Originally Posted by
Taksin
Profits are the rewards for successful business. Marx didn't like them but his economic concepts have been shown to be wrong over and over again. We all wish to profit in some way from our work. Some jobs are much bigger with greater financial rewards and risks. I've never bought a football club for £300 million and never will but someone has to do it. I'm glad the only option isn't The State.
You favour the Abramovich model but his spending uses his (actually predatory) profits from Russian oil. So his true business lies elsewhere, something you haven't factored in. You are blinded by your fantasies about how much money your club could spend, which is ironic as spending is dependent on profits one way or another. You just want to offset the predation to someone actual (a Russian oil worker or an Indian scaffolder in Dubai) rather that someone imagined (a Liverpool supporter). As long as these characters are spending their money on something they really, really love (swoon), you don't mind how they made their money.
It's worth noting that footballers profit from football, managers profit from football, physios profit from football, throw-in coaches profit from football. Not only do we accept that, we say things like 'give Salah whatever the fuck he wants'. So you'd have to explain why they can profit whilst the owners, who take on more risk than anyone else in the picture, cannot profit from their own expertise. Making LFC great is an achievement worth profiting from in my opinion.
FSG profit solely by increasing the performance of their asset within the market. So that's good for the fans if they succeed. Everyone benefits.
If Man City do well, the Sheikh uses that to increase his personal standing in the West, the status of his national airline and the prestige of his stinking, evil country, as well servicing his own childish footballing fantasies. And yes I know all countries are evil to one extent or another - the point is that our club is not being used primarily to promote them or, in Chelsea's case, used to rehabilitate the character of the owner in some way.
I prefer the focus to be on LFC and thankfully that seems to be the emphasis at Anfield
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