Tottenham Takeover Talk
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glacierSpurs
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Oh boy, this thread activity got me hoping and dreaming again.
spursfan77
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Mark Goldbridge, who obviously can be a bit of a clown at times but 100% has strong Man Utd contacts, randomly released this video yesterday aswell which seems like very interesting timing
We are the most obvious team in the league to buy or invest in, if you ask me. The only thing that has prevented it from happening is the price.
felmani26
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That was in reference to earlier proposals I believe when it all surfaced with Najafi/QSI.
Bluto Blutarsky
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Well, it was deleted for a reason - it was intended for a back-room thread where they can discuss things that are not ready for public consumption.
I will just say, there was nothing about it that was any more or less informative than @Trix post.
Just watch this space and see if anything develops.
glacierSpurs
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Fyp.
stonebrow
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I think a few will be thinking the same, now everyone appears to be on the same page at the club we get this which, if true, could be very unsettling whichever way it goes.
spursfan77
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I wouldnt trust either of them as far as I could throw them, to be fair.
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I mean Newcastle I believe was only sold for about 400 million or so, so I always think the big hurdle would be ENIC's price point. Yes a lot of the work is done for a potential new owner, but you'd have a huge up front investment IMO
glacierSpurs
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They haven't met the negotiation behaviour of Levy then
spursfan77
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I keep going back to them paying off the loans for the training ground in April, when they didnt have to do it for two years, and asking why, unless it has something to do with getting the ducks in a row for selling the club. I dont believe they'd do it just for the interest rate rises (and cant remember how the loans were financed either) and they arent included in FFP as it is an infrastructure cost.
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Always found it strange that the price is even an issue in terms of ME investment, as they have the money on hand anyway and all of the pieces are already here. The work is done. Whoever owns Chelsea are going to need to spend 10 years trying to build a stadium that we've already built. The Saudi's are going to need to grow Newcastle's fanbase and turnover to a level where...we're already at. Man Utd too needs hundreds of millions spending on the stadium and Carrington, which is years of work.
The work is already done here, you're just spending the money on the front end rather than over years, and the trade off is that it's immediate. If you wanted to "do a City" to Tottenham and just buy the 8-9 world leading players we'd need to fill out a squad, we could win the league in two years if you wanted to do it, because we can already sink £500m and stay free from FFP issues.
I don't even want some shady investment that I'll have to try to support the club in spite of, but it's just never made sense why we haven't been targeted above other clubs.
SpartanSpur
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You see the growing pains at other clubs that have been taken over, then realise most of them don't exist at Spurs. Yes the price is inflated because of that but surely for these rich people time is more precious than money?
Buy Spurs and everything is in place. All you literally have to do is spend on transfers to get us winning trophies.
Plenty of FFP headroom (unlike Newcastle), no stadium/training ground developments required (unlike Utd, Villa and Chelsea, possibly Newcastle too). We really are ready to go.
Edit: @robotsonic said it even better in the post above.
Buy Spurs and everything is in place. All you literally have to do is spend on transfers to get us winning trophies.
Plenty of FFP headroom (unlike Newcastle), no stadium/training ground developments required (unlike Utd, Villa and Chelsea, possibly Newcastle too). We really are ready to go.
Edit: @robotsonic said it even better in the post above.
fishhhandaricecake
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Just opinion mate but the timing doesn’t seem right, we shall see.
Ghost Hardware
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As mentioned on the other page, there is has been quite a few rumours that Qatar a thinking of backing out. How much truth there is in it and if its just a move to put pressure on the Glazers or if they really have had enough is anyones guess. But there would be some logic to them swinging their interest back in this direction if they have stepped out fo the race for Utd. It did seem like all the talk of QSI's interest in us stopped when Qatar got involved with Utd.
I think Sam matterface also said he’s heard there could be someone new running the club soon or something along them lines, not sure if that meant someone replacing levy or new owners completely.
thebenjamin
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Just that tiny detail
spursfan77
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I think it is because they either want to buy to sports wash or to have the club as a trophy asset. We are seen as too expensive to buy to do the first and not prestige enough (like man u or Liverpool) to do the latter.
But yeah, the work required isnt much. Just correct investment and decision making. I just think there isnt much appetite to sell from ENIC and that might not change until the Lewis ownership changes further, and even then it isnt a given.
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