Top is NOT going To Leave The Club (yet)

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Interesting. Hard to see the attraction as you'd imagine the money in the Premier League would dwarf that you could potentially earn in Belgium's top tier.
 
TornadoShaunUK said:
Interesting. Hard to see the attraction as you'd imagine the money in the Premier League would dwarf that you could potentially earn in Belgium's top tier.
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Football clubs are just toys for billionaires. We'll see that when the chairman gets bored with us.
 
FIF said:
Football clubs are just toys for billionaires. We'll see that when the chairman gets bored with us.
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Haven't you topped the glass up yet?

Ultimately their primary concern is going to be making money. I know some of the bigger clubs own other clubs. Manchester City is as good an example as any. They've recently just bought into a Uruguayan second division side added to the New York Yankees and apparently several others in their portfolio.
 
TornadoShaunUK said:
Haven't you topped the glass up yet?

Ultimately their primary concern is going to be making money. I know some of the bigger clubs own other clubs. Manchester City is as good an example as any. They've recently just bought into a Uruguayan second division side added to the New York Yankees and apparently several others in their portfolio.
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I read that article today too.

Making money from football clubs isn't the concern of the very rich. Football clubs are like Ferraris and other toys only the rich can buy. They are about ego and image. That includes our present owners - a prime example was the "Pearson in Thailand" incident and its consequences.

When the owners get bored of their toy they'll stop investing and look to sell it on. Buying another toy in Belgium may be the first steps in that process.
 
Fake news
 
FIF said:
I read that article today too.

Making money from football clubs isn't the concern of the very rich. Football clubs are like Ferraris and other toys only the rich can buy. They are about ego and image. That includes our present owners - a prime example was the "Pearson in Thailand" incident and its consequences.

When the owners get bored of their toy they'll stop investing and look to sell it on. Buying another toy in Belgium may be the first steps in that process.
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I don't read it that they are about to sell us at all, where does it suggest that?

You surely must see that even if this is their (as you so rudely put it) play thing then now would be the worst time to 'give it away?'

Our owners are unique in my opinion in the small things they do as gestures to the fans like food and drinks before matches, scarves for away fans, subsidised travel, cheap tickets and so on.

I just don't get why you have to be such a miserable bastard about it. Not everything in life ends in a disaster.

Maybe, just maybe and as ridiculous as it sounds - they have found the experience of owning our club so rewarding both financially and personally that they wish to push it further and edge their bets by buying another team and seeing if they can replicate our success or maybe use it as a feeder club?

Jesus man, cheer up.
 
camberwell fox said:
I don't read it that they are about to sell us at all, where does it suggest that?

You surely must see that even if this is their (as you so rudely put it) play thing then now would be the worst time to 'give it away?'

Our owners are unique in my opinion in the small things they do as gestures to the fans like food and drinks before matches, scarves for away fans, subsidised travel, cheap tickets and so on.

I just don't get why you have to be such a miserable bastard about it. Not everything in life ends in a disaster.

Maybe, just maybe and as ridiculous as it sounds - they have found the experience of owning our club so rewarding both financially and personally that they wish to push it further and edge their bets by buying another team and seeing if they can replicate our success or maybe use it as a feeder club?

Jesus man, cheer up.
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I didn't mean that they were going to sell us yet.

We're still shiny new and making them look real good.

However football ownership has changed since the Premier league was created. Top level football has changed. It went from being the sport of the common man to being a business to being a richman's plaything.

Eventually they'll get bored - we're only Leicester City.

Buying a Belgian club could easily be the first step on the slippery slope.
 
camberwell fox said:
I don't read it that they are about to sell us at all, where does it suggest that?

You surely must see that even if this is their (as you so rudely put it) play thing then now would be the worst time to 'give it away?'

Our owners are unique in my opinion in the small things they do as gestures to the fans like food and drinks before matches, scarves for away fans, subsidised travel, cheap tickets and so on.

I just don't get why you have to be such a miserable bastard about it. Not everything in life ends in a disaster.

Maybe, just maybe and as ridiculous as it sounds - they have found the experience of owning our club so rewarding both financially and personally that they wish to push it further and edge their bets by buying another team and seeing if they can replicate our success or maybe use it as a feeder club?

Jesus man, cheer up.
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Fif is still salty because he didn't agree with the ranieri sacking. Now the owners (and the 80-odd percent of fans who wanted him sacked) have been proven right fif isn't man enough to admit it so is now trying to character assassinate them in other ways.

Must admit when I first read Top was leaving I did suspect it was the beginning of the end for this ownership. Doesn't make sense for a vice chairman to leave just to set up a little feeder club - you'd give that job to a minion. But reading now that he is not actually leaving has reassured me that Vichai and Top - the classiest owners in English football, who have helped deliver the most remarkable success story the sport has ever seen - will be here for years to come.
 
SJN-Fox said:
it might equally be the first rung on a ladder of building a portfolio of clubs.
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True. Sounds like business not sport.
 
Moose said:
Fif is still salty because he didn't agree with the ranieri sacking. Now the owners (and the 80-odd percent of fans who wanted him sacked) have been proven right fif isn't man enough to admit it so is now trying to character assassinate them in other ways.

Must admit when I first read Top was leaving I did suspect it was the beginning of the end for this ownership. Doesn't make sense for a vice chairman to leave just to set up a little feeder club - you'd give that job to a minion. But reading now that he is not actually leaving has reassured me that Vichai and Top - the classiest owners in English football, who have helped deliver the most remarkable success story the sport has ever seen - will be here for years to come.
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I've accepted the Ranieri sacking and I'm enjoying the Shakey years or months.

As for the classiest owners in English football they have my unwavering support.

CLUB STATEMENT: #lcfc would like to make absolutely clear its unwavering support for Claudio Ranieri: https://t.co/N4fqYbMlfTpic.twitter.com/CENZOZgCDW

— Leicester City (@LCFC) February 7, 2017

Is it true that Top wanted to add Coventry to his portfolio but the smell put him off?
 
FIF said:
True. Sounds like business not sport.
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Sport is business. Large sums of money are involved in all sports. How much did Mark Selby win from his latest Snooker triumph? £900,000??? Not only that but it always has been that way. Could well be a mutually beneficial deal or more likely, a deal entirely unrelated to our club.

Out of losing our great owners or losing you as a Leicester 'supporter' I know which would be better for the club.
 
Is it easier for players (from Asia maybe) to get work permits in Belgium?

If so it could be a stepping stone for the Thai academy?
 
TornadoShaunUK said:
Out of losing our great owners or losing you as a Leicester 'supporter' I know which would be better for the club.
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:)

Where did that choice come from?

We have some tin hatters on here.
 
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