Middle East consortium 'to bid for Arsenal'

[Power n Glory]

If we were to be successful under a free spending billionaire would we be churlish enough to book-end every celebratory thought by saying it's only come about because of the money?

Most people are advocating that we spend the money we have in our war chest now or for one of our billionaire owners to chip in to help us win a title. What's the difference?

[LDG]

If we were to be successful under a free spending billionaire would we be churlish enough to book-end every celebratory thought by saying it's only come about because of the money?

I would. It would stink of shit.

[LDG]

Most people are advocating that we spend the money we have in our war chest now or for one of our billionaire owners to chip in to help us win a title. What's the difference?

We need to spend some money, yes. But within our means, and in a more ambitious way.

All most fans want is for us to maximise our resourses and at least try to do win. We are not doing that presently, and we are more than capable of doing so.

I don't want us to buy the title with "free" money. I would like my ticket money to go towards our success.

[Power n Glory]

Oh, ok. Let's just have any old **** take over the entire club.

Minor shit, that.

But it's ok. As long as we buy the title within two years, we can all be happy.

It matters to me who owns the club, as it seems pretty fucking onvious to me, that the arse will eventually fall out of football, and when everyone picks up the pieces, it would nice if we still had a club to support.

Therefore, whoever is the steward of the club, mist take massive care of where we go from here.

Of course it matters.

And you don't think we're already in the shit with Stan at the helm if he's juicing up the club to make a tidy profit? We've crossed the bridge already. Selling the club to Stan and Usamov has already set things up.

Unless Stan and co are serious about this self sustaining model and are willing to see things through despite it's unpopularity amongst fans, this was the only other option. There aren't many billionaires out there and most have no real connection to football. If you believe he's here to get his money's worth and then run, then this was always on the cards.

[Joker]

People who criticise City and Chelsea etc should realise that under the current arrangements it is impossible for one of the "lesser" clubs to actually break into the elite of football without some serious external investment. The way the league is structured and the rewards distributed (e.g. with UCL revenue) means that those at the top will always remain at the top. You can tell their supporters that they should accept their lot but they can easily counter that by saying we support a club that benefit from the current arrangement which is why we have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. I'm not denying that Chelsea and City supporters' opposition to FFP is motivated by self interest, but so is Gazidis' support for it. We stand to benefit from any policy that is designed to kick the ladder away from small/medium sized clubs aspiring to reach the top.

[Power n Glory]

We need to spend some money, yes. But within our means, and in a more ambitious way.

All most fans want is for us to maximise our resourses and at least try to do win. We are not doing that presently, and we are more than capable of doing so.

I don't want us to buy the title with "free" money. I would like my ticket money to go towards our success.

Then a change of ownership isn't the answer and just need a better skilled manager that can maybe inspire the current owners to adopt a more risky approach.

[Joker]

You truly are very stupid.

I'm apposed to all of the ****s.

Fair enough, but there are people on here who's immediate reaction to any story about Arab owners is to make references to them being crooks and sand dunes, which IMO is prejudiced.

[Xhaka Can’t]

If this consortium was American, would the opposition on here be so strong? It's as if Anglo Saxon business is the only acceptable form of business, and Arabs are immediately denounced as crooks, etc. I guess some forms of racism continue to be acceptable.

You do like to overplay the race card don't you?

If you can't see from what is being written about 'billionaire' playthings and not wanting to be part of that under any circumstances and not take that at face value without playing the card, that is a problem that rests solely with you.

[Syn]

If we were to be successful under a free spending billionaire would we churlish enough to book-end every celebratory thought by saying it's only come about because of the money?

Of course not. I want some trophies. Just some shiny, huge trophies. Who cares how they come? I just need them. You see, I've had a failure of a life and I absolutely need to piggyback on the success of my favourite sports team to compensate for that.

I probably won't celebrate it because I won't have any interest left. I'm just struggling to see the point of it. Even if we lose today, I doubt I'll care much. Watching more out of habit than any real enthusiasm. It's a pretty poor game at the top level but I'm struggling to find a sport to replace the void tbh. Need suggestions.

[Özim]

Please make this happen

:goodpost: Get rid of those planks on the board and Wenger and start again with the intention to compete!