Quote Originally Posted by walrus View Post
https://www.google.com/amp/s/tribune...mbley/%3famp=1

#buddybeanz I think u are mad at the wrong people. The dude offered 500million, probably pounds right, and your guys are making it happen. The guy was from Pakistan, made billions here in the US as long as he followed the law. The FA could have said no or decide to only sell it to the English but throb looked at his offer. He is only throwing money at them, it is your side that will allow the deal to o through, sorry I can't see this as an indictment on America, more like an indictment on England. Shit we had the Japanese buying everything in the US a while back, I was mad at our people Japan was just making offers


Asked when he thought the sale could be completed, Khan said: “Early fall, like August, maybe two to three months from now, is what we’re targeting for a full close.”

The stunning proposal, which would also see Khan allow the FA to keep lucrative debenture and hospitality revenue worth around £300 million, was put before the full board of the domestic game’s governing body on Thursday.
With all due respect I don't think you have a clue. Corporate mentality has already ruined English Football with the Premier League. It is not the F.A's stadium to sell. America has always been about big business and corporate thinking but it never used to be like that here. It's not progress at all. The influence of America here has been quite a corrosive one in many, many ways. It's happened internationally and the fact that so many American posters here are so outraged that England is not just like America demonstrates that. The idea that everything is for sale is a bullshit mentality that supposes the buyer dictates to everyone else, and that on top of that arrogant assumption others should be grateful for such low level barbarity is beyond insulting.

What it basically boils down to is " How dare you be passionate about anything that does not have at it's heart the worship of money and the elevation of an American defined definition of extreme capitalism and commercial vanity over culture. And you will damn well be grateful for it too"

It's not a poor boy makes good tale at all, it's a tale of arrogance and greed in which a national stadium, bought by and for the fans, is being stolen for them and sold to a foreign businessman so that an individual can make himself richer.

In international team sports America has failed dismally to understand even the simplest notion of what really matters in it's mindless pursuit of nothing but the bottom dollar.