Is the novelty of buying a Premirship Club Wearing Thin?

[boro_boy]

A few years ago, everyone wanted to buy a Premiership club. Chelsea were taken over and they spend hundreds of millions of pounds on new players, just buying anyone for any price. It did give them limited success of winning the League. But these days it seems to be more of a problem than an asset to have a billionaire funding your club.

Yes it sounds good, having all the backing of the chairman with an endless supply of money, paying anything for players as the cost doesn't matter. But looking at Chelsea these days, they play boring, unattractive football with all their boringly rich players just playing for the money and not for the love of the game. They are not having the best of seasons and their manager Grant is under pressure after the gutless performance against Barsley in the FA Cup.

I think their is a point where you can have too many stars on the pitch, too many egos. This doing nothing for the team, everyone ends up playing for themselves and not for the team. They don't care if the team loses as they still get their stupidly high wages no matter how they perform.

Another club which has had a few problems with rich and "clueless" chairmen taking over their club is Liverpool. This is now affecting their performances on the pitch, they are getting better at the moment though.

All these takeovers are not good for the game and they haven't worked that well so far.

[gbnine]

I don’t think the business of buying a Premiership club will ever go away. For the millionaires and billionaires who have jumped on the bandwagon, its big business and they’re all out to make a profit. There are many chairmen in the Football League who are passionate about their club but a chairman doesn’t have to have any knowledge about football. He can be there just to make money. He appoints a manager to bring success to the club. Companies and individuals who come in to buy Premiership clubs know what they’re doing and know what to look for. Any potential buyer would be allowed to look at the clubs books and access the clubs stability. Like I said, it’s big business and the rewards are massive with television rights and incentives to win trophies.<O:p

[boro_boy]

I don’t think the business of buying a Premiership club will ever go away. For the millionaires and billionaires who have jumped on the bandwagon, its big business and they’re all out to make a profit. There are many chairmen in the Football League who are passionate about their club but a chairman doesn’t have to have any knowledge about football. He can be there just to make money. He appoints a manager to bring success to the club. Companies and individuals who come in to buy Premiership clubs know what they’re doing and know what to look for. Any potential buyer would be allowed to look at the clubs books and access the clubs stability. Like I said, it’s big business and the rewards are massive with television rights and incentives to win trophies.<O:p
Yeah but some foreign chairmen have bought clubs and wrecked them, like at hearts when they were doing excellent, then the chairmen decided to pick the team, also Abramovich is supposedly selecting the team for Chelsea at the moment.

[gbnine]

Yeah but some foreign chairmen have bought clubs and wrecked them, like at hearts when they were doing excellent, then the chairmen decided to pick the team, also Abramovich is supposedly selecting the team for Chelsea at the moment.

Yeah I accept that but I think Chelsea's problems began when Mourinho walked out. Abramovich may not have found the right man in Avram Grant and that's why he obviously fancies his chances at picking the team. Let's both be honest, it wouldn't be difficult to pick a team with the squad they've got but you need a good manager to motivate the team and keep then buzzing.