Af what point did we all become gaslit into being cheerleaders for the club's accountants?
Fair point really. Sadly this is a modern football thing, not an Albion thing.Af what point did we all become gaslit into being cheerleaders for the club's accountants?
Yup, that. We're not that that club anymore. Absolutely zero need to think that way anymore, now the club is sloshing around in the untold millions of the EPL.
Only takes a few seasons of mismanagement to get back there. Plenty of teams have been in the Prem and fallen into disarray.
I don't think we'd get anywhere near what we paid back for Igor.
Which one? TB seized a business opportunity in the global recession of 2008 because he happened to have £80m sloshing about in his back pocket at the time. I just feel gutted for Dick Knight who, along with Martin Perry and the Albion community who did the hard miles just to allow Tony Bloom to swoop on that one-off discounted business opportunity in 2008 when cash was king.
That was then. We're now in 2024 and are an established Premier League with an incredible infrastructure throughout the football club. If you don't think that's down to Bloom's investment, business expertise and successful recruitment then you've gone totally round the bend. What Tony Bloom has achieved at the club is incredible and is a world away from where he took the club on and what the club would reasonably have been able to achieve without Bloom as owner. With massive respect to Dick Knight was 100% the right man at the right time, with the right team of people around him, there is no chance at all we'd be anywhere close to where we are now without Tony Bloom.
Portsmouth. Derby. Sheffield Wednesday. Oldham. Leeds.
Really not sure how he has made a comment adding up the fees we might get for players this summer into a Bloom vs Dick Knight debate. Odd
You keep going on about this height thing, but this comes from clubs and managers first and foremost. Not that many on here want us to sell Billy or Facu.
Somebody with £80m sloshing about in their back pocket in 2007l8 would 'of' bought that prime bit of real estate with planning permission secured
There are plenty of good business opportunities. Buying a homeless, historyless, completely unknown football club for £80m is not one of them.
I think we got a few bob for our former manager as well
It’s clearly a parody post… I can’t believe so many people missed it
I hope so! Would be concerning if people who support the club genuinely think like thatIt’s clearly a parody post… I can’t believe so many people missed it
Of course not, it’s just a Wednesday afternoon “what’s the most outrageous thing I can say to get a reaction” situation. Swansman used to do it all the time. Good entertainment but not to be taken seriously
The manager and the club has said nothing about playing or buying tall, big midfielders. Its something people made up on the basis of St Pauli having some tall midfielders. That matched up with people's childhood fantasies so now people are literally living the dream - pretending the manager is going to give them what they always wanted.
It is in the face of the global meltdown of 2008 when the guy with the deep pockets just waiting in the wings swooped to nick the club off the guys and the community who had done the hard miles and the hard years to secure the planning permission for the stadium and who, in normal financial times, would 'of' had commercial funding in place. No surprise then that's zero love lost between DK and TB
