++ [ originally posted by Andy ] ++
I can't help but think some fans would love to have somebody like Abramovich come in and give us all the money in the world to fund world class transfers every summer. Nowadays in football if you have money, you usually have success, of course if you're not talking about Inter, that is.
But with a new owner comes along all this "baggage" that a fan would have to worry about. While we watch and sometimes laugh at what is currently happening to Manure with Glazer delisting the club from the Stock Exchange, we would perhaps have to carry the burden of our new owner's debt if he buys the club with limited funds. If someone like Abramovich takes over the club, yes we would benefit from the money, but as we have seen with Chelsea they are starting to get greedy; tapping up on players and trying to make moves that are unfair to the rest of the football world. We would also have the UEFA spotlight on us after this whole Chelsea ordeal, trying to regulate a club with unlimited funds of money and struggling to keep the "Greed meter" down to a worldy level. Furthermore, with a new owner we would lose our traditions that we love about this club, and I'm sure not too many would be happy about that. So do we want all this baggage? I don't think so.
To be honest I would rather fall into an Inter-like slump than become a despised football-world owner such as Chelsea, winning everything in sight and losing respect all at the same time .
