Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
You put a lot of things aside in you argument, almost everything. It's pretty easy to measure how much some managers love the club, for example the Russian mobster and the Arab gangsters - they love the club as a laundry but quite obviously they don't love it in sporting terms. Otherwise they wouldn't be destroying the sport. No matter how much you argue in favour of turning a blind eye, you can't persuade people to respect something they don't respect. It's a futile effort. Trying to compare Fizsman with Abramovich in terms of football is also futile, there's no comparison at all. Beyond that, as in blood diamonds, well that's a different thing and I think comparisons would be valid.
You guys are too busy looking at the individual instead of the system and regulations that make it possible for shady characters to enter football. Outside investment is outside investment. I don't know how Danny made his money, but if he was involved in the diamond trade, you're right, that has it's own ethical issues but I'm not going to get into that. How can you control ownership? Through means testing?

We may see a shake up with FFP rules but I don't think the rules for financing have ever been fair in football and it's why we are here where we are now. Eyes are now opening because we are now seeing clubs outside of the status quo start to rise and vast amounts of money being thrown around. The rules weren't right in the first place. It was never an even playing field for most clubs.