| This is about Newcastle... on 12:22 - Jan 22 with 1182 views | ElderGrizzly |
This last couple of paragraphs sums it up for me
Without oligarchs and plutocrats, there would be no need for clubs to overstretch themselves to compete with multi-billionaires pumping fortunes into clubs. Profits could be spent on player recruitment, ensuring all staff earn a living wage, keeping struggling fellow league clubs afloat (meaning clubs would be able to take more risks with managers and playing styles), reducing ticket prices, and the rest reinvested into community projects. It seems idyllic, but there is enough money in the English game that it could absolutely work.
But now, sadly, it seems much too late to put those genies back in their bottles. And so Newcastle fans, like so many others — like all of us are, or have, or will, one day, sooner or later — must continue on their seemingly endless march through the wilderness, hoping to find a supposed promised land that is nothing more than another billionaire’s pocket. |  | |  |
| This is about Newcastle... on 12:25 - Jan 22 with 1178 views | Steve_M |
Yes, even going back to when ME bought Ipswich it felt like we could compete - get promoted, stay up for a couple of years, end up stronger as a result - but now we need some billionaire to chuck a few tens of million at us to have a realistic chance of doing that.
The really depressing thing now is that a season like 2014-15 might just be as good as it gets for ITFC until, or unless, the bubble bursts. |  |
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| This is about Newcastle... on 12:30 - Jan 22 with 1152 views | GeoffSentence |
Ooh - it even comes with the perfect name for CIL when she next fancies a name change 'club in limbo' |  |
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| This is about Newcastle... on 12:56 - Jan 22 with 1087 views | homer_123 |
You don't become a billionaire by being nice..... |  |
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