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Billionaires Make Me Nervous
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All this talk of a takeover is something I think that scares me as much as relegation. Extreme? Maybe, but the fact is every article I read about Man City right now seems to have an air of uneasiness about it. Every time Mark Hughes speaks, he seems to have to reaffirm himself, and I think his record with the resources he has had is impeccable.
If Everton become the play thing of a Billionaire and buy ten £10 million+ players in January, it will no longer be the People's Club. "So be it," some of you will say, especially if we start picking up silverware. But, why I have never had trouble associating myself with Everton is because I think we are one of the few clubs around that can be respected for doing what we do. Competing and making the best of what little we have.
Personally, I think finishing fourth with our current team and Chairman would be more satisfying then winning the league with a checkbook. I haven't had respect for Chelsea in awhile. I'm quickly losing any respect I had for City. Everton have become known as the People's Club for the exact reasons I have just spoken about. If we become the next Chelsea, what will we be?
Joey Brown, Posted 06/09/2008 at 16:32:32
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I don’t think that it is for purely selfish reasons that Bill has deflected these offers. I’m sure that, like everyone, he wants to find someone with the clubs best interests at heart, rather than some renegade tyrant from eastern europe or the far east.
As with previous posters, I’d rather see us do it the ’right’ way, rather than throwing as much cash at the problem as possible and hoping that we come out top of the pile. I would seriously rather be a ’Norwich’ and get to the pinnacle through good management and hard work instead of throwing millions of pounds into producing a team with no blend, who are so afraid to lose that they produce strile performances.
Just think what happened to us when Johnson tried to pull his money out, or Magnusson at West Ham. Even look at the situation in Italy or Spain. When a club relies on a benefactor to bail them out, they have a business built on a house of cards. I would much rather see the blues have something with stability, that will weather the storm of fad billionairres.
Guess who used to be called the Bank of England....?
being another Notts Forest makes me nervous, my little blue chumster!!!
I just wished people would stop using it, because we are not the people's club.
For some football is about winning, for others its is about playing the game.
Those that want no change like to point at a glorious past, those that are happy with change look forwards to more glory.
For me Everton is and always has been first and formost about winning. Winning has always taken lots of money, a lot more than we currently have. We have to chase the money.
Where do I draw the line? When do Everton stop being Everton? This has nothing to do with ?soul? it is to do with social identity - belonging to a group. That group remains the same for me at Kirkby, but would change if we moved away from ?scouseland?.
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