Even now some fans refuse to accept any negative press about the man
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He's been the main person behind the associated club funding stuff and everything that Man City were up to. Most of the league were in full agreement until Everton and Villa wanted in on the dodgy deals to avoid their own problems
Well if ENIC change their ways because the Lewis Family Trust follow through on what is reported in this article then I'm willing to give ENIC a fair chance, before I would say that I'm against them. So for now I'm tentatively pro ENIC.
''A source close to the Lewis family said: “Generations of the Lewis family support this special football club and they want what the fans want – more wins more often.
“This is why you have seen recent changes, new leadership and a fresh approach. In Vinai, (new head coach) Thomas (Frank) and Peter Charrington, they believe they are backing the right team to deliver on this. This is a new era.”
Daniel Levy exit not expected to lead to sale of Tottenham
Levy is understood to have been invited to stand down by the Lewis family, which controls ownership of Spurs.
www.independent.co.uk
I could have told you that 10 years ago. Don't need a source, you just need to look at the ever decreasing number of transfers between us an PL clubs.
Example
15/16 - 0 signings from PL teams. Only Trippier came from an English side - Burnley who were Championship.
We managed to get Alderwiereld and stitch up Southampton in the process.
16/17 - 1 PL signing - Wanyama, oddly from the team we pissed off the year before
17/18 - 2 PL signings. A backup keeper (again from Southampton) and Llorente
18/19 - Lolz
19/20 - 0 PL signings
20/21 - 1 - PEH - again - Southampton!
21/22 - 0
22/23 - 3 - ANOTHER Southampton Player, Brighton and Everton
23/24 - 1 - Johnson for Forrest
24/25 - 1 - Solanke from Bournemouth
25/26 - 1 - Kudus from WHU
So in 10 years or so, we have only bought players from Southampton, Bournemouth, Brighton, West Ham, Swansea and Forest as PL teams. 10 years and we have bought from 6 rivals in total.
Just seemed obvious to me that he had burned most bridges. A lot of those deals above were first time dealings with those clubs.
Bit of a surprise Southampton kept selling to us after we took Poch, Mitchell and Toby.
Then again, we failed to get a few of their desirable players in 14/15 IIRC. Llalalalalalalalalana and J-Rod?
You could see it in that Neville interview…. Open and friendly taking about the stadium, his work etc…. Move onto football matters and he’s closed and cold.
Be interesting to see how many sales we've made in that timeframe. Signing players is not easy (they're mostly very rich clubs with richer owners than us) but we used to get rid of our tat to others much easier.
Another data point that’s very loud
Ah get over yourself. Jesus Christ.
You really think this is in the 1%? With multiple outlets reporting it?
You lot are insane, no harm.
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I think sales for us have become a problem since the stadium change. We signed TND, Sess and GLC in 2019/2020 for well over £100m but only raised £30m or so.
£12m the following season
£16m
£32m - most of which was Bergwijn
Buy mediocre players, pay them more than they're worth but less than top clubs play top players and we get stuck with them.
Lets collectively hope for a change in strategy.
Simons and Kudus look to have bucked the trend. Even the loans are different to the usual.
I wonder how well that sits with some of our fans who love to look down on the cheating oil money clubs.
Will they support another team if we became one of those?
Yea not short of a few bob ....net worth 1.3 trillion pounds.. ....
I think with the amount of prudence we have had to endure for 25 years, we're owed a bent-money spending spree.
Especially if it we eclipse the red and blue teams from London in doing so.
We can't beat them.
So we should join them and take the dirty money.
They'll probably just follow Tavistock full time
Turn up outside their main offices and cheer for an hour and a half every Saturday and then back home to purr over the accounts
I don’t think you’ll see the same splurge we did when Citeh were taken over.
For example, PSR has hamstrung Newcastle’s new owners.
Where we have an advantage is the higher turnover and PSR headroom, but I doubt we’d see the stupid levels of investment like when Abramovich and Sheik Mansour arrived, if/when our club is sold.
We wouldn’t need it. Squad already has good depth, £400-500m of spending which would be easy for us under PSR on 5-6 elite players would propel us to the top end.
We could throw down a billion in a window easy
I would argue the opposite. That's what these big groups are doing when they get football teams. They're going to try and win, because winning is the best way get endorsements, global popularity.
New owners here could go out and spend over a billion on a 3 year window with no issue at all. And investing on the playing squad is all that needs invested in just now, 90% of the infrastructure is done, compared with other projects. Whoever buys it is going to try and make them the best, you're not dropping billions to keep them ticking over. It's a huge swinging dick competition.
Lakers were recently bought for 10Billion USD so there is money flying around right now. If we do want a big spender it would probably have to be an American or Middle eastern.