What would be your feeling if Spurs were taken over?

[SamR]

When the news broke that Abramovich had taken over Chelsea i was gutted,... As a 16 year old fan who played footy manager and loved having millions to spend i was jealous!! The players they could sign was annoying and more so was the fact that Abramovich had looked at taking over spurs...

Since then ive grown up alot and my opinions have changed...Even as a fairly young supporter of football im dissapointed in the way in which game has gone. Its become a play ground for the super rich and i hoped things would somehow change but after yesterdays happening things will continue to spiral!

I cant take anything away from ENIC, Levy&Co as in the light of things they have done a Bloody good job! But what chance do we have of breaking into the champions league with the financial muscle of some of our rivals!? Its sickening really when United and even Liverpool can handpick talent from Clubs fighting to challenge.

So takening into consideration the way football has gone, even as sad it is to accept it... how would you feel if Tottenham were taken over by the mega rich and were then competing to sign players like Robinho?

 

[Remora]

I'm not sure I'd like it.

At the time, it'd be like playing a video game with all the cheats switched on.

I imagine it's fun at first, but when you realise there's nowhere else to go, you're a lot less interested.

In football terms, I think you may not notice it happen, but a distance would develop between yourself and the affections you'd have for your club.

 

[Tequila]

We would enjoy it at first, but over time after the first big league win or major cup, i think we would come back to earth and realise we just brought the title.

Part of me would love it, part of me would hate it.
Be nice to maybe do it for one year, then go back to our normal template.

 

[Remora]

I'm not sure I'd like it.

At the time, it'd be like playing a video game with all the cheats switched on.

I imagine it's fun at first, but when you realise there's nowhere else to go, you're a lot less interested.

In football terms, I think you may not notice it happen, but a distance would develop between yourself and the affections you'd have for your club.

Reading it back, it sounds ridiculous to suggest that I wouldn't like to have that bottomless pit of finances behind my team... but then, it just wouldn't be my team afterwards, would it?

I remember Stamford Bridge in 1992 when you could see the Car Park from the pitch (and frankly I don't think it's so much better now), but I know very few pre-Zola Chelsea fans... and the way I think of them now and their loudmouthed nouveau-riche attitude... between how it is now, and how it could be... I'd stick rather than twist.

 

[KeaneIsKeane]

It really would all be hollow, like it was no longer truly Tottenham Hotspur, but I could be wrong. It's like in FIFA Manager Mode when I overhaul my team. I don't really like it anymore because it isn't Tottenham Hotspur, they're just wearing the kits, but it doesn't feel like them. It'd probably be different if it were real, but if you have bottomless pits of cash, chances are you wil suceed to some degree. How many clubs could sign that shit Russian from Milan for that much money and have it all go for not. You'd have to ask Chelsea fans, long time Chelsea fans, what it feels like. We can still compete though, just have to buy smart and buy young, much like Arsenal.

 

[alextheyid]

a take-over with bottomless finances would be nice to throw endless millions into revamping WHL..into a 70,000 seater ...wishful thinking maybe

 

[Krafty]

I think it would all depend. No doubt ENIC and Levy have done a good job, improving a lot of the club, getting the infastructure right. But obviously someone with a billionaire quid to spend, improve the ground and buy players we need, money no object, would be fantastic.

As long as they kept the soul and essence of the club, didnt change managers every four seconds and had reasonable expectations, I'd be delighted.

 

[DC_Boy]

I would love it - I would love to buy the title - indeed several titles and a few CLs too -

I would love to see us being worshipped by Sky for using bully boy tactics - cos we're rich so that makes us morally right yeah

I would love to hear AFC fans saying we were plastics who bought the title -

I would to have all those whinging Mancs (especially the ones from Surrey - oh wait they'd be supporting us then)_ and Scousers going on about how it's unfair and a travesty of football

oh did I mention - I'd love it

 

[Kendall]

Depends on the candidate.

Thaksin? no
Abu Dhabi Royal Family who are reknowned to be very sports-orientated? yes please

Good sugar daddy candidates appear to be hard to come by, a lot of them seems like abrahmovic and look like they could just walk away at the end of a 3-1 defeat at bolton

 

[arthurgrimsdell]

I would love it - I would love to buy the title - indeed several titles and a few CLs too -

I would love to see us being worshipped by Sky for using bully boy tactics - cos we're rich so that makes us morally right yeah

I would love to hear AFC fans saying we were plastics who bought the title -

I would to have all those whinging Mancs (especially the ones from Surrey - oh wait they'd be supporting us then)_ and Scousers going on about how it's unfair and a travesty of football

oh did I mention - I'd love it

Depends on the candidate.

Thaksin? no
Abu Dhabi Royal Family who are reknowned to be very sports-orientated? yes please

Good sugar daddy candidates appear to be hard to come by, a lot of them seems like abrahmovic and look like they could just walk away at the end of a 3-1 defeat at bolton

DC_Boy raised this earlier (and apparently many times before!).

I tend to agree with Kendall, inasmuch as I would still want the Club to be regarded as one that tries to work within regulations rather than ride roughshod over them merely because it can.

The points raised by DC_Boy as things he would love, I'd tend to think of as predictable irritations.

If the Club had the money to spend on world-class players and coaches and retained an ethos of playing intelligent and attractive football then that would be my ideal.

Let's face it, the squad is barely recognisable from the one inherited by Ramos, and there has been a regular turnaround of players since ENIC took us over, so endeavouring to acquire the best players available to us is nothing new. It's just that without adequate funds we have been unable to get to the highest level.

As it happens I'd been quietly hoping that the Dubai Investment Corporation would give up on Liverpool and look to us for some time, but more in hope than anticipation.

 

[DC_Boy]

DC_Boy raised this earlier (and apparently many times before!).


The points raised by DC_Boy as things he would love, I'd tend to think of as predictable irritations.

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Hi AG - I was as you might guess 'over egging the pudding' - I don't really want us to be as obnoxious as MU or CFC - it just pisses me off that no matter how despicably they behave Sky can't get enough of the 'big 4' and now they're lapping up Citeh -

but in all seriousness I've been saying for years and years - who wants to get a billionaire - I do -

 

[JKSpurs]

the reason it wouldn't "feel" like spurs if we were taken over would be because we might start to be successful and it might bring to a end the constant new dawns and dissapointment.

I don't belive those people that say they wouldn't like it. its like the people who say I would want to win the the 97 mill on offer in the euro lottery I'd be happy with 1 or 2 mill !!

 

[sloth]

I'd be pretty gutted tbh. No glory in buying the championship.

PS DC_Boy i saw your post in the Transfer thread but didn't get around to replying, cheers for the nice comments and no hard feelings re the "I told you so." You did and you were right and I was wrong, but happily so (I come from the same school of thought as you: you've always gotta put your hands up when your wrong so that you can revel in it when you're right:wink.

 

[gibbs131]

The Who:

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"

Won't get fooled again.

 

[DoublePivot]

Gutted if we don't sell. No glory in midtable mediocrity

 

[monkeynick]

Would our Jewish ties put off any Arab investment?

 

[stemark44]

I have thought about this all day and even though it would be great for a couple of years to win all the major trophies,I don't think I would remain as a fan.It would be really boring knowing that your team was going to win every game before the season started.
At present I am absolutely delighted when we win a game and jumping with joy if we win away from home.That joy would be lost forever and I would no longer be a supporter!

 

[sloth]

Gutted if we don't sell. No glory in midtable mediocrity

You're right there's no glory in mid-table mediocrity, but nor is there is buying the Championship.

There is glory in the way Arsenal won the League in the 90s, in the way Utd have done so over the last two decades, in the way Liverpool, Everton, Forest et al did in the 80s. There was glory when we did it in 61 and when we won all those cups over the years.

There's no glory to Chelsea when they've done it the last few years, none whatsoever, no respect grudging or otherwise from other fans and even while they're shouting their heads off and in the midst of all their "who's da man!!!" crys they feel something's missing, they know we don't respect them, that it doesn't count because it's nothing to do with them. They can come or not come, they can support or not support, if Chelsea only had a single supporter and that man was Abramovich they'd have won, because it was his billions that bought it, not the fan's support, not their faith through thick and thin, not their anguish and their joy.

Their club was stolen from them by a Russian crook and even if they pretend it doesn't matter, it does, it really does.

 

[KeaneIsKeane]

You don't get it, how good did that Carling Cup final win feel? It would never feel like that if we were just a massive team with a massive payroll. Success is nothing, it really is, unless you work for it and obtain it the right way. If we break the top 4 with our current system that is an accomplishment. If we break the top 4 the way Man City are about to do it, well, it really is inevitable isn't it? They have more resources, they SHOULD, beak the top 4. Fuck being handed shit. I'd much rather sneak up on the fuckers and take it.

 

[fazza]

I have thought about this all day and even though it would be great for a couple of years to win all the major trophies,I don't think I would remain as a fan.It would be really boring knowing that your team was going to win every game before the season started.
At present I am absolutely delighted when we win a game and jumping with joy if we win away from home.That joy would be lost forever and I would no longer be a supporter!

Yeah it sucks to be a Man United fan doesn't it.