Keith Wyness reveals if there’s anything ‘malicious’ in Tottenham’s Daniel Levy move
Tottenham have nothing against Daniel Levy and want to understand his period at the club better to be able to progress in the future.
That is according to ex-Everton, Aston Villa, and Aberdeen chief executive Keith Wyness, speaking exclusively to Football Insider, after Spurs announced they would conduct an accounting review into Levy‘s tenure at the north London club.
Levy stood down as Spurs’ executive chairman in September after nearly 25 years, leaving the club in a strong financial position.
Due to his shares in ENIC, Levy still has an indirect investment in Spurs, but the club could bring in an investor to take those shares.
Tottenham want to ‘understand’ Daniel Levy tenure
Everton’s former chief Keith Wyness – who served as CEO at Goodison Park between 2004 and 2009 and now runs a football consultancy advising elite clubs – has given his reaction to the latest at Spurs.
Speaking on the new edition of Football Insider‘s Inside Track podcast, Wyness believes that the accounting review is “nothing malicious.”
He told Football Insider‘s Inside Track podcast: “It was very strange news, I’ve got to say, when I heard that. I don’t think there is any wrongdoing at all. I think it’s actually just trying to learn how the club was managed over that period of time, understand it more, try and identify where there could have been better situations handled in terms of investment in different areas.
“I think that’s really all they’re trying to learn. It’s certainly nothing malicious as far as I can see, or nor would I think so. So it’s more a learning process and if they always say with history, you’ve really got to understand history to understand what’s going to be in the future.
“And I think that’s all about a learning curve to understand what really happened in the last 10 years or so under Daniel Levy. So nothing more than that. And I don’t expect anything else. There’s nothing malicious, I’m afraid. Nothing for us to gossip about.
“I think it’s just a case of the Lewis family learning the business and understanding things from the historical context.”
Thomas Frank under scrutiny at Tottenham
Spurs may have a decision to make about the future of manager Thomas Frank, who is coming under pressure from the fanbase.
Frank has not endeared himself to the Spurs support due to a number of underwhelming displays, which leaves the club in the bottom half of the Premier League table.
Spurs’ 3-0 defeat at Nottingham Forest means Frank has won just one of his last seven matches in the league.