Who Will Win The League - 2

[Özim]

Perhaps they shouldn't have pinned all their hopes on UEFA regulating fair play UEFA FFS!

Who do you think "sustainable" really works for? Who benefits? The club has traded ambition for a financial model that is the envy of every corporate rapist. Privatise the profits, socialise the costs. Zero risk, maximum reward. Let's not be kidding ourselves about this any more. The finances are precisely where the few who benefit want them to be and this casting around looking at other clubs for excuses doesn't hide the reality.

This sustainable model thing is a load of nonsense as you say, we're only interested in profits, the fans have been lied to from day 1 regarding the stadium move, I still remember when we were told there would be no point having a world class stadium without world class team in it and that the stadium would not affect transfer spending, very convenient that it did however.

We're owned by two billionaires, we don't need to be sustainable, I can remember people telling everyone how Chelsea will be screwed if Abrahamovic left. Guess what he hasn't left and if he did another rich guy would come along and buy them, seems to me their fans got the better end of the deal, top players, success and all without having to pay the highest tickets in the land.

Winning teams make more money in the long term anyway, the only problem is that it does take investment to make you winners, our lot are clearly just interested in profits now and not bothered about success on the pitch and at the end of the day if the fans are happy to pay to keep paying top dollar for the privilege of winning nothing and always being also rans it's not a bad deal for them.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

I've no issue with the model of self sustainability but you raise for once a good point that ultimately even if you are interested in money the best way to get ridiculous money from sponsorship and marketing is to invest in a winning team. However for Mr Kroenke the clubs worth is just an asset for his portfolio, and the rest of the board are a bunch of coffin Dodgers who understand the modern footballing climate about as well as my three year old nephew understands the concept of credit default swaps.
You can imagine what a board meeting would be like, limited visibility due to cigar smoking

"You remember that coloured chap we used to have play for us?"
"Which one old boy?"
"The one we have a statue of outside"
"Ah rings a bell, anyway what about darky?"
"Well he's on the what do you call it the television, saying things about the frog we have knocking about"
"Damned inpertinence....wouldn't have stood for it on the plantation....anyway more brandy?"