
Spurs contractors judged felled Enfield oak to be ‘fine specimen’
Toby Carvery owner apologises over tree’s felling as football club faces questions about whether it knew of decision
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They've got history... long running battle with a fast food kitchen fixture manufacturer on Paxton Road... appeal after appeal, delay after delay... compulsory purchase order was proving tricky. Then suddenly their premises go up in smoke![]()
Spurs contractors judged felled Enfield oak to be ‘fine specimen’
Toby Carvery owner apologises over tree’s felling as football club faces questions about whether it knew of decisionwww.theguardian.com
How comes other clubs manage it?They've been trying for a long time. As I stated in a separate post, selling a minority stake in a football club is a difficult proposition. Not many people invest tens or hundreds of millions in a football club if they're not going to get to make any decisions. A minority stake in a football club is just a very expensive ST.
Who else has done it? United sold sporting control of the club to INEOS for 25% - that's an incredibly unique proposition that I can't think of another example.
Because as Memphis pointed out. Those minority sales usually come with said minority owner getting a say in things. Which Levy is not willing to give up.
Palace have it too. John Textor being a minority shareholder. And he’s famously been trying to get out of that for ages with no success whatsoever. Mainly because you’d have to be mental to agree to such a position.Who else has done it? United sold sporting control of the club to INEOS for 25% - that's an incredibly unique proposition that I can't think of another example.
Other clubs are owned by "groups" (like Liverpool), but when you peek under the hood almost all of the shares are held by 1-3 individuals who hold all authority. Everyone else has nominal shares (like Lebron) which mostly exist to tie those individuals to the club for branding. And, as we publicly enjoyed watching at Woolwich, the 2-3 party "partnerships" generally devolve into public and distracting boardroom battles after a few years. Because, again, no one spends 8-9 figures on a football club to not call the shots.
There's already rumblings that Chelsea is coming apart at the seams. This United deal will probably similarly fall apart soon enough.
The Palace situation in particular looks like a quagmire.Palace have it too. John Textor being a minority shareholder. And he’s famously been trying to get out of that for ages with no success whatsoever. Mainly because you’d have to be mental to agree to such a position.
Probably shows that players and managers don’t really care about, or are effected by, what happens above them. If they get their salary in the bank once a month, they’ll likely turn up and do the job.The Palace situation in particular looks like a quagmire.
There's what, 4-5 part owners aside from Textor? And all of them want to either get out to buy their own club, or buy up the rest.
It is lowkey kinda impressive that the chaos at boardroom level hasn't spread to the pitch.
That's a lot of words when you could've just said 'you're right, goaty. My bad'.
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Weird comment. Find me a post where I said the atmosphere was going to be crap tonight.
Dick. Foul voted for being illiterate.
Forest remaining games are Brentford (h), Palace (a), Leicester (h), West Ham (a), Chelsea (h). All very winnable... Brentford nothing to play for, Palace one eye on cup final, Leicester are just tragic, West Ham are shite and Chelsea have been meh all season apart from a little run during Nov/Dec. They have a game in hand on Chelsea who have some tough fixtures coming up... Liverpool, United, Newcastle and then Forest. Villa have Fulham (h), Bournemouth (a), us (h) and United (a) but are 3 points behind Forest having played a game more. I wager Forest will be playing Champions League next season.
We'll see
I personally think that the likeliest outcome is that once Lewis croaks, Daniel is actually going to be the one that puts together a consortium to buy out Joe's family. I think that Levy enjoys being Tottenham chairman too much to just quietly disappear.Yeah it looks more likely that they will only get a buyout instead of this minority sale where he gets £100m for the hotel and £50m for new board members
Is the guy in the high vis doing YMCA or trying to start a Mexican wave?!
Think you’re talking about Michael Van Gerwen?Is the guy in the high vis doing YMCA or trying to start a Mexican wave?!![]()
Angie OUT Levy OUT.
Levy is playing Tottenham Hotspurs Fans and fans don't even know it