Possibly even to the extent that I owe an apology but then also it maybe enhances my other issue: if you want your club to be owned by a dictatorship for the purpose of sportswashing then I think you might be a bad person.
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It’s a fine line. The team I root for is owned by a guy who is effectively an American oligarch who likely has zero interest in progressive values and who is, by the day, more and more dictator-adjacent (and surely dictator-accepting).
He’s not a PE vulture or fund but he’s also nothing very good.
Yeah but we haven't heard clear examples from trustable sources, no? At least until now. And you've said what instead? That he isn't going to sell either way until he gets his price? And he's too bull headed to be swayed by the amount of chants about him? Doesn't sound wrong.
If the Levy out movement was singularly focused on demanding a higher investment in players (signings and wage bill to revenue %) and protecting groups like seniors from ticket hikes, I feel they would have almost unanimous support. Ownership change not required for that and we avoid its pitfalls
probably too nuanced a message and doesn’t fit as neatly on a banner. Making it personal is easier and ridiculing investments, concerts… that make the club self sustaining also easy targets when football results are disappointing. the post abramovich equation of money=trophies has hoodwinked fans
To be fair, I doubt anyone tolerates the torture of supporting Tottenham just as a plain fan. I’m either knee deep intertwined or finding happiness elsewhere.
I don't know though, I think a portion of fans are pretty shallow. I just think it's the nature unfortunately of some people.
Willing to turn a blind eye for personal gain.
I mean look at history behind the 1934 or 1978 World Cups, and the amount of sportswashing. It’s always been this way. That’s just the game unfortunately.
Whilst I agree, I think the levels have increased.
The games been about money for some time but before Abramovic, there was never the level of financial doping you see today.
It's on a whole new scale.
Ffp appears to have done very little.
Only billionaires can afford to buy a football club and I believe there’s no such thing as a good billionaire at all, but there is a range of how bad they are. In that sense what we have now is maybe the best we can hope for ethically.
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He’s not a PE vulture or fund but he’s also nothing very good.
I find this point fascinating. How far are people willing to bend their moral compass for their football club.
I would be gone. Out.
But unfortunately I've wrapped myself in deeper than that. This is my job.
Willing to turn a blind eye for personal gain.
The games been about money for some time but before Abramovic, there was never the level of financial doping you see today.
It's on a whole new scale.
Ffp appears to have done very little.