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By the time our stadium is complete, ENIC will have invested approx a Billion pounds in Spurs.
Ah people can say they have not put the money in ......the banks have....The thing is have, in the same way that when you buy house, you get a mortgage.
You don't say well I bought my house for £500k ...and the bank put up 400k and I put up100k, ........they own my house.
you own your house the bank have lent against it.
The difference is that if push came to shove and things went wrong they have the money to pay back the banks!
Assuming the figure of £800m is correct for the Stadium complex and £100m for the training ground, then the expenditure is there for all to see.
Some supporters moan about "how tight our owners are" because they do not get x or Y player in the window.
No one outside a select few in the club/enic really knows that much about our transfer business, particular on deals that fall through or why?
Did we pass on a player for what reason? Was it Levy? Was it Poch? Was it the players parents or agent ? was the agent on a "bung" elsewhere etc.
To say we lack ambition after finishing 2nd in the table last season and 3rd the year before is somewhat unfair as we enter the last 16 of the CL.
I do not think that we are run by a bunch of idiots, so if its obvious to me that they need success on the pitch to protect their £billion investment,
it is obvious to them!
Nottingham Forest won 2 CL titles, Where are they today, Before them Blackpool and Preston North End were among the biggest clubs in the UK.
Football is a cyclical business, you have to build a sustainable base
I actually do not know of another club/owner that has ever spent as much money as us! So much for lack of ambition! Poch can see this which is why he is going nowhere , and possibly Harry too.
ENIC has a simple ambition ..........to build Spurs into the biggest club in the UK and then Europe.
The other bug bear of mine is how ENIC were always said to be in it for the short term, Is this the same ENIC, who are now the longest serving owners of a team in the EPL?
They want to build a sustainable model, and they are about 6 months away from completing on the first stage of it.
They merely are choosing to do it a different way, having stuck a billion in, they can! They have a lot more riding on it than anyone else.
So who owns the club? Them or the fans. It is also not just the fans, who pay money but sponsors and or NFL teams/fans etc...
The fans are the customer of the club, not the owner. Like any other business.
And they own that business not you or I. Therefore all the assets belong to them, subject to the bank, and the tax man. Not to us fans.
Obviously like with any business, the need to keep the customer happy, to continue sales, but don't confuse that with ownership.
Spurs today must be worth close to £1.5bn....in fact a friend of mine last july was with a delegation of Chinese buyers trying to buy Woolwich, and Kroenke turned down £2BN, saying it is not enough, this after making them prove the funds.
So forget about 120m...to take it to a ridiculous extreme ...its like saying £1000 stake in apple in 1982 is still worth 1000 not a billion or more.
Obviously the value is what anyone will pay...
They are far from perfect, but I for one, actually would not swap them for anyone else.
Ah people can say they have not put the money in ......the banks have....The thing is have, in the same way that when you buy house, you get a mortgage.
You don't say well I bought my house for £500k ...and the bank put up 400k and I put up100k, ........they own my house.
you own your house the bank have lent against it.
The difference is that if push came to shove and things went wrong they have the money to pay back the banks!
Assuming the figure of £800m is correct for the Stadium complex and £100m for the training ground, then the expenditure is there for all to see.
Some supporters moan about "how tight our owners are" because they do not get x or Y player in the window.
No one outside a select few in the club/enic really knows that much about our transfer business, particular on deals that fall through or why?
Did we pass on a player for what reason? Was it Levy? Was it Poch? Was it the players parents or agent ? was the agent on a "bung" elsewhere etc.
To say we lack ambition after finishing 2nd in the table last season and 3rd the year before is somewhat unfair as we enter the last 16 of the CL.
I do not think that we are run by a bunch of idiots, so if its obvious to me that they need success on the pitch to protect their £billion investment,
it is obvious to them!
Nottingham Forest won 2 CL titles, Where are they today, Before them Blackpool and Preston North End were among the biggest clubs in the UK.
Football is a cyclical business, you have to build a sustainable base
I actually do not know of another club/owner that has ever spent as much money as us! So much for lack of ambition! Poch can see this which is why he is going nowhere , and possibly Harry too.
ENIC has a simple ambition ..........to build Spurs into the biggest club in the UK and then Europe.
The other bug bear of mine is how ENIC were always said to be in it for the short term, Is this the same ENIC, who are now the longest serving owners of a team in the EPL?
They want to build a sustainable model, and they are about 6 months away from completing on the first stage of it.
They merely are choosing to do it a different way, having stuck a billion in, they can! They have a lot more riding on it than anyone else.
So who owns the club? Them or the fans. It is also not just the fans, who pay money but sponsors and or NFL teams/fans etc...
The fans are the customer of the club, not the owner. Like any other business.
And they own that business not you or I. Therefore all the assets belong to them, subject to the bank, and the tax man. Not to us fans.
Obviously like with any business, the need to keep the customer happy, to continue sales, but don't confuse that with ownership.
Spurs today must be worth close to £1.5bn....in fact a friend of mine last july was with a delegation of Chinese buyers trying to buy Woolwich, and Kroenke turned down £2BN, saying it is not enough, this after making them prove the funds.
So forget about 120m...to take it to a ridiculous extreme ...its like saying £1000 stake in apple in 1982 is still worth 1000 not a billion or more.
Obviously the value is what anyone will pay...
They are far from perfect, but I for one, actually would not swap them for anyone else.