Dont care where the money comes from. I want Spurs to be bought and become the next Emirates Marketing Project/Chelsea
If you cant beat them join them!
Does he really need a source? Wow. I'm stunned you've asked that! As Enic are an investment company I thought every Spurs fan knew that this was the case. I've known it for the past 8 years (at that point I was only 13!) but didn't really care as a shiny new stadium, champions league football and being left in profit didn't seem a bad deal to me and still doesn't.
Dont care where the money comes from. I want Spurs to be bought and become the next Emirates Marketing Project/Chelsea
If you cant beat them join them!
I would be shocked if a company like that couldn't exert considerable pressure on a newspaper. I also wouldn't be shocked to see a newspaper take the easy way out on something like this, doesn't seem like the kind of issue where taking a stand is particularly called for.
You seem to think that if they aren't interested they could fire off a warning, why couldn't they do the same if they were interested?
What seems very unlikely to me is that a third, unknown, party wanted Carlyle's name pulled. Unless it's a publicity stunt, but in that case I don't think the story would surface like this.
You won't get another investor like that in the EPL - there's no room for one. There's no point trying to dope your way to success, when there's already two people at it with unlimited resources to continually outdo you.
There's about an 85% that a prospective owner will be an asset-stripper, and a 15% chance they'll be a sustainable owner like ENIC.
Newspapers frequently correct to their online content if they are told it is incorrect. The Independent and Standard do not have enough journalists to fact check their content or ask people/companies mentioned in stories if they are correct. If Carlyle's press office or solicitors contacted the Standard and told them that it was incorrect, they would probably correct it without asking any further questions.If Carlyle Group had the kind of ubiquitous influence that you suggest they have, then they would never have been the subject of the considerable number of negative stories about them that have featured in various media.
Furthermore, the UK press are not known for backing down so very easily unless the legal case against them is compelling. And in this instance, if Carlyle Group are indeed interested in buying Spurs, then the newspapers concerned have only reported the truth. In which case, there is no legal need for those newspapers to retract their earlier story in any way. The fact that they have retracted their earlier story, then, very much suggests that it was, at least in so far as it mentioned Carlyle Group, inaccurate.
Unless the prospective owner in question is an Arsenal fan with an obsessive hatred of Spurs and money to burn, then there is a 0% chance that that owner will be an asset stripper.
For the very simple reason that for the money it would take to persuade Levy and Lewis to sell, there is no way that the new owner could make anything other than a big loss by selling off the club's assets piecemeal.
THFC is a company whose value as a whole is considerably greater than the sum of its parts.
There is a danger that future owners could use Spurs as a cash cow (which isn't the same as asset stripping) - to fund a leveraged buyout like the Glazers at Man Utd or simply to fund the owner's personal account - but I have just about enough faith in Levy's love for the club and his desire to be remembered for a positive legacy to believe that he will try to find a buyer who can take the club forward.
Other than that, we can't rule out altogether the possibility that we might be bought by an individual or consortium that have big plans for us. There will be ways and means in which they can help hugely - not least by funding the construction of the new stadium.
the only real guarantee of it working is a billionaire owner "buying" an intangible benefit, not thinking about the money, but what the association does for their reputation
football is like f1 now, if you want to win you have to throw money away, you can't be successful and sustainable
They can't just throw money around any more though. It has to be done in accordance with FFP, so basically one of their other companies must sponsor us with absurd amounts.
Any new owner is more likely to take money out than putting any in, or even running the club as we are now. Even if they financed a stadium they might want to get some of their money back through dividends or the money will be a loan to the club.
Surely there is little point in them running the club as it is now given the amount they will have to pay up front to buy the club from enic?
One way or another the new stadium has to be built to make any current investment profitable. I bet you're right with how it would be financed, but I would hope, however unlikely that they would go for capital growth and a long term strategic plan rather than crippling the club with interest payments. Short term yes they will get income from the club but if they play the long game there is much more to be gained from selling an established cl club with a 60k stadium instead of a second rate club with crippling stadium debts
Hicks and Gillett wanted a buyer that not only payed them an inflated amount for the club, but also cleared the debts they had leveraged on the club IIRC.
Maybe, but did they find one?