Mauricio Pochettino has bemoaned Tottenham's spending power compared to Liverpool and their other rivals.
this summer as they went about strengthening their squad after defeat in the Champions League final to Liverpool .
But Pochettino claims that Spurs have £600m bank debts due to the building of a new stadium and that they cannot be compared to their rivals.
"And to drive home his point, Pochettino said that Liverpool have completely changed their line up in the four years since Jurgen Klopp's first game - a 0-0 draw at White Hart Lane.
"If you do an exercise and see Liverpool when Klopp arrived – a little over one year after me – when we played that 0-0 … not one player from the starting XI is in their starting XI today,” Pochettino said .
“If you compare with us, we have eight or nine still in the starting XI. Look at the difference.
“You know very well that the debt of our club is £600m with the banks and, for sure, when you are delivering a project that Tottenham have been delivering in the last five years, you cannot compare with another club. That is why Tottenham need to be judged under some circumstances and not when you compare the team with another team like Manchester City.
“Only people like Daniel [Levy, the chairman] can manage this kind of situation [with the debt]. Daniel and the board are capable to create this type of situation and to provide the team, to provide us and the fans, this massive project to feel that we are a big club.”
