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pdxspur said:
Scum are so miffed that we are gonna have 1k more than their stadium. I think we should price our prawn sandwiches at 10p more than them to to really get at them.
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Only serve sub standard Pinot Noir.

http://www.theguardian.com/football...ur-grapes-wine-thrown-manchester-united-bench
 
In ref to the NFL discussions and to back something that Flav said about his old man on the pod. I asked my Dad his thoughts, since he's been going to the Lane for many, many years from the late fifties onward.

In his mind, totally ambivalent to it. If it gets us a new stadium and it's good for Spurs, particularly in terms of being able to compete in the modern football landscape, then why worry about it. Interesting how it's the relatively (note the use of relatively) younger supporters who are more concerned about this.
 
Greaves357_bestever said:
This blogger isn't happy with our Stadium NFL negotiations.

Please note that the blogger isn't 'the boy hotspur' before we go down that road.

http://theboyhotspur.com/a-scathing-guest-blog/

No idea about the truth of this, but to some extent it does tie with some 'ITK' I read elsewhere, that things didn't go smoothly Stateside.
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That's bollocks and just speculation. They weren't present at any of the deals or meetings that went on, this is their view of Levy being out of his depth and projecting it as fact. The club kept all of those plans secret for a fair while, there was the odd rumour but the size of the project is huge. No shit the NFL hasn't gone crazy about it, it's not a massive deal to them but it is a potentially lucrative deal for us.

It seems unless people have all the information they come up with stupid conspiracy theories and jump to conclusions with their own agendas. The club kept quiet on the plans they were making and people believed it was all on purpose as a ploy to save money..

That Hotspur bloke seems a proper twat.
 
Joaquin said:
That's bollocks and just speculation. They weren't present at any of the deals or meetings that went on, this is their view of Levy being out of his depth and projecting it as fact. The club kept all of those plans secret for a fair while, there was the odd rumour but the size of the project is huge. No shit the NFL hasn't gone crazy about it, it's not a massive deal to them but it is a potentially lucrative deal for us.

It seems unless people have all the information they come up with stupid conspiracy theories and jump to conclusions with their own agendas. The club kept quiet on the plans they were making and people believed it was all on purpose as a ploy to save money..

That Hotspur bloke seems a proper twat.
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You don't know that it's bollocks, anymore than either of us know that is true.

The fact that it ties in with what a 'well respected ITK' had to say on the matter suggests to me there may be some truth in what the author is saying.

I'd be interested to see if any of our American posters have a view on the matter.
 
Greaves357_bestever said:
Bad news like good news comes to me mainly via NewsNow.

I am not an ITK, I just read what is publicly available and sometimes post it on here.

Considering that the blog ties in what what a 'well-respected ITK' had to say on the matter, I thought it was worth discussing, especially as we have quite a few American posters.
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I would fully imagine Levy did upset some Americans during negotiations, he upsets everyone that he negotiates against - and having met him I say he's not very personable at all.

Also 99% of Americans are dicks when it comes to business - first sniff of interest and they massively over negotiate.
 
Blanchflower said:
I would fully imagine Levy did upset some Americans during negotiations, he upsets everyone that he negotiates against - and having met him I say he's not very personable at all.

Also 99% of Americans are dicks when it comes to business - first sniff of interest and they massively over negotiate.
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So you're agreeing that Joaquin's claim that it's 'all bollocks' is probably not the case?

I've never negotiated a business deal with Americans, so can't comment from first hand experience. But I agree with your general thrust that it would be no surprise if Levy did upset some of the American negotiators.

In the end what matters is the deal he got, and what opportunities there were.

We know some/all of the details of the deal so far, and it seems to represent some kind of progress for the club. We'll see where this NFL/USA link up goes from here.
 
I can't believe there are real Spurs fans out there who would side with American negotiators from the NFL over our own club chairman who quite clearly has our club's best interests at heart.

Or do they think he should have gone in there, given them all a hand shandy and accepted more money at the stake of guaranteeing double the amount of games and permanent NFL branding all over the stadium?
 
I read an article in a Jacksonville newspaper the other day that indicated that the NFL wanted to have 8 games per year in London, presumably at the new Lane. However, Shahid Khan, who owns the Jacksonville Jaguars, was uncomfortable being so tied to Spurs, because of his ownership of Fulham. Apparently the NFL is trying to make Jacksonville the "English team. ". (Very sorry for you about that.). I'm on the bus now, but I'll see if I can find the article in a bit.

Also, the US papers make up a lot less shit than the English rags. This seemed like real journalism.
 
Here is the article I referred to. It has quotes and is in a real newspaper. I would believe this over any ITK bullshit that is posted on a blog. I would venture to say that this is the real story. It has nothing to do with Levy being a cunt, so that will surely disappoint some people.

http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonv...jags-hesitant-about-playing-in-tottenham.html
Sources: Jags hesitant about playing in Tottenham, limiting NFL games there
Jul 13, 2015, 2:02pm EDT
The Jacksonville Jaguars are hesitant to play in a planned new Tottenham Hotspur FC stadium, sources said, and that’s part of the reason the NFL last week announced a deal with the English Premier League club for only two games annually at the venue starting in 2018.

Mark Waller, NFL executive vice president of international, said the league’s goal is to ultimately play eight games annually in London by 2021. The league for the first time last year had three regular-season games in London and will have three there again this fall.

The Jaguars, who position themselves as London’s NFL team, are halfway through a four-year run of playing an annual regular-season home game in the city. Those games are contested at Wembley Stadium, which has been the site of all the NFL’s games in London since the league began playing regular-season games in the city in 2007.

However, Jaguars owner Shad Khan also owns Fulham FC, a recent EPL club (the team was relegated after the 2013-14 season) and so also a potential future Tottenham competitor.
Said one league owner, explaining why Khan might not be happy with the NFL’s Tottenham move, “Shad owns Fulham.”

A spokesman for Khan declined to make him available but did forward a statement from Khan, who is the NFL’s only foreign-born owner: “The NFL’s commitment to the UK is absolute and the Jaguars are extremely proud to be part of it. … We’ve been thrilled with our experience and association with everyone at Wembley Stadium and continue to work closely with the team there as we prepare for our game this October and again next fall.”
There is no mention of Tottenham in the statement.

Mark Lamping, president of the Jaguars and a member of the Fulham FC board, said, “From our team’s perspective, the Jaguars are extremely happy with everyone and everything at Wembley Stadium, and we look forward to returning.”

Waller described as normal the give and take that was involved in getting the NFL’s new deal done. He disputed that opposition from the Jaguars limited the Tottenham deal.


“All the Tottenham discussions were around a minimum of two games per year,” he said, adding that there could be more than two played annually.

Some London sports experts wondered why the NFL would not just go all in with Tottenham, given the concerns at Wembley over field quality and scheduling, and the plans for the future Tottenham stadium to have a field dedicated to football that would be in place under a sliding soccer field.

“If you are going to the trouble of putting in an innovative [field] solution, why limit it to two games? Why not all the games?” said Carsten Thode, director of consulting at London-based sports marketing firm Synergy. “It would be easy to schedule eight games around [Tottenham] away fixtures.”

Instead, the NFL is likely to have games across multiple venues starting in 2018. The league’s deal with Wembley expires after next season, and Waller expressed confidence of a new arrangement. He added that there are chances of other venues coming into play as well.

The league’s goal of having eight games in London by 2021 would come from either having a London-based NFL team or from having multiple teams playing annual “home” games in the British city.

Waller said the league needs roughly 6 million avid U.K. followers to successfully stage eight contests in London, and that number currently is at 3.8 million. But last summer, the figure was at 3 million, according to NFL polling data, and that represented a 200 percent increase from 2009, when the league first started collecting the data.

As England’s national stadium, Wembley, which is owned by The Football Association, stages many major events, ranging from soccer to this year’s Rugby World Cup. That use has created field issues for the NFL and the soccer group.

“You can’t get away from the fact that the playing surface is not ideal for both sports,” Waller said.

The NFL’s international and finance committees gave Waller’s group the go ahead to close the Tottenham deal, and Waller said the final pact does not need full owner approval. He declined to offer details about the economic relationship between the NFL and Tottenham.
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Benjoss said:
In ref to the NFL discussions and to back something that Flav said about his old man on the pod. I asked my Dad his thoughts, since he's been going to the Lane for many, many years from the late fifties onward.

In his mind, totally ambivalent to it. If it gets us a new stadium and it's good for Spurs, particularly in terms of being able to compete in the modern football landscape, then why worry about it. Interesting how it's the relatively (note the use of relatively) younger supporters who are more concerned about this.
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Nice avatar

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Greaves357_bestever said:
You don't know that it's bollocks, anymore than either of us know that is true.

The fact that it ties in with what a 'well respected ITK' had to say on the matter suggests to me there may be some truth in what the author is saying.

I'd be interested to see if any of our American posters have a view on the matter.
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There may be some truth, but without a truck load of salt it's something anyone could type up in another rant against Levy/ENIC. I was impressed with the stadium announcement but clearly some people don't trust him/ENIC and that's fine, but it seems a bit overly negative to piss on/distrust anything the club announces.

I won't blindly believe everything I'm told by the club like I would any other form of media, but there's a percentage of Spurs fans who have a dig at Levy whatever happens.

The fact it ties in with other 'well respected ITK' means there's a few people with the same doubts/agenda, it doesn't prove anything. There's a percentage of people who believe the holocaust didn't happen, if enough people think it does it lend it any truth? Does it fuck.
 
Boyhotspur is a joke site wants good headlines for add click revenue he was the one making out the Josiff's/Archway were so badly treated banned his IP's in my hosts file so I can not make an accidental click to him.

Total Wum.
 
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