Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

[thfcsteff]

Cheers matey

Yes, I'll 20th that mate (there's been at least 19 other people ahead of me quite rightly offering praise of that fine piece)...

 

[thfcsteff]

That Qatari's have hundreds of billions, Abu Dhabi a couple of trillion, they've only spent back of the sofa money on City so far.

I just looked down the back of my sofa BTW. More dust and crumbs than I imagined, a couple of toothpicks and three old receipts. No cash. Bummer.

 

[mudshark]

You see my take is different from yours. I believe Levy would have sold (at a great price) to anyone that he thinks would make spurs better/ more successful including nation states.
But he wouldn’t to anyone like the Texans (taxmans) at Utd who would suck the club dry. I think Lewis would absolutely sell to the likes of them if they were the highest bidder.

levy saw spurs as a legacy… lewis sees us just as profit

I'd certainly give some credence to this POV.

I don't have any reason to think the Lewises have any interest in the club per se: in its history, in the hopes and dreams of its fanbase, or in what happens to it after they've cut and run with their 2bn or whatever it may be. They've wanted to "understand" the business, is the way I expect they would put it.

I'm certain that would have been Levy's position as well in the early days—he would have been happy just carrying out Uncle Joe's instructions for growing the investment.

Over the years, on the other hand, with his daily involvement (something I note they've been keen to point out Charrington will not have), perhaps he has been guilty of going native. Did he end up with a degree of emotional investment that the Lewises now only claim?

It's quite conceivable to me that Levy's ultimate undoing—his unforgivable crime—may actually have been an abundance of concern for his legacy.

 

[SissokoWasGood (BoL)]

You see my take is different from yours. I believe Levy would have sold (at a great price) to anyone that he thinks would make spurs better/ more successful including nation states.
But he wouldn’t to anyone like the Texans (taxmans) at Utd who would suck the club dry. I think Lewis would absolutely sell to the likes of them if they were the highest bidder.

levy saw spurs as a legacy… lewis sees us just as profit

Fair, maybe it was that. I don’t know the man, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a difference in ideal outcome between Lewis and Levy. My only question is if they were open to a nation state, why has that not been done yet?

 

[SissokoWasGood (BoL)]

I'd certainly give some credence to this POV.

I don't have any reason to think the Lewises have any interest in the club per se: in its history, in the hopes and dreams of its fanbase, or in what happens to it after they've cut and run with their 2bn or whatever it may be. They've wanted to "understand" the business, is the way I expect they would put it.

I'm certain that would have been Levy's position as well in the early days—he would have been happy just carrying out Uncle Joe's instructions for growing the investment.

Over the years, on the other hand, with his daily involvement (something I note they've been keen to point out Charrington will not have), perhaps he has been guilty of going native. Did he end up with a degree of emotional investment that the Lewises now only claim?

It's quite conceivable to me that Levy's ultimate undoing—his unforgivable crime—may actually have been an abundance of concern for his legacy.

Could well be that. I also wouldn’t be surprised if his attachment grew over the years and he came to see it as something more than the Lewis’s saw it.

It’s funny, I feel like my view has shifted even today. Previously I was thinking DL wasn’t the man to take us forward, but maybe a less centralised structure would allow different decisions to be made to get us there.

Now I feel more like DL is gone, and it’s about keeping us as competitive as possible, and being as valuable as possible, so that we’re still a valuable purchase for some buyer.

Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle. Still certain thought that the Lewis’s will sell in the relatively near term, and everything we’ve seen in the last couple of days is posturing. If the Lewis’s genuinely think that they have an equal care as DL about THFC’s role in the community, and they just needed to remove DL as the impediment to more success…I’m not buying that. They could have helped DL out at any point more than they had done over the last 20 years.

 

[metalgear]

still no message from levy? so strange
doesn't seem like he is in the mood to share his feelings then
considering that video interview recently that appeared he was firmly entrenched in the club's future, it feels like a sudden falling out of sorts.

maybe the banning of that fan for his social media comments, perhaps the very last minute nature of our dealings (and kolo possibly without a buy option), missing out on MGW and Eze. Whatever it was, winning Europa Cup wasn't significant enough.