One quick solution to our current situation should be a new CEO. I’ve no idea if Lewis/Levy want to sell the club or simply can’t. But we need a fresh start and look from the very top. Levy presence at every game around the training ground every day is just toxic. I also have a feeling as our last managerial hunt showed that many just don’t now want to work with him on a daily basis. He’s also demonstrated in the last 20 years he’s just not very good at running the football side of the club. So let him take a real step back can still own his 30% and have direct contact with whoever they appoint. But we need him away from games and the training centre he can go sit on a beach on Lewis resort in the Bahamas. A new CEO is a solution which would seem like a new era and give everything a fresh feel. And if we appoint the right person working with Paratici we might just have a better run football club.
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It might but would Levy’s ego allow him to step away from his control. The point about managers not wanting to work with him is an important one. If I was Potter I wouldn’t come to us.
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Levy owns more than 30%, him and his family own 30% outright and he also owns a share of ENIC so has ownership there. Levy WILL NOT go anywhere as long as ENIC are here, even if a new CEO is appointed he will be reporting to Levy, it will just be another money man out of Levy's black book.
When you say WE you are meaning Levy, he is like the Glaziers and Woodward rolled into one person.
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Would definitely be a quick fix imo and would massively change the atmosphere if levy wasn’t around on a weekly basis. People rarely talk about Lewis when he’s just as culpable as levy because Lewis is never seen.
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Disagree.
Yes, we know he's not going anywhere but we have to make out voices heard and make him squirm. Make him understand this is unacceptable and we are on to him. He won't like it as he sees himself as this superior guardian who protects the club and it MAY just make him reconsider making shit appointments or decisions that effect the fans in future.
By saying it's a waste of time and not bothering only strengths his belief that he's doing a good job.
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Even then, if Joe Lewis decides to sell his portion of Tottenham, I wouldn’t be shocked if Levy put together a consortium and bought us outright.
Imagine how well that’d go down.
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I think pressure to sell is partly unrealistic. That obviously depends on someone wanting to buy. But exerting enough pressure that he steps aside as CEO is completely realistic imo. He’s already partially handed over control to Paratici it may be first sign of him getting tired. He’s 60 next year he’s only human ( although unbelievably thick skinned) he may just get to the point of thinking I’ve had enough. I think getting him to step aside as CEO is a much more realistic target than selling. And an outcome I feel would be beneficial to the football on the pitch.
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There will be very few buyers prepared to pay Levy's £3.5bn asking price, now or in the future.
Potential football club investors want a project as opposed to a expensive finished article.
How many individuals, investors and institutions can and want to buy us.
Potential football club investors want a project as opposed to a expensive finished article.
How many individuals, investors and institutions can and want to buy us.
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I agree I don’t believe Levy will step aside, we will also not win anything while he is overseeing everything, Levy is an absolute proven failure at winning anything. Doesn’t matter who we pick as manager, while a bean counter is in charge. Managers come and go we continue to fail to win anything, Levy is the common denominator.
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Levy is chairman and owner of ENIC. ENIC own Tottenham. It's not like he's going to sack himself.
People saying he doesn't know how to win are still missing the point. If ENIC wanted to win, we probably would have. ENIC are only interested in giving the impression of competing. Invest enough to make us seem competitive, but never truly enough to actually win, lest it impacts the profitability of the company.
See conversation elsewhere about the visitor "experience" at the expense of quality on the pitch.
People saying he doesn't know how to win are still missing the point. If ENIC wanted to win, we probably would have. ENIC are only interested in giving the impression of competing. Invest enough to make us seem competitive, but never truly enough to actually win, lest it impacts the profitability of the company.
See conversation elsewhere about the visitor "experience" at the expense of quality on the pitch.
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He owns 30%. Lewis owns the majority. This thread isn’t about ownership it’s about being CEO.
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The prerequisite for any new system is that Levy is put into one of those medieval siege catapult contraptions and fired all the way out of Tottenham, bouncing loads of times when he lands with little puffs of dust coming out from under his botty as he bounces, just like Wile E. Coyote chasing Roadrunner.
Anything that his sticky little digits anywhere near it won't work. He needs to be gone. Totally gone.
Anything that his sticky little digits anywhere near it won't work. He needs to be gone. Totally gone.
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Lewis own Tavistock, which has a 70% stake in ENIC. That is a subtle difference, and is what allows Lewis to avoid tax on it. Unless Tavistock buys out the remaining 30% then they can't just sack Levy.
Also, Tavistock have similar stakes in hundreds of businesses, so while that 30% is turning a football clubs value from a few dozen millions into a couple of billion, I doubt very much Lewis gives a shit.
These are money men and they ain't going to sack themselves while they're making money.
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Poch was rightfully sacked and how on earth is the Kane situation Levy's fault?
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Guys the reality is, Enic/Lewis/Levy bought our club for peanuts, they have invested what £30-40M of their own money in us, Enic values us at nearly 4 billion pounds (probably in reality its a lot lower), they are not gonna sell, they arent going anywhere in the short term. Oligarchs and other play boys buy low, that's why we get looked over time and time again. People will say, "oh look at United" we arent even in the same league finically.
