Middle East consortium 'to bid for Arsenal'

[Xhaka Can’t]

Why not just boycott matches now if football if you've lost the passion for the game?

I go far less than I did up to near the end of last season. And even when I go now, my choice is more governed by who is going to the match - so there is still the social aspect of it.

[Niall_Quinn]

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.

Can't see anyone saying Anglo-Saxon business is the only acceptable form, did you just make that up?

Anyone involved in the oil business or the businesses spun from it is a criminal, that's how that business operates and that's how a patently ridiculous, regressive and anti-humanitarian industry has been successful for so long. Oil buys politicians to enact the most draconian policies, in fact calling oil a crooked business is a bit like calling Hitler a bit of a lad. You don't have billions in your pocket from oil earnings unless a lot of people died or were dispossessed or flung into poverty and misery as a cost. Oil is the exact opposite of your community idealism to the point it must surely trump even your racial idealism? So yes, if an American oil tycoon came here and I got the chance to tell him to fuck himself I'd jump at it.

However, if an Arab banker came here I'd say yes please. Do you know why? And to address your straw man, in my opinion everything about the Anglo-Saxon business model is hateful. So I don't know how you're going to reconcile this with your attempts to paint people as racists but give it a shot anyway as I'm sure you can pull something out of thin air and start beating people with it.

[Ralpheroo72]

I don't understand why anyone gives a fuck what journos write. I would love a return to great football and competing for trophies, but the key word is 'competing' winning is the bonus - the cherry on top. And when it is earned as it was up until the recent past, nothing tastes sweeter. This Club has the capacity to achieve success that way, but not under the current ownership, nor can it be achieved by some consortium that reduces the Club to a penis extension.

I'm not about to cheer for that.

The Journo point was the 'caught up in the moment' of following the team. It was how I loved buying every paper on Sunday, so that I could re-live the moment. I miss that, thats all I am saying.

[Niall_Quinn]

Welcome to GW

I'm astonished with the fans lack of desire for us to improve. We all agree the current board are ****s and we want them out. This is the only way it's going to happen. A takeover. Be it these lot or someone else, it's the only way to get rid of the current lot.

Likewise we all want Wenger to change his ways or want him gone. Neither will happen with this board. It might with a new lot.

Sooner it happens the better. Us fans have gone through years of mockery. Time we gave some back

You are suggesting the fans get with the program and sell their morals, pride and passion for the cheap thrill of artificial success, all at the expense of sport and competition. Some fans will sign up, others won't. Besides, there is no consortium willing to pay three times the odds to buy the club. There may be a fat Russian gangster who needs a money laundering and drug smuggling front but we already know about him and the current leech won't let him in.

[Niall_Quinn]

I just care for the long term future of the club. Not the short term league position.

They are all ****s. Pure and simple.

Exactly. In ten years when I'm watching footie with my kid I want him to see the likes of Henry and Bergkamp going head to head with Cantonas and van Nistelrooys - not a bunch of pimply, blinged-out, untalented, overpaid whores tapping it around for 30 seconds and then freezing for an ad break. You let vermin in then the place is going to pile up with shit and the house just won't be the same.

[Ralpheroo72]

Exactly. In ten years when I'm watching footie with my kid I want him to see the likes of Henry and Bergkamp going head to head with Cantonas and van Nistelrooys - not a bunch of pimply, blinged-out, untalented, overpaid whores tapping it around for 30 seconds and then freezing for an ad break. You let vermin in then the place is going to pile up with shit and the house just won't be the same.

Yeah, nail on the head! There are few footballers I like now, nothing like back when TH14 and DB10 went head to head with the other greats. You see the likes of the innit brigade now, absolute crime that they earn more than surgeons or nurses or any other life preserving occupation.

[Niall_Quinn]

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 have money to spend earned from gate receipts, TV cash, competition on the pitch. The cash doesn't come from some bloke tossing it over a wall in a blood stained bag. The fans want the money the pay to go into the team. Nothing unreasonable with that at all and all in the spirit of competition.

[Özil's Panoramic View]

Exactly. In ten years when I'm watching footie with my kid I want him to see the likes of Henry and Bergkamp going head to head with Cantonas and van Nistelrooys - not a bunch of pimply, blinged-out, untalented, overpaid whores tapping it around for 30 seconds and then freezing for an ad break. You let vermin in then the place is going to pile up with shit and the house just won't be the same.

This post is 10 years late tbh.

[LDG]

Would people withdraw their support altogether? If you can't enjoy the success then I wouldn't see much point in continuing to follow the club.

I dunno. Honest answer.

Loke GP said, I'd always look out for the results.

Even now, it's not the Arsenal I grew up loving though. I watched that TH14 documentary yesterday (posted up in another thread) an I was on the verge of tears at points, remembering how much those times meant as a fan. And we had the class that went with it, on and off the pitch.

I wish Wenger would take a look back at some of those times and realise what the last few years has cost us.

Does anyone really feel the same adoration for the badge anymore?

But this is why this all matters. Because I still cling to the hope that one day, we'll find our way again, on our own two feet. And I don't care if that means being mid-table.

All about the club for me. Not the money or the trophies.

[Power n Glory]

Exactly. In ten years when I'm watching footie with my kid I want him to see the likes of Henry and Bergkamp going head to head with Cantonas and van Nistelrooys - not a bunch of pimply, blinged-out, untalented, overpaid whores tapping it around for 30 seconds and then freezing for an ad break. You let vermin in then the place is going to pile up with shit and the house just won't be the same.

If you're constantly calling for Stan Kronke's head then these are the guys most likely to buy the club. There aren't many with billions to spend unless they're oil rich. With Stand you can at least argue he has a history in sport owning other franchises.

This is why we're better off calling for management change over ownership if you don't like the sound of this sort of takeover.