Isn't the debt being payed off in installments over like 25 years with next to no interest? How is it affecting what we're allowed to spend?
I think others have explained it.
Put simply when we borrowed a lot of money the lenders would have put in rules about how we run our finances. Banking covenants.
“It was revealed that the club’s net transfer debt currently stands at £279.3, thus making it impossible for them to spend big this summer unless there is a significant injection of cash from ENIC.……………………………..,,,,,,
So you’ve got the PSR situation, the budget situation and then you’ve got Simon’s point which is all about cash. It’s all well and good having this capacity but actually, if you don’t have the pounds and pence for what’s due which is around £250m in historic transfer fees, instalments on those, the wages, the debt service and the running costs to the club.
“They are very, very significant here.
Daniel Levy is not in a position to put any more money in. He’s a very wealthy guy because of his holding of shares, but unless he sells those shares he doesn’t have the cash to put into the club.
That leaves the Lewis Trust – not Joe Lewis himself – the Lewis Trust being effectively the only funder around for Spurs from a cash perspective because they can’t raise any more debt.
“On top of that, they potentially have some covenant issues and so the problem they’re going to have is nothing to do with Financial Fair Play, it’s to do with actual cash. How do they actually pay for things? Unless they either raise money from one of their shareholders or sell some footballers, they won’t have the cash to pay for new footballers.”
Plus we have been running at a loss the past few seasons…… that CL money is going to be an absolute godsend to Levy. We have effectively already spent it.