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[mrfrostsdad]

Ok, GIVE their money away.
I think any passionate fan who had £600m in the bank would be happy to give away a reasonable percentage of it away. Rich people give money away all the time to charities etc. Well my 'charity' with that sort of dosh would be DRFC

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Frosty, I think we're quite close on most things football although getting from A to B might be a different route.

I think we all would have hoped and believed the money put in the the playing budget this season would be enough to keep us up (It may well do yet), with a view to strengthening our position year on year.

I believe in organic growth and the plans put in place at the club to increase turnover should help us do that. If we are able to move attendances back up following the decline then you'd hope the board/owners would take encouragement and support the manager with perhaps a proportionately bigger budget.

I'd rather go down this route than sell the club to some dirty little money men who just have their own short term interests to fulfil. Yer man at Leeds may be a different proposition to what we had on offer as at least he has some history with Cagliari to call upon.

"Leeds United owner Massimo Cellino has said that previous owners GFH were "not straight" with manager Brian McDermott when he was appointed"

In the other scenario, a benefactor putting in heaps of money to finance a charge for the Premiership in a short period of time means the rise up the pyramid would probably outstrip any growth in attendances and therefore would be a false representation of our 'strength' as a club. On that basis, I don't see why any sensible businessman would put that much in. Jack Walker and Dave Whelan are perhaps notable exceptions. 

I'm thankful to the degree to which JR, then JR, TB and DW, have supported the club to date and I can only see organic growth for a relatively small club like us being the sensible way forward.     

If I won the lottery then I could see myself putting some money in but that would probably be a one off. The kind of money required to support a Premiership tilt would soon burn a hole if it wasn't achieved quickly and we know nothing is certain in football. I bet Birmingham fans wished they had never heard the name Carson Yeung!!