There's a story doing the rounds in the media that suggests that the Qatar government are looking to buy a Premier League club and we're the suggested target. The claim is that they'd do what's been done at City and PSG, despite their investment in the latter club causing an obvious clash. Their Sports' Minister made some comments which hint that there might be something to it. I'd prefer that this didn't happen. I'd love to see Spurs consistently challenging for trophies, but not via these means. For or against? True or media bullshit?
Remember a few years ago when David Lammy said we were moving to Stratford so a Qatari consortium would take over the club? He's standing as a potential candidate for Mayor of London, by the way...
In all seriousness, there are positives and negatives to Qatari ownership. On the one hand they would ban alcohol in the ground which would deprive us of making the pain of watching us more bearable, on the other hand they'll ban buggery and I've seen us bent over too many times at the Lane in recent years
I think we must be the footballing equivalent of Slack Alice by now, so I won't get too concerned about the ban on back door entry. I saw that The Sun was running some story about a Qatari takeover. Who knows? As has been said, I can see both advantages & disadvantages. The reported £1bln is pocket money to those guys, so it's entirely possible. I do have some problems with it as they're such a bunch of sleaze bags, but then I suppose that applies to the majority of owners. Be nice to be able to compete financially with Chavski & City though.
Within 5 or so years, City's income has grown to the level of a superclub and they could comply with FFP if they reined in their transfer and wages spending a bit. Soon, nobody will care that they only reached this position by being bankrolled by oil money. If the same happened to Spurs, you'd reach that same position quickly too and who'd care about how you got there? The only problem is that with the financial clout of Chelsea and City, not to mention Utd, it wouldn't guarantee trophies.
That sounds as good a reason as any, but I'd like them to stick a pin in a map and back whichever club they picked.
Citeh could not do what they have done, under the UEFA FFP regime. A club like Spurs certainly would have a good chance though.
Ideally I wouldn't like it because I don't want us to be like Citeh and Chelsea; but then that is the way all teams are going and in the future all teams will be run with a cash daddy-just which one has a deeper stack.
I'd have to see some kind of reason to take this seriously before I do. The idea that a Qatar group would buy the PL club with the strongest Jewish association seems a tad strange, to begin with. The likeliest explanation is that Spurs are a particularly believable target for a big buyer given the FFP. As RDBD says, if you want to produce the next City the sensible thing would be to buy a club that isn't top four, but but isn't far away, either.
As the Russian ruble is down the drain,would they be buying out Chelski. That Qatar man says he has several Spurs shirts and once ticked off an Arsenal fan........
I'd be against it, I've slated £ity, £helsea and all others similar for buying their success so it'd be hypocritical of me to suddenly say "oh yay!" to a money rich owner taking over us. Having this sort of owner will also ruin the chances of academy lads getting chances and I'm a big fan of seeing our youngsters making it into the first team, especially knowing that our crop of youngsters have genuine potential to be good/ great players. John McDermott and co have been doing a sterling job over recent years, Livermore, Caulker and Townsend have all played for England, Kane is set to get a call up sooner or later, Bentaleb was discarded by many sides until we took him and now looks a player with a great future and has already played at World Cup, we have Winks who recently made his debut and Onomah who no doubt will soon enough, plus Oduwa and Akindayini who I think have good futures and in the under 18s we have Azzaoui and Carter-Vickers with the former looking like a real star in the making. If we get a sugar daddy then we might as well make McDermott and the youth coaches redundant as our youngsters won't have a chance or breaking through. Knowing that a player only wants to join your club for the money would also leave a sour taste in my mouth. As if the likes of Kompany, Yaya and Aguero would've blinked an eyelid at City prior to Mansour taking over. I know heavy investment pretty much guarantees trophies and honours but I don't support my club for that sole purpose.
