Would YOU like the Albion to be taken over by a Middle East State?

Bwian

Kiss my (_!_)

Jul 14, 2003

15,898

• Jul 28, 2014

• #21

Braggfan said:

who care's about champions league if you can only afford to go watch your team a couple of times a season. If the Albion earnt their way up there that would be different, but I think someone coming in and buying the club and then pouring money in to it to take it to that level would actually feel like the club was being taken away from us.

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It's beginning to feel a lot like that at times already. That's not a complaint, just a comment on how the club feels these days. The Albion is now a fully fledged business operation first and foremost so if someone stinking rich wanted to plough a crazy amount of money in-why not? Parachute payments and ridiculous wage demands are making it so difficult now for clubs like ours to progress so maybe Arab money is the way to go?

 

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dougdeep

New member

May 9, 2004

37,732

SUNNY SEAFORD

• Jul 28, 2014

• #22

Rookie said:

God no, it's not football and more about which foreign owner can spunk the most amount of money on whichever player.

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Damned right. A British money spunker is fine though.

 

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Rogero

Well-known member

Aug 4, 2010

5,720

Shoreham

• Jul 28, 2014

• #23

Return of the Rev said:

Yes! Yes! Yes! Might get that blooming waterside built with proper money!

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Please translate.What does this mean?

 

beorhthelm

A. Virgo, Football Genius

Jul 21, 2003

35,315

• Jul 28, 2014

• #24

honestly no. it wouldnt be "our club" so much anymore. though i've no problem with their money coming in, if not majority ownership and control.

 

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London Irish

Well-known member

Nov 25, 2003

21,897

Trapped inside the Project for the New American Ce

• Jul 28, 2014

• #25

Why would I be bothered about the nationality of the rich man who owned us? The club is run as a pure business now with next to no input for fans, so I doubt if we'd notice the difference.

 

Luke93

STAND OR FALL

Jun 23, 2013

5,030

Shoreham

• Jul 28, 2014

• #26

No. Bloom is perfect for the club, long may it last.

 

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London Irish

Well-known member

Nov 25, 2003

21,897

Trapped inside the Project for the New American Ce

• Jul 28, 2014

• #27

Maybe I'd feel differently if we had the Swansea model of some supporters club representation but we don't, so that's that.

 

Return of the Rev

Well-known member

Nov 26, 2008

21,045

Flitting between the county league and mates rates

• Jul 28, 2014

• #28

rogero said:

please translate.what does this mean?

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there was a promise of a water slide in the original planning application for the falmer stadium seems to have forgotten.

 

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Rogero

Well-known member

Aug 4, 2010

5,720

Shoreham

• Jul 28, 2014

• #29

Yes,but it does not say waterslide.

 

Surf's Up

Well-known member

Jul 17, 2011

10,172

Here

• Jul 28, 2014

• #30

Absolutely "no", but in so saying it'll now be difficult for me to criticise Forests deal with Kuwait!

 

Eeyore

Colonel Hee-Haw of Queen's Park

NSC Patron

Apr 5, 2014

23,597

• Jul 28, 2014

• #31

I would rather support a Championship club, owned by a supporter, and not for reasons of profit, as well as a chief sponsor with a huge stake in the local economy and a supporter base affiliated with the local region, than one in the Premier League which can boast of being successful and nothing else.

 

J

Joe Gatting's Dad

New member

Feb 10, 2007

1,880

Way out west

• Jul 28, 2014

• #32

Stupid suggestion. When will posters on here realise how far we have come and show a bit of patience as I have to for the past fifty years!

 

clippedgull

Hotdogs, extra onions

Aug 11, 2003

20,789

Near Ducks, Geese, and Seagulls

• Jul 28, 2014

• #33

Icy Gull said:

Money no object, two fingers at FFP and a realistic chance of the Champion's League in less than 10 years?

Does it sound attractive to you?

Don't know why but I would fricking HATE it, illogical maybe but I would.

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Yes please! It's a money game now. Not saying that's good. But the game is ruined already.

 

Frutos

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Helpful Moderator

NSC Patron

May 3, 2006

35,572

Northumberland

• Jul 28, 2014

• #34

No thanks.

 

Commander

Well-known member

NSC Patron

Apr 28, 2004

12,945

London

• Jul 28, 2014

• #35

Nope. Perfectly happy watching a decent Championship outfit in a cracking stadium for £38 a month. Often we win, sometimes we don't, either way I enjoy it. Much rather out current model.

 

Biscuit

Native Creative

Jul 8, 2003

22,220

Brighton

• Jul 28, 2014

• #36

I feel like a consumer more than a football fan as it is tbh. The club is run as a business, with corporate identity, expensive larger and buzzwords like PLR being the order of the day.

Why not go the whole hog and see Champions League football as well? Does the nationality of the financier really make any difference?

 

Sergei's Celebration

Well-known member

Jan 3, 2010

3,610

I've come back home.

• Jul 28, 2014

• #37

Can we choose whoch one? I vote for a split 50/50 Israel and Iran with equal number of shares.

Where is the nuclear bomb smiley?

 

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crookie

Well-known member

Jun 14, 2013

3,312

Back in Sussex

• Jul 28, 2014

• #38

Brighton Lines said:

I would rather support a Championship club, owned by a supporter, and not for reasons of profit, as well as a chief sponsor with a huge stake in the local economy and a supporter base affiliated with the local region, than one in the Premier League which can boast of being successful and nothing else.

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This

 

RexCathedra

Aurea Mediocritas

Jan 14, 2005

3,499

Vacationland

• Jul 28, 2014

• #39

Poor poll design. There's no option for 'a dodgy Russian petro-spiv...'

 

Sergei's Celebration

Well-known member

Jan 3, 2010

3,610

I've come back home.

• Jul 28, 2014

• #40

RexCathedra said:

Poor poll design. There's no option for 'a dodgy Russian petro-spiv...'

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You're on the wrong thread...try this one.

http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?305111-Malaysian-airline-crash