Could the fans buy ENIC out.

[jimmyriggle]

This.

Civil war would ensue, a splinter club would break away, and we would become our own biggest and most hated rivals.

We could create a separate fight club for those people though.

 

[sammyspurs]

We could create a separate fight club for those people though.

Would never work

 

[duspurs]

I pray this never happens. More stakeholders = Less consensus. The scheme at Ebbsfleet United (albeit was 100% owned by the fans) absolutely panned.

 

[optimusgazza]

No it would never ever work...just look at how fickle football fans are sometimes imagine if they were RUNNING the club...

 

[Doom Funk]

Carlito is minted apparently, maybe he could front the first 50 mil?

50 mil would probably just about get us a special partnership with Levy

 

[paddy spur]

why don't we just go on there tell Deborah to fuck off and make us a sandwhich while the men talk business, then do a dash-n-grab all the wads on their tables, laugh our way back down to tottenham and spunk it all on strippers, gear and beer.

Looks we got ourselves a financial director. Carlito's banning has cost him big time.

 

[B-0-Sspurs]

We can moan about ENIC all day long but if were running the club, there would be no club within 5 years.......!!

 

[paddy spur]

Any one sussed enough to tell us roughly what Tottenham is really worth and how much would the spurs need to generate to pay it back. my fag packet valuation is £600M which I think is high as it should be surely based on profit not TO.

 

[1882]

Jesus Christ, this place goes into meltdown when Timmy picks Bentelab in consecutive games.... Imagine if we had £600m invested in such decisions????

 

[paddy spur]

I don't mean that. I'll expand. Buying out a part of a multi-billion dollar company is hard when the part you want to buy is potentially very profitable. I'd argue Spurs is one of the clubs in the World with the most potential...A relatively high performing club, ran effectively and huge potential to grow following ground expansion. Add to that a growing brand in the far-east, America and Africa points to ENIC only selling at this point for an inflated price.

Maybe after the ground comes to fruition, but at that point it'll be far too expensive for us.

Multi billion "my arse" this looks well doable Forbes value us at £322M nearly half my fag packet valuation lets get carlito out of the sin bin and get it on.

http://www.forbes.com/teams/tottenham-hotspur/

 

[paddy spur]

Lewis Fc is an interesting example of a fan owned club. But then they do only have about 1000 fans

how intreasting explain.....

Please

 

[CJJ]

Multi billion "my arse" this looks well doable Forbes value us at £322M nearly half my fag packet valuation lets get carlito out of the sin bin and get it on.

http://www.forbes.com/teams/tottenham-hotspur/

They probably valued Bale at £30m though, and we know how they turned out

 

[Legacy Lilywhite]

how intreasting explain.....

Please

Lewes FC is owned by anyone who wants to buy an annual share (~£25) or a lifetime share (~£1,000). The trouble with models like this is that you're closing yourself off from having any kind of sugar daddy or e.g. local bloke doing well giving generous financial backing. The end result is that, although Lewes are easily the best supported team in their league, they are still limited financially - and the football is shit.

 

[Blanchflower]

Fan ownership models are working in Germany and aren't the 2 Spanish giants Madrid & Barcelona fan owned.
You vote in a board who report back it's not voting each week to see who puts out the cones in training.

Always seems to me that Barca and Real are used by rich fans to buy political influence............owning Tottenham Hotspur doesn't carry the same gravitas so it wouldn't be similar at all

 

[KenFromDallas]

Lest some forget that Ibramovic wanted to buy Spurs before he bought Chelsea and ENIC said NO! Oh, what could have been!!!!!!!!!

 

[Belgian Spur]

Shudder, fuck abramovitch ... I still prefer levy

 

[lovetheshirt]

Multi billion "my arse" this looks well doable Forbes value us at £322M nearly half my fag packet valuation lets get carlito out of the sin bin and get it on.

http://www.forbes.com/teams/tottenham-hotspur/

The figures I've seen recently have put an estimated market capitalisation (value) on the club of around £650-£750m.

 

[superstaryid]

Whether I want Enic or not depends on their end game, what's the ultimate goal here? A shower of trophies or 20 years of incredible pragmatism and a very healthy balance sheet? Somewhere in between?

 

[Spursidol]

Standard running with the story now too.

LA Dodgers tycoon Todd Boehly considers bid for top London clubs

EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea and Tottenham interest investment firm boss

www.standard.co.uk

Eldridge own Can international which I suspect is the same as Cain Hoy who spent some time chasing Spurs owners about 4 years ago, so presumably now the stadium has been built they want to talk again

They only own 20% of LA Dodgers so doubt they really have much control.

So if they bought a majority stake in Spurs they would learn from scratch about how to control a sports team - and a PL team in particular ( most US sports don't have relegation or a European competition which you need to win the right to enter etc so lots of things they need to learn about,).

Doubt if there would be too many advantages to their ownership over ENIC to fans.

 

[Spursidol]

Btw Cain International main busines is property development - I'd guess that the development areas that Spurs/other Jo Lewis companies own around the Tottenham area would be very attractive to Cain. maybe that is what all the talks are about ?