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Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

SpurMeUp said:
No doubt he’s a wealthy but not anywhere near Joe Lewis. It’s like premier league vs league 3 wealth.

And if Joe Lewis and family wanted to, they have the power to dilute his shares to far less using investment as the way to an achieve it. More likely, and less contentious (less open to legal challenge) is to just work it out with Levy. Effectively buy out or part buyout his holding.
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Levy is Lewis' godson. They are much more than business partners who will divest from each other. Id expect Levy's share in ENIC will remain the same, he'll just be co-owner only
 
Yiddo said:
Seems to me that its lazy journalism when mentioning Enic prioritises on field success. If that was the case they would be giving Levy a brick ton of cash and telling him to spend it.
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That assumes we understand the I ternal conversations. For all we know Levy was as cautious with spending plans internally as was evident for Spurs as a club.

The board may well have felt that he was not the man to take the club forward in a new direction.

Both views are total speculation until we hear more but that version does have a logic at its core.
 
Despite what has been reported, I believe it was all planned.

Vini's arrival, Levy's recent interview, Paratici/Lange appointments...we are beginning to look top heavy. its Levy and his role as Executive Chairman that has gone and will not be replaced. Its been like two decades, about time too.

Levy will be remembered as a finance man and the stadium build forever. Cant take that away from him.

Also this paves the way for a new approach to grow the club, be it stadium name sponsorship or new owners. Hopefully the new approach priorities on pitch success before club asset growth. For all that Levys achieved, we are still far from being a regular CL participant,.

Just saw this before the Levy news. The future is lily white!

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SpiderSpurs said:
Reeks of a takeover, or at least some sort of investment to me.

Levy has always done things on his terms and I think he left before he was forced to leave.

Amanda Staverly has been in and around the club including being at games for around 6-7 months. Let's not forget that she was the one who got the Saudi Sportswashing Machine takeover done.

There's been Qataris buy out rumours for around 12 months
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Feels like it mate. Too much smoke for there not to be a fire, and it tallies with that spate of reports earlier this year about him wanting to stay on in any takeover. Feels like that wouldn't necessarily be what any new buyer would want, since they would want to stamp their own vision on their asset, for good or ill. Especially if they're expecting to pay £3Bn-odd for a blue-chip football club.

One of the other concurrent rumors I've heard is that the Saudis are already tired of funding Saudi Sportswashing Machine - it hasn't given them the geopolitical cachet they expected, and they are looking for an opportunity to exit that investment, without exiting the Premier League as a whole.

We offer far, far, far more in terms of geopolitical heft, than Saudi Sportswashing Machine. Relatively elite London club, so geographically very close to key policymakers at Westminster - investments in London also have the benefit of influencing both the British government and the city's financial elite, who may as well be the global elite given London's global importance. Big new stadium to schmooze those elites with, easy access to the London property market that all sheikhs and other unsavoury characters seem to adore.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is all a buildup to a petrostate investment deal - either the Saudis, or Qatar.
 
metalgear said:
Despite what has been reported, I believe it was all planned.

Vini's arrival, Levy's recent interview, Paratici/Lange appointments...we are beginning to look top heavy. its Levy and his role as Executive Chairman that has gone and will not be replaced. Its been like two decades, about time too.

Levy will be remembered as a finance man and the stadium build forever. Cant take that away from him.

Also this paves the way for a new approach to grow the club, be it stadium name sponsorship or new owners. Hopefully the new approach priorities on pitch success before club asset growth. For all that Levys achieved, we are still far from being a regular CL participant,.

Just saw this before the Levy news. The future is lily white!

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Peace and love man
 
DubaiSpur said:
Sami Mokbel and the Beeb reporting that he was forced out - seem like it wasn't his choice, Vivienne and Charlie Lewis made the call along with Joe Lewis's grandson, Nick Beucher. Apparently due to 'a lack of on-pitch success'.
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This is an interesting one. I’ve always hated when Levy has let a manager go and the club has listed all the things that went wrong as reasons why, because they have to get their narrative out there. And now the shoe is on the other foot for him in that sense.

It’s a shame, because in the same way I think that a manager’s tenure and reasons for success or failure are more nuanced, the same is true for Daniel’s legacy. If ENIC are briefing that it’s about ‘on pitch success’, it isn’t taking in to account the achievement of raising our competitiveness while also making us a great long term proposition.

And I have said that I think he may not have been the right person to help us take that next step. But I also hate when nuance isn’t applied. But this is the game, he is now seeing the other side of the coin.
 
Baleforce said:
I find the idea he was forced out laughable.

If it turns out to be in any way true, we are proper fudged as the lunatics are running the asylum.

I really fear for what comes next.
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I think it’s really gonna be ok.

I think there is absolutely space for a little bit more risk taking, a little bit more short termism, without putting the sustainability of the club into doubt.

It’s perfectly possible that someone else making the decisions that Daniel used to have the authority to make, will make them in a slightly different way, that may increase the likelihood of more trophies in the short term. There’s so many different things we could do, ways we can innovate to gain an edge in the market, and he’s given us an amazing platform to do that from.

The briefing will suggest things in a very simplistic way - eg we want more on pitch success (as if they weren’t equally culpable for the likelihood of that success with how little they invested from the outside compared to rivals…lol) but I think the people in the know, know what a titan Daniel was. And equally, it’s a ruthless decision from ENIC or a really brave one from Daniel. But I go back to my idea that usually people are really well suited to a particular circumstance. We see it all the time with managers. We see it all the time in business. It’s about having the right people in place for the context they’re operating within. And I think Daniel was extraordinarily well suited to getting us to this point. I have a fair amount of confidence that moving forward we’ll have people better suited to pushing on to the next level.

And if they do put us in a tailspin with regards to finances, I’ll be as furious as anyone.
 
Lilbaz said:
Tbh it wouldn't surprise me. Levy's dad and lewis were friends.
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Its always been known about, from when ENIC first bought the club. I thought it was very widely know, im surprise people havent heard about it. Its similar to how Rambo (the Brad Friedel lookalike player liaison guy) is Levy's brother in law
 
SissokoWasGood (BoL) said:
This is an interesting one. I’ve always hated when Levy has let a manager go and the club has listed all the things that went wrong as reasons why, because they have to get their narrative out there. And now the shoe is on the other foot for him in that sense.

It’s a shame, because in the same way I think that a manager’s tenure and reasons for success or failure are more nuanced, the same is true for Daniel’s legacy. If ENIC are briefing that it’s about ‘on pitch success’, it isn’t taking in to account the achievement of raising our competitiveness while also making us a great long term proposition.

And I have said that I think he may not have been the right person to help us take that next step. But I also hate when nuance isn’t applied. But this is the game, he is now seeing the other side of the coin.
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Poor old Daniel

'We want on field success!'

'Here you go....Europa League Champions'

'Daniel, you're fired'
 
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