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Originally Posted by Barnet Flame
The only thing better than watching someone munching on sour grapes is when they dine on them while denying it.
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not sour grapes at all
why would a team founded in North London leave the area and have the only team left be one that's from Woolwich
I don't live there now but I was born in London and I couldn't imagine going to a Stratford Hotspur when I go back
I think whether Levy was grandstanding or not, and I believe he was, there are pluses and minuses to having Daniel Levy run the club and they are both for the same reason, he treats the club like a business
The plus is that there will never be a Leeds like situation, and the club is run well and makes smart bargain buys in the transfer windows (Bale would go for at least 10x what he was bought now, Berba was sold for a 20m profit, 80% of players on the team could be sold for more than they were bought right now) and that offsets the odd poor signing (Bentley, buying Keane back) when it could otherwise cripple a clubs buying power
the downside is that with Levy running the club like a business, and WHL only holding 36k in fans, the club is never going to reach its full potential until it gets a new stadium with over 60k (which would easily be filled). That leads to things like the clubs self imposed wage limit, and in the past being a Manchested United feeder club (which Levy has said is over)
so I think Levy wanted the OS because he viewed it as the better business move, he didn't care about the fans emotional attachment to the area, but he knows a new stadium is needed and it will get done
his whole OS or nothing talk was grandstanding I believe