With all the talk of the new stadium and Steve Parish rightly stating we are perhaps only a third of the club we should be, I got to thinking that it wouldn't take much in the mega bucks Premier League for us to snowball into a huge club. Less than what some might think.
Firstly, it would only take a nudge of improvement in the squad ( and a decent start to a season ) for us to be a top eight side. That certainly isn't impossible.
If we attained that, given our massive and untapped potential, I believe we would become a prime target for investment or takeover. We would be relatively cheap and with the southern half of the world's premier city our domain.
If we improve even ten percent in terms of performance and stature in the next few years, I believe someone will try to make us a Chelsea or Man City. And before anyone scoffs, were those clubs tearing up the top division in the last thirty years before truckloads of foreign cash arrived?
Within five years we really might find ourselves brought out, hyper-invested and buying up world class players.
That means the wonderment of chasing titles, playing in Europe, forgetting any prospect of relegation, a superb stadium and wearing the shirt / badge with pride as the O.G. fans we are...
...and newly minted, glory hunters. Tourists. Talented but utterly mercenary and greedy footballers and, worst of all, probably a newly acquired sense of arrogance and entitlement within us.
Assuming the hypothetical above, could we avoid becoming what we currently hate? Are we spirited or special enough to avoid the pitfalls of joining the arrogant, football superclubs? Is it a price we are willing to pay to taste a moment of glory in our history? Or do we want to stay as we are?
Firstly, it would only take a nudge of improvement in the squad ( and a decent start to a season ) for us to be a top eight side. That certainly isn't impossible.
If we attained that, given our massive and untapped potential, I believe we would become a prime target for investment or takeover. We would be relatively cheap and with the southern half of the world's premier city our domain.
If we improve even ten percent in terms of performance and stature in the next few years, I believe someone will try to make us a Chelsea or Man City. And before anyone scoffs, were those clubs tearing up the top division in the last thirty years before truckloads of foreign cash arrived?
Within five years we really might find ourselves brought out, hyper-invested and buying up world class players.
That means the wonderment of chasing titles, playing in Europe, forgetting any prospect of relegation, a superb stadium and wearing the shirt / badge with pride as the O.G. fans we are...
...and newly minted, glory hunters. Tourists. Talented but utterly mercenary and greedy footballers and, worst of all, probably a newly acquired sense of arrogance and entitlement within us.
Assuming the hypothetical above, could we avoid becoming what we currently hate? Are we spirited or special enough to avoid the pitfalls of joining the arrogant, football superclubs? Is it a price we are willing to pay to taste a moment of glory in our history? Or do we want to stay as we are?
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