Quote Originally Posted by spaldy View Post
you did state your position on this. candidly, I just assumed that put as much money in the club as the 49's did would not be this stupid. Capitalism has some faults but stupidity is often eliminated quickly by the marketplace. They run a very tight ship in football. In addition, red bull doesn't exactly gravitate toward throwing money away either.

The one I can't figure out is why we didn't go for Szmodics? I understand Ipswich wanted him but i seem to recall he went for around 10 million? That guy scored goals for fun last year. Seems he has at least 2-4 more good years in him. we have not hat a pure goal scorer in years.
If the 49-ers sold up to Red Bull they would probably get much the same as they paid Radrizzani given Red Bull would be paying for thended fixed assets and the name, not the anticipated PL revenues. That being so, and them having realised around £120m in player sales, around £100m for a 12 months investment isn't so stupud, if short term asset stripping is the plan.

Red Bull, for all their faults, don't cut and run, no matter how much crap they might dish out to get what they want from a club in the long term