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well colour me unsurprised. :/
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"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
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I think West Ham is holding a losing ticket here in the long term. Wouldnt MSI still own the rights to the players? If so they could leave at a whim and suddenly West Ham having dropped it's younger hardworking players (Zamora, Harewood) are suddenly stuggling to find replacements.Comment
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Sh1t though isn't it?Originally posted by C0ckney
well colour me unsurprised. :/Comment
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Does the owner of Real Madrid fancy buying shares in Newcastle if he wants to offload Cannavaro in the next season? Who knows, maybe Dyer could handcuff him to the dressing room bench so that he can go nowhere but Newcastle...... (God knows, he's got enough practice with handcuffs.
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You've had your piece of luck for the season, you got money for Boumsong
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We bought Sibierski!!!!!!
Answers why here:Comment
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very. it just seems crazy though. shady foreign investors with links a certain oil tycoon takeover brasilian club, who then buy two young argy stars with investor's money. stars are then 'loaned' for a small fee to mid-table premiership side, who are then themselves linked to a takeover by said foreign investors.Originally posted by reds4ever
Sh1t though isn't it?
i mean wouldn't it just of been, quicker, easier and a lot cheaper for chelsea to simply buy these players in the first place.
"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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Nah, this way they can see how they play in the ELP before giving the players a run out in their own team. It's costing them no points to blood them.
Anyway, shouldn't you be out like, tweakin'
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nah i'm proper skint after creamfields and car tax + MOT this week. plus i'm starting a new life in a couple of weeks, so need to save a bit of cash for that.
and of course (in case my managers reading), i'd never be out on the lash the night before a football match!
[/lifestory]"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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Saturday football? I'm impressed, I was never better than Sunday league.....Comment
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I guess we'll have to wait and see how it all pans out...
Personally I think it is good for our club, raising our profile in South America and around the World. It improves our competitivity for this season, allows us to strengthen while they're here - all that means better prospects for the team as a whole. I can't really see a downside compared to where we already are TBH...
The real question is whether we're actually taken over or not. Whether that is good for the supporters, the team etc?
I mean, it's not like every football team in the premiership hasn't sold out one way or the other. This just looks like the next logical step in the premiership, and frankly people tut-tutting about it on this thread risk throwing stones in glass houses - especially if they are supporters of Chelsea, Man U or, lately, Villa...
The Liverpools, Arsenals and Tottenhams of this world are hardly any better, with their foreign managers and almost exclusively foreign squads.
Football turned into a cash cow years ago - if you stick to your principles nowadays, you're likely to get relegated.
I am actually hoping we don't get taken over, because then it would start becoming just another corporate monster like the Man U's of this world - but if we are taken over, then I doubt we'll be selling our Argies.
But just in case, I bought some shares...
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Oh just BTW, who gets egg on their face if they turn out as flops?
Like that other Argie, Veron. In that event the risk is all MSI's and not West Ham's, unlike a 'normal' transfer.Comment
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At the risk of sounding patronising I, like of lot of football fans, have a soft spot for West Ham. Good club, good football, good ground but this is real p1sser.
As you say the big 4 have all sold out to some extent but this new business is just awfull IMHO. I just hope it back fires on Chelsea somehow without impacting West Ham too much.Comment
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Ahem....Originally posted by MOBIUS
I mean, it's not like every football team in the premiership hasn't sold out one way or the other. This just looks like the next logical step in the premiership, and frankly people tut-tutting about it on this thread risk throwing stones in glass houses - especially if they are supporters of Chelsea, Man U or, lately, Villa...
(Wishing we'd sold out too....)
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I think you're jumping to too many conclusions at the moment. As I said I hope we're not taken over as an 'investment', but if we are then I have accepted that fate for some time now. Part of what makes West Ham great is the 'family' style of loyalty it engenders - indeed in many ways even Alan Pardew breaks that mould by not being involved with the club in some way before becoming manager, and that might be the first thing to go...
But remember, this isn't the same football game as of, say, a decade ago...
Didn't Liverpool dance with a similar fate only a short while ago?Comment
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