You are aware that we live in a capitalist economy right??? Why the hell should they not make a return on their investment, there's not that many Rich Arabs who buy football clubs as play things unfortunately, but I'm kind of glad that we are owned by normal owners who want to see the club on a stable financial footing rather than driving us into administration as Hicks and Gillett almost did.
Because it was never an "investment" in the first place. It was a CULTURAL INSTITUTION.
They're parasites. No one WANTED greedy, disinterested shysters running a football club, any more than they'd want the Church to become "Goldman Sachs Biblebashing Investment Ventures Ltd".
Fenway are just buyers of stolen goods. RBS (a similarly scummy bunch of rats) gagged the press on the whole issue of who made bids and why Shamway were accepted). Infact, beyond the bullshit press releases, no one could say for a factWHAT the terms of the deal were. OR infact, which faceless hedge funders actually DO own the club. (Remember how Gilette sold his share and NO ONE knew til MONTHS AFTER!) So much for the Prem Lge's "fit and proper persons" test.
They dont even know WHO to test!
The fans have repeatedly said they want to buy back their share of the club (or all of it). Guess what? Smarmy Henry said "f**k off plebs, we'll give Lebron James a share instead". Slimeball Purslow wouldn't even SPEAK to them.
Fenway don't have good title, because they bought it via those who had acquired it via fraud.
I don't cheer for Tesco. And I won't cheer for some div that thinks a football club is a "brand" or "investment". Any divvie who thinks football should be a "business" should stay well out of the way of a football forum.
Spain and Germany show the fan ownership model is the best, the msot successful and the only intelligent approach.
Football clubs as "limited companies" hellbent on profit and massaging the accounts for hedge fund backers is plain idiotic. Its the sort of sh*t William Hague would have come out with. As a 15yr old pipsqueak in the Young Contservatives.
There's only one place for such parasitic sh*t.
Down the toilet.
Built by Shanks. Desecrated by Yanks. And cheered on by plants.
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