The Shrike said:
This is a genuine question - so don't throw the toys out. But do you genuinely feel that a club bankrolled like yours is is good for football?
This might sound like sour grapes coming from a Gooner - as we have had a much shorter time out of the trophies than you lot, and haven't had to bear the heartache that you have in the EPL era.
And what's more we are a wealthy club, and its a bit hypocritical the way some Gooners play the pauper card.
But if your model is replicated, the league becomes nothing more than a contest to see which billionaire has the biggest cock. After the first couple of titles, won't it all get a bit pointless?
I know the thread has moved on a bit, but there is much more to our owner than the football team.
Let me put it this way. In a few years time, when you visit Manchester to watch us play Arsenal and you are blown away by the developments on the hundreds of acres of land around the ground, will you be thinking our owner has been bad? It is a world class attraction, employing thousands of people in an area that is, at the moment, not too affluent, and millions of people are going there every year to visit and marvel at whatever is built.
Is that bad for football, great for the local community? Or Both?
Maybe, when the world wakes up to what our owner is about, and what his plans are, some of the 'City ruining football' stuff will disappear and a begrudging acceptance will follow that he has been good on all counts.
I'm not looking at this through rose tinted spectacles. I'm realistic, and I understand where football supporters like yourself are coming from, but 'the project' involves much more than Manchester City Football Club, and in a few years time, when thousands of people are earning their living off the investments of the Sheik, it will put many other owners of clubs in the shade.
I don't know much about Arsenal, but have they, or are they preparing, to pump billions into the local area?
I doubt it, and on the subject of football, we haven't won anything yet. If you think City will render the title pointless after we have won it a couple of times, well, can we win it once and then make that judgement? We aren't going to win it relentlessly, year after year.