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Daniel Levy - Chairman

Gazza said:
Like i said Usmanov seems bitter about Kronke after he wanted to pump money into the club and make them the best in the world. Wouldn't it be sweet to have someone with Levys temperament and Usmanovs backing
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Usmanov owns Everton pretty much indirectly
 
I think people will be in for a nasty surprise if they think anything will change with new owners- with City on the scene there won't be a billionaire stupid enough to try and go toe to toe with them even if FFP allowed it - much more likely is owners who continue to spend within our means and the chances of us able to punch above our weight to the same degree would be low id have thought.

What will change in the coming seasons is our revenue will rise which means the money available whilst remaining to break even will rise also - that will come with new owners or without.
 
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Gutter Boy said:
As has been said about every 3 months for the last 20 years
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Not many were saying it when Pleat came in as caretaker for a year, BMJ found out he was fired during a match, Ramos got two points from 8, AVB played soulless football that eventually saw us mauled by City, West Ham and Liverpool.

Levy has had a bunch of huge mistakes, as anyone would, but on the whole he’s been brilliant.
 
awesome dawson said:
The stadium is the elephant in this protential sale.
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And it’s gonna be debt funded

Anyone thinking we would sell for mega money is bonkers as anyone coming in takes on that debt

Levy could make a lot form a sale but we would go for somewhere in the reaction of £600/£800M is my estimate
 
Gazza said:
I would laugh is Usmanov brought us out right and backed poch with bundles ... meanwhile at Arsenal
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There's every chance that Usmanov was all talk in order to gain control of Arsenal.

If Levy were to sell, there's far more chance of Spurs being sold to someone who wants to siphon off the cash cow, rather than someone who wants to spunk their fortune on players, IMO.
There's also been owners of clubs who want to throw money at it, but are clueless.

I can't see us getting better than Levy, and it will be a sad day if he did choose to sell up.
 
LemonadeMoney said:
There's every chance that Usmanov was all talk in order to gain control of Arsenal.

If Levy were to sell, there's far more chance of Spurs being sold to someone who wants to siphon off the cash cow, rather than someone who wants to spunk their fortune on players, IMO.
There's also been owners of clubs who want to throw money at it, but are clueless.

I can't see us getting better than Levy, and it will be a sad day if he did choose to sell up.
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Yes. All this. Usmanov is a brick of the first order, and anyway Abramovich's tribulations have disproved the notion that spunking a fortune on a Premier League club buys you a permanent safe haven.

Anyone who would buy a £1.5bn asset - and then throw money at it - to improve their reputation is going to be deeply unsavoury.

Anyone who buys a £1.5bn asset for commercial reasons is going to be focused on how they pay that debt down quickly.

Neither option is appealing. Hopefully, ENIC see an opportunity to hang on until the next inflection point in football finances.
 
Bedfordspurs said:
And it’s gonna be debt funded

Anyone thinking we would sell for mega money is bonkers as anyone coming in takes on that debt

Levy could make a lot form a sale but we would go for somewhere in the reaction of £600/£800M is my estimate
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How much is debt funded though? As of 2017, we’d spent 300m on it and only 100m of that was borrowed.
 
awesome dawson said:
Levy won't be the owner in twelve months time. We'll be sold to the highest bidder for somewhere between 1.5 and 2bn.
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Given the work they've put in and the Spurs connections they have, my personal belief is that when ENIC do come to sell, their considerations will involve matters other than simply who is the highest bidder. They will want to hand us over to responsible custodians in my honest opinion.
 
LemonadeMoney said:
There's every chance that Usmanov was all talk in order to gain control of Arsenal.

If Levy were to sell, there's far more chance of Spurs being sold to someone who wants to siphon off the cash cow, rather than someone who wants to spunk their fortune on players, IMO.
There's also been owners of clubs who want to throw money at it, but are clueless.

I can't see us getting better than Levy, and it will be a sad day if he did choose to sell up.
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Amen to that.
 
billyiddo said:
I think people will be in for a nasty surprise if they think anything will change with new owners- with City on the scene there won't be a billionaire stupid enough to try and go toe to toe with them even if FFP allowed it - much more likely is owners who continue to spend within our means and the chances of us able to punch above our weight to the same degree would be low id have thought.

What will change in the coming seasons is our revenue will rise which means the money available whilst remaining to break even will rise also - that will come with new owners or without.
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Things certainly could change IMO - they could go south very very quickly with the wrong new owners...
 
billyiddo said:
I think people will be in for a nasty surprise if they think anything will change with new owners- with City on the scene there won't be a billionaire stupid enough to try and go toe to toe with them even if FFP allowed it - much more likely is owners who continue to spend within our means and the chances of us able to punch above our weight to the same degree would be low id have thought.

What will change in the coming seasons is our revenue will rise which means the money available whilst remaining to break even will rise also - that will come with new owners or without.
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Not necessarily Bill. As much as I love Levy, I rail against the narrative that we could not do any better than him and Joe Lewis. It seems that there are always billionaires who want to launder money through the British game or are rich enough not to know how to spend their money. We have seen Usmanov *ahem cough* buy Everton and already spend a lot of money. The money he spent at Everton this Summer would have enhanced our first team squad significantly imho. The man is worth 14 billion allegedly; he could easily afford to buy Spurs. Whether we would want to be a play thing for a “corrupt” oligarch or super rich Arab is another discussion. But I think it is wrong to assume that there are not Owners out there with deeper pockets than Levy and Lewis who could spend it on the team at Spurs. However, as you say we could also easily get a Stan Kroenke.

That is not to say I don’t like Levy BTW. I think he is and has been fabulous for the club and is also a fan which makes him a priceless custodian too.
 
Parklaner81 said:
Things certainly could change IMO - they could go south very very quickly with the wrong new owners...
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Such as flogging new WHL to Shad Khan/Jacksonville, and we end up as their tenants.

Some of Portsmouth's various owners did that kind of thing and worse

Asset stripping is generally the MO in a lot of situations like this.
 
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