Quote Originally Posted by Cripps View Post
I mean it was a landmark moment where we officially crossed from being a football club to being a for profit corporation and started operating as such. Sustainability, property deals, whoring out the team across the globe and then moaning about players being tired. The club became geared to money when we rented it out to the arabs and the football became secondary - not irrelevant, but secondary. Sponsors don't pour their money in because they are charitable. They want the name of the club and the time of the staff and players. It's all a bit seedy really, but the champagne and decked out jets disguise it.
They also want clubs that win things, so they can festoon that allover their corporate merchandise

Emirates for example would love to shove on their British aircrafts - sponsors of the English Premier league champions

Like they have presumably done with PSG and Real Madrid when they've won big things