Can Money Buy Success in Football?

Thoughts September 4th, 2008

Of course. How come they’re not?

Only retarded envy would disagree.

This topic has been surrounding English Premier League (and football in general) enthusiasts all over the world since the shocking take over of Manchester City’s ownership earlier this week.

However, we’ve been seeing Chelsea, whom £500 million and 3 managers later, still find themselves out of Champions League titles. Even Roman Abramovich wasn’t look like a rich guy at all when he was anxious to see his team lost to our team and Peter Kenyon looks like no different than that guy who fought with Patrice Evra the other day at Stamford Bridge… hold on, he’s the CEO of Chelsea? Oh good… Football Winners beat the money. A coincidence? No. In fact, they spent money to buy winners.

Of course they went to semis and a final but only winners that count. More weight on that especially if we count the amount of money they’ve spent on ‘Winning Quadruples’ and ‘Global Domination’ plans.

I still and perhaps always remember when Roman Abramovich, that super rich Russian bought Chelsea and inject super money to Stamford Bridge Brigade. I saw many other club fans retardedly convert to Chelsea. I was a friend to some of them back in the days. Seems like Man Utd glorious days are over, seems like it was the end of the world.

As a South Asian fan, i grew up hating Chelsea and Arsenal rather than Liverpool and Man City. So the views of Mourinho and his gang beat every other teams, including Man Utd, in the EPL really hurt me. I was constantly in pain.

I remember the dark days of not winning titles in several years but hey, once the team are stable, we’re back on our track of winning titles. We prove that instant money can buy success, but again hey, for how long and how much?

Now seems like the new Chelsea is Man City (probably Sparky will become the new Ranieri) and suddenly Abramovich looks like a poor guy and his scary Blue brigade sounds like has past their peak. Even if he has spent that much and brought excitement to EPL via Mourinho, their last year’s coach (who?) and now Big ‘Nose’ Phil and their super expensive team (they’re also super strong team remember…). But money burns fast aren’t they? Like 4 or 5 years? More? How much for how long? Is it worthy? Do you think the oil prices will continue to grow? Do you think we even still use oils in the next 10 years?

Hey don’t get me wrong cause i can make my life more misery as i will never become as rich as Dr. Arabians (only God knows) and I do think Man City is planning to challenge every football club in Europe, if not the world. But back to a similar question; When. This season? Next? 2012? If so, for how long? When will another ‘10 times richer owners’ buy other teams in the EPL? This circle might continue…

However, i don’t really care what the new Man City or any other rich owners say because heck they can say whatever they want as they can afford the cost to invest to a football club and to where their mouth is in term of buying success. I don’t know, i might be wrong, so good luck to Manchester City and the next richest club in the world whomever it is.

So. Although it’s interesting to see what these rich guys will do in January, next season, 2012, 2013 blah blah… i believe our time is now.

NOW IS THE FUTURE. We have everything we need to retain our title, we have players, culture, and we are not losing money we need to buy more players we need (that worth the money) in the future. Man Utd is not a poor club, ok? So let’s concentrate on football and win games (and revenge back to Man City double last year!!!).

F**k other teams, Manchester United is the best club in the world (Ryan Giggs says so!).

Whatever, come on you reds!