The Athletic article...

[Des Head]

Spot on, I hate this automatic respect that many people offer to the wealthy, inside and outside of football. It's complete bollocks to say that because someone has a successful business they must be smart people. More often than not it's because they started with a lot and in most of those cases they will loudly declare that they started with nothing. Assem Allam was from a wealthy background in Egypt and is a proven liar. His ridiculous story about arriving with nothing but the bank just giving him £20 out of sympathy is just one of his many fantasies. He's also had failed attempts at businesses. I wonder how he was able to afford to do that and just go again...

I also hate this "I'm so smart" enlightened centrism. "Ooh look at me I can see both sides you know. Everyone else is just so angry that you can't be balanced like me". When someone is obviously a **** just say it. Desperately trying to find a balanced view on ****s just makes you look like one.

Don't buy into my bollocks just yet. The most important point is that idiots take risks that sometimes pay off. That's the crux of my point. Not just that rich people will always have money. Many a great inheritance has been frittered away.

This automatic respect **** is what teachers get. Oh, they're a teacher, they must be ****ing ace. Nope, I could count thirteen bad teachers on two hands.

As for enlightened centrism, I, personally, can see why you might think that.

 

[The Omega Man]

All of this posting of inaccurate ****e is as bad as anyone embellishing their backstory.

Stop being so blinkered. Accusing someone of making stuff up whilst making stuff up yourselves is well....just dumb.

 

[abournetiger]

Can I just say, and this is absolutely not my argument and I have no bones in this, that yes, absolute incompetents can and do amass multi-million pound fortunes. Complete morons take business and/or financial risks that your average IQ'd would not and sometimes, obviously not always but certainly on occasion, those risks pay off, sometimes in a massive way.

If you're starting from a non zero position like our good friend Ehab then it can be even harder to fail. If Tangoman Trump had simply placed his inheritance in a bank and done **** all he would have a greater personal wealth than he has today.

If you're starting from nothing, well, even Leeds fans can win the lottery.

Incompetents can amass millions, Donald Trump is a good example of this. In a few years time I am sure EA will provide a good example of how not to use his inheritance - there is no evidence to suggest he knows anything at all.
Unfortunately for us AA got himself a new toy when he paid for Hull City AFC, he got bored of that toy and it really pissed him off so he gave it to his son. What a move that has been, I am sure AA will be having sleepless nights over this, he does know how much a pound is worth and that he could have sold it on at the right time. That time has now passed, we just have to wait and hope for things to improve. I hope they do quickly, it doesn't look like it though.