sandwell

[Newcy Wolf]

Hey, for a set of fans who berated Man City and Chesea for their wealth over the years, how wealth was killing the modern game, whoooah, wait a minute...
There's a chance of a billionaire takeover...
Forget everything they said, all of a sudden baggies want to be big time now...

Surely the most shallow fans in this country.

[MichiganWolf]

Think they're more likely to have a QPR or Blackburn situation on their hands than a City or Chelsea one. Though I'm sure we'll only hear comparisons to the latter from them

[theplater]

Think they're more likely to have a QPR or Blackburn situation on their hands than a City or Chelsea one. Though I'm sure we'll only hear comparisons to the latter from them

Don't worry about it.

How many foreign owners do you think there are at the moment? Then think how many of them have ever won anything? Chelsea, yeah fair enough, Man City, expected to. Man utd were already successful before the Glazer's put them into debt overnight, but a fairly safe risk nontheless! How many American owners have Liverpool had, and they've got great history?

Then, on the other hand, you look at the 'Prince that wasn't' at Portsmouth. The jokers at Hull, Cardiff and Leeds, how the fk did they ever pass F.A's 'Fit and proper' test? Leicester to Leyton Orient our leagues are overrun with foreign owners who know, or care little about the sport. It's still fkng 'trendy' and prosperous to own an English Football Club. And it's all wrong!

[MichiganWolf]

Preaching to the choir plates. Realistic, in the current footy climate, is our ceiling? If things go well, we're looking at a Swansea or Southampton situation where we are finishing mid table with the occasional Europa League challenge. We develop our own players, and scout well so that we don't have to spend buckets to get a replacement for the well developed players that have moved up the food chain.

I wouldn't mind being a yo-yo club. The only draw for the Prem to me is that I'd be able to watch us weekly and the occasional upset of the big clubs. But I don't want to be a Stoke where finishing midtable is the best we can do and it's where we'll seemingly always be. Give me the Championship and occasionally winning it or winning the playoffs. Competing amongst peers is always more enjoyable than competing against people on an uneven playing field. I honestly have no idea how Chelsea, ManU, City etc fans deal with their constant domination. It is solely because of money. My Detroit

[wolves71]

Hey, for a set of fans who berated Man City and Chesea for their wealth over the years, how wealth was killing the modern game, whoooah, wait a minute...
There's a chance of a billionaire takeover...
Forget everything they said, all of a sudden baggies want to be big time now...

Surely the most shallow fans in this country.

Jealous gets you nowhere, have a bunch of sour grapes

It's all very well sandwell fans getting all excited about it, but these people are in it to make money. The first thing they will do no doubt will be to increae ticket prices. The prices may be set for this season, but wait till the start of the 2016/17 season.

[Newcy Wolf]

Yeah.

Then it's a place in the top four and Europe conquered the following season

Barcelona are quaking as we speak.

[Alouion]

Thanks for your interest boys. The buyer is reportedly Wang Jianlin and he is the richest man in China. Moreover unlike Carston Yeung, he seems to have acquired it legally. Many Albion fans are interested but I would not say over-excited about the prospect. There may be some who think Barcelona will be quaking but I am not one of them and I don't know any fan who thinks that way.

You've had a couple of wealthy owners. It's our turn now. I just hope that even if it goes through Peace stays with the club. If nothing else it will enable us to compete on more equal terms with many of our premier league counterparts.

[TundraWolf]

Fair enough, Alouion, well stated and summarized. I still think that a ceiling cap on club salaries is the way to go...let's say 100 million pounds a year in the Prem, and 80 mill in the Championship with incremental fall offs of 20 million as one descends through the leagues. Only then will we see who the best owners and managers are vis-a-vis selecting and signing their respective squads!

[Baggiemadguern]

Hey, for a set of fans who berated Man City and Chesea for their wealth over the years, how wealth was killing the modern game, whoooah, wait a minute...
There's a chance of a billionaire takeover...
Forget everything they said, all of a sudden baggies want to be big time now...

Surely the most shallow fans in this country.

Newcy, come on, there is a little of the green eyed monster in your post I fear!

Not one Baggie has made much reference to the proposed take over, it is unknown waters we would sail into for sure and that will be a worry to most Baggies.

As yet there is no sale, Jeremy Peace remains the owner, the purchase could fail and we, West Bromwich Albion, would be where we are. If it goes through, I for one will stand where I stood when QPR were bought out several years ago.

For me it will in all likelyhood make little difference to the club. The big guns can buy success, smaller clubs are unlikely too and even if the

[9goals2hattricks3pen]

I would like to see the German model in English Football.

In Germany, there is the "50 + 1" rule, whereby the association or club has to have a controlling stake, commercial interests can't gain control, In Bayern Munich, for example, Audi and Adidas each own 9% but the rest is controlled by the members via the Club.

World Champions, good Champions League record, biggest attendances of any league in the world and low ticket prices. Non big money foreign ownership doesn't seem to have harmed their football too much.