Tottenham Takeover Talk

[neilp]

Who said there is actually a deal?

Technically a deal isn’t a deal until it’s done. At the moment it’s discussions.

 

[N'Obody]

Who said this isn't all just make belief ?

 

[taidgh]

BIt spiky today, Bluto.

 

[mil1lion]

QSI are going to be pissed when they takeover the club and get the bill for all these loan to buy players in the summer

 

[septicsac]

What do you know that we dont?

We don't need to know, we are spurs fans, we expect the disappointment and Levy normally delivers on same. Likely the guys with the money feck off and DL consoles us by announcing life time dedication as chairman of the club.

 

[BPR_U16]

If there is a takeover can only assume that incumbents walk away with what cash is left in the kitty because we are spending sod all.

 

[tony0379]

Just wait for the total shit tornado to hit once they announce record profits in a couple of days.

 

[SonicSarr]

Just wait for the total shit tornado to hit once they announce record profits in a couple of days.

That would be a good thing, no?
Perhaps we will then have some readies to buy more Carlos Kickaballs to alleviate the bedwetting in the transfer section of the site. Just a thought.

 

[septicsac]

Sooner Levy and Co are gone the better, yes we are a solid team, no longer in the mess we were in when they took over, but they show no ambition to kick on to the next step and we will get left behind if something doesn't change soon.

 

[Yiddo100]

We have £70m to pay this summer just to keep 2 players we already have.
Then there’s 2 top quality CBs we need + a GK and that’s just the minimum.

We need some sort of investment badly because it’s not coming from anywhere else.

 

[spursfan77]

Just wait for the total shit tornado to hit once they announce record profits in a couple of days.

They are so tone deaf they’ll think we will be impressed.

 

[Pochemon94]

They are so tone deaf they’ll think we will be impressed.

What they will do,

1) announce Porro at the end of the window as a deadline day special
2) wait a couple of weeks, leak a story that we tried for a griezman or gvardiol.
3) show our record profits
4) conte walks beginning of next year
5) announce daddy is coming home - poche
6) fire poche for not getting champions league
7) bring in anceloti
8) fire anceloti for not achieving anything because we don’t buy players and have a complete scatter gun approach at this time

 

[legion]

South African tourism board is interested in sponsoring us for a 3 year deal worth around £45m over 3 years.

Inside SA Tourism’s R1bn proposal to sponsor Tottenham Hotspur

SA Tourism is preparing to ink a deal worth R910,997,814.75 to sponsor Tottenham Hotspur.

www.dailymaverick.co.za

 

[jpascavitz]

15m a year is pretty crazy for a deal like this. Although I thought we were aiming for record type deals, which I believe this would be about half of that?

 

[jay2040]

15m a year is pretty crazy for a deal like this. Although I thought we were aiming for record type deals, which I believe this would be about half of that?

I agree crazy..we have more to offer though than just a footy team especially with the stadium hosting events. Just need that level of crazy on the pitch!

 

[Danny23422]

That would be a good thing, no?
Perhaps we will then have some readies to buy more Carlos Kickaballs to alleviate the bedwetting in the transfer section of the site. Just a thought.

Would have had it for this window if they was gonna spend it

 

[midoshairband]

can't happen soon enough.

 

[Bluto Blutarsky]

15m a year is pretty crazy for a deal like this. Although I thought we were aiming for record type deals, which I believe this would be about half of that?

Can’t read the article - but what exactly are they sponsoring?

 

[TeamEvil]

Can’t read the article - but what exactly are they sponsoring?

Here you go. IMO, given our recent issues with Don Fabio, and the controversy around that, doing business with the South African government, may not be a wise choice.

Being a South African, and witnessing government negligence and general corruption first hand, we are observing a sh** show of epic proportions with daily black outs that are crippling the economy. The money is great and all but there's bound to be some downside to the deal, especially given the country's leadership being so prone to irregular spending and being linked to corruption.

Documents obtained by Daily Maverick show that the South African government, through its marketing agency SA Tourism, is preparing to ink a deal worth R910,997,814.75 to sponsor one of the English Premier League’s best-known teams, Tottenham Hotspur.​

‘Executive Summary: Proposed 36-month sponsorship partnership with Tottenham Hotspur FC”, reads the first slide of a PowerPoint presentation stamped with the logo of SA Tourism.
Marked “Company Confidential”, this first presentation was apparently given by SA Tourism’s acting CEO, Themba Khumalo, on 27 January.

Daily Maverick understands that the proposal was due to be discussed again by the SA Tourism board, via a second — more elaborate — presentation, also in Daily Maverick’s possession, on Tuesday night.

Although Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu was slated to be at Tuesday night’s SA Tourism board meeting, Daily Maverick has established that she ended up meeting Khumalo separately, ahead of the meeting.
Sisulu, through her spokesperson Mpumzi Zuzile, initially referred Daily Maverick’s questions on the sponsorship proposal to SA Tourism, while SA Tourism had not responded to Daily Maverick’s request for comment by publication.
Another Sisulu spokesperson, Steve Motale, subsequently asked Daily Maverick to delay publication while his team “established the facts”. This article will be updated with further comments when received.

A R1bn deal to sponsor top English soccer team​

What the PowerPoint presentations reveal is that the South African government, through its marketing arm SA Tourism, is seriously considering a proposal to spend close to R1-billion to sponsor one of the world’s most elite soccer teams.
Sources close to the matter told Daily Maverick that it was on the verge of being finalised, with Sisulu allegedly eager for the deal to be sealed before the impending Cabinet reshuffle by President Cyril Ramaphosa moves her out of the Tourism portfolio, as is expected.
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Sisulu did not respond to a direct question as to whether she was indeed personally championing the deal.
The presentation specifies that the total value of the sponsorship deal between SA Tourism and Tottenham Hotspur FC would be £42.5-million over three years — which converts to R910,997,814.75 in South African currency, or just under a billion rand.
As a special flourish, the deal would be announced by President Ramaphosa during his State of the Nation Address (Sona) on 10 February.

‘An exceptional global platform to partner with’​

The first PowerPoint presentation explains that Tottenham Hotspur — the home of England captain Harry Kane, and colloquially known as Spurs — is the “8th most valuable football club brand globally”.
It notes that SA Tourism would be following in the footsteps of other “DMOs” — destination management organisations, which promote locations as travel destinations — in signing a sponsorship deal with a Premier League soccer team.
It lists Abu Dhabi’s sponsorship of Manchester City, Malta’s sponsorship of Manchester United and Rwanda’s sponsorship of Arsenal as similar deals — and adds a warning.
“If SA Tourism does not grab this opportunity, a competing DMO will!” it stated.
A tourism expert who spoke to Daily Maverick on condition of anonymity flatly contradicted any sense of urgency around the deal.
The expert said Tottenham Hotspur had sought sponsorship from SA Tourism as far back as 2017, but that the deal had always been rejected out of hand because the return on investment was “ludicrous”.
The tourism expert consulted by Daily Maverick said that the claims made about the marketing value of the deal were “absolute, unmitigated bullshit”.
In the presentation, it is claimed that Tottenham Hotspur represents “the highest-rank available global platform that meets SA Tourism’s criteria as an exceptional global platform to partner with”.
It states that, in the post-Covid era, with global travel opening up once more, SA Tourism needs “a series of BIG strategic and specific actions to re-assert our position”.
The first presentation does not provide details on exactly what kind of exposure South Africa would gain from the deal. A slide titled “3 business reasons why a sponsorship deal with Tottenham make [sic] sense? [sic]” lists a year-round global presence, the fact that rival DMOs are signing similar agreements, and an unspecified “high business return on investment”.

Second presentation defends disproportionate use of marketing budget​

A second presentation, seen by the SA Tourism board on Tuesday night, is far glossier and more detailed.

It also bears the hallmarks of having been at least partially prepared by Tottenham Hotspur rather than SA Tourism: to give one example, it refers to Spurs’ base of London as “the most connected, culturally relevant and important city in the world”, which is a surprising claim to find on another country’s tourism documents.
Among the details added by the second presentation is that “+35” British members of Parliament are “self-described Tottenham Hotspur supporters”.
This latter presentation specifies that the exposure SA Tourism will receive will include stadium branding, match-day advertising, a 5-14 day training camp in South Africa with the full first Spurs team — as well as access to free tickets and stadium hospitality.
The £42.5-million deal would run from as soon as February 2023 to June 2026, with the option to extend for another year.
The presentation claims that in exchange for this R1-billion investment, SA Tourism will receive media exposure to the value of £277-million, or almost R6-billion.
In a Q&A portion of the presentation, it makes oblique reference to the fact that SA Tourism’s expenditure in this regard would amount to more than one-third of its total annual marketing budget.
By way of reassuring antsy board members, the presentation states:
“As entering into a sponsorship partnership with Tottenham Hotspur will likely result in a disproportional contribution (of more than 36%) towards the achievement of primary objective (21 million tourist arrivals), it would therefore be completely justifiable for SA Tourism spending [sic] a disproportional percentage of its annual marketing budget (36%) on the proposed Tottenham Hotspur partnership while having in place a risk management strategy to properly manage all risks associated with that.”
It adds:
“This can in no way be construed to [sic] a scenario of ‘putting all your eggs in one basket’.”

Why the speed on this questionable deal?​

The tourism expert consulted by Daily Maverick said that the claims made about the marketing value of the deal were “absolute, unmitigated bullshit”.
The expert said serious questions needed to be asked about why this stale deal was now apparently being pushed through with such speed.
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This is a moment of extreme instability for SA’s tourism authorities. In addition to the likelihood that Sisulu will be removed from the tourism portfolio in the coming days, adverts are currently out for a permanent SA Tourism CEO, while the body’s CFO is also serving in an acting capacity.
Whoever wins the top permanent posts now faces the possibility of coming into their jobs with a major portion of their budget effectively tied up. This is at a time when South Africa’s tourism industry is still attempting to recover from the crippling effects of a pandemic which saw the sector’s contribution to GDP fall by an estimated 50%. DM

 

[Danfunkel]

3 years doesn’t seem a long time for a stadium naming rights partnership? Usually these things are decades long…unless this is a new strategy we are approaching? Would seem rather odd to have people know of a venue name and it changes regularly.