Do you honestly believe that this club is squeaky clean?
There is a reason why Joe Lewis silently stepped aside.
Yes times have changed with billionaires and nationally owned clubs and granted,
poorly run clubs. However, this club has refused to go with those times of fighting for trophies. I don't expect the club to pour billions and billions. I just expect a football club that chooses winning trophies over equity.
I make it abundantly clear that I see the absolute opposite of that with spurs under ENIC.
Do I see Levy as a good employer and dare I say it, even a good person given the company that he holds? Yes, i say that honestly and especially given the amount that the club gave to charity over the past 25 years. Especially through the good work that they did through the Tottenham Hotspur foundation.
But for crying out loud, we have gone from a club that famously won 13 cup finals out of 16 (1901 to 1999) to winning just 1 out of 6 under ENICs stewardship (2001 to 2025). Also, there has been so many semifinals and quarter finals which the club has failed to turn up to.
This club is as clean as any, from environment impact, to living wages, to how we treat ex players, to charity contributions, pick a metric you actually want to be measured by, and we are typically up there.
Do I think Joe Lewis was squeaky clean? no (all Billionaires are not good people), but lets be clear, in the cartoon villains' comparison, he doesn't hold a candle to Middle East ownership or RA, or even Private Equity ownership.
You are mixing up short term vs. long term, Spurs ownership has never made a decision to not invest in the future of the club, the training ground, the stadium, the constant re-investment (no dividends, no cash outflow) is all designed to generate more money, to spend more money (why would that be a fudging objective if not to win things). They literally could have spend half the money on the stadium if they didn't care about the club, and if they had any intention of making good on that equity.
Has the approach been successful in pure trophy terms? no. But again, lets not cherry pick, Spurs has only won 17 finals in 144 years, it's not some grand fall off. And the club not turning up to finals/semis/quarter, completely agree, something is wrong, even just statistically, but I'd argue like today, if we keep getting to those positions but don't carry it across the line, is that on owners? maybe, I'd argue Ange probably shouldn't have been in charge for today's game, but then fans would have bitched about that as well.
