Hello and welcome to The View from the Lane, our Tottenham Hotspur podcast from The Athletic.

My name is Jack Pitbrook.

I'm joined for now by Charlie Akelshire and James Moore, but later on we're very lucky to be joined by Katrina Law and Martin Cloak from the Tottenham Hotspur supporters trust to talk about some of the huge issues facing the club at the moment.

Because even with no football going on,

it's been quite an eventful week for the club, hasn't it, Charlie? Yeah, I keep having people,

I'm sure you get this as well, saying to you like, oh, there's no football on. You must be really

quiet at the moment. But it really hasn't felt like that covering Tottenham. Yeah, last week was

pretty crazy.

I mean, we talked about the Harry Kane interview, which was just over a week ago.

And then, yeah, there was Spurses' financial results coming out more or less simultaneously

with Daniel Levy announcing that non-playing staff were having their wages reduced.

So, yeah, that was all pretty manic. And then there's been a few days of fallout ever since, really. So we'll get into the furloughing issue later with Martin Katrina, because it's obviously a huge, huge story with implications far beyond Tottenham. But let's just go in order. Let's start with the financial results. It seemed to me, Charlie, like it shows Spurs

are the most profitable club in the country.

Yeah, they are.

I mean, their pre-tax profits are extraordinarily high.

That, you know, this was the thing.

I mean, the fact that it came out at the same time,

I think just made, it almost exacerbated some

of the frustrations people had about the furlowing and the wage reductions because their finances

are in route health.

They've made a bigger pretext profit than any other primary club by some way.

Their wages are way, way lower than most of, than all of their rivals,

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