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SUIYHA

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I mean if there's a fanbase that deserves a bit of success right now it's Newcastle - we've had it bad enough but I think about what it must have been like to have Mike Ashley in charge for over a decade and a trophy drought over five times as long as ours, and it makes you think that maybe we haven't had it so bad.

That being said, it's really disappointing to see this happen again. I know the majority of City/Chelsea fans don't give a shit how they got to where they are, but I know if Spurs got bought out and we just cheated our way to the top it wouldn't be as fun for me as it would have been otherwise. Would be like bragging to your mates about how often you get laid because you visit a brothel every weekend.

Are the rules of FFP still going to apply in the post-COVID world? Because if they do then it doesn't matter if the Saudis want to divert their entire GDP towards signing players if that kind of approach ultimately gets teams banned from Europe...
 
Metalhead

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Marty said:
God that reply is depressing. Yeah sure let's celebrate the crown prince of a murderous regime taking charge of the club, woo wee. Let's all become honorary Saudi Arabians.

I get that they want Ashley out but seriously.
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Football and morals are not the easiest bedfellows. That's just the way it is these days sadly.
 
LSUY

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Led's Zeppelin said:
I detest the way football has developed into a super-rich person's toy that has virtually nothing to do with any of the things that constitute a football CLUB.

Location, history, character, the fans, style, the idea of respecting the fact that football is a sport before a business, an entertainment for the fans before an investment for whatever private purposes the mega rich choose to prioritise...all of this and more means that football is losing the thing that made it the greatest game on earth.

In the long run it will suffer as a result.

We're losing something precious.
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Agreed and sadly rugby and cricket are increasingly going the same way.
 
mpickard2087

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Marty said:
God that reply is depressing. Yeah sure let's celebrate the crown prince of a murderous regime taking charge of the club, woo wee. Let's all become honorary Saudi Arabians.

I get that they want Ashley out but seriously.
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Metalhead said:
Football and morals are not the easiest bedfellows. That's just the way it is these days sadly.
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Reality is 99.9% of football fans just do not care, the result is the only thing that matters. (To a much lesser and different extent we saw this with Mourinho's appointment - for most any other factors didn't matter because their is an apparent need to win trophies.) As if that moment where the result is confirmed, or trophy is lifted, trumps everything and is so life changing and all important for them/us.

Lets be honest, if we got Adolfsama Amindaffi incarnate turn up and buy the club, no one would care as soon as 100 million pound signings were dangled in front of them and a couple of football matches were won.
 
Metalhead

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But that's a debate for another thread.....
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mpickard2087 said:
Reality is 99.9% of football fans just do not care, the result is the only thing that matters. (To a much lesser and different extent we saw this with Mourinho's appointment - for most any other factors didn't matter because their is an apparent need to win trophies.) As if that moment where the result is confirmed, or trophy is lifted, trumps everything and is so life changing and all important for them/us.

Lets be honest, if we got Adolfsama Amindaffi incarnate turn up and buy the club, no one would care as soon as 100 million pound signings were dangled in front of them and a couple of football matches were won.
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Absolutely. Football is an escapism and a chance for people to live their lives vicariously in a way that is much more exciting than their own. Personally, I'd rather have us owned by ENIC even though their approach is beyond frustrating at times than a very suspect regime but other fellow Spurs fans don't have the same mindset. That's life. Think brexit, think all sorts of other examples.
 
dagraham

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Metalhead said:
Absolutely. Football is an escapism and a chance for people to live their lives vicariously in a way that is much more exciting than their own. Personally, I'd rather have us owned by ENIC even though their approach is beyond frustrating at times than a very suspect regime but other fellow Spurs fans don't have the same mindset. That's life. Think brexit, think all sorts of other examples.
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Not sure what Brexit has to do with it?
 
Tucker

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If this lot pass the fit and proper person test to be owners, you have to wonder who fucking wouldn’t. Fred West? Hitler? Stalin?
 
Dov67

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every time another club wins the lottery our position becomes more and more fraught, especially with the stadium debt to contend with. Now we have 3 financially doped clubs to compete with. sickening !!
 
Rocksuperstar

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Okay, so can we just get something out there, make a few fans aware of something they hadn't considered, perhaps. We can all lament on the direction the club is taking, the stewardship of Levy/ENIC and whether or not we've shown ambition in the financial side of the game and some of you have cried out for a long time that we need a new owner, apparently convinced that there would be some rich oil sheikh, like this, who would step up to snap us up.

Mike Ashley would fucking love to own Spurs - DO NOT LET THIS BECOME EVEN A REMOTE POSSIBILITY!

If you're ever thinking, man, I wish Levy would put the club on the market, we'd get a new owner who'd spunk a ton of cash and who w... NO! WE WOULD NOT! We'd get Mike fucking Ashley heading some consortium, or some bollocks and you all know it so while he's sans-club please, i'm begging you all, shut the fuck up and keep your heads down, eh?
 
Led's Zeppelin

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Financial doping is killing the game.

Yet plenty want to see it happen at Spurs.

I wonder what people get from football that they're prepared to see it totally desecrated in return for an increasingly meaningless tin pot or two.

I do understand the reason though. They imagine that winning few tainted cups would be so satisfying that they wouldn't worry about the fact that we had to cheat like a bunch of Chelsea whores to do it.

I'll be happy never to join that way of thinking.
 
DanielJohnCosta

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what's the difference between a billionaire from England and one from the Middle East? Never understood the crying over the riches of club owners or complaining how clubs do it wrong, anyone who owns a club is only in it for financial gain, hell whoever just bought Newcastle will watch more matches than our current owner in the Bahamas does
 
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