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Rumours Of A Takeover

By Jaymes Payten-Marsh
For THBN

Reports of a takeover are currently circulating around the business world. With Tottenham Hotspur’s share price jumping from 29.60 to 34.00 within a matter of hours, reports are rife that Daniel Levy has received an offer and rejected it for the majority shares owned by ENIC from an unknown source.

Other sources claim that an offer was made for the shares owned by Sam Hamman & Alan Sugar. Combined, those shares equal 14.7% of the overall holding of the club.

Some forums are even claiming that they have heard the rumour that former Manchester United major shareholders JP McManus and John Magnier are interested in owning the majority shares in Tottenham.

The Premiership has become the place to own shares as a football club can become a very profitable enterprise if run correctly and so this has attracted various business men into the world of football.

I think that if we are going to be taken over, be it now, or in the future, at least let Spurs be owned by some billionaire like Roman Abramovich. If we are going to be taken over by someone like Levy again, they may as well forget the whole thing as life under Levy’s leadership looks as though the good times at Spurs are not that far away.

26 comments

  1. My mate works for football 365 and he told me its a syndicate of Dwarfs who are trying to take over the club - He's the one who told me Sol Cambel was going to Arsenal three months before it happened.

    F*cking Dwarfs.
  2. Something tells me its bollox but i guess its possible....spurs must be an attractive business proposition at the moment as the club is on the way forward.

    I really would prefer it if Levy was still at the helm, with him doing the business and MJ as manager I feel we are moving forward.
  3. Bloody dwarfs, they always ruin everything.....they've just got the hump cos we sold Jose Dominguez.
  4. spurs are owned by joe frazier, or was it lewis?
  5. Anyone but the unprincipled Levy.!
    Some despotic Papua New Guinea dictator/gun -runner would suffice!
    cranky
    (Micky Hazards love child)
  6. I'm not sure how true the story is. I would also like it if Levy remain at the club.

    Would I prefer someone like Abramovich as boss rather than Levy?

    The answer to that is yes. If we can afford to spend big in order to get into the CL & maybe win the league, then why not.
  7. Levy is doing to business for us at the moment, he has a good coach in MJ and between them they have a good transfer policy aswell as a reported 20 mil to spend. It would take a rich, rich man to do better in my opinion
  8. Joe Lewis.

    I don't have much info on Lewis. Some have told me that he is a billionaire living somewhere in the tropics. He apparently owns a large chunk of ENIC and is a manic Spurs fan.

    Can anyone clarify this?
  9. we dont need a chelski type of chairman. i'd rather earn a title than buy it. hopefully roman pisses off i a couple of years an crews chelski over with a huge wage packet and massive debt!!
  10. why dont all you kids from ggnet just fuck off back there, youre all at home there where you can continue licking each others asses.
    This is a Spurs debate site and can do without you assholes from ggnet.
    On the takeover,I trust Levy will do whats best for THFC.
  11. pretty sure that Joe Lewis cares very little about football let alone spurs, he bought Enic to have a sports division to his 'empire', It was a Enic decision to buy spurs not Joe Lewis
  12. ENIC already owned part of a greek team.

    I believe Lewis is a spurs fan, and he has a personal fortune of several 100 million, and lives in Burmuda.

    I certainly would not want anyone with the priciples of abramavich anywhere near spurs.
  13. Joe Lewis lives in the Bahamas and is currently worth approximately £2 Billion pounds !!!!!!
  14. I plan to takeover spurs at soem point in the future after i have made my first billion. I have £500 so far, slowly slowly catchy monkey!!!!!
  15. Joe Lewis is a multi Billionaire who lives in Bermuda. He gave his son (Best mate of levy) a wad of cash to set up ENIC. Before buying Spurs they owned part of Rangers, a greek team, an Italian team, and I think part of a team from Croatia, They sold these once they had bought Spurs. Both Joe Lewis, his son & Levy are supposedly all life long spurs fans.
  16. A Take-over has to be plausible. Could there be a better time to buy our club. We have a young, improving team with a high transfer value - Lots of money in the bank from the Arnesen thing and our summer transfer budget - No Director of Football so the new owners could bring in whoever they liked to run the show and give hime plenty of money to spend! If I was shopping for a footy club right now (unfortunately I haven't found one for under R1000 - That's less than 100 quid) I would buy Spurs.

    As for a stinking rich (Abromovich type) owner - stick it, as another chap said, I want to earn a spot in the CL, not buy it!
  17. just heard that emile heskey wants to buy the club for a fiver so that he can get a first team place
  18. He'd probably drop himself to protect his investment!
  19. i have it from a reliable source it is david gold (currently owns birmingham) that will be bidding, didnt think it was going to happen until later in the year though
  20. I find it amazing that the majority of people throw scorn at clubs (eg Chelsea) who throw money at players to attract them, then turn around and say that they would prefer THFC to be the same. I believe there are principles involved in the game, we have been steadily moving in the right direction and I for one am looking forward to the coming season, with our Management team (less one) in place. They've done a good job to this point, show your loyalty and get behind the club moving forward.
  21. Here here! I know it's easy to say but I would not want to be in the same position as Chelsea. Okay, they won the PM and League Cup titles. But so have a lot of clubs. How can you take satisfaction from the fact that some Russian mafioso bought your club the title. He has effectively destroyed all Chelsea's history in one fell swoop. We are grafting, investing, building. It is sustainable, earned and largely paid for by Spurs fans paying top dollar for their seats. We're not a circus. We are an institution.
  22. Having known the Lewis family since the 70's I can put a few things right. Joe Lewis is a Billionaire living in the Bahamas. He is not a particular football fan. He was the founder of ENIC purely as a business venture.

    His son Charlie is a lifelong Liverpool fan!!!!!!! I dont think he is particularly involved with ENIC at this time. Levy has taken the helm.

    Daniel Levy has always supported Spurs and is doing a first rate job of pushing us in the right direction. We should all get behind him.
  23. Daniel Levy has done a great job since coming to spurs, funds are limited, but that hasn't stopped Levy working hard to sort out some common sense way to run a football club we have all been peeved off at the way money bags Chelski run their affairs, we dont want our great club run the same way as some rich guys toy!! then gets bored with it and sods off! give Levy the credit he deserves he is a true SPURS fan, come on you SPURS, hrrbrr6
  24. It would be a hell of a lot sweeter to win the PM under Levy than some rich FAG. As some of you have said let's earn it not buy it. We are going forward one step at a time and not jumping $Billions at a time. The wheel will turn for Chelski just wait and see.
  25. nbuj
  26. pardon the ignorance but whats a dwarf.