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ENIC In or ENIC Out


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Dear Shareholder

Statement regarding media speculation

On 7 September 2025, the Board of Tottenham Hotspur Limited ("Tottenham Hotspur" or the " Club") announced that the Club's majority shareholder, ENIC Sports & Developments Holdings Ltd ("ENIC"), had received, and unequivocally rejected, separate preliminary expressions of interest in relation to proposals to acquire the entire issued, and to be issued, share capital of ENIC (the "Rejected Approaches") from (i) PCP International Finance Limited ("PCP"); and (ii) a consortium of investors led by Dr. Roger Kennedy and Wing-Fai Ng through Firehawk Holdings Limited (the "Consortium").

As a consequence of ENIC's majority ownership interest in Tottenham Hotspur, were any offer made to acquire ENIC and complete, a mandatory offer would be required under Rule 9 of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers (the "Code") to acquire the shares of Tottenham Hotspur not already held by ENIC.

The Board of the Club and ENIC confirm that Tottenham Hotspur is not for sale and ENIC has no intention to accept any such offer to acquire its interest in the Club.

The purpose of this notification is to give you notice, in accordance with Rule 2.11 of the Code, that the Club's announcement in respect of the Rejected Approaches has been made available on the Club's website at www.tottenhamhotspur.com . This notification is not a summary of the information in the announcement and should not be regarded as a substitute for reading the announcement in full.

The Club is required to provide you with this information for regulatory reasons and for no other purposes. You do not need to take any action in respect of this notification. Certain other regulatory information required by the Code is set out below.

Yours faithfully

Peter Charrington
Non-Executive Chairman

Disclosure must contain details of the dealing concerned and of the person’s interests and short positions in, and rights to subscribe for, any relevant securities of each of (i) the offeree company and (ii) any securities exchange offeror(s), save to the extent that these details have previously been disclosed under Rule 8. A Dealing Disclosure by a person to whom Rule 8.3(b) applies must be made by no later than 3.30 pm (London time) on the business day following the date of the relevant dealing.



If two or more persons act together pursuant to an agreement or understanding, whether formal or informal, to acquire or control an interest in relevant securities of an offeree company or a securities exchange offeror, they will be deemed to be a single person for the purpose of Rule 8.3.



Opening Position Disclosures must also be made by the offeree company and by any offeror and Dealing Disclosures must also be made by the offeree company, by any offeror and by any persons acting in concert with any of them (see Rules 8.1, 8.2 and 8.4).



Details of the offeree and offeror companies in respect of whose relevant securities Opening Position Disclosures and Dealing Disclosures must be made can be found in the Disclosure Table on the Takeover Panel’s website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk, including details of the number of relevant securities in issue, when the offer period commenced and when any offeror was first identified. You should contact the Panel’s Market Surveillance Unit on +44 (0)20 7638 0129 if you are in any doubt as to whether you are required to make an Opening Position Disclosure or a Dealing Disclosure.
Has the club ever issued a message like this to the ordinary shareholders ? I don't ever remember one, yet when Levy did the Bloomberg interview he said there had been interest in buying the club from several quarters but nothing like this has happened as far as I remember with interested parties being named.
 
Reported by Bloomberg, that we sold (at discount) this seasons future Premier League TV money receivables to Macquarie Bank, presumably to fund the recent transfer window, and prior windows liabilities.

Surely shareholder investment should have been the preferred route to go.

If this is the so called investment it does not bode well. This the smoke and mirrors bullshit we dont need. Id rather just got on with finding the correct buyer.
Didn't Barca keep doing that until they'd pre-sold the next 50 years (I may be exaggerating) of TV revenue and maybe even sponsorship money?
 
Didn't Barca keep doing that until they'd pre-sold the next 50 years (I may be exaggerating) of TV revenue and maybe even sponsorship money?
Yes.
It is potentially the start of a slippery slope, as what happens when it expires, and we need monies for the Summer 2026 window, do we just roll it over, or if we really want to challenge do we sell 2 years worth of TV revenue for example.

However I am also hopeful that it was just a temporary position whilst the ownership situation was up in the air, and if required shareholder investment will replace it upon its maturity.
 
First time I've had an email like this.
That's what I thought , so how serious were the offers that Levy mentioned in the Bloomberg interview. The fact that Charrington and the club have taken this route via the takeover panel would seem to indicate that whatever was offered to buy ENIC out was not enough and now looking for an improved offer . PCP it would appear are not going to make an offer at the moment, have to see what Wing Fai Ng do before 5th Oct, be good news for ordinary shareholders if a big offer does come in and they get exactly the same per share as ENIC because what is being offered for Spurs shares on Asset Match is laughable.
 
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Thought it might be worth summarising the Lewis family empire

1 Tavistock Group (a Bahamas company)
Joe Lewis (huge) master company involved in property, hospitality, restaurants, energy retail, technology, agriculture and finance Key Investments - Tavistock Group No accounts are produced so its difficult to see how large it is and its a generally an opaque group but Spurs form probably only 5% to 10% of Tavistock Group value.... and maybe less. The main Directors of Tavistock are the Lewis family.

2 ENIC International Ltd (now renamed ENIC Sports and Developments Ltd) (both are Bahamas companies)
Tavistock or Joe Lewis owns 70.12% with 29.88% owned by discretionary trusts the beneficiaries of which are Daniel Levy and certain members of his family - how precisely the shares are held are not clear

3 ENIC Sports Inc (a Bahamas company)
This is 100% owned by ENIC Sports and Developments Ltd.
ENIC Sports Inc. owns 86.58% of the shares of Tottenham Hotspur Ltd (a UK company) which owns 100% of the football club - the shares in Spurs not owned by ENIC Sports Inc are probably held by fans from the time that Spurs were a listed company, and there might be circa 30,000 individual shareholders.

4 Tottenham Hotspur Limited
Owns the club, stadium and a number of properties around the stadium - for largely historic reasons there are about 10 companies which are subsidiaries of Tottenham Hotspur Ltd.


With the shear scale of the Tavistock Group, which operates in USA, Argentina, Mexico, Australia as well as UK in multiple different industries with all the top Directors being Lewis family, its difficult to see how the Directors can spend a major part of their time on Spurs - they have too many other businesses which they need to manage at the same time.

So although its said that the Lewis family are massive Spurs fans, I'd be very surprised if more than one or two of the Lewis family (maybe Vivienne and Charles being in early 60's and possibly semi retired) spend much time in UK looking at Spurs. And they likely will only spend a proportion of their time looking at Spurs

The Lewis family have huge wealth tied up in all the businesses in Tavistock group, so could divert some cash into Spurs from their other businesses. However the question is will they given Joe did not put much cash in over the last 25 years ?!
Lewis is not reported as having business interests worth £40-80 billion.
 
I wonder if the vast majority of that is intangible wealth, tied up in shares (in this club, for example).

I wonder just how much cash they have that they could actually invest. I doubt it is much.

I think they are one of the least wealthy PL owners in terms of investment capability
Getting cash is easy if you have billions in assets and you want the cash.
 
WTF is this nonsense?

I was surprised when I googled 'Kyrenia Shipillis' and it was a real person, because it sounds like a venereal disease. Seems she's from enfield and has written on a bunch of other team blogs. Claims she's a spurs fan so might prowl these forums, but on one it seems she's already changed her mind:

"Kyrenia is a London-based Editor for the Sports Gazette. Growing up watching Tottenham Hotspur and a devoted Paris Saint-Germain fan"
 
I wonder if the vast majority of that is intangible wealth, tied up in shares (in this club, for example).

I wonder just how much cash they have that they could actually invest. I doubt it is much.

I think they are one of the least wealthy PL owners in terms of investment capability
ENIC do seem to have cash , they put in £150 million three years ago which increased their shareholding in the club so was it actual cash , all too complicated for me.

 
ENIC do seem to have cash , they put in £150 million three years ago which increased their shareholding in the club so was it actual cash , all too complicated for me.


Well, 'ENIC' did - but it was also said that Levy had put his own money into the club, so it makes it unclear as to where/who the money actually came from
 
I wonder if the vast majority of that is intangible wealth, tied up in shares (in this club, for example).

I wonder just how much cash they have that they could actually invest. I doubt it is much.

I think they are one of the least wealthy PL owners in terms of investment capability
I've done the math on this to death on this board. How is anyone left wondering?! 30-40% (depending on the date of reference) of Lewis' net worth is his Tottenham shares. Almost all the rest of it is tied up in real estate, boats, and art.

This is why we've never spent freely under ENIC and never will.

Our ownership group is very undercapitalized compared to peer-clubs.
 
ENIC do seem to have cash , they put in £150 million three years ago which increased their shareholding in the club so was it actual cash , all too complicated for me.

Putting £150M into a club you bought for £22M and have seen grow to £2-3B in value over 20 years really isn't doing much, is it? That's ±6% of their growth.
 
I've done the math on this to death on this board. How is anyone left wondering?! 30-40% (depending on the date of reference) of Lewis' net worth is his Tottenham shares. Almost all the rest of it is tied up in real estate, boats, and art.

This is why we've never spent freely under ENIC and never will.

Our ownership group is very undercapitalized compared to peer-clubs.
Yes but doesn’t mean they can’t sell a hotel or another asset, or secure funding leveraged by real estate
 
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