Truth is, the Benitez piece will have come through his PR Person. If he had the class that you Linda Lovelace types suggest. He would have STFU now, and indeed whilst he was paid to manage the football club. Never been his MO and is the root of his problem.
Alan Sugar (not my favourite person) tried to run Spurs as a business, was hated for it by the fans.
After a take-over battle with
Robert Maxwell, Sugar teamed up with
Terry Venables and bought
Tottenham Hotspur football club in June 1991. Although Sugar's initial investment helped ease the financial troubles the club was suffering at the time, his treatment of Tottenham as a business venture and not a footballing one made him an unpopular figure among the Spurs fans.
[44] In Sugar's nine years as chairman, Tottenham Hotspur did not finish in the top six in the league and won just one trophy, the
1999Football League Cup.
Sugar sacked Venables the night before the
1993 FA Cup Final, a decision which led to Venables appealing to the high courts for reinstatement. A legal battle for the club took place over the summer, which Sugar won (see
Re Tottenham Hotspur plc [1994] 1 BCLC 655). The decision to sack Venables angered many of Tottenham fans, and Sugar later said, "I felt as though I'd killed
Bambi."
[45
Both put in real money to stabilize the club. You Ashley out people must realise, that a new owner will almost certainly do a Glazer.
I fear super rich Arabs/Asians are not likely to come in. Newcastle is a long way from London, queens English speakers, the classic racecourses,electricity and all that.