Can Spurs keep challenging at the top and build a new stadium?

If we can learn any lessons from other teams when building new stadiums, is that it has lead to a downturn to their onfield fortunes.

This is not just limited to Arsenal who I think were Champions when they moved into the Emirates, but other clubs have struggled. After Middlesbrough moved into the Riverside Stadium they were relegated, the same too for Sunderland at the Stadium of Light and Derby at Pride Park.

The list is actually quite long for the clubs whose league position actually went down after moving into a new stadium.

Spurs are in the process of finding the finance for the new stadium that all Spurs fans say is necessary and in fact Daniel Levy and Harry Redknapp know is necessary if we are to compete at the top of the table for a sustained period of time.

In the period that Arsenal have played at the Emirates they have benefited from a large increase in revenue, which also coincides with a sustained run in the Champions League in that period. But for Arsenal fans, the funds don’t seem to be available for investment in the First Team. Whether there has actually been money to spend there is something only Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal board know.

Our side really is at the crossroads. We are on the brink of challenging for the title and having regular Champions League football, however there is a cloud over the club as to the financial implications of building a new stadium and how that will restrict the club, certainly in the short term, in the transfer market.