if you were a billionaire and wanted to invest in football

Man City

because they've already spent a billion so I could keep mine

should have added you cant pick the team you support

Man City

Man City so I could shut them down

could also buy Rangers the now, for about £36 ... bargain lol

Na really, I would buy a club in Germany from lower leagues and make them big

I suppose if it was to be an English club I guess geographically and for the size of the city a Birmingham club would make sense. Of which there is Villa, WBA, and Birmingham to consider. Don't like clubs that don't have the name of the town or City in their name so on that basis I would go for Birmingham City

you're a billionaire, you want to invest in football but you can't pick the team you support. Why not?

If I was a billionaire (and wanted to invest in football) I would make you an offer you couldn't refuse to sell me the team I support.

I would not buy an English club, thats the last place on earth I would buy one ... or scottish, just boring as hell

Leeds United FC.

I would buy Messi and he would break both his ankles on debut thus forcing me to fork out for Ronaldo who almost unbelievably goes the full season without scoring and I sell him back to Manchester on a free. Then I get bored and sell the land ER is sat on to Lidl for a fiver and I go on holiday to Barbados.

re-starting Benidorm CF could be a laugh, had 19 seasons in the Segunda before being dissolved in 2011

We will play in Easyjet bright orange and offer weekend match day packages including flights, 2 star hotel, and entry into various clubs in the area

I would buy a team in Kent.   5th most populace county in England and one league club.  Everybody either supports a London club or a team from the North West

which team tony?

i wd go for one of the fallen or underachieving  bigger teams in the UK .

teams on the short list wd be Newcastle,Notts Forest or Aston Villa

Kent may be populous but it cant even support a race course , both closed , or a greyhound track ( Crayford now really part of Greater London). Move a little west into Sussex , four racecourses  a thriving Greyhound track , now with " City Status " makes Brighton & Hove Albion a much more attractive prospect.

I would probably go for Dover Athletic Dragon.  Conference club and you couldn't get further South East.  Only 20 minutes from Canterbury which is a big Uni town.  Plus you might even get people coming from France as it's only 5 minutes from the port!

Why would the fact that a racecourse closed have any bearing on whether Kent could support a football club?  I'm pretty sure they're different sports...

Conversely you could say that all the extra things Sussex offers could act as a detriment to football

West Ham, I'd take great joy and pleasure in taking them down to the Conference south/north.

A london club, one of Chelsea Arsenal Tottenham. Most likely Arsenal

Aug 21, 2014 -- 2:54PM, themover wrote:

I suppose if it was to be an English club I guess geographically and for the size of the city a Birmingham club would make sense. Of which there is Villa, WBA, and Birmingham to consider. Don't like clubs that don't have the name of the town or City in their name so on that basis I would go for Birmingham City

I'd buy Wolves and bulldoze it just for fun.

Can't understand themover's post because WBA stand for West Bromwich Albion and believe it or not it's in West Bromwich not Birmingham.

Man Utd would be the team to buy although not sure a billion will do it. When FFP kicks in they will have a huge advantage.

Other clubs who are underperforming and have good growth potential would be newcastle, westham, Leeds, Sheff Wed, Sheff Utd, Derby, Forest.

With the new rules a billion wont be much use at the smaller clubs as you wont be able to spend it buying success.

If I was a billionaire they very last thing I would do would be to invest it in a football club. There's millions of starving children in the world, millions living in poverty. Why not do something useful with the billion.

Aug 21, 2014 -- 4:39PM, YOMOMMA wrote:

If I was a billionaire they very last thing I would do would be to invest it in a football club. There's millions of starving children in the world, millions living in poverty. Why not do something useful with the billion.

Wrong mindset. You're not ever going to be a billionaire if you worry about the health and well-being of others. It's about you and your wealth; who cares about 'them'.

I wouldn't say so. If I did have a billion there's a million and 1 things I'd spend it on but not buying a football club.

I'd start my own bookies and never close anyone's account! My bookies would be the best in the world. Actually I'd start a brand new betting exchange and have no premium charge but instead have a sensible pricing in place to stop courtsiders and the like.

Aachen for me. Had a couple of astounding weekends there on the pish. Drink, drugs, game birds, top notch ****s, proper food.

I'd buy celtic and run them into the ground.

From a commercial standpoint possibly someone like Ajax with history, capital city fan base...would probably come cheap and I'm sure would be considered as an entrant into any breakaway European league.

id buy Hartlepool. would annoy the London based and biased media. prove its only money that gets success, Chelsea were more famous for invading pitches than football, practically dead in water before recent investment.

I'd buy wales.

I would say Liverpool but im happy with the current owners. Ill go for Cheltenham

The answer to the op is ,I am,i did,i bought shares in real Madrid,and the reason was to make more money.

sheffield

ive always been surprised no big money man has took over sheffield, no not the wednesday or the united, sheffield fc. the first football club in the world apparently. god only knows who they played...

but anyway, non league club worth nowt with all that heritage and two failing big clubs in the city. if they got in the league, theyd get fans of both clubs defecting or at least watching them as a second club. they wouldnt have the rivalry that divides the other clubs, theyd be the team the entire city gets behind.

accrington  stanley

make the impossible dream come true

I'd buy Newcastle & Sunderland & merge both clubs just for the hell of it.

wouldnt you rather merge hull and grimsby, just for the halibut?

Bristol Rovers FC.

They probably have the widest scope to build a largish club up from nothing. Based in a large and affluent and expanding City with only one other club.

You could pick them up for absolutely peanuts and really take them places without necessarily having to spend hundreds of millions of pounds.

Also they are known as the pirates which would sell well with foreign markets on the back of all those Johnny Depp movies.

Billionaires on the whole have made their fortune from astute and prudent investment. Which is why with that sort of acumen it boggles the mind why they would all seem to want to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on top clubs and top players with little or no hope of a major return on capital invested.

If I were a billionaire I would buy Bristol Rovers for say £3,000,000. Then Invest in top scouts to bring in young hungry cheap talented players (In a similar way to Southampton FC).

With the right management set up, I believe that you could have them knocking on the door of the premier league within 10 years and £25,000,000 spent on players plus £50,000,000 on a new stadium. While the value of all of those cheap hungry players would have sky rocketed. Selling a few of them for Luke Shaw and Adam Lallana type money would offset the whole investment, and you would be left with a club worth upwards of £150,000,000 EASY.

Plus you'd get to live like the king of Bristol, which is probably in the top 3 or 4 coolest cities in England.

Forest. Sleeping Giant, great history. If marketed right would have serious global revenue potential

Maccabi Tel aviv.

Sell tickets to Palestinians only and build them a hotel outside the ground for accommodation, thus having a home for life.
Gaza would be invited as president, and of course install Malky as manager

Mr Mischief,
I would outbid you For Forest, if only to remove the name Notts from appearing in front of it.
Surprised County do not sue for copy write infringement.

Teamgreen Bristol Rovers today had more fans than the home team, FGR. Why the fans still turn up is beyond belief but your shout is right, Swansea 12 years ago tells you it can be done.

Nimes Crocodiles

be much cheaper to start, based in the South of France with all the benefits of the weather, food, lifestyle etc

situated in between Marseille, Montpelier and Lyon so good for derbies

bang in the Cotes du Rhone wine growing region...

no mancs, scousers and other assorted enemies

some great calls

teamgreen great answer.  agree every point you make.