Oh boy, Daniel Levy is really feeling the heat and if the overwhelming reactions on social media are anything to go by, then the idea to release an appeasement video was a bad one. You see, people like consistency, and people like other people that they can emotionally invest in.
The reaction to this video is frankly awful, on any level. Fans on this thread are clearly furious and furious and wholly unsympathetic.
It also looks like there’s an inference that Pochettino ‘could have been backed, but he was too truculent’, which is frankly obscene.
This is a horrible, terribly misjudged moment.
You’re so hard
So it’s not ok to question 1 trophy in 20 years, no players bought during a couple of transfer Windows, debt that would make your eyes water, not investing in quality players, making our club the laughing stock of the PL? You must be Danny boy’s love child as that’s the only excuse for your apologist nonsense🤦♂️🤦♂️
Without winning anything, or now even being in the Champions League where the big clubs play, you say WHL wasn’t big enough for a club that win nothing and play in the 3rd rate European trophy?
Good post.
Correct!
Yes, world class stadium world class training facilities (?) and……world class DEBT!
I haven’t got round to watching the whole interview, yet, but, yes, a very complicit interviewer, I noticed.
And a new record period of thirty years without winning either the league title or the FA Cup (and that count includes war years!)
Well people were always outraged at rumors. Now they can off load more venom since they get it from Danny take the fan temperature chairman. I expect tomes to be written here.
Yes Covid,I wonder how often that will be used as an excuse for no revenue.It seems to me that had the shopping centre been completed on time and on budget there would have been a lot more money in the coffers with the stadium having provided nearly two year of income.
Still we can’t let a trivial matter such as that come in the way of Levy’s bonus.It will be interesting to see what he pays himself for this last year..I wouldn’t mind betting he has furloughed himself on the quiet.
The evidence is there. 20 years of naff all trophy wise. A Merry go round of managers and ultimately best players leave.
The one constant in all those failings ……… Daniel Levy.
Why should he drop his support? I support Spurs and have done so for 60 years. As a die-hard, lifetime supporter my allegiance is to the club and the team, not its owners.
The ownership axis of Lewis and Levy has delivered one, minor, trophy in 20 years of ownership, our worst such two-decade run since WWII.
Based upon hard logic and actual statistics, rather than cult-like devotion, why should I support an ownership group that has delivered such mediocre results?
…or even squib
Lewis is no less of a rapacious oligarch than Abramovic and arguably more steeped in blood money than the latter. The difference is that Abramovic is passionate about football and has been willing to invest some of his personal fortune into establishing Chelsea as a world class, trophy winning, football team and Lewis has not.
Until Daniel Ek the billionaire founder of Spotify purchases arsenal and they then start blowing us out of the water again
The hopefully trophies is that based on your beloved hero Daniels hopefully. In the recent documentary I think he based it on santa would bring us a trophy. Imagine that a billionaire who can buy and sell property, run a football club but can’t manage to guide them to win anything. Do you count success on a training facility and stadium if so that means we are more successful than Leicester. How can that be we have never won the premiership or the fa Cup in the Enic time of ownership. I guess it depends on how you judge success, having the biggest debt in Europe that is some success. Well you did mention Barcelona so I guess being on par with them in debt will keep the fans happy.
I really cannot stand the weasel but you have to let the red mist clear sometimes and I admit it is hard THFC being the only club in the PL being hit by Covid.
Everything is down to you pin head.
WE? Levy’s personal not Enic property portfolio which Harry detailed quite some time ago.
Like Grealish B Fernandes and Dias?
He was picked because Levy needs players like Eriksen in the shop window.
He downed tools because he was underpaid and over valued by Levy and reneged on an agreement he had with Levy.
Do you seriously think Poch wanted to play anyone who was mentally elsewhere?
Tappa, if we have a very poor opening couple of months and exit cups etc and hit the lower reaches of the table the Levy formula is to sack the manager and Dof Football. Is this acceptable to you?
Pretty accurate commentary I’m afraid.
I think the stadium was set up to be an attractive option for an NFL franchise as a selling point. The anchor tennant tag has been stated by ENIC/Levy.
Do you honestly believe Enic have advanced the football club over a 20 year period? It defies logic to do so.
If I were you and hate Levy so much, I will give up supporting Spurs.
Fortunately, I am not you. My support for Spurs will not waver, with or without Levy.
Brilliant summary.
You don’t pick a team based based purely on the owners, do you?
You should then drop your support for Spurs. Why continue to do so when it has caused you so much anguish. This statement applies to all so called Spurs fans who do not support Levy. There is no way that Levy is leaving Spurs anytime soon and if you hate him so much, why continue to undergo such stress?
THFC PLANNING APPLICATIONS. SHOW ME
re the regeneration. Not one Tottenham resident has been moved out that didn’t want to. And none will. Even here on the farm where two blocks are being knocked down all residents were given the choice to move back. This is Tottenham. They wouldn’t dare try handle people like that. They know they have to handle tottenham people carefully/sensitively or Tottenham will burn it down again. This ain’t fkin hackney. They are afraid of us and rightly so.
And other owners? Enic FC my bum. Fenway FC.? Kroenke sports international FC? City football group FC? Glazer FC? Milhouse llc FC? I never hear fans of them teams belittling their clubs calling their club them stupid owner names saying their clubs don’t own their stadiums these people do. Just Tottenham fans belittling their club
ENIC AINT BIGGER THAN TOTTENHAM. THEY’RE JUST OUR CURRENT OWNERS. FCK DEM
For two people who are so good at making money levy and Lewis are terrible at running a successful football club. I am basing success on trophies which is what I feel most fans base the success of their club and players come to mention it. Strange that I guess it depends on what is really important to you. Like I have said silver is silver but gold well thats different.
Thank-you.
He has had laid the foundation for the future with a world class training facility to nurture and grow the academy following Barcelona’s blueprint. We have a world class stadium for the next 50 years and the ability to accommodate NFL games. The NFL wants to grow internationally and all 32 teams are mandated to play at least 1 game every 8 years and more if they wish at their own option, The UK is obviously on the list. Bar the blimp the recent past we have enjoyed Championship football and yes no trophies but they will hopefully come. Mistakes have been made the worst was the hiring of the Special One. I am not one for buying trophies with oligarchs and blood money. COYS
Tottenham gonna flatten loads of north London? North of the high road where? The wood yard and that? Tottenham have bought that have they or ENIC?? Who’s the contractor developing it? Come with facts. percentage of social housing? Brother you can’t tell me anything about where I live. Tell me about goods yard helston court Percy house (not to be confused with Tottenham’s Percy house. Somerset court. Lido house tell me. Why you always trying to make Tottenham look bad? Blame bl00dy Haringey council
Bravo, sir. Agree completely.
Levy has been a great chairman??? You’re delusional! We have won one trophy in 20 years under ENIC and Levy’s stewardship. our worst such two-decade run since WWII. By any metric that is abject failure. Additionally the club is also now saddled with a billion pounds worth of debt, the highest of any club in world football. So kindly elucidate on the greatness of our diminutive supremo, using hard logic rather than cult-like devotion!
ENIC International Limited, is a Bahamas based private limited company. By definition a limited liability company is a type of legal corporate structure that protects the shareholders and owners against any form of personal liability for losses and debts and ensures that their liability is limited to the amount invested in the company.
The fact of Lewis and Levy buying THFC from Sugar and other assorted shareholders, via ENIC International Ltd, Kondar Ltd, Hodram Inc and whatever other holding companies or corporate structures they employed, doesn’t in and of itself constitute investment in THFC, it is merely their acquisition cost.
When Levy euphemistically refers to THFC as a ‘self-sustaining’ model what he actually means is “we don’t invest a penny of our own money in it!” and as the limited liability structure of ENIC International Ltd precludes any personal liability on the part of its shareholders (Lewis and Levy) for losses and debts occasioned by THFC, then the nigh on 1 billion GBP debt financing of the stadium, assuming that it is all secured, is collateralised against the assets of the club.
I am not asserting ‘corporate malfeasance’, merely alluding to it. As corporate malfeasance, by definition, can include unethical conduct as well as outright illegalities, I would venture to suggest that allowing the playing side of the club to disintegrate from Champions League finalist status to Eurotrash afterthought, within two years, is a severe breach of fiduciary duty on the part of ENIC and Levy and thus corporate malfeasance.
25 year bond at 3% I believe. Can’t remember. I’ll find out and tell you tomorrow
So the bank of England are enic now?
Jealous are ya? Come do something for the Tottenham vulnerable community you might get one too
Not Tottenham. ENIC. That’s who own Tottenham.
Kane and Son?
Tell me a better footballer at Tottenham
ERM it started out as two games over 10 years. Now tottenham wanna get a team in. How many games in a NFL season?
Tappa knows everything. Let him tell you how the debt is constructed. Maybe that is how he gets the free tickets.
I can tell you don’t talk to people who know. What have Tottenham demolished apart from what I mentioned above?
This pretension to some kind of benevolence is really quite childish, before it even becomes sinister…
I will think what I like. You keep dreaming though
You think that’s it? Wake up. You sound really naive at times which I’m sure you aren’t.
The Bank Of England are just one of the lenders for example, that little bit of debt ‘restructuring’ was done not so long ago in fact.
So enic borrowed the money for the stadium? Show me
If not them then another entity involved in the redevelopment of the area. All the planning permissions and development things have been based around the stadium. Demolishing social housing will be far too iffy to put the club’s name directly to.
So whoever that is, will be someone related to the mayor’s office or something, some regeneration or housing trust people. Too messy PR wise for the club to put a name to. Same sh*t though…
Who are? Anyway I can’t be bothered.
ENIC and the lender/s.Not Spurs..
So Tottenham CPO’d love lane? Speak with either councillor Joseph lammy or Haringey council and get some facts
ENIC are far worse than the horrible Russians. The former pretend to be something they are not.
Andrew hasn’t been charged with anything though has he? Nice little eye opener for those it doubt about Levy though.
Levy is arrogant enough to think that the fans would really prefer to have owners like ENIC rather than horrible Russians and oil dynasties putting money in. On what basis?
Believe what you like. N
“The stadium was for NFL not for spurs? What the 2 games a season?
Tell me a better footballer at the club? Ndom ain’t average. Anyway think what u like
Let’s hope so.
If you wanna believe that its up to you
Oh yeah I’m a 56 year old child with 12 offspring. About Grown ups. Behave yourself
That’s the TV money. 1b in debt doesn’t pay any wages. Leave this stuff to the grown ups.
Didn’t need? Don’t you want us to buy big players and pay them big wages? I can remember when clubs like arsenal used to blow us out the water re players. That will never happen again.
Oh I’m wide a fkin awake
This was a Prince Andrew moment.
Levy is a cheesy scrotum
Yeah, I mean the hypocrisy is fairly staggering. Whatever you think about the concept of a ESL, to completely break from the governing body kind of outstrips what City did thigh FFP by quite some way.
To claim you are signed up to rules of an organisation you are also trying to escape from is just lies…
We own it until we don’t pay them
That the football club didn’t need. Wake up.
Sorry Tapps, but we do not. You do NOT own anything that has nearly 1 billion pounds worth of debt attached as liens against it! It is ‘owned’ by your creditors up until the time the liens are satisfied.
OK who owns our stadium then?
I’m not sure we are talking about exactly the same thing here. Nevermind…
The NFL money is. We got bills to pay
Nobody can tell you different, yet the facts ARE different. That’s denial I’m afraid.
Well put. As a lifelong fan I find it heartbreaking what has happened and yet we haven’t reached the bottom of th3 barrel.
Everyone has had enough of them but there is FCK all we can do about them. FCK all. I just get behind my team and ignore them in hope somebody buys us soon. Won’t be happening for now though
The NFLis more important to Levy. You really don’t get it.
Many of the fans find it hard to ‘enjoy’ year after year of failure. Perhaps try sometimes not to just see things through your own personal perspective. There are thousands of loyal, lifelong fans that have had enough of ENIC. Try and respect that, the’ve been to more matches home and away than you or I, I suspect over the last 40, 50 or even 60 odd years. Many will vote with their feet and you’re be calling them ‘weak’ or something like that. Just completely inaccurate.
Doesn’t make you right though.
You do. I follow my club. You actually think the NFL can bully Tottenham. Tottenham can call the whole NFL thing off if they want. The won’t though coz its a nice little earner
You have no skin in the game at all. You keep following ENIC FC.
We own our own home. No one can tell me any different.
Tappa, I’m just quoting the official line from ENIC’s man which is absolutely clear about the fact that the club ARE in fact anchor tenants.
You seem to be in complete denial of the factoids here..
I will enjoy/support my club. Especially when they need it the most
The team Levy has let go to ruin. Enjoy.
See you in there , oh!
Always an excuse. Pathetic.
And you continue hating the suits more then you love the club. I will enjoy my comp tickets especially when I’m in the south stand roaring on my team
They’ve acquired land on which they will build property, what’s the difference?
This is dull. Your rhetoric is always the same. Enjoy the free tickets and keep apologizing for Levy. He destroyed out club and it’s home for an NFL stadium.
They haven’t even started mate, they’re going to flatten loads of North Tottenham including the Love Lane estate and much on and to the north of the High Road. There they will build the build of their portfolio.
The stadium was only ‘Phase 1’…
So can Fenway . and?
And what’s that doing? It it what it is in my book. I just do all I can do like I’ve always done GET BEHIND MY TEAM. FCK ALL THE REST OF IT. I HAVE NO CONTROL OVER IT
Enic can.
If you wanna think Tottenham borrowed all that money for someone else to own/have power over Tottenham its up to you. No one can tell Tottenham what to do with her stadium. NO ONE
The real fan base is disgusted by Levy and ENIC.
Doomed to mediocrity and not greatness if things carry on as they are, 100%
Levy is a toddler in football owner terms. P!ss!ng with the puppies while he’s out with the big dogs.
Not an official statement from someone who represents ENIC though?
I’m brainwashed? Your obsessed with levy.