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Politely disagree.
Short term gain = long term gain in football .
New fans. New investment. New sponsorship. Trophies. Trickle effect.
But it doesn't happen.
We'd have a very, very short period of investment and then the money would disappear.
New fans? From where? The pinnacle of foreign investment in this country, City, can't sell out their Champions League games and didn't sell out vs Leicester.
New Investment? From where? China? Forget it.
Trophies? Only team in China to have heavily invested in a long term process and been successful outside of their hilariously corrupt league is Guangzhou in the Asian Champs League. I don't think we'd have enough sustained investment to make it happen.
Perhaps we'll end up with all sorts of fun caveats
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...orship-deal-second-tier-LigaPro-division.html
Let's not pretend the FA will look after us after Wimbledon / MK Dons and Cardiff playing in red.
I wouldn't call fabricated and unsustainable GDP growth "smoke and mirrors," but maybe these Chinese could look for an empty stadium somewhere and transport it to L4 to save on the cost of rebuilding Goodison.
http://data.worldbank.org/country/china
Downward curve - and those are the massaged figures