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Monday, April 16th 2007

22:06:46 (596 days, 4h, 47min ago)

Arsenal's future shouldn't be for sale

I really think there needs to be a proper context placed around the current / future situation of the club and is money the answer?

OK so we were no where near winning the Premiership and were dumped out of 3 cups within just over a week (one of which being the final), but have Arsenal been fighting relegation? Have they been on the verge of going out of business? Has there been the stink of corruption or a major return of the hooligans? NO, NO, NO, NO.

The reality is that not just the ambition, but the expectation, levels have risen higher and higher, so that now too many people have forgotten what it means just to follow a football club. Winning silverware isn’t the be-all and end-all, but it is where too many supporters seem to be heading and it is in their wake that the likes of the billionaires are moving in.

Arsenal must avoid becoming the next Abramovich or bust club, the potential folly of the South London club is there for all proper supporters to see and fear.

At the moment most of the chav fans might be enjoying the sudden revival, but the wiser ones can see that the club has been sucked into a drawn-out game of Russian roulette. If owner and manger simply cannot continue together next season perhaps it is the former who will go and if (WHEN) that happens he will leave the club in financial crisis. It is a dire time when the financial future of a growing club hangs on the decisions of one man.

For Chelski the financial influx was a blessing. Many generations had waited to see league success and therefore they feel justified when defending against any poking that their advancement is based purely on 'money talks'. But for Arsenal fans it would be different. Only for the youngest would titles (effectively bought) be a new thing, for the overwhelming majority any success would purely be a recent update.

By all means if a multi-billionaire wishes to buy some shares and be a part of the success that is Arsenal then such money shouldn't be scoffed at, neither should the fans be afraid. Yes Stan Kroenke has increased his portfolio from circa 2%, to almost 12%, but someone had to buy up Granada's shares, they were desperate to sell, so why not him?

I do fear for the future of the club, but it is not due to some American billionaire buying shares, but because too many people think that it is only worthwhile competing when they know the outcome has effectively already been bought.

 

Be seeing you

 

 MysticBeg

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