But why does he have to make the maximum amount of profit? You cant have it both ways mate!
Oh he's a business man and that's what he does and he's blue and white through and through!
How much money does a person need?
And why does it bother you so much that other people have a view different to yours? It was a CLUB before he came with a wide range of shareholders but he has mopped up the lot and now it is a business pure and simple. But what that business relies on is the loyalty and supports of the fans for it to continue and without them then its not worth anything.
Sadly I disagree on all counts.
Why SHOULDN'T he sell it for what someone is willing to pay? If nobody wanted the club at his asking price he wouldn't sell. What he sells the club for, for the fourth time, has NO influence on the clubs revenue. It doesn't matter one iota. So if he were to sell it for less, the only thing that would happen is he makes less money. Nothing else. Literally NOTHING. He could sell the club for 20p, we'd still make £70m+ per year, we'd still pay £50m+ on wages. He's not a charity. Saying he can't make as much money on the club as he wants makes him any less blue and white is such a flawed argument. What he sells the club for makes no difference whatsoever. Give me one reason, one reason at all why someone should sell something for less than someone is willing to pay? He's not taking any money in this deal from you, your family, the club, the players, the league or anyone except the new owners. I don't know how many times that needs to be explained. I can only see jealousy at someone making money, so please if you can find a reason why selling the club for the maximum amount someone is somehow damaging us as a club, tell me it.
And I get the sentiment towards simpler times and football for the love of the game, but when transfer fees and wages were introduced many many years ago, football clubs operated as businesses. You can't throw thousands, millions, billions of pounds worth of money around without being business-like. Christ anyone would think our best bet was to turn us into a non for profit organisation. Let's forget trying to get the best players and best facilities and just not worry about money at all. It baffles me how people can argue and protest at the amount of money in the league and then complain if we don't spend it. To be where we are in the football league system you need to spend money. We couldn't even begin to compete as a football team without making and spending money. Say we stopped operating as a business, not caring about spending money on the best players we can get, or attracting the best players we can afford wage wise, we'd fall so fast it'd make your head spin. To suggest we operate in any other way than a business is suicide. Yes it's because of the money in the game, yes I'd like us to give away free tickets and invest everything we make into the footballing side of things, but it wont happen. It'd kill us.
And the final point I disagree with, but not because I enjoy the fact that I do. This club does NOT rely on the loyalty of supporters. Not even slightly. We could have had an average attendance of fourteen last season, we'd still make £70m+ - football teams rely on the monetary rewards of success. Buy better players, perform better, get more money. Rinse and repeat. You could play every single Premier League game in front of empty stadiums and it'd make virtually no difference to the money a team makes. Portsmouth, Leeds, etc didn't drop out of the big leagues because fans turned away, it's because they acted poorly as a business.