why does there have to be only negative consequences of having a rich investor back us? how do u know city, psgs & chelseas owners will all bail out & leave them in a world of crap. & i thought i was negative. citys owners have done a lot for the club & a deprived area. i dont see why u would be so against rejuvinating the crap tottenham area & investing in a better stadium & facilities. theres no gurantee they wil do a runner & leave us in a big mess. u seem to assume that to be the outcome.
In case you never noticed, Spurs have actually done a fair bit of charitable work in the local area. Is it more, or less, than the work done by City's benefactors? I'll let someone more familiar with both make that call. ENIC have actually invested in the physical infrastructure of the club with the new training ground, and the new player's lodge and stadium on the way.
What they have not done is spent hundreds of millions of pounds more than revenue on transfers and wages.
There is no guarantee a club with that kind of investment will go bust. Either the owners can swallow the debt or stretch out the expectation of repayment indefinitely into the future. But it CAN go wrong, and has done, more than once for many clubs. Leeds, Borussia Dortmund, Portsmouth, Rangers, QPR, Internazionale, AC Milan, Monaco, Anzhi Mahkachkala and others have all gotten into significant trouble when owners have overspent and either ran out of resources or decided to stop paying for the losses.
That might not happen, or it might, in the cases of both Chelsea and City. I'd rather not have Spurs in that position in the first place.
There is also a couple of moral arguments to be made. I'd rather do things in the harder, sustainable way because I feel the Chelsea way is like climbing Everest with a helicopter. It dimishes the achievement. I also disagree with the wilfull denial that Chelsea were funded through the robbing of another country's citizens. The way Abramovich got his money is why we have yet more problems with Russia today. I'd rather not have that stain on our club's honour, anymore than I'd like the money to come from a human rights abusing, terrorism-funding state in the Gulf.
I have principles which I value more than tin pots, and I'd rather take the longer, more honourable way and win fewer than the morally bankrupt instant gratification of either of those clubs.
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