PSG’s Qatari owners looking to buy stake in Premier League club and have held talks with Tottenham Hotspur

Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) wants to buy a stake in a Premier League club and has held talks with Tottenham Hotspur as one of several options.

QSI representatives have met with Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy to discuss the possibility of investing in the north London side, although the club denied to The Athletic that any such talks have taken place over a minority stakes sale.

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Nasser Al-Khelaifi is the chairman of QSI, which bought French giants Paris Saint-Germain in 2011. Al-Khelaifi is now the president of PSG, as well as the chairman of beIN Sports and the president of the European Clubs Association.

QSI also bought a minority stake in Portuguese side Braga in October last year.

Tottenham’s majority shareholder is ENIC Sports, which bought the controlling stake in the club from Lord Alan Sugar in 2001.

Spurs fans have criticised ENIC and Levy in the past few years, with chants and banners against both seen at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on multiple occasions.

Supporters were particularly troubled by Spurs signing up for the failed Super League project.

The Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust also sent a list of questions to the club’s board earlier on Tuesday, which it says will be answered “in the coming weeks”. The questions were as follows:

“1) Will the Club share their medium and long-term strategy for success, both on and off the pitch? How are you measuring progress and how do you judge current outcomes?

“2) We have a manager who has not signed a new contract and tells us that we should lower our expectations about on-field outcomes. Furthermore, he appears to be unsupportive of some recent transfers and he tells us that the Club needs to spend big money every window just to compete. How does this align with the Board’s philosophy for achieving success?

“3) Are you satisfied with the performance of the youth teams and the development and supply of younger players through to the first team?

“4) Does the Club have a plan for further investment to ensure that they remain competitive on the pitch? Are we closer to securing a naming rights provider? And are we expecting further investment from ENIC, or other potential investors or buyers?”

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