If what we're hearing about these people from Abu Dhabi is true, the way they're want to make a joke out of football, then not only me but I'm sure others as well.
I brought up our history to lay the grounds for the inevitable question you asked me in the first paragraph. Tradition is your answer.
At no point in time have the Agnelli's ever splashed out the same quantity of cash for our club annually (time adjusted, just to make sure we don't get into a finance discussion) as Abramovich has or this Dhabi group will. That is the difference. Owners such as Moratti and Berlusconi have also smashed out more cash annually than the Agnelli family. They certainly helped us along, but we have never had the financial capability of the other clubs. We have just been more intelligent with our money after working up from a grassroots tradition.
The economist in me says the word 'deserve' doesn't mean anything.
The fan in me says Man City doesn't have the credentials to deserve all this cash, in which their fans will immediately equate to being a great club.
So sure, let them spend all this cash on players, thus driving up the market and potentially causing quite the reversal in the future. Honestly, Enron, I don't know why you wouldn't oppose this takeover because it means you'll be worse off than before in terms of league position, transfers, and potentially as a league some time in the future.
This is also bad news for all the other smaller clubs who won't get any more money.
But hey, you guys in England want the best league. You certainly have it, thanks to money. I guess the good news here is that English football will continue to be shit, so that puts a smile on my face.
The downfall of the league will also put a smile on my face, too.
You're far too biased to read properly. I never said I was in favor of the takeover, merely that I wasn't going spend my season crying about it. I don't like the takeover at all.
The second day going into the possible takeover hardly makes it a crisis. There are obviously some things that need to be fixed, but it's hardly something to go kamikazee over Manchester frickin' City about. I just really can't get irate about this. I'll practice though, I promise.
Ranting about "stupid English cunts are going to be talking shit now grrrrr" is hardly a valid or mature argument. "Grrr I hate english grrr, cunts, cunts" doesn't really work. If that's your only reason to be so avidly against the takeover then it's not valid.
As far as you "the economist in me", but "the fan in me" bullshit. Shut up dude. You hate the English so bad it gives you a hard on. Apparently I'm English and I also live in England, so that's a new development as well. It may put a smile on your face Andrew but you're an really spiteful fuck and your hate for the English is totally unwarranted.
Now to make some sense without the use of my clubs history because it really does not matter.
That was really a total bullshit answer to my original question of whether or not Juventuz posters would be so angry if the arabs had purchased them yesterday and picked Robinho on the way home from the cash and carry. A good answer might have been something like "well it's hard to complain with so much money, but the whole ethical thing would really bother me". To give the story of how Papa Agnelli invested in Juve with installments instead throwing the whole wad on the table doesn't really tell me anything. That's really nice that you guys kind of built from the "grassroots of football" before getting your big financial push. But it still doesn't answer the fuckin' question.
Man City has a pretty good youth academy, look at the results in the last few years. Comparably, with other teams if I'm in the market to buy a football club. Manc Jr looks pretty good. They have good young players, a solid academy, and they've been around for a long time.
People blame the English top four for all the inflation in the transfer market when Madrid was try to drop 100 mil on Christiano Ronaldo and Inter just bought Quaresma for like 30. On top of that Zenit was trying to get 30 for their boy Arshavin. The truth is there are problems with transfers all over. The English just have a more lenient financial system. Perhaps that needs changed, but that's going to take time considering it would require a complete reworking of their financial system. Another thing is transfers. Placing a transfer limit is another idea. Still nothing is really being talked about. The 6+5 thing is a great idea and would no doubt a benefit to England's program as well as others, the problem is that it doesn't stop Man City from being purchased by some guy with more money than a small country.
Now I feel like Cronios. But I had a lot to say.