£400mn gets you Brentford..

[gluepot]

I used to drink at The Express, right beside Brenfords new ground, which was owned by two little old ladies.

I've had a few in there, that whole area has changed so much in the last 10 years.

 

[bagpiperay]

Good times are over for them, they've done well but wouldn't surprise me to see some dodgy fucker come in and relegate them

You mean like Ellis Short?

 

[Thatheaderman]

Not a club that will march on Parliament for head choppers like.

 

[THELORDRODWELL]

What number is mn? Could excuse the single typo, but you've done it 5 times.

Anyone?

 

[Kenna]

You mean like Ellis Short?

Possibly, Americans don't have a great track record in the PL.

 

[MackneyHackem]

Like Brighton they have a huge advantage of location.

Brentford hasn't got any blue flag beaches iirc.

 

[Iamme]

Get out now before the ESL is born. TV money will take a hit I would think, after that gets legs.
Can sure see the reason for clubs selling their future to make it to the top.

Won't affect the Premier League. Will be played midweek and you qualify for it via your domestic league.

ESL will rocket EPL TV money as to the play offs to get into ESL will create millions for the 6 team play offs.

I

 

[cluffy]

If it’s just about location expect Bromley and Woking to go for 800 ”mn” a piece

 

[riffraff]

True but Luton and Watford aren't in London.

Players live in similar areas. Watfords academy is next door to Arsenals and it’s 30mins max from Luton to both.

 

[Somtam]

They've well and truly hit their ceiling like, there fans should enjoy this season and next as they'll slip back down sooner or later and maybe fall into being a yo-yo club.

Brentford were a yoyo club for the first 40 years of my life - yoyoing between divisions 3 and 4.
I know they spent a couple of years in the first division before WWII but, they were truly small fry until recently. They've been brilliantly run, but its West London location has been crucial. I know two families of Brentford season ticket holders - one family originally from Newcastle the other from Sunderland.

 

[Brian Griffin]

They've done well but it's galling to see the advantage that London clubs have for investors who want to waste their money: Brentford, Palace, Fulham - Luton and Watford recently too. Pretty much half the Premier League is now London.

Yet most trophy wins are in the North of England, particularly in more working class towns and cities.

 

[NodsNeph]

Well I guess Messrs Pooley and O'Malley won't be bidding at that price.
Maybe Professor Slocombe...

 

[Somtam]

Man Utd is a brand, everyone around the world has heard of them...

10% of the world wears one of their replica shirts.

 

[Fetch Fletch]

10% of the world wears one of their replica shirts.

He said MAN UTD, not Newcastle United man!

 

[kildaremackem]

Be money down the drain. They’ve only backwards to go now. The owners getting out possibly slightly too late. Though the Toney fiasco thing may have skewed his plans.

fiasco? they didnt get related without him and are about to sell him for astronomical sums

 

[Milton no nez]

They've done well but it's galling to see the advantage that London clubs have for investors who want to waste their money: Brentford, Palace, Fulham - Luton and Watford recently too. Pretty much half the Premier League is now London.

Most of it isn't London

 

[kildaremackem]

What number is mn? Could excuse the single typo, but you've done it 5 times.

its not a typoe in this case..its an abbreviation for "million"

 

[42]

its not a typoe in this case..its an abbreviation for "million"

Since when? You must be the only person in the world who uses it. Everyone else just uses 'm'

 

[kildaremackem]

Since when? You must be the only person in the world who uses it. Everyone else just uses 'm'

its now commonly used by now because text to speech software reads the abbreviation m as being for metre..

 

[riffraff]

fiasco? they didnt get related without him and are about to sell him for astronomical sums

So if it wasn’t a fiasco what was it? Not all fiascos result in relegation.

Yet most trophy wins are in the North of England, particularly in more working class towns and cities.

Start counting from when yer Carlos Kickaballs started turning up and it’s a bit closer. I for one certainly don’t want to be relying on oil money to keep the norffs flag flying high.