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FightingIllini said:
A thought on something I never really felt able to articulate well in my reams of Levy Out ramblings:

A full purchaser of the club could just take over and sack Levy on day 1. But selling a minority share means some rich entity sinking a ton of money into Spurs and entrusting it to ENIC.

It always seemed to me that in the sponsor/potential investor community there may have been (and IMO ought to have been) reluctance to hand Daniel Levy control of one's capital.

Could it be that the minority investment/sponsorship demanded that Levy relinquish the chairmanship in order to invest?

Thus, this had to be a step prior to a sale of shareholding precisely because that sale is NOT a majority controlling interest?
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Yes I think that could make sense. New board agreed with new investor but not a full buyout is certainly plausible here
 
MemphisWill said:
Honestly, I don't think so. When he didn't have a salary cap to contend with he was pretty wild with spending. He and the Niners owners are why the salary cap exists, really. And even with the cap, he invented signing bonuses to circumvent the rules.

Jerry's biggest problem is his ego. Jerry got drunk and fired the most successful head coach in the team's history (Jimmy>Landry) because Jerry wasn't getting all the credit. Literally akin to sacking SAF after the trebel because you were tired of reading his name in the papers.

Jerry was good at manipulating the cap when it was in its infancy and teams weren't hiring Princeton and Yale grads. Once smarter people got involved, his advantage vanished - but his ego won't let him admit that he can't do it himself.

Jerry Jones at Tottenham would be the worst of Boehly (spending to spend, mortgaging tomorrow for today) missed with the worst of Levy (having to be involved with literally everything). We truly might do a Leeds.
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Levy and Jerry didn't start in the same place, but they wound up in a similar one, as a non-football person operating with way, way too much day-to-day control of a major professional football team using dinosaur personalistic tactics to compete against vastly more sophisticated and modern operations, each within the leader's pride and joy of the most revenue-generating glittering forward thinking stadia on their respective continents.
 
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DJ Check Complete said:
Good luck to him and thank you for your 25 years + of service. Under Levy we went from being worth millions to billions. We made the Champions League final, won the Europa league and the League Cup and he masterminded a beautiful world class stadium and training facility. It seems like we are left in a good place. Hopefully the next person to lead the club moves us towards building a competitive team that meets the fan’s complete reasonable expectations of a club of this stature.
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you clearly work in the Meeeja
 
For those interested :

1. ENIC is essentially owned by Tavistock Group (Lewis master company) which has companies which operate in a wide variety of industries including restaurants, large resorts/country clubs, pharmaceuticals and stakes in a wide variety of companies plus of course ownership of ENIC/Spurs. Its a huge company

2. The Co-CEO of Tavistock is Josh Levy (Daniel's son) with Vivienne Lewis and Charles Lewis (Joe Lewis son and daughter) both Senior Managing Directors (which is in theory a level below CEO)

So a sale of Spurs may be simply one of many sales of various parts of Tavistock empire of companies following Joe Lewis age etc
 
FightingIllini said:
I don't really take that statement about shareholding as any indication one way or another.
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SpiderSpurs said:
Don't forget that Amanda Staverly has been in and around the club including being at games for around 6-7 months.

She was the one who got the Newcastle takeover done. This reeks of a massive injection from outside the club, possibly even a buy out.
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The statement wasn't written by an intern in the communications department. Its no doubt been reviewed by a dozen people several times. Like I said - they could have left it out if it wasn't meaningful.

Now it could be cover because they don't want people digging into a potential sale going on in the background.

But that sentence is in there for a reason, and without any other evidence, I take this as maybe Vivienne Lewis asserting her control with a regime change. And hopefully, having not grown up above a pub, she won't be such a tight git as her father.
 
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