According to Jason Burt, sports writer for the Independent, Charlton may be subject to a 'takeover' by an un-named Nigerian businessman, is this a good idea or not.....?
Hmmmm.....let's look at the facts....
If you want success in today's game you need money, and lots of it and the only current way to get it appears to be from foreign investors. Seems like a good idea and it is, as long you are one of three or four clubs that have it.....
Imagine if every premier club had access to unlimited funds, there would still be only one league champion, one cup winner, at the other end of the table three clubs would still get relegated....
Once everyone starts getting 'invested in' then after a while we all back to square one as it's the clubs with the biggest investors that will continue to win everything and head into Europe consistently....
Problem with Charlton, and other small 'ambitious' clubs, is we've missed the boat, there are already too many 'glamour' clubs with too big a head start and just like the days before foreign investors we've already missed the boat and there's no real chance of ever catching up...
The only positive side to potential investment at this moment is the fact we're are currently in the hokey cokey league and a sudden injection of massive amounts of dosh should mean we would be able to buy our way out of it with little problem, a bit like Sunderland last year.
Once we are back in the prem though it would be back to the 'surrival of the fittest' with cash having little impact as we would once agian be relegated to be one of the league's perriennial struggling minnows as we could not realistically complete on monetry terms with the likes of the Arse or Manures of the footballing world....
So, if we want to get out of the chumpionship pretty quick sharp it's 'bring on the Nigerians' (just don't give them your bank acount details), we certainly don't look like we going to play our way out of it....
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Better still, lets not bother with the Prmeiership and carry on playing proper English football
Sadly, and it's not usual I generalise about a whole nation, the thought of a rich Nigerian consortia only rears ugly thoughts of corruption, dodgy dealing and ultimately misery for us. Ground move anyone? Pre season to Africa? Signings of African starlets that then disappear? Not for me. Lets face it we are always going to be Charlton and Sky / TV have ensured that no one other than 5 clubs will ever win anything again.
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