A group including a Taiwanese financier worth £7bn claims it has agreed to buy most of Daniel Levy’s stake in Tottenham Hotspur.

On Friday, a vehicle named Eight Sports Capital announced it had agreed terms on a deal that would see it take 24.99 per cent of the Spurs former chairman’s 29.88 holding in the club’s majority owners ENIC.

Daily Mail Sport understands that the group includes Wing Fai Ng and Brooklyn Earich, who both claimed to have failed in previous bids to take over the Premier League outfit. A third person has been added to the mix in the shape of Taiwanese businessman Richard Tsai.

Tottenham and representatives for the Lewis family, who own ENIC, have been contacted for comment, as have representatives for Levy. It is thought that officials at the club and within the Lewis family were scrambling to verify the claims which were made in a press release sent to media by global comms firm Sodali.

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