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Well, in that sense "we are Coca-Cola" as well. "We are Apple". "We are Amazon".

That's how business works.

Football was sold generations ago - when the first advertising hoarding next to the pitch was sold, we started this journey. And really, back when the concept of "professional" football was created, really. The reality is supporters are just consumers. We think it should be different...but its really not.

Pretty much......

And even if one accepts the notion that (Eg) Spurs are a fan-sustained club... The idea that Newcastle, Chavs, Man C & PSG are is utter madnesss.
 
Read we backed off from eze deal. Not sure we dithered over that for a year. Levy said recently he wants us to win the CL and premier league. I like margot robbie and want to win the euromillions jackpot but doesnt mean it will happen. No harm in dreaming but delusion is a different matter.
 
The Glazers have taken out about a billion pounds since owning ManU.

That includes for example Glazers borrowing say £500m and paying x % interest, then lending it on to ManU at (x + 4) % interest. With Glazers getting that extra interest

Then there are 'management fees' , dividends and a few other ways to 'legally' take money out.

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The Glazers also leveraged the club to actually buy it. In other words they didn’t put a penny of their own money to buy the club they borrowed against the value of the club to buy the club, and put that debt onto the club.

And have subsequently taken huge dividends and salaries from the club ever since.
 
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The Glazers also leveraged the club to actually buy it. In other words they didn’t put a penny of their own money to buy the club they borrowed against the value of the club to buy the club, and put that debt onto the club.

And have subsequently taken huge dividends and salaries from the club ever since.
Fair enough, the Glazers were a bad example to use. The point remains that ours aren’t exactly miles better when they’re only putting in an average of £5m a season of their own money. That probably only covers the wages of 2 Archie Grays.
 
Pretty much......

And even if one accepts the notion that (Eg) Spurs are a fan-sustained club... The idea that Newcastle, Chavs, Man C & PSG are is utter madnesss.
Around 40% of our revenue is league/european broadcasting rights, at least another 20% comes from the kit deal and other sponsorships which are only somewhat linked to supporter enthusiasm/spending. I guess 10% comes from non-Spurs stadium income.

So probably 25-30% contributed by the supporters - thats still a lot of money. But I do think its not nearly as much as some think.
 
DIbling and hackney. Two championship players. Meanwhile chelsea sign gittens, a champions league player. Go figure.
Have no issue if the championship players are as good, as they can be, see Wharton . But but but if Levy pays scouts as he does players then you get what you pay for and for peanuts you get monkeys.
Ps no issue with Hackney or dibling if we are adding at least 3 first team players as well, but I doubt it.
 
As you keep ignoring - because it was a stipulation of the planning for the new stadium

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It’s really not a particularly difficult concept to grasp.
 
These calm down merchants are happy to be cuckolds in life. Wet, flimsy people that lack conviction and backbone.
Just a little tip to any calm down merchants, block anyone you think is reacting to comments like this with things they obviously think may get a reaction (obviously this is a reaction but also an end to a means). There's only about 12 of them spamming exactly the same message every other page.
 
The thing that's most irritating is how we have never, ever pulled the trigger on a top player.

Liverpool do a similar thing to us where they will buy young talented players with potential but every now and then when they need to, they'll pull the trigger on a Van Dijk, a Diaz, an Allison or a Wirtz.

They have fucked up the occasional big money transfer like we have but they don't shit the bed and revert back to exclusively signing kids with potential and "bargains" like we do.

Our recruitment is absolute dogshit and I wonder how many times the club are going to end up with shit on their faces before they realise that they need to change tact (spoiler, it is never going to happen).
 
The thing that's most irritating is how we have never, ever pulled the trigger on a top player.

Liverpool do a similar thing to us where they will buy young talented players with potential but every now and then when they need to, they'll pull the trigger on a Van Dijk, a Diaz, an Allison or a Wirtz.

They have fucked up the occasional big money transfer like we have but they don't shit the bed and revert back to exclusively signing kids with potential and "bargains" like we do.

Our recruitment is absolute dogshit and I wonder how many times the club are going to end up with shit on their faces before they realise that they need to change tact (spoiler, it is never going to happen).
Say we bought Kante instead of Chavs and Mane instead of Pool, in that Poch team, we'd win the fucking lot. We were 2 astute £30-40m transfers off winning things with that team and we got Moussa Sissoko. Criminal. Finished above both sides in 15/16 as well.
 
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