Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino says their stadium debt is working against them.
Pochettino admits Tottenham's 600million stadium debt puts them at a major disadvantage against Arsenal and the rest of their title rivals on the Premier League grid.
But he refused to liken his club's situation to the one today's opponents faced just over a decade ago after they completed their move to the Emirates Stadium.
Pochettino said: The mistake always is to compare clubs with other clubs because the circumstances are always different.
And only people know inside what is going on.
Arsenal, in the last two years, signed Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, the best striker in Germany, Alex Lacazette, the best striker in France, and one year after, Nicolas Pepe.
If you see us in five years, we didn't sign one [big-money] striker and now our main striker is Harry Kane, but our second specific striker is 17- year-old Troy Parrot.
That is the difference in the projects.
I don't want to say one is wrong and another is good. It's only that the way we operate is completely different.
Afterwards we need to compete. Mercedes compete with Ferrari, McLaren, Red Bull
After, we compete in the same race and if you judge, the judgements need to be not only about the race, but the whole process."
