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Are we back on the 'what about Joe Lewis' 'what about ENIC' etc etc in comparison to the Saudi regime?
Shockingly shit comparisons.
Shockingly shit comparisons.
So long as our cunt is only the 4th most corrupt, morally heinous bastard in the Premier League I feel I can cosientiously take the moral high ground.
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. If Daniel Levy took £150million of Saudi blood and bone money for Harry Kane this January to fund a rebuild, would that be the point where you turn your back on Spurs and walk away from football?I'm genuinely interested in how you would deal with such a moral dilemna
I'd be a lot happier if we couldn't whatabout Joe Lewis but unfotunately we can...granted he's nowhere near as bad as the Saudi/Abu Dhabi/Abramovich contingent but he is probably the worst of the rest...
Personally, where would you draw the line?
The sad thing is our cunt is the only cunt who doesn't invest a penny of his ill gotten wealth in his football team.
How fucking Spursy is that
There are no lines. If morally corrupt owners are infesting English football, and we all continue to pay for and support it, I want the the one who invests in my football team ahead of the one who invests in somebody else's. Or fucking property.
And so long as our own owners are getting fat of the wealth brought into the Premier Leagu by Sheikhs, Sultans and oil barons then we have no moral high ground to take.
The hypocrisy of some is astounding
If we think that, as a fanbase we are morally superior to the tens of thousands of City and Newcastle fans who would never swap their owners for ours then we're fucking deluded.
How about you, matey?
I have no love for Lewis/ENIC but I think it is pointless making comparisons about human rights abuses to making a few quid on the FX market.
Lots of deluded fans. Football is an extremely expensive business and requires multi-billionaire owners who can run them successfully by investing in the right players, managers etc to win trophies. At the end of the day playing nice exciting football doesn't get you anywhere if you dont win zilch bcos winning trophies brings in a lot of revenues and also attracts the best players to your club. Having the right structure to like Man City and Chelsea or Liverpool helps. Newcastle new owners solves just one big problem for the club, money but they will need other factors to be successful.
Although making a few quid on the FX market is somewhat trivializing his ill gotten wealth, surely. And that's only the beginning of his moral questionablity, as we know.
There are scales here though, you might say Lewis is an opportunist and a morally questionable man, but in comparison to the Saudi regime, he's a fucking saint.
I don't think it's a good idea to use the Newcastle regime as a comparator, it's not the first example of sports washing and it won't be the last. The fans have no control who takes over or runs their club, which is why whether you love or despise ENIC, it makes no difference, they're not going away and neither are any owners who don't want to go.
I am finding it amazing that ENIC haters (and i have changed my opinion for the worse about them in recent seasons) are actually trying to compare them with the Saudi regime. I just makes their arguments look ridiculous and petty.
ENIC bad? Agree. As bad as the Saudi regime? Not even in the same ballpark.
Thanks for answering.
Perhaps I'm not the best person to be in this discussion because I actually stopped following us while Mourinho was in charge.
I support us for what we have done in the past, and have the hope that we may do something similar in the future. There are no guarantees. Our history is glorious and I hope to be alive in the day that we win.
I don't want us to turn into chavs while I wait.
John Thomas a person with zero morals ... who would have guessed that.
That’s already happened mate
We scraped 7th last year and will be lucky to scrape top 10 this season
Want to place money on that - Spurs to finish outside the top ten - how much are you willing to lose?
5 mil ?
Not a problem with how he made his dough then...whatabout where he squirrels it away from the taxman?
True mate we are very average back to early and pre ENIC days not a bad return.