Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

[thfcsteff]

After the way he was treated, by the ownership and the fans, he could be forgiven for selling to whoever had the money.

I agree. We will certainly find out the longer term ramifications of how we dealt with him...

 

[Bullet]

Not sure if it's clear but is the rumour he sold all his stake or 25% of his 25%?

I think he sold 25% of ENIC, and he started off with almost 30% so he now has 5% of ENIC but I am not at all sure.

 

[thfcsteff]

Why they couldn’t have left him in place and just said, you are in charge of the sponsorship, the running of the club off of the pitch and all the other money making strategies that doesn’t involve transfers is beyond me. Would have worked well for him.

The story has several chapters I suspect. We may never know some of them.

 

[P.D.]

I'm surprised that the Lewis's don't have first refusal on Levy's shares and vice versa, would be fairly standard practice at least for the Lewis side to be able to buy Levy out as they're majority owners.

 

[Ace Face]

Widely reported by who?

A very simple google search will provide plenty of links.

I posted a screen shot a page or two back from my search result

 

[MartyFunkhouser]

I'm surprised that the Lewis's don't have first refusal on Levy's shares and vice versa, would be fairly standard practice at least for the Lewis side to be able to buy Levy out as they're majority owners.

Weird how Enic and the club has effectively denied it, you would think they would know if their shares were sold

 

[Ace Face]

I think that would have the potential to make more sense.

On transfers ....pre window they probably looked at VV and Lange and thought 'maybe we still need DL for negotiation' ...thinking about it who else was going to do it? ....(Paratici ?)

They very possibly had a succession plan in place with Paratici taking over negotiations starting in the Jan window.

However, if the plan was to fire Levy, and not let him voluntarily give up his responsibilities, then I doubt they would’ve let him negotiate 150 mil of transfers in last summer’s window. Purely conjecture but the math adds up better than if they were planning to fire him all along.

 

[Ace Face]

Weird how Enic and the club has effectively denied it, you would think they would know if their shares were sold

I trust ENIC’s word over that dodgy af investment fund’s.

 

[MartyFunkhouser]

I trust ENIC’s word over that dodgy af investment fund’s.

Same

 

[Gutter Boy]

I trust ENIC’s word over that dodgy af investment fund’s.

How are ENIC not also a dodgy investment fund? Their owner escape jail through bribery and appeared in the Epstein files

 

[metalgear]

We know Daniel was involved in the appointment of Frank and the move for Gibbs-White and iirc the negotiations for Savio so it's not like he knew his time was up and wasn't involved. It does make sense that the Lewis' had an inclination as to what they were going to do, but I don't believe Levy was in on that plan. Vinai himself may not have known the ultimate plan was to remove Levy as soon as they did, it's very possible that he believes he was hired for a gradual handover, but the Lewis' based on their investigation / thinking they could do better without Levy hastened the move.

I believe Vinai got hired by lewis family to understudy Levy before sacking him. I prefer to juicy version.