54k stadium ready made, someone will try to buy them soon. No doubt Spurs to become London's fourth club by 2020!
Might well happen except.............they don't and never will own the stadium, so there's bugger all equity in it.
It was bound to happen! The Hammers are OK as a club --its just that they've got a hard core of really dodgy supporters!
Can't see it happening. We had first mover advantage, they'd just be playing catch up in regards to oligarchs. Diminishing returns and all that - from the oligarch's perspective, what's the point in owning a club if all you end up achieving is pushing costs even higher, with no commensurate increase in success / profile? Case in point QPR.
Roman's hardly seen a return on his investment. An oligarch may buy West Ham so he can play fantasy football in a nice shiny new stadium in the same why Roman did except he can't get his new stadium.
Its economics 101. That same oligarch won't win 10 major trophies in 10 years even if he spends as much a Roman has done, simply because Roman enjoyed first mover advantage (and at a club that had already qualified for cl). As the pl gets more saturated with oligarchs, the trophy / success return on investment gets less and less. You end up investing just to keep up, not to get ahead. Why would an oligarch be interested in spending hundreds of millions, just to secure wham's place in mid table? If an oligarch wants trophies and the glamour that comes with it, there are better options out there, e.g Everton, Tottenham, Atletico Madrid, anyone of a number of German clubs.
City didn't have first mover advantage and weren't in the Champions League but are already ahead of Chelsea from a playing squad and infrastrucutre perspective.
And look how bleak their future looks now, i highly doubt they'll even be in the top 4 come next season or the one after
No, and it shows. They have only 2 trophies of any note in the 5 years since the sheikh. And the Chelsea squad are clearly in transition.
Completely at different cyclical stages, City were a bottom half team when the Sheikh took over so had to start from further back, they are at the same cyclical stage Chelsea were at in 2007/2008 but their squad now couldn't hold a candle to ours then and nor could their manager. Mourinho was able to consistently get the better of Fergie which Mancini has only been able to do 1/3 of the time. Yaya Toure wants to leave and is approaching 30, Silva is not far off 30 either as is Zabaleta. All of City's best players are near 30 and IMO have peaked. In 18 months-2 years (at the latest) City will have to start the rebuilding process as we have had to from 2010-12.
District and with FFP coming in and them continually making a loss and showing no signs of how they're going to make a profit they look screwed. Huge wage bill as well and overall a average squad with no real quality apart from a few players and they have no decent youth whatsoever and can't spend vast amounts of money. Their big chance to push on was this summer and instead of pushing on they bought average/crap players. Us,United and Spurs all look stronger than them and Arsenal are always there abouts and Liverpool are getting stronger. Can't see City ever challenging for the title again anytime soon personally
The Premier League's FFP would sort 'em out If another smallp) London club gets buys their way ahead of us we might as well sell all our best players to fund a new stadium and live like kings in League Two.
Even more hilarious that you think Chelsea fans are looking forward to FFP on the basis of this thread
