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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.....
http://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.
If the Qatari's bought our club they could circumnavigate FFP by having Qatar Airways pay well over the going rate to sponsor the stadium, shirts and hotspur way for a world breaking £600m, then call it the Qatari Stadium.
Then have all the main advertisers do the same, which also happen to be owned/part owned/ have a shared interest with the Qatari Ruling family..... for example, maybe al Jazeera, Qatari Diar , Qatar Holding, etc, etc, or even Harrod's & Sainsbury's
Malaga or PSG would also buy players and loan them to us.
Ring any bells..?
Remember who saved Barclay's. During the financial crisis both Abu Dhabi (Man City) and Qatar raised their holdings in Barclay's when it was fundraising.
Now, is not Abu Dhabi pumping over £2billion( over 4.6 billion between them and the Qatari's) into the Sponsor of the EPL a conflict of interests?
EDIT: Take a look at what the Qatari's own -or have invested in - in London . Why is buying land in Tottenham such a no-no?
FFS, forget the workers dying on building projects for a minute and realise who funds the same fundamentalists we are supposedly at war with.
The same people who are buying up Paris, and it's suburbs, and London with the consent of it's Governments.
What do we do? Ask them very politely if they would mind doing more to stop the billions that come out of their country into the hands of Muslim fundamentalist extremists.
Then have all the main advertisers do the same, which also happen to be owned/part owned/ have a shared interest with the Qatari Ruling family..... for example, maybe al Jazeera, Qatari Diar , Qatar Holding, etc, etc, or even Harrod's & Sainsbury's
Malaga or PSG would also buy players and loan them to us.
Ring any bells..?
Remember who saved Barclay's. During the financial crisis both Abu Dhabi (Man City) and Qatar raised their holdings in Barclay's when it was fundraising.
Now, is not Abu Dhabi pumping over £2billion( over 4.6 billion between them and the Qatari's) into the Sponsor of the EPL a conflict of interests?
EDIT: Take a look at what the Qatari's own -or have invested in - in London . Why is buying land in Tottenham such a no-no?
FFS, forget the workers dying on building projects for a minute and realise who funds the same fundamentalists we are supposedly at war with.
The same people who are buying up Paris, and it's suburbs, and London with the consent of it's Governments.
What do we do? Ask them very politely if they would mind doing more to stop the billions that come out of their country into the hands of Muslim fundamentalist extremists.
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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 .
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.
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.
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.
If I'm a Qatari looking to buy a team, I'm looking at Newcastle, West Ham, Leeds, Villa, Us in that order.
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
As long as they air-condition the new stadium I am in favor of it.!
Okay, so how many homegrown City players can you name that start on a regular basis? Or that have even made it into the first team? Or the bench?
How the fuck did u manage to miss from there!?!?
Well the main objection from me is how dodgy these guys are on human rights and so on. However from a football perspective we are not the same as Chelsea or City, Kane, Mason, Bentaleb so on and so on would never get a chance if we turn into them.
When Woolwich win the league for example much as I hate them you cannot say they don't deserve it they built their support base, team, stadium very much of their own backs, the cash injection into City and Chelsea means their victories always have a question marks next to them, it's very artificial. City feel less like a club and more like a Corporation, your right we are kind of going down that path but we are not yet in their league, with this we might do, further more selling your soul to the devil doesn't mean we will win trophies, it will improve our chances no doubt but not a 100% guarantee.
Still better than the Glazer shysters at Manure taking money from the club though so I suppose there are far worse things that could happen.