by Durhamfootman » Sun Oct 07, 2018 2:56 pm
and, of course, this is the history of the fat lad's tenure. Trouser the profit and trouser the TV money. Spend as little as humanly possible in the summer and see how the season goes. If it doesn't go well, buy players in January and hope it's enough to avoid the drop. This is his 11th year as owner and this approach has been very successful for him....made him a lot of money (enough this year to allow him to buy a massive department store chain at a knock down price with just the TV money).
From a footballing perspective, this approach has worked once in 11 years. Not surprising that the fans are unhappy. One of these days the side won't bounce back straight away after relegation, and then he won't have a cash cow to milk............ and, of course, there won't be anyone prepared to give him what he wants to let the club go, and so he'll be stuck with the club and we'll be stuck with him
He'll spend big in January.... hope that it will be enough to persuade Rafa to stay... and hope that it will be enough to stave off relegation.... again!
Then he sticks up two fingers at the fans who protest at him, but does it in a way that he can claim was just him scratching behind his ear.... it's the sort of thing a naughty schoolboy would do.... and it's pathetic, but then this is a man who likes to have a power alcoholic binge off and vomit, to sort out the men from the boys, so we probably shouldn't expect anything else.
One day he'll be gone, but as long as he keeps making vast sums of money out of the club, it'll be a while
in the meantime, I just don't bother with football, other than checking the results from time to time
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