Middle East consortium 'to bid for Arsenal'

[Niall_Quinn]

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.

Your argument is like the guy with a broken watch who suggests it can be mended by breaking everyone else's watches. You don't counter the likes of city and the chavs by encouraging more of that shit. You force these anti-competitive cheats to play by the rules. Or at least introduce rules that are in line with planet earth and the conditions faced by any other business. In fact this is a bit like the capitalism versus corporatism argument. To promote capitalism (which in itself is not evil) you must address the the cancer of corporatism. Indeed corporations were initially social endeavours with a limited remit and lifespan before they were hopelessly corrupted. Just as football was a sport before the rapists arrived.

[LDG]

Your argument is like the guy with a broken watch who suggests it can be mended by breaking everyone else's watches. You don't counter the likes of city and the chavs by encouraging more of that shit. You force these anti-competitive cheats to play by the rules. Or at least introduce rules that are in line with planet earth and the conditions faced by any other business. In fact this is a bit like the capitalism versus corporatism argument. To promote capitalism (which in itself is not evil) you must address the the cancer of corporatism. Indeed corporations were initially social endeavours with a limited remit and lifespan before they were hopelessly corrupted. Just as football was a sport before the rapists arrived.

[Özil's Panoramic View]

NLD day and here we are bickering over a bullshit article which clearly was meant to unsettle everything Arsenal.

The scum