Jack Pitt-Brooke

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The Athletic FC Podcast · What If... Abramovich bought Spurs instead of Chelsea? · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

Uh Ramovich of Chelsea was always slightly hamstrung by the inability to really do anything with Stanford Bridge beyond a few tweaks.

And even now, you know, the Stanford Bridge issue is is clearly not resolved.

Whereas Tottenham, under you know, under the auspices of Daniel Levy, built a fantastic new stadium.

They built a one point two billion pound stadium which they opened in twenty nineteen and holds sixty plus thousand people.

Um because that, you know, it's not under the same

the same restrictions as Stamford Bridge.

And so in this imagined world in which Ibrahimitch owned Tottenham, maybe he would find it easier to build a big new stadium replacing Whiteheart Lane.

And maybe that would have driven the t Ibrahim's Tottenham on to even greater success.

Yeah, it's weird 'cause the the circumstances in which Kane became the play the player that he is were so distinctive.

You know, he'd had these loans.

He then own kind of gets his initial break because Tim Sherwood has replaced A V B during the tw during that twelve thirteen season.

Sorry, thirteen fourteen season.

And then even the following s the following summer when Pochettino takes over, it's a game.

Again, it's only because of a combination of um I think Tottenham tried and failed to sign Danny Wellbeck and the you know Adabayor started the season badly and Soldado started the season badly and then there was an opportunity for Kane and then they had the manager Pochettino was really good at working with young players and so it took quite a lot of stuff to come together for Kane to go from like

talented young player who's still finding his way into the main man at Tottenham, which actually own happened within about three months, but it's it's so hard to say if those conditions would be replicated.

Yeah, so it's detailed in the club it says that he Abramovich was i kind of curious about Arsenal, but was told that Arsenal had no were not for sale. 'Cause Arsenal he was Arsenal was slightly different than in terms of ownership structure at that point, I think, than than than Tottenham or Chelsea.

Um, that would have been fascinating because Arsenal Arsenal were like I mean, in two thousand three they well, they won the Premier League in O one-O two.

They had a brilliant manager who was well established.

They actually should have won the Premier League in two thousand two-three and they kind of f really fell away badly in the last two months of the season and let Manchester United catch them.

So they were they were in a radically different position from Chelsea and Tottenham at this point.

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