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Gill's credibility sinks below zero |
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Saturday, 23 February 2008 00:00 |
In the midst of the ongoing furore about the Premier League's insistence that plans to play league games abroad are not dead in the water, David Gill has managed to undermine his own credibility yet further, a position few would have thought possible.
In a comical echo of his flip-flop views on the benefits of the Glazer takeover, Gill has put his name, along with Premier League chairman Dave Richards, to a leaked letter to the FA board chairman, Lord Triesman.
In this letter, Gill insists that Lord Triesman was wrong to state publicly that the FA board - at which Gill has his snout in the trough - was against the proposals.
This despite it being widely reported over the preceding few days that Gill would deliver a 'hammer blow' to the proposals by distancing Manchester United from the idea.
Clearly Gill did not expect this letter to be made available to newspapers such as the Times and Guardian, and so thought he could cultivate some sort of 'friend of the fans' image in public by seeming to be anti the idea, while all the time working to forward the plans behind the scenes.
As reported on this site, the greed of Gill and the Glazers would always have put them at the forefront of these proposals, and the reports of the United board's opposition to the plans was received with scepticism.
Why after all would United go against the ideals and amoral attitudes demonstrated so often by the Glazers both before and since the takeover?
The need to raise cash from whatever scheme possible is laid bare by the figures made available to Fight For United from the accounts recently filed by United. Specifically, that the amount owed on players - ie money committed to be paid to own players United already have playing for them - rose from £7.4m in June 2006 to a staggering £56.2m in June 2007.
Essentially, all the headline grabbing expenditure on players such as Nani, Anderson, Hargreaves etc has NOT come from funds made available from the Glazers funds, despite Gill saying exactly that.
Rather it has been spent on the 'never never', and has mortgaged the club's immediate future - a mortgage that will inevitably have to be paid by even more obscene ticket price rises.
Maybe this answers why United did not buy the striker so clearly needed in the January window. United had no forward on the bench for the derby defeat to City - having sold Rossi and Alan Smith in the summer to raise £12.7m.
Mr Gill, fans have no time for your lies, self interest, transparent spin, ham fisted public persona, or bungled attempts at FA versus Premier League politics.
But you presumably knew that from your garden wall.
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