Be One of the Owners of a Football Club for only 20 KD
This is not about you playing the coach simulation game Manager, it’s about you becoming one of the owners of a real english football team along with 50,000 other members ..
William Brooks a Passionate 36 years old fullham fan , started My Foot Ball Club .. the idea is to find 50,000 football fans interested in buying and running a football club, collect a an annual £35 (around 20KD) then buy the club with the money the collect from the members .. after that the members will be owners in the club, and they will be able to decide and vote on all the decisions for the club like who players should they buy, what formation they should use for any game and every little detail starting from the what club should they buy and what will they do with the stadium and ending with the jersey colors and what manufacturer they should contract with.
and everything is done using the website, the member will vote on the player selection and team formation and then the coach will use it in the game ( so for once in stead of the fans blaming the coach the coach can blame the fans if the team loses ) ..
the impressing thing is that the whole project only started in April and till now they have 45,247 members registered alread .. at a rate of 300 members per day .. so at this rate they will reach their target 50,000 members in about two weeks .
I’ve already registered and I’ll see what happens, they will request the fees later ..
Here’s alink to an interview with the founder on wired website with a lot more details ..
tell us what do you think about this idea, do u thing it will work or it wont ?
This got me into thinking about the enigma of managing the our national team .. what we can replace the Kuwait Football Association with this system .. will the fans be pleased if they can manage the national team themselves? will it be better, worst or just crazy?
MrMMM on July 14th 2007 in Technology
Bashar responded on 14 Jul 2007 at 9:21 am #
It was about time you post new blog
I saw this on another blog sometime back. I first thought it’s a FAKE! but BBC are reporting on the news and it’s no joke. I am really impressed by the idea. Such out of the box thinking.
One thing to note is, shareholders can vote but cannot participate in critical decisions, and they don’t get any of the profit. Their profit goes to organizations helping poor society children play and learn soccer.
I signed up for it, but to be honest, I won’t have the mind to follow it… so they won’t be getting my 20 KD
MrMMM responded on 14 Jul 2007 at 11:26 am #
I signed on to be able to reserve the field whenever I wanted to play .. so expect a sms from me saying “shabab 3endina li3eb el youm eb liverpool, eli eb yel3ab edez ok”
( just kidding )
about the charity thing, they’re not saying that they will donate the profits to charity.. they’re saying that within 12 months of collecting the money , if they still haven’t acquired a football club they will refund the money for the users and donate the interest collected on the money ..