Abramovich bought Chelsea in 2003 and pumped hundreds of millions into the team. Sheik Mansour bought Man City in 2009 and did the same with Man City.
In 2007 we were bought by two arseholes who almost destroyed the club.
In 2013 Arsenal (owned by an American who knows fuck all and cares less about soccer) paid off the loans they took out to build the Emirates and started to free up funds for big transfers.
At Man United, despite the Glazers using the clubs income as a slush fund, their income dwarfs every other club and until the comedy appointment of Moyes had been managed by the king of the flat track bullies.
But yeah, it's all FSG's doing.
Personally, my expectations were lowered by Hicks and Gillette when my principal target was to see my club freed from the ownership of two poisonous leeches and hopefully not go bankrupt and be relegated to the Championship. But I guess when you're rewriting history you might as well airbrush out anything that doesn't fit the current 'truth'.
Absolutely spot on, Al.
It's also worth remembering that FSG have shown the club respect, tried to employ a proper footballing ethos in Brendan Rodgers, have increased our revenue streams and have actually stuck by their word by starting work on the stadium. They also seem to implore that we reach top four. We have done that once in the last three years so we jumped ahead and fell back. They are sticking with Rodgers as they said they would but are making changes at the same time to try and push as back where we need to be. They haven't been shy in giving managers money, either. There is clearly ambition.
They're not perfect, but then who is? I didn't like the way they handled Kenny, not one bit, but life is cruel and businesses as large as ours are one of the harshest environments of all. More often than not good people get what they don't deserve, that's life not just FSG and Kenny.
They have been nave I think, and nothing more. Some of their recruitment on the 'football side' may be questionable (in's and outs of coaches and committee staff, arguably) but let us remember that had they not come in and done what they did we could easily be another Leeds United or Nottingham Forest.
Try let that sink in before spouting off about a lack of ambition. It's like people don't realise that the media's primary objective is to spark outrage amongst us, the supporters. They do it to every club because for some reason almost every twat on this planet including me seems to self indulge in misery, despair and outrage rather for being greatful for what we've got, and the media makes money exploiting this.
