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Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust REJECTS meeting with Daniel Levy as calls for executive board to resign strengthen
Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust has rejected a meeting with chairman Daniel Levy in light of the recent European Super League storm and reiterated their call for the board to resign.
The north London club were one of six Premier League teams to sign up for the ill-fated breakaway league, but were quickly forced to withdraw 48 hours later after significant backlash from fans, politicians and even royalty.
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Over 90 per cent of THST members last month backed a motion for the club's executive board to resign following Spurs' involvement while they have also laid out plans for a protest at the final home game of the season against Aston Villa.
Liverpool's Spirit of Shankly supporters group has taken the opportunity to meet with the Reds' board this week, but THST does not want to engage with Levy at the current time.
A statement read: "Alone among the six clubs who tried to break away and form a European Super League, the THFC Board has yet to acknowledge the scale of its error, or to apologise to its fans.
"Our Club has sustained heavy damage to its reputation and may yet face further repercussions from attempting to break away. The Executive Board that sanctioned this decision must take responsibility and be accountable for the damage caused to the Club.
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"This is why, following consultation with our membership last week, we called for the immediate resignation of the Executive Board. The attempted breakaway is the latest and most damaging example of the Club’s Board at best misreading, at worst disregarding, fan opinion.
"Anger with the direction in which the current Board is taking the Club is now being widely voiced. But that anger needs to be focused if we are to achieve real change, and to prevent situations such as the breakaway league ever happening again.
“While we are continuing to work with club staff to ensure fans' interests are taken into account on such issues as ticketing and the return of supporters to grounds, there has been no communication with the club's board,” a statement read.
“Part-owner Daniel Levy has offered a full board-to-board meeting, but we have made it clear that business as usual is not an option.
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“We want to meet with the club's owners, and to clearly establish the basis for any meeting before it takes place.”
The trust has compiled a six-point plan they want to see actioned to lead the club into a "new era".
The manifesto includes replacing the current executive board as a way of the club distancing itself from the ESL, the current board paying any fines as a result of their involvement in the breakaway, the club committing to fan consultation over none footballing matters and restructuring to a share ownership that would allow outside investment.
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"We must do more than just voice our opposition to the current board and ownership," the statement added.
"This six-point plan gives supporters of Tottenham Hotspur something to unite behind, and a clear objective. It proposes solutions that are achievable.
"We invite the club's owners to meet with us to implement the six-point plan above. We believe successfully making these changes will enable us to secure the future for the club and the game that we all want to see."
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