- Jul 7, 2003
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So, say you've got billions to spend and fancy having some fun with a football club. You can pick any club in the country to buy and throw money at, with the aim of getting them to the big time and upsetting the football landscape (a Man City or an Abramovich, if you will). Money is no object (FFP, my arse), and for the sake of objectivity, you can't pick the Albion.
Who do you buy, and why?
Me, I think it would be no fun to pick a club which is already big but unsuccessful (so, not Newcastle then).
Reckon I'd go for somebody like one of the Bristol clubs (probably City, to save me having to spend years looking for a new stadium) or Plymouth. Reasonably sized places with decent catchment areas and a lot of unrealised potential. Throw unlimited cash at one of those and it could really go off.
(It's either that or swan into Selhurst under a false name, promise them the earth, make a few outrageously expensive headline signings, reappoint Frank de Boer, then disappear off into the night with my money, leaving them in ruins with an utterly unsustainable wage bill and a bloated squad full of disgruntled players).
Who do you buy, and why?
Me, I think it would be no fun to pick a club which is already big but unsuccessful (so, not Newcastle then).
Reckon I'd go for somebody like one of the Bristol clubs (probably City, to save me having to spend years looking for a new stadium) or Plymouth. Reasonably sized places with decent catchment areas and a lot of unrealised potential. Throw unlimited cash at one of those and it could really go off.
(It's either that or swan into Selhurst under a false name, promise them the earth, make a few outrageously expensive headline signings, reappoint Frank de Boer, then disappear off into the night with my money, leaving them in ruins with an utterly unsustainable wage bill and a bloated squad full of disgruntled players).
That was pretty much my first thought 
. I'd be nearly as happy doing that to the Pompey tw@ts though.
Go and stand it the corner.
