Roman Abramovich set the ball rolling back in 2003 when he became the owner of Chelsea, and now it seems that within 10 years of that, all clubs will be under foreign, if not billionaire ownership. I myself can see the attraction, if i had that money i would love to invest in my own club, but as a fan, not as a hobby or a buisiness arangement. Football is there for fun and to provide entertainment, the players should be playing because they enjoy it, and not because of how much they will make out of it. Soon football will not be seen as a proper sport, it will just be an entertainment, like the WWE and wrestling is now.
However i am not saying that this is an entirely bad thing and i am not saying that all foreign owners are investing as a buisiness opertunity, i am merely saying that if we carry on like this, football will lose all of it's competetiveness, and it will be just about the making money.
It could be a good thing but what i do know is that, as a result of the latest take-over bid, a man had quit or lost his job. A man who is extremely powerfull in English football and who is very good at his job, David Dein. It is just pure madness how a club like Arsenal, who are in need of rebuilding and Dein's guidance through this, that they should give him his marching
orders or let him quit like that. Dein is the best thing that Arsenal had going for them off the pitch, he was instrumental in bringing Arsene Wenger to the club in 1996 and also the appointment of Sven Goran Errikson into the England job in 2001. Losing someone so powerfull in the game can only be bad for Arsenal. Not only this but he held a very strong relationship with Arsene Wenger and there has already been speculation that he will follow Dein out of the exit, although i don't think he will. It's a massive blow to Arsenal, and maybe now fans can look forward to a take-over bid, to improve things on the pitch, and then surely will improve off it.*Picture: They've gone and Dein it now havn't they!
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