Reflections on the "oil money" matter

[mscenterh750]

Money only gets mentioned by the bitter ****s from other clubs, other clubs managers, other clubs fans and pretty much all of the media.

Ask any of the above what would they think if their club had struck oil and was like our club is now. I know what the answer would be.

Fuck the fucking lot of em, we got lucky and are now changing the face of English football, both on and off the pitch.

Oh and it's not our fault that the likes of the rags, arse, spuds and dippers are run by money grabbing ****s that couldn't give a fucking fuck about the clubs and clubs fans they own. So they can all stop fucking whinging about us and concentrate on the shitness of their own owners and clubs.

FUCK OFF.

 

[laughing gravy]

when somebody is better than you in all departments,you need something to beat them with hence the buying success stick,i really hope they keep mentioning it as the more they say it the more they hurt... so fuck um..

 

[CambBlue]

Yes, every bile-ridden comments section under any story about/report on City has dozens of sanctimonious pricks trotting our this simplistic and banal argument. As Balzac said (or is credited with) ‘At the base of every great fortune lies a great crime.’ No huge wealth comes without some moral baggage - Usmanov, Lewis, Abramovic, the Edwards family, Chinese sovereign wealth funds etc etc none of this is exactly squeaky clean. Likewise all the big corporate sponsors of Utd. I don’t love it but given the world we live in the market dictates all...and it has no morality. Can’t wait for when Lewis/Levy, the Glazers, Fenway et al sell their respective clubs to the highest overseas bidder - what will their supercilious, entitled, holier-than-thou fans seek to attack us with then?

 

[Wolfy]

Speaking of bitter sh*ts, someone linked to that fightingcock forum yesterday in the postmatch thread and bearing in mind that I’ve never been on it before and the adverts that appear must be based on the site’s content... a lot of arabmatchmaking ads! Entertaining because it genuinely was their go-to stick to lightly rub against us.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Our owner has made one billion pounds profit on his investment. There is nothing else to be said.

 

[FlemishDuck]

It's indeed the bitter ones that regurgitate this, it's just impossible to adress because of how shallow and common it is, noone has time to repeat all the nuancations we make to these types.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Hmm i don't know enough about it to understand that, but i'm interrested to hear more details.

Going further back, all of those clubs were bankrolled in some way by an individual.

United were rescued from impending liquidation in 1931 by a man called James Gibson, who paid the players and suppliers, thereby stopping bankruptcy proceedings. He invested further money, improved Old Trafford then rebuilt it after it was bombed in the war and also hired Matt Busby.

Arsenal received what was then a significant investment of £50m in 1994 from Danny Fiszman. When you think that very good players were changing hands or around £3m in those days and the average fee was probably about 1/25th of what fees are now, that's a very large sum, equivalent to about £1bn in today's values.

Liverpool had the benefit of the Moores family fortune, who owned Littlewoods (as did Everton via different branch of the family).

All these backers helped them pay fees and wages that were higher than their rivals and therefore to build better teams that won more. The CL money then bolstered them, further allowing them to attract the best players.

 

[FlemishDuck]

Going further back, all of those clubs were bankrolled in some way by an individual.

United were rescued from impending liquidation in 1931 by a man called James Gibson, who paid the players and suppliers, thereby stopping bankruptcy proceedings. He invested further money, improved Old Trafford then rebuilt it after it was bombed in the war and also hired Matt Busby.

Arsenal received what was then a significant investment of £50m in 1994 from Danny Fiszman. When you think that very good players were changing hands or around £3m in those days and the average fee was probably about 1/25th of what fees are now, that's a very large sum, equivalent to about £1bn in today's values.

Liverpool had the benefit of the Moores family fortune, who owned Littlewoods (as did Everton via different branch of the family).

All these backers helped them pay fees and wages that were higher than their rivals and therefore to build better teams that won more. The CL money then bolstered them, further allowing them to attract the best players.

Good post this, you seem to know youre football history quite wel.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Our owner has made one billion pounds profit on his investment. There is nothing else to be said.

You have to speculate, to accumulate.

 

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