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Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

Yiddo said:
So have we confirmed its true yet or is it all still flimflam?
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Lot of detail here , even names the brokers but who knows.

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Everton & other writings by Paul Quinn, The Analysis Series, Talking the Blues & the esk PodcastsThe Analysis Series: The Levy stake sale: Eight Sports Capital, ENIC control and the future of Spurs ownership

On 5 June 2026 a buyer-side press release from Eight Sports Capital Limited announced the signing of a sale and purchase agreement to acquire a 24.99% interest in ENIC Sports and Developments Holdi…
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SirPercyHotspur said:
If Google correct it looks like it's the same 25% in The Bahamas as the UK, about time we had an official statement from someone.

Beneficial Ownership Secure Search (BOSS) System: Under the Register of Beneficial Ownership Act, all Bahamian companies must report their true beneficial owners. A beneficial owner is defined as any natural person holding 25% or more of the company’s shares or voting rights.
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We've had official statements from both enic and Eight Sports Capital.
 
Baleforce said:
Massively concerning.
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Yes, indeed. I don’t want these fly-by-night people anywhere near our club.

Re: the Lewis kids aka “nepo babies”, they need to be given time to see their impact on us.

They only really took control after the season had already started, and their guy, VV, was allowed to be in charge of the whole operation. By that time, our manager, DoF and squad were already in place. He inherited what sounds like an uncoordinated mess, including a second DoF who was one foot in, one foot out.

I would assume that he allowed his DoF to make the footballing decisions, as he should, which included the timing of the TF sacking. It would make a lot of sense if JL waited as long as he did since TF was essentially his “guy” and firing him would make him look bad more than anyone else. Further, you could probably blame JL for the Tudor hire too, with VV giving his DoF a chance to rectify his initial mistake (TF).

Anyways, all of that is conjecture but the point I’m trying to make is that the Lewis kids haven’t had much of a chance to really show their impact on the club yet. The boat had already left the port when they took over. This summer will be the first true test of their management. If the choice is to get rid of them for a dodgy VC fund just because they grew up rich, then some serious soul-searching needs to be done imo.
 
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SirPercyHotspur said:
To put a spanner in the works , ENIC SPORTS AND DEVELOPMENTS HOLDINGS LIMITED are not subject to UK financial rules , it's down to whatever the rules are in The Bahamas or depends on where ENIC are registered, there are various ENIC companies but the ultimate owners of THFC are the ones above and they are not registered in the UK.
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I thought Levy's share of ENIC was held in a Trust....and that's registered in Gibraltar
 
Ace Face said:
Yes, indeed. I don’t want these fly-by-night people anywhere near our club.

Re: the Lewis kids aka “nepo babies”, they need to be given time to see their impact on us.

They only really took control after the season had already started, and their guy, VV, was allowed to be in charge of the whole operation. By that time, our manager, DoF and squad were already in place. He inherited what sounds like an uncoordinated mess, including a second DoF who was one foot in, one foot out.

I would assume that he allowed his DoF to make the footballing decisions, as he should, which included the timing of the TF sacking. It would make a lot of sense if JL waited as long as he did since TF was essentially his “guy” and firing him would make him look bad more than anyone else. Further, you could probably blame JL for the Tudor hire too, with VV giving his DoF a chance to rectify his initial mistake (TF).

Anyways, all of that is conjecture but the point I’m trying to make is that the Lewis kids haven’t had much of a chance to really show their impact on the club yet. The boat had already left the port when they took over. This summer will be the first true test of their management. If the choice is to get rid of them for a dodgy VC fund just because they grew up rich, then some serious soul-searching needs to be done imo.
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Not so sure.

Charrington joined in march 2025 and Vinai V was announced in April 2025.
Both obviously Lewis appointments.
An indication that they were rejigging the leadership of the club. 100% in their minds ousting DL would be part of that.

So there was no 'shock' for them, they were driving their plan from at least those moments forward. If they came up short or stuck by certain employees, that's on them.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
Not so sure.

Charrington joined in march 2025 and Vinai V was announced in April 2025.
Both obviously Lewis appointments.
An indication that they were rejigging the leadership of the club. 100% in their minds ousting DL would be part of that.

So there was no 'shock' for them, they were driving their plan from at least those moments forward. If they came up short or stuck by certain employees, that's on them.
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But DL was still running the business so VV didn’t have full say at all. As we all know, DL was required to sign off on just about everything, including the hiring of TF and the players in and out. If DL had gone at the end of the 24/25 season, would VV had been able to get the Eze deal over the line for example? Plus I don’t believe TF and JL had the cajones or big club experience to push for the wholesale changes we needed. They were allowed to tinker when we needed a refresh and it was ultimately DL who signed off on that, not VV or the Lewis’s.

My instincts tell me that after the hiring of VV, DL was lining himself up to move into a Chairman position and to leave the day-to-day running of the club to VV. However, once VV had been able to get a good look at how the club was operating and make some suggestions on changes, DL pushed back forcing the Lewis’s to choose between their guy, VV, and the incumbent who in their eyes had taken the club as far as he was able to. They made the move to ouster DL and the rest is history.

So this is their first real chance to make the changes to the playing side of the club without any interference. Early signs are that they are making some smart moves but only time will tell.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
I thought Levy's share of ENIC was held in a Trust....and that's registered in Gibraltar
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The Levy family trust is probably registered in Gibraltar, apparently that is the favoured place for trusts but ENIC the parent company of Spurs are a registered limited company in The Bahamas , all to complex for me.
Can make it even more complex , the immediate controlling party of Tottenham Hotspur Limited is ENIC Sports Inc. so who is on the board of that part of the business. It was much clearer when we were a public limited company registered in the UK but Levy/Lewis delisted us went private and put us under control of offshore companies.
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Ace Face said:
But DL was still running the business so VV didn’t have full say at all. As we all know, DL was required to sign off on just about everything, including the hiring of TF and the players in and out. If DL had gone at the end of the 24/25 season, would VV had been able to get the Eze deal over the line for example? Plus I don’t believe TF and JL had the cajones or big club experience to push for the wholesale changes we needed. They were allowed to tinker when we needed a refresh and it was ultimately DL who signed off on that, not VV or the Lewis’s.

My instincts tell me that after the hiring of VV, DL was lining himself up to move into a Chairman position and to leave the day-to-day running of the club to VV. However, once VV had been able to get a good look at how the club was operating and make some suggestions on changes, DL pushed back forcing the Lewis’s to choose between their guy, VV, and the incumbent who in their eyes had taken the club as far as he was able to. They made the move to ouster DL and the rest is history.

So this is their first real chance to make the changes to the playing side of the club without any interference. Early signs are that they are making some smart moves but only time will tell.
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The Lewis kids insisted on the Vinai hire. Levy gave in to the demand. Came out of the report they ordered.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
Not 100% sure on CGT rules (for business sales) but I don't think you can swerve it just by the company being registered abroad?. Maybe Joe (and kids) not being resident here helps their avoidance as well ??
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No cap gains for individual or corporations in the Bahamas. Don’t think any of the kids are UK residents either.
 
SirPercyHotspur said:
The Levy family trust is probably registered in Gibraltar, apparently that is the favoured place for trusts but ENIC the parent company of Spurs are a registered limited company in The Bahamas so it says if you try to search on that name, all to complex for me.
Can make it even more complex , the immediate controlling party of Tottenham Hotspur Limited is ENIC Sports Inc. so who is on the board of that part of the business. It was much clearer when we were a public limited company registered in the UK but Levy/Lewis delisted us went private and put us under control of offshore companies.
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My understanding is that when Joe got into legal trouble he was forced to move many of his assets out of a trust he had control of and into one he can still financially benefit from but the kids control.
 
Bishop said:
It's not the same though. Each time we appoint a manager we would then align our youth systems to match him. Or we appoint managers of whom our "philosophy" doesn't match. When we had Poch there was supposedly an aligned system though our youth structures, yet we then went and hired Jose Mourinho who played very differently, then followed by Nuno and finally 3 at the back Conte. Each time the youth system either had to pivot or just didn't match with the vision of the current coach.
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I am not sure what you think I said.
I have made the exact point you are making there countless times on this forum. There again, I doubt you notice LOL.


Bishop said:
I don't even think your Ange point is valid because he was only in the job for 2 seasons there is no way our structure would have been successfully realigned to fit him in such a short time especially when they seemingly had already decided to sack him by the halfway point of the 2nd season.
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We aligned our youth system and womens team to play the same philosophy. That is a fact. 'Successfully'? Hardly, given they decided to shat on the whole structure by hiring Frank and going on about 'tankers' and GHod knows what other rubbish.



Bishop said:
Frank would never get the Barcelona job, but that's the point they have deeply embedded institutional knowledge, they've know what works, what suits and what doesn't. The reality is we have no real overarching philosophy that is deeply embedded. If we had one we wouldn't have appointed the range of coaches from Poch, Jose, Nuno, Conte, Ange and then Frank. All with very different playing structures and systems and all who would use (or not use) any youth structures very differently.
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I. KNOW! Dude.

Do you ever actually read what I write, or do you just work from assumptions? I have said for YEARS that one of Levy's many issues was loving the idea of a DoF/club system yet never being able to commit for an amount of time.
 
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