How Man Utd can afford their transfer targets (12/6)

[gooner.ed]

Usual thread starter… So that’s how they do it. Just get further and further into debt! Not a great way to run a football club really. Suspect the only buyers would be a middle eastern sheik or a Russian oligarch. No self-respecting business could take on this level of debt when the Glazers sell up. Mind you they could always do a Leeds United! We live in hope!

[mancman]

As a man united season ticket holder just wanted to say that this just about sums up what all united fans have been saying since the gimps took control.

Wouldn't want it to happen to anyone else, except maybe Leeds,Liverpool and Man city

[shiftygooner]

Great piece. This should be posted on every Arsenal website.

There is something seriously wrong with football if wankers like the Glazers can do this to a club as great as United.

Stanley, fuck off! David Dein, fuck off!

[MK Gould]

Everyone who has welcomed the thought of Arsenal being bought by investors from afar should be forced to read this article. It is truly scary.

I want Arsenal to be owned by someone who cares first & foremost about the club. Someone who cares that Arsenal will still be thriving long after they & we are gone. I'll give Abramovitch the benefit of the doubt (although even there it is interesting to see that most of his cash has gone into the team rather than infrastructure!) but there is no doubt that the Glasers are in it for what they can get out over the short/medium term - and that is directly against the long term interests of Man Utd!

And for Man Utd read Aston Villa, Liverpool.....and who knows who else over the next year or two.

[thenorthwillriseagain]

Everyone who has welcomed the thought of Arsenal being bought by investors from afar should be forced to read this article. It is truly scary.

I want Arsenal to be owned by someone who cares first & foremost about the club. Someone who cares that Arsenal will still be thriving long after they & we are gone. I'll give Abramovitch the benefit of the doubt (although even there it is interesting to see that most of his cash has gone into the team rather than infrastructure!) but there is no doubt that the Glasers are in it for what they can get out over the short/medium term - and that is directly against the long term interests of Man Utd!

And for Man Utd read Aston Villa, Liverpool.....and who knows who else over the next year or two.

Good point
fan-ownership can be the only way forward
a-la AFC Wimbledon, FC United

[I Hate Hleb]

WELCOME BACK, OUR FRIEND FROM THE NORTH! AND IN A MUCH MORE AGREEABLE MOOD AS WELL!

YOU SEE, DOWN DOWN US REAL FOOTBALL FANS ARE ALL THE SAME, NO MATTER WHERE WE COME FROM OR WHO WE SUPPORT. WE LOVE OUR CLUB, REGARDLESS OF WHERE THEY ARE IN THE PANTHEON OF FOOTBALL. TOP, MIDDLE OR BOTTOM, I'LL ALWAYS LOVE THE ARSENAL AND I'M SURE THE SAME APPLIES TO YOU AND MANCHESTER UNITED.

AND WE ALL KNOW THAT WHAT IS CURRENTLY HAPPENING WITH ALL THESE FOREIGN TAKE-OVERS IS A BIG DANGER TO BOTH THE CLUBS AND THE GAME WE LOVE. FOOTBALL AS WE HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN IT IS CHANGING DAY BY DAY AND NO-ONE HAS A CLUE WHERE IT WILL ALL END UP.

ENOUGH RESPECT TO FC UNITED AND AFC WIMBLEDON FOR STANDING UP FOR THEIR PRINCIPLES. LET'S HOPE OTHERS HAVE THE COURAGE TO DO THE SAME!!

[All_Arsenal_1886]

WELCOME BACK, OUR FRIEND FROM THE NORTH! AND IN A MUCH MORE AGREEABLE MOOD AS WELL!

YOU SEE, DOWN DOWN US REAL FOOTBALL FANS ARE ALL THE SAME, NO MATTER WHERE WE COME FROM OR WHO WE SUPPORT. WE LOVE OUR CLUB, REGARDLESS OF WHERE THEY ARE IN THE PANTHEON OF FOOTBALL. TOP, MIDDLE OR BOTTOM, I'LL ALWAYS LOVE THE ARSENAL AND I'M SURE THE SAME APPLIES TO YOU AND MANCHESTER UNITED.

AND WE ALL KNOW THAT WHAT IS CURRENTLY HAPPENING WITH ALL THESE FOREIGN TAKE-OVERS IS A BIG DANGER TO BOTH THE CLUBS AND THE GAME WE LOVE. FOOTBALL AS WE HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN IT IS CHANGING DAY BY DAY AND NO-ONE HAS A CLUE WHERE IT WILL ALL END UP.

ENOUGH RESPECT TO FC UNITED AND AFC WIMBLEDON FOR STANDING UP FOR THEIR PRINCIPLES. LET'S HOPE OTHERS HAVE THE COURAGE TO DO THE SAME!!

I live 5 minutes away from AFC Wimbledon and go to there matches if Arsenal are not playing, they have done amazing to get where they are now thats why i support them because its my local BUT no one comes before the Arsenal

There's only one life to live, thats the Arsenal life

[gunners-need-steel]

so, where is this article ( the subject of this thread ) ? Please, can someone point me to the article ... thx in advance.

[Ben-gooner14]

At the top mate. How Man Utd can afford their transfer targets (12/6)

[gooner.ed]

so, where is this article ( the subject of this thread ) ? Please, can someone point me to the article ... thx in advance.

most of the threads in this part of the forum are to discuss pieces posted on the main part of the site - www.onlinegooner.com - so go there and scroll down. if it's disappered off the list, then go to exclusives on the tube line map. select june and then scroll down to 12th june. there is the article

[gunners-need-steel]

thanks gooner.ed .. I have seen the article, and others ... I'm new to the forum, and settling in ..

[gooner.ed]

thanks gooner.ed .. I have seen the article, and others ... I'm new to the forum, and settling in ..

well get the beers in, pull up a comfy chair, stick your feet up and enjoy. mind you i remember graham taylor saying something similar just before england's euro 92 finals campaign in sweden

so watch for the old combination of spilt beer and computer keyboard. never a match made in heaven

[All_Arsenal_1886]

because they are using borrowed money, they are just preying that it pays off

[gunners-need-steel]

well get the beers in, pull up a comfy chair, stick your feet up and enjoy. mind you i remember graham taylor saying something similar just before england's euro 92 finals campaign in sweden

so watch for the old combination of spilt beer and computer keyboard. never a match made in heaven

Thanks for the welcome ... I am having a lot of fun already participating in the forums. Really happy to be here.