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Manager Antonio Conte

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There's no way on earth they'd have been looking to sell before the stadium was completed.......

ENIC is an investment company; they wouldn't looking to cash in on their investment until such time that their project had reached a stage of maximum potential yield.

They won't be actively looking to sell for the time being either. There is nominal profit for them thus far from the stadium itself (in simple terms the bank owns most of the bricks and mortar). Virtually none of the stadium debt has been paid off yet.... Every year of repayment = their profit on the sale increases.

Meanwhile, their broader project(*) around Tottenham is still in it's relatively early stages.

(*Which was announced the same time as the stadium build, so that today's article citing further residential investment is being made should come as no genuine suprise..... In fact IIRC a pledge regarding development ofdthe surrounding ares - inc. these flats - was part of us being granted planning permission in the first place!)

......Perhaps in time they look to cash in and sell Spurs to complete this broader venture, but Lewis is fairly set for capital in the medium term thanks to his personal fortune.


TLDR?

To my mind the earliest sale of club scenario is likely to spring from the eventuality that he dies and his daughter thinks "fuck it....... I'll just liquidate my estate."

(As for those that out too much stock in The Boogie Man; Levy holds relatively little influence over any of this.)
Maximum yield occurs when they receive a bid. If a proper investor bid 2BN 3 months prior to stadium completion, they would potentially have sold
 
Conte thought Gollini had a good game because in the first leg we lost 2-0 and only 1-0 last night.

Please tell me he isn't serious with this

From Football Londo

Do you understand the frustration from supporters about Hugo Lloris not starting as it is such an important game?

But I don’t know about this. I repeat: I made this decision and I think that Gollini played a good game. In the first game we lost 2-0, today we lost only 1-0. I think that we have to try to think about situations that are much more important than this. Believe me.
He's just being supportive of the player.
 
No one sells a successful business. It's a guaranteed money maker for decades at the moment. See below.



This is and has been the problem for a while, too good an asset, built on relatively small upfront cash. But that will soon become bad for business if there is constant protest, visual and audible distain etc.
I don't buy the investment or how it can work. If ENIC/Levy sell any share of the business, they pocket that money. Who is going to buy 10-20% of THFC then 100% front a cash injection on the pitch?
It makes no sense.
If they sold 10%, they could apply that as a cash injection to fund a rebuild. They would have less of a stake in the club but that investment could grow the FC, the club, the brand and increase the value by far more than the 10% they relinquish
 
Stop this nonsense.

Roberto Di Matteo won the Fucking Champions League big deal. The hallmark of a top manager is being able to guide a team to a league title and remain consistent over 9 months, not a cup comp which relies on a element of luck to win.

5 league titles in 10 years, the only other manager showing that sort of consistency is Pep and Pep has largely remained employed in top jobs at big clubs.

If he isn't top 3 tell me who is?
You think people having seen us fluke a champions league final with a Sissoko Winks centre mid partnership would gets. Lol....its like right now City are not a great side never having won it. Like helk they are not
 
If they sold 10%, they could apply that as a cash injection to fund a rebuild. They have less of a stake in the club but that investment could grow the FC, the club, the brand and increase the value by far more than the 10% they relinquish

Yep, if the clubs value is say £2.5bn and it might be with the infrastructure, NFL, events and PL then 10% is £250m which combined with player sales should be enough to build a decent side.
 
Sunk our chances? Really? Look, Gollini made a terrible play, but we didn't look like scoring a goal for 180+ minutes in this tie. A piss poor attack is what sunk our chances.
A piss poor goalkeeper, a piss poor defence, a piss poor midfield and a piss poor attack sunk our chances. But dropping your captain when you need inspiration?
 
Sunk our chances? Really? Look, Gollini made a terrible play, but we didn't look like scoring a goal for 180+ minutes in this tie.

Over-statement considering we actually had the ball in the net.

2-0 with 90mins to play the tie was still alive.

18 minutes later it was as good as dead and like the first tie the Chavs didn't have to work hard for that advantage.

A piss poor attack is what sunk our chances.

Thought Kane was one our better performers tbh.

FWIW, I still think fix our MF (and stop playing Doh at LWB!) and our attack (not attackers) will kick up a gear.
 
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Conte must love being told that the fans think they can pick a better team than him...and people are worried that ENIC are going to chase him off...
 
Conte thought Gollini had a good game because in the first leg we lost 2-0 and only 1-0 last night.

Please tell me he isn't serious with this

From Football Londo

Do you understand the frustration from supporters about Hugo Lloris not starting as it is such an important game?

But I don’t know about this. I repeat: I made this decision and I think that Gollini played a good game. In the first game we lost 2-0, today we lost only 1-0. I think that we have to try to think about situations that are much more important than this. Believe me.

He‘s just playing a straight bat. We didn’t lose over two legs because of one mistake by Gollini. No point digging out individuals when the team performances home and away were so poor.
 
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By the way , he is no better manager than Jose Mourinho , ask any Inter or Chelsea fans they would tell you that , he never outdone
whatever Mourinho did at both club , he won 1 epl at Chelsea , Mou won 3 , he won serie A, Mou has treble

Mourinho got the the better of kane , son , even Ndombele. Which players conte got the better off so far ? Got us into a cup final and topped the table for brief period which i doubt conte will be capable of without wholesale change of this squad


No point in sacking Mourinho if you end up hiring someone who would turn toxic even faster if you don't give him the money.
Don't give me crap like he just won serie A so he is a manager in his prime not finished, i mean do you think Mourinho wouldn't win serie A if he was allowed to recruit 22 new players at Inter within 2 seasons ?
 
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I understand your point but I don't agree. Our squad is paper thin on quality, we're already missing Romero, Son, Dier, Reggy. We're not going to take Top 4 relying on taking no further injury hits, or even suspensions. If Davies goes down, we have no left footed CB. Our backup GK is dire. Even our first choice midfield has no real quality.

Conte is good, and I have no doubt as his coaching starts seeping through to the team they'll get better - but they have their natural limits. I'm usually optimistic, but I just can't see how we're going to challenge for Europe this season without additions this month.
cause the opponents are Woolwich west ham and united
man. united has the better squad and should on paper arrive 4th, but they're a mess
Woolwich and west ham are not better than us
we are out from conference league and carabao cup
with only EPL and FA cup to play the work can be done

if conte goes on panic and buys just to do something he will get the drinkwaters or zappacostas at the same price of good players, arriving in the summer with no money to spend
 
If they sold 10%, they could apply that as a cash injection to fund a rebuild. They would have less of a stake in the club but that investment could grow the FC, the club, the brand and increase the value by far more than the 10% they relinquish
You keep saying this but that's not how it works.
If they sold 10% they have 10% less of the income the club generates so they keep it. They don't sell 10% of the club for say £200,000,000 and spend it on players.
 
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