UP530 Spurs For Sale: Shirts, Gambling Bans and the Post-Levy Era

Ryan Norys is the Chief Revenue Officer at Tottenham Hotspur. This is a candid conversation about the commercial fortunes of the club as it brings the front of shirt sponsorship to market at a time of genuine uncertainty.

Spurs finished 17th last season. Commercial revenue grew 40% in three years. That tension runs through the entire discussion.

Norys' journey to Spurs was via City Football Group, WME, the LA Dodgers and Miami Dolphins. Now he's navigating the post-Levy era, the post-Son era, and a Premier League shirt market about to be reshaped by the gambling ban.

Why do the naming rights to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium remain unsold, six years after coming to market?  

What do the London NFL games actually look like from the US side? 

• How commercial revenue climbed while league position collapsed
• The governance shift under Vinai Venkatesham and what it signals to partners
• Why Tottenham stopped actively selling stadium naming rights
• The honest assessment of life after Son Heung-min
• Local versus global fandom and what football clubs actually know about their audiences
• The view from Miami when the NFL comes to London
• Building value around what you can control when you can't control team performance 

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