if you had a crapload of cash, would you buy your football club?

[1927]

<<<<<<<<<< point that way

1927 a few hundred miles that way>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

So what is the point, you'll have to spell it out for me?

I dont want a league where you have to have a billionaire sugar daddy prepared to lose a lot of his own money to keep the club going, and would prefer all clubs to be sustainable without handouts. I think that most REAL football fans would prefer this too. I just think it is ironic that Mike Ashley and others who bring some realism to football finances get shit from the fans for not spending money. The bubble has to burst and when it does it will be the clubs who tried to live within their means that survive, I hope Cardiff are amongst them. When the Abrmaovich's of this world lose interest in football and move onto something else, the likes of Chelsea will be looking pretty sick with their billion pound debts. Will instantly go into liquidation and relegated and then all the fans will disappear, and Cardiff and Bristol Rovers will be fighting it out at the top of the Premiership season after season!!

 

[Athos]

Err... I'm a Luton Town fan, I could buy the club with my tesco points - but it'd be a waste!

 

[Fedayn]

So what is the point, you'll have to spell it out for me?

The issue re Mike Ashley, if you look at what he did with the finances most barcodes were happy. It's the deliberate undermining of Keegan witrh that poison dwartf Dennis Wise that, rightly imho, upset them. The lies in the official NUFC publications that Keegan had sole control/say over transfers when he clearly, as was later shown, didn't have that control. Ashley squandered a hell of a lot of support within the club because of his underhanded actions regarding Keegan not because he sorted out the finances.

 

[Ranbay]

football ? wtf ? no drugs and hookers thanks

 

[1927]

The issue re Mike Ashley, if you look at what he did with the finances most barcodes were happy. It's the deliberate undermining of Keegan witrh that poison dwartf Dennis Wise that, rightly imho, upset them. The lies in the official NUFC publications that Keegan had sole control/say over transfers when he clearly, as was later shown, didn't have that control. Ashley squandered a hell of a lot of support within the club because of his underhanded actions regarding Keegan not because he sorted out the finances.

That is a seperate issue really, but I understand what you say. Would you spend £250 million on a business and then let an employee have total control over spending you rmoney on new assets for that company? Its unrealistic really.

 

[Fedayn]

That is a seperate issue really, but I understand what you say. Would you spend £250 million on a business and then let an employee have total control over spending you rmoney on new assets for that company? Its unrealistic really.

No, not because i've a prolem with the money-as i've stated-but because I wouldn't lie about it in public.

 

[JTG]

No I dont but if you dont want to do it which league competition are you going to be playing in. Besides the OP didnt say we were playing in a virtual league where the finances were set at 70s rates!

You're on about 'multi million pound transfers'. I really don't think that Bristol Rovers FC would be in much danger of plunging through the leagues purely on the basis that we couldn't pay those kind of figures because - guess what - we can't pay them now anyway.

Do you think a fan owned and run club are capable of winning, say, the Champions League? How about one that refuses shirt sponsorship?

 

[Deareg]

i would buy it and sell as much as possible back to the fans, then try and run it along the lines of barce or saint paulie

 

[ZAMB]

That is a seperate issue really, but I understand what you say. Would you spend £250 million on a business and then let an employee have total control over spending you rmoney on new assets for that company? Its unrealistic really.

One of the QPR owners was on TV yesterday saying he'd never hand his wallet to an employee. I think the difference is that the manager knew the transfer policy when he took the job .... unlike KK, who had Wise foisted onto him as an afterthought.

I wouldn't want the hassle of owning a football club, though I might give a large donation to my local team so that they could get a couple more full time players.

 

[editor]

I'd buy a little Welsh team and build them a lovely eco-stadium in the Victorian gothic style with a crèche, decent veggie food, no adverts anywhere, plus a great little venue serving real ales and superb local food with live gigs and loads of facilities for local kids.

Naturally, access would be rail only, with a little steam railway running from the local main line station. I'd let the manager get on with his job as I'd be busy booking bands and playing in the signal box (GWR, natch).

 

[mattie]

I'd buy a little Welsh team and build them a lovely eco-stadium in the Victorian gothic style with a crèche, decent veggie food, no adverts anywhere, plus a great little venue serving real ales and superb local food with live gigs and loads of facilities for local kids.

Naturally, access would be rail only, with a little steam railway running from the local main line station. I'd let the manager get on with his job as I'd be busy booking bands and playing in the signal box (GWR, natch).

The beauty of that idea is no-one will moan when you get dicked 10-nil as they'll all be pissed on the ale and pratting about on the steam railway. A properly integrated solution, to coin a phrase.

If I wanted to improve football and was minted, I'd bribe ministers to nationalise the league and issue franchises with fixed budgets.

 

[strung out]

I'd buy a little Welsh team and build them a lovely eco-stadium in the Victorian gothic style with a crèche, decent veggie food, no adverts anywhere, plus a great little venue serving real ales and superb local food with live gigs and loads of facilities for local kids.

Naturally, access would be rail only, with a little steam railway running from the local main line station. I'd let the manager get on with his job as I'd be busy booking bands and playing in the signal box (GWR, natch).

and you'd still get grief from the fans when your manager walks out for not signing the players he wants

 

[STFC]

Nope. For the first time since I've been watching Swindon, the club is being run by peopel who actually seem to kn ow what they are doing. If I had a few million quid spare I'd probably give them some cash for transfers or something. I wouldn't want to be involved in running the club at all.