Daily Mirror- Joe Lewis will sell the club....if he gets £1BILLION.

[sloth]

don't care if you do or not, I'll PM my post to A&C and Rob so they are aware

PS - I am 100% confident the stadium will not be completed while ENIC still own the club

You may be 100% confident but the probability of it happening is rather less than that. I'd be surprised if it was 50/50, but even if it's an 80/20 split that 20% is still huge; I can't imagine you'd bet £1k on a 1.2 shot, and of course that's when you get an actual return, rather than just the satisfaction of having guessed right.

Anyway, good on you if you stick to your word.

 

[parklane1]

Darren Lewis is and always has been full of shit so the story never bothered me, my concern was/is that there are some Spurs supporters actually believe his shit.

 

[newbie]

Not really true though is it? We will still generally be where we are now, A top 6 club and no more. Our rivals already are not City, Utd, Arse, Chelsea and Liverpool. Realistically they are the clubs chasing us for the top 6 spot who are our rivals. We can't and will not compete with clubs that have more money than us on a regular basis as things stand....That has not changed. There is no sporting decline to take into consideration in that regard. What ENIC care about is not the on pitch success so much, but maintaining a healthy balance of both future profit and sustainability, of which they are achieving. Their success on the pitch is keeping us where we are now, anything above and beyond that is a bonus. Tottenham Hotspur as a football club, has concerns about success on a pitch, and part of that club has the fans at the very core of it, which demand it. ENIC and Spurs are two different entities, with very different goals.

I don't really agree you do not need that great a team just a lot of luck if look at Evertons team last year and the year they made 4th and our team lasagne gate year, how many times we have come close to top 4 infact we have made it twice and should have made 3rd and 4th more. if Liverpool (champs league will affect them) and Man U have a poor season you never know, i do agree with you but don't write us off just yet. I think we should look at the next two seasons to build for the future but we may lack stars ( eriksen, Lemela def have talent) but so did Liverpool last year LS a side they made a lot of stars we have the potential. Remember Barkley was outshone by Carroll and Pritchard in youth games so what's to say we don't keep un earthing more gems, we have a very young squad I really think Bentalab has a lot of potential and a lot of our players could end up being real stars in a couple of years from nothing I think josh onomah, Ccv, Harrison all were trying with the first team if we stick by poch and he promotes youth and we allow him to promote youth by backing him in a few years we could build something really special.

 

[Athan]

Couldn't a new owner not just sponsor the club with one of his companies. A silly deal say £100m per year for 5 years, as a way to invest money? Didn't Cities owners do something similar with naming rights to their stadium. I may be wrong

 

[HW61]

Don't think there's any substance to the Mirror article. The figure is clearly made up and based on nothing other than to make a headline for website hits.

Do I think ENIC are interested in selling within the next 3 years and before the stadium is built? Yes.

Joe Lewis is in his late 70s. They've only really reinvested money the club have earned. As stated elsewhere they have made net income on player trading over the past 5 years. Joe Lewis is hardly going to put his own money into Spurs now. It's staggering that only now they are going to financiers. Any bank will want some kind of owner investment along with sponsorship (naming rights). If they are not fully funded already how can they start building.

I suspect ENIC are merely trying to make the club more attractive to potential buyers. Club link up with Real, Far East links, buy an american international right back and US links, and viable stadium ready to be built with full planning permission.

Don't think Lewis will wait until his 80 to sell.

 

[newbie]

Couldn't a new owner not just sponsor the club with one of his companies. A silly deal say £100m per year for 5 years, as a way to invest money? Didn't Cities owners do something similar with naming rights to their stadium. I may be wrong

Not suet but city thought they would meet the criteria but failed so I suppose it didn't work. They need a safer formula so teams cannot cheat.

 

[fortworthspur]

I wonder why a new owner would invest a lot of money on players. You have to figure other than an oil tycoon most owners are in it for the investment. Lewis certainly is. I dont know how much growth potential there is in the next 5 years given the massive growth in the last 10 years. Maybe there is, I dont know. But will plopping down 200 million on new players grow your brand more than 200 million in the next few years based on results on the pitch? seems unlikely to me.

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

Anyone hoping for an oil rich tycoon to take over and lavish the team with expensive world class stars needs a dose of reality. With FFP now being taken seriously those days of rapid growth are over. We are better off continuing to grow organically under ENIC.

 

[absolute bobbins]

Bump

 

[Lilbaz]

Bump

Why?

 

[LexingtonSpurs]

I'll donate £ 1000 to SC if ENIC are still in charge when we play our 1st game at the new stadium

 

[cider spurs]

Come on then...what we reckon we're worth as a package once new stadium built.

£1 billion that started the thread was back in Autumn 2014.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

Come on then...what we reckon we're worth as a package once new stadium built.

£1 billion that started the thread was back in Autumn 2014.

As I said back then - every club is for sale if someone offers £1bn because no club is worth a billion of anything to anyone.

 

[Thewobbler]

TBF we are an attractive club to buy atm. New stadium, NFL games, players worth a fortune etc.

You have to think, the carolina panthers are valued at 1B and lets be honest, spurs are a better franchise to own then them.

 

[Geyzer Soze]

Stand back lads - I got this

Uncle Joe wants to play with the big boys now, huh? ?

 

[LexingtonSpurs]

As I said back then - every club is for sale if someone offers £1bn because no club is worth a billion of anything to anyone.

You could not buy Spurs for £1B now. It would be close to £2B.

Stadium/hotel/development alone are going to be worth £1B when complete.

 

[DCSPUR]

You could not buy Spurs for £1B now. It would be close to £2B.

Stadium/hotel/development alone are going to be worth £1B when complete.

You are 100% correct. Think of it this way, the playing staff alone is worth over 1 billion euros:
http://www.goal.com/en/news/man-cit...st-valuable-squads/1mvpu6izoifma1lf0580p7ld9q

 

[buckley]

the person that basically said the club lied when they said Bale would not be sold did not take into account that the club not only did not want to sell but did everything possible to stop a sale but once a player indeed any player decides he wants out there is nothing a club can do as in Ronaldo to Madrid ;Suarez to Barcelona ; Neymar to PSG;Bale to Madrid once a player decides he wants out there is little a club can do because if a club does not take the best offer they can get the player can wait a season or two and leave on a Bosman.If they are on a longer contract you cannot rely on a player who wants out giving his all so I say that not only Spurs but Man Unt andLiverpool Barcelona all intended not to sell but were in fact forced to sell so they were not lying but perhaps being unrealistic because in the day and age of the likes of Abramovich also the country that owns Man City and the Country that owns PSG normal rules do not apply because there wealth outstrips Man Unt;Barcelona;Liverpool added together let alone Spurs who come bottom of this particular food chain.I say again when the club said there was no way they would sell Bale they meant it but money overcomes anything in the normal football world

 

[coys200]

Lewis has openly stated £2bn and that is about current valuation I’ve seen. Last I saw was £1.8 bn. Kind of narrows the list of buyers which can only be good. Won’t be getting any chancers like sugar.

 

[SpursSince1980]

Well, if the LA -bloody- Clippers are worth 2BN dollars, then asking for 2BN pounds for Spurs is not even slightly outlandish. The commercial upside of Spurs compared to LA's second most popular NBA franchise isn't in the same ballpark. With massive PL TV deals in the UK, and with the US deal up for renewal in a few years... Spurs will be an ATM for ENIC or anyone who wants to pony-up something in the ballpark of 2BN.