A US consortium has launched a world record £4.5BILLION takeover bid for Tottenham.
SunSport can reveal tech entrepreneur Brooklyn Earick is heading a 12-man group that has lodged the stunning offer.
Earick and his partners are offering £3.3bn to buy out the entire club from owners ENIC and the Lewis family.
And the proposed new owners are ready to set aside a further £1.2bn for the “player budget” – including wages, fees and agent payments – to be made available to Thomas Frank from the opening of the January window.
The total package would exceed the £4.25bn record for a football club paid by the Todd Boehly-led group that bought Chelsea in 2022.
Earick, 41, has assembled a consortium including NFL and NBA investors to back his vision for the North Londoners.
His “Tottenham 3.0” blueprint envisages a massive investment on the playing side to turn Spurs from pretenders to more than contenders.
And he has also lined up a £250m stadium naming rights deal – something that was beyond Daniel Levy for six years after the new ground was opened in 2019.
A source close to Earick told SunSport: “Brooklyn and his team think everything is in place at Tottenham already.
“Spurs has a world class stadium and training ground, the infrastructure is all in place.
“But with the investment they are ready to make, it will be the final step to turn the club into winners on the pitch as well.”
Earick is understood to have started initial discussion with the Spurs hierarchy – including former chairman Daniel Levy – some months ago.
Those talks have accelerated over the past three weeks since Levy’s exit, with football figures believing the ousted executive was the impediment to a sale because of his desire to remain at the helm even if a deal was done.
Since Levy was forced out, ENIC and the Lewis family – with siblings Vivienne and Charlie appearing in the directors’ box – have insisted they are NOT looking to sell but instead bring success under their stewardship.
But the upfront offer is worth 27 per cent more than respected business magazine Forbes’ £2.6bn valuation of the club.
Tottenham’s Stock Exchange listing means any change of ownership would need to be agreed under Takeover Panel rules, with a strict timetable followed.
Who is Brooklyn Earick?
BROOKLYN EARICK is the tech entrepreneur heading a 12-man group to buy Tottenham.
He is a former DJ who went on to work for NASA.
Earick then turned his hand to leaping into the tech world of blockchain and apps.
And he has lived in pretty much every corner of the world, too.
Find out all you need to know about him.
But Earick, a colourful former DJ who also worked for NASA, wants the deal to be completed and given Premier League approval by the start of December.
This would allow an instant impact in the January transfer window.
In a 2016 interview, Earick said: “I spent the better part of a decade as a DJ and music producer.
“I’ve played shows all over the U.S, Canada, the Caribbean and Europe, from LA to NYC to London to Ibiza.
“I’m very fortunate to have done that for as long as I did, but I was definitely burnt out towards the end.
“So I hung up the headphones, moved to San Francisco and landed an internship at NASA Ames as an electrical engineer in the small spacecraft division.
“NASA is where I was first exposed to computer programming.
“I quickly realised how powerful it was, and loved the fact that if you had an idea, you could open your computer and start it right away.
“So I started taking online courses for both coding and design, reading books and brainstorming ideas.”
Spurs takeover would rock Premier League
IT could be the answer to the dreams of every Tottenham fan.
Not just a new owner with hopes of taking the club back to the pinnacle of English football for the first time in more than 60 years.
But one with the financial resources and willingness to take on even Manchester City and Chelsea and blow them out of the water.
If Brooklyn Earick’s “Tottenham 3.0” plan is accepted by the club, it could change the face of the Prem overnight.
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