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I'm not so sure of that myself. I think a large chunk of the Tavistock portfolio is in the hospitality sector which has been taking as much of a battering as sports, and he will be just as keen to keep those businesses afloat as Spurs. The difference being that as a club we have lots of very saleable assets (in the form of players) and in terms of football revenues we will only be waiting on the UK gov for approval to play rather than the number of factors required for hospitality eg. travel restrictions, distancing, disposable income.Lewis won't want to see a £1bn asset completely disappear from the balance sheet. He will prop us up one way or another. I'm confident of that.
So I agree that he won't want to see Spurs go broke, but I think they will try and find survival "from within" as it where before he would inject his own cash. It's been the ENIC philosophy from very early on so I would be really surprised to see him dip into his pocket now. And even though the guys rich as fuck I imagine he has a lot of tough decisions to make across the group.
And I'm actually not against that idea myself. I like the notion that we are a self-funded club rather than owned by a sugar daddy and if we continue to see that principle work in the current situation it will feel more empowering. Of course if it gets bad enough that we do look like going broke I'll be in the chorus of people calling for his personal investment.