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Yes, Carlito on The Fighting Cock forum.Is this being reported anywhere other than The Sun?
I'm not against foreign billionaire ownership but am against the way Qatar go about things. Surely someone out there on that Forbes rich list isn't on the cunt scale like these guys & that Russian.....
The tax exile who made the most of Black Wednesdayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lewis_(British_businessman)
Thing is with these guys (Qatari etc) is that it's not about the money, it's about the status and profile. We could be taken over by a guy with $50bn but it wouldn't make much difference if he saw us as an investment rather than a trophy.
What would the anti billionaire brigade think if lewis all of a sudden went bat shit mental & started throwing £££ at spurs?
It's a genuine question , not a loaded one.
I know obviously the Qatar money is stained & I get why people wouldn't want that .
I have been telling people for a while the same thing. We all balked at the idea of the stadium in a prime area for investment with a fantastic purpose built infrastructure. 'Spam will never fill it' we laughed, not thinking that if the Porn twins sell to the Qatari's -who already own the East Village - and Qatar buy them out they may just do so in a year or two.All said and done, it wouldn't amaze me if they went for West Ham. The Olympic Stadium would have the same lure that the 'Free' City of Manchester stadium had, and would carve out clear territory.
Hate em or not, they're going to buy someone and it would be Spursy if the next mega-money superpower ended up being the Spammers or Gooners.
If I'm a Qatari looking to buy a team, I'm looking at Newcastle, West Ham, Leeds, Villa, Us in that order.I have been telling people for a while the same thing. We all balked at the idea of the stadium in a prime area for investment with a fantastic purpose built infrastructure. 'Spam will never fill it' we laughed, not thinking that if the Porn twins sell to the Qatari's -who already own the East Village - and Qatar buy them out they may just do so in a year or two.
We, in the meantime, will still be playing in a 36,000 capacity stadium and looking for funds to help us build a stadium in a place that is hell to get to and from, has no tube links and is not so favourable for investment.
You only have to look at the house prices to see that.
I've a couple of questions for the "ripping the heart out of our club" gang:
1. If this takeover means we spend millions on "mercenaries", meaning that no young players breakthrough, was it ok to spend slightly different multi millions on the players we have over the past decade? Or have we been spending multi millions on just the wrong mercenaries? We spent the same on Lamela and Soldado as Man City did on Aguero and Toure. Except for quality, can someone please tell me what's different?
2. If we are owned by the Qatari Royal Family, will they ever turn up at a match? If not, will this be an issue, because it seems to be quite acceptable for Joe Lewis to never show face? At least Roman turns up at Chelsea every so often.
The Qataris may well have a dodgy human rights record (as far as we are concerned, but not as far as they are concerned), so there's a reason for not wanting this to happen. All this gnashing of teeth about turning into City or Chelsea is just ignoring the fact that we are like them already, just not as good at playing the game.
As long as they air-condition the new stadium I am in favor of it.!I'm not against foreign billionaire ownership but am against the way Qatar go about things. Surely someone out there on that Forbes rich list isn't on the cunt scale like these guys & that Russian.....
Precisely this, the only problem as rightly said is the Qatari human rights record, Apart from that bring it, as if it's not us, it will be another club and we go down another place in table and chances of trophies further reduced
What really changes? When you show up to watch spurs it's still 11 v 11 we will just have more money to spend on decent players and the area would finally get the regeneration it needs, players like Kane would not disappear they would get help
I've a couple of questions for the "ripping the heart out of our club" gang:
1. If this takeover means we spend millions on "mercenaries", meaning that no young players breakthrough, was it ok to spend slightly different multi millions on the players we have over the past decade? Or have we been spending multi millions on just the wrong mercenaries? We spent the same on Lamela and Soldado as Man City did on Aguero and Toure. Except for quality, can someone please tell me what's different?
2. If we are owned by the Qatari Royal Family, will they ever turn up at a match? If not, will this be an issue, because it seems to be quite acceptable for Joe Lewis to never show face? At least Roman turns up at Chelsea every so often.
The Qataris may well have a dodgy human rights record (as far as we are concerned, but not as far as they are concerned), so there's a reason for not wanting this to happen. All this gnashing of teeth about turning into City or Chelsea is just ignoring the fact that we are like them already, just not as good at playing the game.