Bahamas-based tycoon is rarely seen at
Tottenham leaving fans puzzled as to why he does not invest more in team struggling to compete with the Premier League’s richest clubs
Antonio Conte, the new Tottenham manager, has promised Spurs fans they “deserve to have a competitive team with a will to fight” and said he would “do everything to [earn] their support”. While the fans welcome Conte’s desire to improve the club’s standing – they sit ninth in the
Premier League and have not won a major honour since 2007-08 – many believe what the team really needs an injection of cash from their billionaire owner, Joe Lewis.
“We’re owned by this guy with a huge yacht who lives in the Bahamas, who appears more interested in making money out of us than investing in and supporting quality
Football,” says Jack Haw, a Spurs fan outside the glistening Tottenham Hotspur Stadium that sits on the site of the historic White Hart Lane ground, which was demolished on Lewis’s orders.