Tottenham boost as Lewis family pump £100m into Spurs with promise for the future

Vivienne Lewis, Charles Lewis and the Lewis family trust have pumped £100m into the club for Spurs CEO Vinai Venkatesham to use in the running of Tottenham

Tottenham's owners, the Lewis family, have pumped an initial £100million into the north London club with the promise of more to come.

Off the back of rejecting three preliminary takeover approaches in the past month, the powerful family, who own Spurs through a trust and the investment company ENIC, have now injected the nine-figure sum into the Premier League outfit as the first chunk of new capital.

The Lewis family have taken a more public-facing role in backing the club since the departure of chairman Daniel Levy last month after 24 years at the helm. Siblings Vivienne and Charles Lewis, the children of former Tottenham owner Joe Lewis, have come to the fore alongside Vivienne's son-in-law Nick Beucher.

All three have been spotted in the director's box regularly at recent Spurs matches, with Vivienne accompanying the club on their summer pre-season tour to Asia and Beucher joining her in Bodo last week for the Champions League game and at Sunday's NFL game between the Minnesota Vikings and Cleveland Browns at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Spurs released their own statement after the financial boost which said: "This equity injection will further strengthen the club’s financial position and equip the club’s leadership team with additional resources to continue the focus on driving long-term sporting success. This additional capital is part of the Lewis family's ongoing commitment to the club and its future."

Tottenham's new non-executive chairman, Peter Charrington, added: "As I stated a few weeks ago, our focus is on stability and empowering the management team to deliver on the club’s ambitions. I know the Lewis family are also ambitious for the future. Today’s capital commitment reflects that ambition and I would like to thank them for their ongoing support. We will continue to do all we can to ensure that Vinai [Venkatesham] and his team are supported in the best way possible to take this club forward."

On Monday, Brooklyn Earick and his 12-strong consortium from the USA announced that they would not be proceeding with a takeover approach despite claims of a planned £3.3billion bid and a further £1.2billion set aside as transfer funds for head coach Thomas Frank .

Earick was the third interested party to withdraw their interest in the past month, after Amanda Staveley and PCP International Finance did the same along with an Asia-based consortium of investors led by Dr Roger Kennedy and Wing-Fai Ng through Firehawk Holdings.

Spurs and the Lewis family have maintained throughout that the club is not for sale, with both CEO Venkatesham and Frank saying as much in public on their behalf, and now their £100million investment appears to only back that further.