This is not a wind up but I noticed on BBC Sport gossip that Napoli want to but an English team in a similar way as Udinese bought Watford. Now I know that will get up the noses of a lot of our supporters but I am just asking the question rather than putting it forward as an option. I just wonder sometimes as to whether something like that is even an option for teams like us, but looking at the bleak financial future for Bristol City and a lot of other teams in the leagues below the Premiership perhaps it might become the way of the future. I don't believe that something of the same nature is necessarily the way to build for the long term future but perhaps as an interim measure to bring us back to stability it might be an option to partner with another team in another country. It seemed to work quite well with Watford although a lot of us thought it was a bit underhanded and if you are of the same mind as myself then it was tinged with just a bit of jealousy for their success. My god I'm bored already with this off-season and can't wait for the fight to start over, and perhaps my thread will open up some much needed discussion.
Its a double edged sword for me Mike The purist (or pedant maybe!) in me says not in a million years but Watford play entertaining football masquerading as Udinese B Overall I'd still like us to have a squad of largely British, young, hungry players willing to die for the shirt and who are never going to know when they are beaten
Never apart from anything else the Watford plan will be banned this year in all probability within the football league it might be allowed in the conference but who knows, I did read online somewhere last month that UEFA are also looking into owners having teams in more than one country because of the possability of fraud if two or more teams owned by the same people ended up facing each other in European competition. I mean just think if it had been Watford winning the League Cup and having to play one of the owners other clubs no matter who won there would always be a worry if it had been arranged.
Just glad watford did not get promotion,so so wrong if they had. Do we really want to be a foreign team playing with football mercenerys no thanks. British team for me all the way.
My thread was never intended to reflect my opinion but just to create a base for discussion and quite frankly Watford's situation this last year left me with a bad taste. It seems to be these days that unless you bend the rules to their limits then you are left as just another team in the pack. Some kind of loosely based joint venture with another overseas team is more likely to be accepted but even then I don't know. We Brits are somewhat reluctant to allow the others to come over and try to gain control of our game but it has begun in a big, and somewhat negative, way with the advent of major foreign ownership and the T.V. rights goiung to possibly the wrong companies. Viva Inglaterra (lol).
