spud
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It's 2:33am UK time on saturday 7th July 2012. The ITK Discussion and Twatter threads have been awash with takeover talk. We are receiving a large amount of investment cash. No we're not, we're being taken over - by one of two arab family concerns that might or might not be the same family. At the same time, Modric is going to Madrid. No he isn't, he's staying. Which has got precisely nothing to do with money; it's all about winning trophies.
We don't know what's happening; we just know that something 'big' is (or might be) about to break. Akqayid has told us (well not us, but his 'followers') that what he has heard is 'jaw dropping' news. Ho hum. [By the way, a few days ago Akqayid seemd like a good bloke who was privy to some inside info. Now he seems like a crushing egomaniac who is being fed a constant stream of top secret stuff that he uses to tease the masses. Just me? Okay.]
200m quid is one figure that's been mentioned. Bearing in mind we got 12 million per year from shirt sponsorship in the last two seasons, that would mean 8 million per year for naming rights if we're talking about a 10-year deal - and assuming zero inflation. Hardly seems enough does it? 300 million? That's more like it for a 10-year combined deal. Money up front, of course, so we can get the NDP finished pronto.
If we're being taken over, I sincerely hope that we continue in the same vein as the last few years. I detest what Chelski and Citeh have done, and want no part of that for Spurs. If we receive a commercial investment that enables us to build the stadium, which in turn enables us to continue the outstanding work that Levy and the board have done since ENIC bought the club, then I'm all in favour. Our growth has been funded by a well-run business model and we have achieved it gradually and 'organically' without the aid of a super-rich benefactor. That, in the opinion of this Spurs fan, is the way that it should be.
If we were to finish the job of scaling the peak of the domestic and european game in the same manner that has taken us from mid-table also-rans to genuine contenders, how satisfying would that be? To beat the (for want of a better word) 'cheats' without having to play their game. How hollow a victory to achieve the last push on the back of artificial benificence?
Many won't agree. Many will want success at any price. I don't. I wouldn't mind the new generation of plastic fans whose knowledge of the club that they would 'always' have supported making 1991 Alan Sugar seem like a Spurs historian. I wouldn't mind the fact that it would be far more difficult to get a ticket to a game - even with a 60k stadium. I wouldn't even mind the fact that a mercenary twat like Modric would suddenly change his mind and want to stay 'for the project'. (Actually that's a lie: I would mind that. If he doesn't want to be here he can fuck off and get his sackload of cash somewhere else.) But I would certainly mind if we 'bought' the title and/or the CL.
As somebody once said, the game is about glory. Where would the glory be in that?
We don't know what's happening; we just know that something 'big' is (or might be) about to break. Akqayid has told us (well not us, but his 'followers') that what he has heard is 'jaw dropping' news. Ho hum. [By the way, a few days ago Akqayid seemd like a good bloke who was privy to some inside info. Now he seems like a crushing egomaniac who is being fed a constant stream of top secret stuff that he uses to tease the masses. Just me? Okay.]
200m quid is one figure that's been mentioned. Bearing in mind we got 12 million per year from shirt sponsorship in the last two seasons, that would mean 8 million per year for naming rights if we're talking about a 10-year deal - and assuming zero inflation. Hardly seems enough does it? 300 million? That's more like it for a 10-year combined deal. Money up front, of course, so we can get the NDP finished pronto.
If we're being taken over, I sincerely hope that we continue in the same vein as the last few years. I detest what Chelski and Citeh have done, and want no part of that for Spurs. If we receive a commercial investment that enables us to build the stadium, which in turn enables us to continue the outstanding work that Levy and the board have done since ENIC bought the club, then I'm all in favour. Our growth has been funded by a well-run business model and we have achieved it gradually and 'organically' without the aid of a super-rich benefactor. That, in the opinion of this Spurs fan, is the way that it should be.
If we were to finish the job of scaling the peak of the domestic and european game in the same manner that has taken us from mid-table also-rans to genuine contenders, how satisfying would that be? To beat the (for want of a better word) 'cheats' without having to play their game. How hollow a victory to achieve the last push on the back of artificial benificence?
Many won't agree. Many will want success at any price. I don't. I wouldn't mind the new generation of plastic fans whose knowledge of the club that they would 'always' have supported making 1991 Alan Sugar seem like a Spurs historian. I wouldn't mind the fact that it would be far more difficult to get a ticket to a game - even with a 60k stadium. I wouldn't even mind the fact that a mercenary twat like Modric would suddenly change his mind and want to stay 'for the project'. (Actually that's a lie: I would mind that. If he doesn't want to be here he can fuck off and get his sackload of cash somewhere else.) But I would certainly mind if we 'bought' the title and/or the CL.
As somebody once said, the game is about glory. Where would the glory be in that?
