Will the future be sweeter at Spurs after Alan Sugar's sell-out?

Time to forget about the Sugar years and move onto a far more prosperous time...i hope!

All of the above is true and I'm glad to see sugar go but we're forgetting something. He saved the club from certain doom and for that we owe massive thanks. Without sugar, there would be no spurs.

Yes Sugar is probably not the best man to have involved in the football club but without him we wouldn't be here....Good Luck Alan with your TV show.

Sugar took over a club that was spiralling towards financial ruin, and got the books balanced again within two seasons. He also brought in Klinsmann, Dumitrescu and Popescu. He can't be blamed for the dreadful managerial decisions on the pitch. He saved the club and he deserves a thank you and a fond farewell. No I'm not joking.

The team might not have been the most inspiring, but Sugar laid that foundation for a club that is one of a few operating at a profit - there's a reason we're one of the top 20 teams in the world in that respect, and it's mainly down to Sugar. Roll on the new season!

I also agree with most of the above & with Bob, without Sugar there was certainly no one else in those days that had the sort money we needed to inject into the club. COYS

I wonder how long Cristian Gross would have lasted on the Apprentice.

Robbo,He wouldn't of needed the taxi afterwards he would of gone on the tube

Sir Alan Sugar without doubt saved the club from being a 'Leeds Utd or Notts Forest'. He brought stability when we were £20 million in debt. He brought in Klinsman (were not worthy) which brought probably the most exciting season of the premiership. Without his business know how we would not be seeing the develpoment in the club which we are now enjoying. We all know what we get from Acorns (and it aint squirrel sh*t). THANKS Alan Sugar.

Love him or hate him ,There's no denying Alan Sugar saved us from financial ruin back in the '90's.I think his style was to run the club with sound financal means which meant that most of the players (and managers) we had were the equivalent of Tesco value brand,but we survived and have made steady progress since. Thanks Sir Alan COYS

Martyn. Well if he'd stayed on the circle line with a bit of luck he would never have got off.

Alan Sugar took over Spurs when on the brink of WHL becoming a Tesco Superstore. While he stayed far to long his contribution has meant there is a THFC for us to support now. Thanks and Goodbye Alan. COYS

Perhaps we cd have tricked him into walking into Highbury / Stamford Fridge instead??

Sugar was not a fan in any meaningful way, but he saved us. Other's polished their egos at the expense of our future, and if Sugar hadn't stabilised us financially we would be playing Leyton Orient now. Better to remember and loathe others at that time who thought of themselves rather than our team.

Adam Spurr....i think that was Alans plan but the smell at Highbury turned him away!!!

Thank you Sir Alan, A very decent and honest businessman which should not be mistaken for arrogance but a good bit of shrude business and Alan will admit that he has made some money and will excourage us by agreeing to sell his shares to a company willing to invest time and expense in to making a new generation and excitement. In all, Thanks to Sir Alan, Thaks to Danial Levy, Let's get all this done and dusted as our team which is what generates the cash can be sorted before the last day of the transfer window which WILL give us stability. Our transfers have been completed far to close to the start of the season, that's not good preparation.

Chris Armstrong was a much better player than most gave him credit for. The service he got was rubbish. Sadly in those days our fans just turned against him. Id have him as he was then in front of Mido any day of the week.

as has been rightly pointed out,we have ALOT to thank sir alan sugar for.we must not forget that when he took over he was perhaps one of the most respected businessmen in the world and it was a pretty big risk for a person of such standing to put his reputation on the line and buy intosomething that was falling so quickly.however,he proved why he has such respect within the business world and as has been pointed out "we are now benefitting from his business".it's now enic that seem to wish to take us onto the next level and i'll be honest and admit that i personally have no idea about what kind of financial clout they carry?.are they likely to invest HEAVILY for us to close the gap even further on the promised land of the top four?,will they relocate us or will they re-develop WHL (we know the traffic problems are bad).will we end up in debt like everybody else that has a new stadium?.OR are enic being as shrewd as the man they chose to buy out?.we know that there's a norwegian billionaire looking to buy us

English National Investment Company Plc. Majority owned by Joe Lewis, multi-billionaire who made his money in ForEx & other financial Companies. He is the one that has backed Spurs in the transfer market since SAS stood down as Chairman when they bought the major shareholding in Tottenham Hotspur. A very serious businessman who knows what he's doing. Thank you to Sir Alan - he turned the club into a solid business, making a profit & spending well. He's seen that he can't support the transfer spending himself, so has handed his shareholding to the major investor for a fair price. Good man. Cheers SAS!

Alan sugar total wanker set us back ten years, turned us into a laughing stock, thank god for Levy or what sort of team would we have now. He has walked away with £40 million of our/Spurs money, he described Spurs as a waste of time. Good fucking ridance, in factg i'm going out on the piss tonight to celebrate him finally pissing 0ff.

For the input, when it was needed most. Thanks for seeing through Venables (Would you buy a car off of him?). Thanks for standing firm when all about you spat venom and hatred. Thanks for selling the club to someone who's willing to take us forward. Sure you made plenty of mistakes, Gross, Francis,Graham , but you were'nt to know after all your not a football fan (Tottenham Hotspur's indeed). But at least we're healthy, wealthy and much wiser now thank you.

ridiculous assessment of Sugar's reign. you are obviously too young or ignorant to remember that when Sugar came in to buy a controlling interest, it was to save us from falling into the hands of Robert Maxwell, the notorious crook who fleeced millions from his companies pension funds and died (just a few months after trying to buy Spurs) owing millions. Sugar saved us from bankruptcy: the Scholar regime before him p***ed away millions on gratuitious expansions into sportswear and other outside ventures, and we were something like £20m in debt. Sugar turned the finances around and, yes, saved the club. Get your facts straight... Sugar was the hero: Irving Scholar was the Ridsdale of Spurs, which everyone seems to have forgotten about.

I would encourage all spurs fans to send AMS your thanks for what he did for the club at this address (the amstrad website says that this is the one to write to for all enquiries etc. for Sir Alan) amstrad@frankpr.it

Whilst Alan Sugar may not have been the best thing to happen to Tottenham it must be remembered that if he had not invested heavily in the club then it was on the cards that Robert Maxwell would have taken control, and that would have been fatal. We would have gone the way of The Daily Mirror pebsion fund. Supporter from Lincoln

Should read these posts (well most of them). We had in Scholar, what Leeds had in Ridsdale, a well meaning fool, who's ambition never quite lived up to his brain power, and the unforseen stock market crash in property didnt help matters.Nontheless it was Venables who brought Sugar in, thinking he was a fool..and Sugar knowing that the Prem would be good for AMSTRAD by way of sat dishes and profit.Sugar saw through El Tel (it takes a spiv to know one, I suppose), and thank whatever God you prey to; that he did!

the questions is why did he sell? are they sugar reasons or tottenham reasons...the world apparantly wants t