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.

 

[metalgear]

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

Levy also employed accountants for corporate espionage, to surveil what West Ham stadium plans were. Got caught and fines if I recall correctly. Seems rather light considering the recent Southampton spygate punishment.

 

[Ace Face]

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

Better the devil you know.

ENIC have owned this club for 25+ years and our future has never once been in doubt. The other lot can’t even file financial records on time.

 

[Mikey10]

Better the devil you know.

ENIC have owned this club for 25+ years and our future has never once been in doubt. The other lot can’t even file financial records on time.

We were West Ham winning one of the three of their last four games they lost away from relegation. That would have placed the club in a very serious financial situation.

 

[SirPercyHotspur]

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Levy also employed accountants for corporate espionage, to surveil what West Ham stadium plans were. Got caught and fines if I recall correctly. Seems rather light considering the recent Southampton spygate punishment.

Levy and Spurs were never fined for anything they hired a firm of accountants to examine the legality of the bid as WHU were receiving public money in their bid for the tenancy.
Three people were charged and fined for spying but were never connected directly to Spurs or Levy.

Olympic Stadium: Men fined for spying on West Ham

Three men who spied on West Ham as the club was bidding to occupy the Olympic Stadium, are fined.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Bishop]

If thats the truth it hardly bodes well for now hahahah

Welcome to TOTTENHAM!

Imagine having anegotiator than what we've

Look, if your only intention in these exchanges is to extrapolate a meaning out of context to avoid acknowledging the point being made, then have at it.
BTW, thank you for again mansplaining to me what I have been keenly aware of since the early 2000s.

You jumped into the conversation and wanted to add a point about Ange that wasn't really the case.

It was.
All levels of playing staff applied the same philosophy, the idea being it would bed in as an actualised identity reflecting To Dare Is To Do on the pitch.
You raise Jose and Conte. THAT'S the problem, hiring 'instant' managers and not giving them the tools they need, trying to continue a 'youth/DoF driven' recruitment, and ending up shatting on both.
The whole idea of Ange was he would set the tone whilst Munn and Lange developed this 'strategy'. Munn fell out hard with the rest of the board during his last year and it cost Ange even more than he was already paying. To cap it all, we then shat on our 'model' despite having got closer to bedding one in than before.

There is an argument that if you believed in 'the model', having won a trophy it deserved the chance to manifest further via the league and (hopefully learnt) experiences. That we decided to change managers is only half the issue; in truth, the single biggest failure was to once again go BACK to a whole different style of play and manager. Nothing new. We managed to blow what I believe was the greatest opportunity we might see for years with Pochettino.

We are essentially in agreement.

I am not sure why you insist on trying to argue a point which was clearly stated at the time.

Ok not really arguing the point, i'm arguing that the synergy never existed and was never going to exist under the previous leadership. I don't think it would have mattered who the coach was. We simply lacked the organisational willingness to set a philosophy and to actually follow it. .

We didn't with all of the previous guys and that's why in saying you fixating on Ange is pointless, it wouldn't have mattered who the coach was or what they had won. As soon as there was any degree of difficulty and failed to over perform Levy would fire them, that is what has always happened. He got his dream coach Jose Mourinho in, a man he chased for 16 years, a man he claimed was one of the top 2 managers in the world in his eyes, a man for whom he fired the most successful manager he'd ever had. He still fired him before a cup final, why would Ange winning a lesser European competition give Levy any pause for thought?