A partnership between Tottenham and Qatar would raise familiar and uncomfortable questions for the club's supporters and English football, but may suit both parties' medium- to long-term aims.
Standard Sport has been told Spurs chairman Daniel Levy met Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the Paris Saint-Germain president and chairman of Qatar Sports Investments (QSI), in a London hotel last week, with discussions over a minority stake in Spurs on the agenda. They are claims that the club denies.