shu wrote:Look we would not have been having this debate if Wenger had kept Cesc and bought Samba, Cahill and a midfielder / forward in June.
Crap delusional management , had we lost only 2 nil to manure how many players would he have bought ?
If i win £130 mill on the Euro millions can i spend it on players and wages ? so how does this differ if the Russian said the same.
In theory do you want my money , or is it not good enough for you? Remember i said i would cover the wages so what is the problem ?
The trouble with people bankrolling a club with their own money is twofold. Firstly, it puts the clubs at risk depending on how the deal is structured. Not many people (be they Russian, Asian or from Yeovil) will really want to throw hundreds of millions of quid at a football club with no prospect of ever getting a return, no matter how rich they are. Yes, some of them are rich enough to do it, but a lot of these people come into clubs and seem to be "injecting" hundreds of millions of quid into it when in reality its all set up as loans etc, often secured against the ground/ assets. So if the owner injects 300m but has set it all up as a loan from himself to his club secured against the stadium and various other assets then if he walks away and the revenue stream is thus removed, the club is fucked. It will have massive wage bills and a debt of 300m (no doubt with interest) and risks losing the stadium to part pay it and might be unable to ever pay the debt off. Yes, a lot of these people are rich enough to just want the status symbol that is owning a club, and want the cock extension that is making it successful, but they can do this by loaning the money rather than converting it into shares and this means they can get all the benefits and also get a return. It risks ruining the club but why would they give a fuck?
Some owners dont do this. Ellis Short has ploughed a fair bit of money into Sunderland (he's cutting back now since the sale of Bent, Henderson and Gyans loan has covered our transfer outgoings for the last couple of seasons so we're spening very little net but thats by the by) but he has done it by converting his capital into shares. This means the only way he can get his money back is by selling the club. The only way he can make profit is by selling it for more than he bought it, the only way he can guarantee doing that is by getting us well run and "successful". Thats the ideal set up and if Arsenal could attract a super rich person who is prepared to do this then fine, but most wont, and whats worse is that its very difficult (or impossible) to tell what tact the new owner will take until youve handed him the keys. You might win a lot for a few seasons and never recover, its a daft risk to take. Most of these guys despite having more money than you could spend didnt get there by being nice, or naive, they'd set a deal up to cover themselves
The other problem with saying "I can afford it, why can't I spend whatever money i want" is the fact that it stops football being a sport. Whats the point in competing if, however well ran you are, however good your academy is, however good your manager is, you can't compete because some rich club will always buy your best players and, if you refuse, the players will go in a huff and stop performing? It ends up being a competition about how rich your billionaire is and not how good your club is. When factors such as the quality of a youth academy, the success of a marketing strategy, the pricing of match tickets, the ability of a manager to get the best out of his players etc are the deciding factors in a title race, then you have a sport. Realistically a lot of clubs couldnt match Man United due to their revenue streams, but at least its possible- you could market your club better in Asia and try to get sales etc. But you cant match a club who simply have an owner who is many times richer and wants to spend all his money on a vanity project. Where's the sport in that? The days of the likes of Clough are finished at this rate- a great manager couldnt topple the giants nowadays and its all financial.
The fact that some people cant see whats wrong with this shows how far the game has fallen. Its nearly at the point where I dont know why we bother with the fucking games- the league and CL are all set up to keep the "elite" at the top generating high advertising revenue for the authorities and everyone else is here to make up the numbers. We might as well not bother playing- just write a massive cheque to the big clubs and we'll all stay in the house.
Edit: fucking hell, I can write a bit when it comes to this kind of subject like
Oh well, its either that or do some work
Slightly off-topic but why are you now trying to link the UAE with Yemen?? That's like saying that someone from Amsterdam is a Spaniard - bizarre mate. You need a history (and geography) lesson my friend.
.In such a short length of time we have become also rans,now not even mentioned in challenging for titles or trophies but now part of the group which contests 4-7th spot but are praised for our sound finance plan and our self sustaining vision 
