Privatisation: Gunners should tread carefully

Friday, February 12, 2016

A hungry person knows no morals or put it the other way; beggars cannot be choosers. This best describes the situation majority of our football clubs find themselves in. Time and time again, our clubs find themselves in financial difficulties, struggling not only to make ends meet but cannot even service the loans to creditors let alone honour contractual obligations to employees.

As a result, the term ‘investor’ has become common in football yet the word refers to an agreement with the financial messiah, the person who is liked for his/her money but not his ideas.

Unfortunately, football is a strange business that does not meet all the strict rules a normal business does. In sport, football in particular, there are always two owners of a club: the investor and the supporter.

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