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Originally Posted by Christian Benteke
Would you actually want to be taken over by one of these oil tycoons though? It's a question I often ask myself. I'd say the best clubs to do this at currently are Villa, Newcastle and Leeds as they have the largest catchment areas.
But seriously would you want Newcastle to be the next City or PSG?
We take the piss out of Chelsea and City but I think the reality is we'd pretend we were against it then once the trophies started rolling in we'd be loving it.
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We've been telling the world for about 6 years now, the problem was it started with the charva brigade of "KK MESSIAH" lovers and we just got put down as over dramatic fans from the start. Don't get me wrong, our previous regime was untenable and Fat Freddy Shepherd was an absolute **** and Ashley did help us fix some issues but he's just made too many crazy/insulting decisions.
Without a shadow of a doubt I would take any owner over Ashley now, even an unknown quantity like Venky's were would be worth the risk. For a few years me and many of the fans were "better the devil you know" especially as our finances had turned around and while Ashley was being a tight bastard but it's gone too far now, risking premier league safety to pinch pennies is a joke because if we go down again it would add another 60 odd million to the debt and we'd have to start again with the squad.
I'd love to be money bags. As far as I'm concerned pretty much every other club is being bankrolled by their owner, it's just a matter of by how much. It's not like we'd be selling the soul of the club as we're chock full of frenchies and our academy doesn't show much promise, maybe two or three from 18-22 worth keeping and if they were going to be "the real deal" they'd be showing more promise than they are. In fact a City like takeover would improve our academy massively, our club have less coaches/staff than man united have physios so we'd at least get some investment...I absolutely loved our promotion season and first season back and we were nice and gritty and obviously we had a Geordie number 9 which is always great to see, but if we could compete for the title like 15-10 years ago and actually win it I'd love it.