clarence
Well-Known Member
Here here Serious, some very good points raised there.
By taking a more professional approach to the club's infrastructure, we are also sending a very clear message to other clubs in our region that we mean business, both figuratively and literally.
This is the sort of complex that would rate very highly to prospective sponsors who may be used to sponsoring the likes of an EPL club or a Bundesliga club in Europe or a top South American club.
They'd see the Academy Complex and realise this club was not about to fold overnight, that the club had some very clear and forward thinking goals to achieve, things that a business could attach itself to for 5 or so years and sit back and enjoy the link. Not have to worry about the headlines of drunken footballers doing the wrong thing (one hopes the players enrolled in the Academy would get the right advice about how to be a professional sportsman), or a club in crisis type of headline.
'Bout bloody time, too, that Govt. types realised that football clubs are travelling right into the heartland of some of the major industrialised areas in our region, if not the world, and that a sideshow of business opportunities might exist.
By taking a more professional approach to the club's infrastructure, we are also sending a very clear message to other clubs in our region that we mean business, both figuratively and literally.
This is the sort of complex that would rate very highly to prospective sponsors who may be used to sponsoring the likes of an EPL club or a Bundesliga club in Europe or a top South American club.
They'd see the Academy Complex and realise this club was not about to fold overnight, that the club had some very clear and forward thinking goals to achieve, things that a business could attach itself to for 5 or so years and sit back and enjoy the link. Not have to worry about the headlines of drunken footballers doing the wrong thing (one hopes the players enrolled in the Academy would get the right advice about how to be a professional sportsman), or a club in crisis type of headline.
'Bout bloody time, too, that Govt. types realised that football clubs are travelling right into the heartland of some of the major industrialised areas in our region, if not the world, and that a sideshow of business opportunities might exist.
