

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Could someone please
Remove these cutleries
From my knees...

[quote]Celtic
For all the emotion an all-British encounter would provoke, the impression lingers that the SPL runners-up would be one of the easier sides Tottenham could hope to encounter, [/quote]

It's not an impression, it's a fact.
They got pumped 5-0 by St.Mirren, for goodness sake.
A shadow of the team they used to be.
Yeah, they'd raise themselves for another (boringly titled) 'Battle of Britain'.
But it wouldn't make up for a staggering gulf in ability.

I think the 6-all draw the other night told me all about top flight Scottish football that i need to know

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I think the 6-all draw the other night told me all about top flight Scottish football that i need to know

Precisely.
And they were two teams lying 4th and 5th in the table.
Embarrassment.

Actually....

WHERE'S PAULL'S CONGRATULATIONS???
EH, WHERE IS IT PAULL?
PAAAAAULLLL??
(Insert random sweary accusations about lack of respect etc.etc.)