Every club in the world buys duds. Us probably more than most as we pay less than our competition so have to gamble on damaged goods like Sissoko, Ade, Aurier and kids
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No, were talking about our billion owner Mr Joe Lewis. Go back to the previous page and start again.
I think putting Aurier in that little group is way too premature.
I thought we were talking about our owners. Seeing as Levy owns about 15% of the club and runs it, to say our owner(s) aren’t interested in football is just nonsense
I’m saying he’s a gamble, not whether or not that gamble will pay off
What has that got to do with my post or your previous one? You know exactly where I stand on our RB stance, I have been attacked on my views for the past two seasons regarding it, and far, far longer than that when defending Walker when most thought he was shite. This are football decisions, absolutely fuckall to do with ownership.
Now back to my post, don’t deflect and change subject. Answer the question, don’t bottle it John.
What is your question? You didnt ask me one.?
Now, answer mine. Forget who the player was. Were we morally correct in banking Mansours oil money last summer or should we have told city to fuck off
Why the fuck are you asking me that? You have me confused with another poster.
You are bitching about our owners being a business, I’m saying that is exactly what professional football is and has always been, knowing this why are you bitching about it/them? It was a business before you supported the club (just like all the other clubs) but you have such contempt for it.
Ok. My main bitching point is this. Since the summer of 2012 we have a lower net transfer spend than 18 of the current 20 premier league clubs. That suggests to me that we could have invested more in the playing squad and maybe won a trophy or 2 along the way. Even pipped Leicester for the title. I think our apparent mantra that we have to break even each window is not befitting of a club of our stature. In short, id like us to act more like big football club and less like a long term capital investment
Agree. If we were bought by a Mansourovich type then we would be a different club. I’d watch football as ever, but i’d lament the death of the club I loved. City and Chelsea fans who think their club has achieved something are even worse than the plastic new fans. I feel embarrassed for them actually
The governing bodies are too corrupt, but I wish they would seriously combat financial doping and all the bungs.
I know all this John, you are like a stuck fucking record, you say this after every bad result, you never stop saying it. But I made no reference to this, I made reference to your comments about the club being a business and I made my comment precisely about this, nothing else. Nothing about morales, nothing about Fullbacks, nothing about transfer strategy.
Now having hopefully got this clear, what’s the bitching about?
So whats the fucking question?
How many of those clubs have built a state of the art training ground, and are currently building a new stadium?
Go back through the thread if you are struggling to keep up, all the inference is there if you consentrate hard enough.
I can tell you his response,
‘Not the fucking stadium again! Why do you people try to throw logic in my face when I just want to moan? Get a winners mentality pal’
Although we were told by the man himself that none of this would impact our transfer budget. Do you think he was lying
I would rather we were playing in the combined counties league than be what chelsea and city football group are
Ive watched games in that league. I was done with football at that point. but the utter joy i got out of going to places where tickets are sold by a man with an old bus conductors ticket machine (Hartley Witney)..of going to see football in towns where there are no licensed premises or cashpoints, but they still have a football team (Ash United..one away siupporter. goes every away game and spends 90 minutes bellowing ash..ash...ash united. deserves more press than the wealdstone raider, IMO), or where the chairman personally comes round and thanks you for coming (Merstham) pulled me back in.
Rather that than PSG (a club younger than me), the chavs, or City Football group.
Thing is guido, Tomo wrote that we are owned by a businessman who sees us purely as a long term investment. With which I agreed.
You then suggested that 99% of clubs have always been run that way and why do I complain.
Well football clubs havent always been run that way. They have traditionally been run as a sustainable business whos main objective is success on the pitch, not a long term profit yielding asett
Haven't we broken our transfer record two summers in a row?