The Gulf between us and The Premiership.
Posted on June 4th, 2009 | 23 Comments |
For every football site I visit now, I scroll to the Premiership expecting to find Newcastle listed amongst the participants. Sadly, no longer is that the case and it may take some getting used to. It’s also extra mileage on the scrolling finger.
If I get arthritis in future years, I’ll be looking back and blaming the current incumbent for my ailments.
Rumour and conjecture abound that Mr Harris, he of Seymour Pierce, is once again in the Gulf soliciting our good club to prospective buyers. It seems desperate times call for desperate measures and anybody with between £80m and £100m spare in their sky rocket and a penchant for purchasing ailing and disillusioned football clubs could get themselves a bit of a bargain.
According to The Guardian, it seems the targets are very much away from these shores, though that hardly comes as a surprise these days. But there is a very definite hard-sell going around Dubai and UAE.
Let’s hope Keith H. shows some manners unlike the previous party.
As for our potential owners, Mr Harris could quite possibly be persuasive, given his links and reputation over there but are they the sort of people we want at the helm? Are they money-grabbers or are these people perhaps naïve to the running of a football club but nonetheless enthusiastic about it (and possibly loaded). Either way, worryingly that all sounds dreadfully similar to a debate we were having a couple of years ago and look where we are at present.
As a collective, what do we really want from our owners?
For now, there is a huge gulf between us and a place amongst the best of English football and maybe only the other Gulf can help us bridge that gap.
“As a collective, what do we really want from our owners?”
Stability would be nice.