Will the Sheikh stick around once we've won everything?

[Chippy_boy]

Seems to me "the project" is a demonstration to the world of the wealth and with it the power and capability of our owners in the middle east. They can take any old Premiership club - without success in 40 years - and turn it into the dominant force in world football. It's no coincidence that they didn't choose to buy out any of the top 4. They needed to pick an obviously underperforming club, i.e. us, and mastermind the transformation all the way from ugly duckling to magnificent swan.

I have no doubt they will succeed, and it will surely be the most incredible thing seen in football in my lifetime, if not in all time.

But then what? Mission accomplished, what do they do next? Keeping us at the top almost certainly won't be profitable in itself. Do they continue to pump huge sums of money in every year, or to they pull up sticks and move on to the next "project"?

To be honest, I am not sure I am too worried either way. We are probably talking 5+ years away and we have more immediate challenges to focus on. Winning the title next year or the year after and the CL perhaps within 5 years. And win it again just to show it wasn't a fluke.

But what happens after that is an interesting thought.

 

[Mayor West]

Yes.

 

[Pam]

He'll be wanting to equal and surpass the rag trophy haul (a bit like Fergie claims he wanted to do to Liverpool back in 1789, when he first became boss rag). This will take us thirty years or more. After that, he can leave with our blessings, I expect.

 

[Danamy]

Seems to me "the project" is a demonstration to the world of the wealth and with it the power and capability of our owners in the middle east. They can take any old Premiership club - without success in 40 years - and turn it into the dominant force in world football. It's no coincidence that they didn't choose to buy out any of the top 4. They needed to pick an obviously underperforming club, i.e. us, and mastermind the transformation all the way from ugly duckling to magnificent swan.

I have no doubt they will succeed, and it will surely be the most incredible thing seen in football in my lifetime, if not in all time.

But then what? Mission accomplished, what do they do next? Keeping us at the top almost certainly won't be profitable in itself. Do they continue to pump huge sums of money in every year, or to they pull up sticks and move on to the next "project"?

To be honest, I am not sure I am too worried either way. We are probably talking 5+ years away and we have more immediate challenges to focus on. Winning the title next year or the year after and the CL perhaps within 5 years. And win it again just to show it wasn't a fluke.

But what happens after that is an interesting thought.

The "Project" doesn't just include what happens on the pitch, it also includes surrounding area etc...
Don't worry there here long term so just sit back and enjoy!! :-)

 

[Kippax.]

What a daft question

1, we dont know
2, we havent won nothing yet
3, who to say we will win everything
4, Chelsea still havent won everything
5, I am daft
6, we are city

 

[Mayor West]

What a daft question

1, we dont know
2, we havent won nothing yet
3, who to say we will win everything
4, Chelsea still havent won everything
5, I am daft
6, we are city

couldnt have put it better myself!

 

[Pam]

What a daft question

1, we dont know
2, we havent won nothing yet
3, who to say we will win everything
4, Chelsea still havent won everything
5, I am daft
6, we are city

couldnt have put it better myself!

Chelski would have won everything, though if that silly arse John Terry had been wearing the right footwear in Moscow. And anyway, we have to win everything ten times over to put the Traffordites in their place.

 

[Freestyler]

one thing i have always thought is when a top owner billionaire leaves he would sign it on to someone else and not just leave the club in trouble like with Leeds, like a family member or friend, just say for instance shiek said i'm leaving at the end of the season, straight away i think you would get a number of people wanting to takeover from his end.

 

[rogdogblue]

I take it your glass is half empty?

 

[Anonymous]

Really not arsed either way.We were heading for disaster before the Sheik picked us up.Who knows where we'd be right now?Portstmouth mk2?

Just enjoy it.If we go bump in ten years then so be it.We'll survive in some way shape in form.

After what we've been through for the last 30 years I'd rather 10 years of absloute top days out than thirty more years of utter mediocrity.

;-)