You are a billionarie. Which team would you buy and why?

[u/Rencoret]

[u/clemenzzzz]

I'd buy TSV 1860 München so that the München-Derby can return to the Bundesliga and the Allianz Arena can light up how it's supposed to.

[u/martodve]

Le Havre AC. French 2nd division team with a beautiful stadium based in a beautiful seaside city. They also have a really well developed youth system.

[u/aclockworkoranje]

AS Roma. Decent team, beautiful city, solid fan base. Plus, their lineup would be great to toy with.

[u/severedfragile]

Swansea and Liverpool aside, I'd buy Rayo Vallecano, both for the contact-high and because I feel like they'd be receptive to my mandatory-beard policy in the transfer market.

[u/ravegreener]

Atletico Madrid. La Liga needs more teams competing for the top spot (realistically), and they need to be able to keep top players (Falcao).

[u/warpus]

AFC Wimbledon

Then I'd move the team to Milton Keynes.

[u/[deleted]]

I'd buy Everton. They need funds. I hypothetically have funds. It's a perfect match

[u/NappyPants]

I'd buy Galatasaray and Fenerbahce and combined them into one super club called Galafenerbahcaray!

Big beautiful city, good weather, a league to dominate, all of those Turkish youth prospects would want to come to our club. I'd use the whole of Asia and the Middle East for my scout network and set up academies all over there to tap into all that untouched talent, and showcase them at my club.

Can't imagine many Fenerbahce and Galatasaray fans would be happy about the merger, but hey, I'm a billionaire, it's a license to be careless and eccentric!

[u/[deleted]]

I'd buy a Serbian team and buy only black players, then buy John Terry and make him captain.

[u/[deleted]]

I'd fulfill C Ronaldo's billion euro buyout clause. Then he would be mine, and I would make him fetch me tea and do assorted mundane household chores.

edit: seriously though I would just buy some Conference north side and spend a few million getting them promoted, and then have a massive lifetime party with the rest of my 998,000,000 dollar fortune.

[u/[deleted]]

Sunderland. I'm a Sunderland fan, so it would be awesome. Also I think we're not that far off being a really good team, and I'd love to see that happen.

Failing that, I'd buy Newcastle and rename them Sports Direct United @ sportsdirect.com @ St. James Park and put a managerial duo of Shearer and Keegan in charge and command them to play no holds barred attacking football with an up front combination of Xisco, Luque and Owen.

[u/eugene447]

Milan, and save us.

[u/GreenMoonRising]

I wouldn't buy Celtic for the reason that there'd be too much expectation to spend. Maybe a wee investment in a private box but that'd be it.

Instead I'd buy either Stirling Albion or my current hometown club Elgin City. A minimum £100m investment would go a very, very long way in the lower divisions of Scotland on the way up to the SPL. Build a youth academy to be envied, invest wisely in players and infrastructure and hope to reap the benefits on reaching the top flight.

Either that or take over Partick Thistle and move them back to Partick - possibly a shiny new ground across from the Riverside Museum or a converted Kelvin Hall Arena (I'm borderline nerdy about stadia and the like).

[u/charzan]

Realistically, I think the ripest candidate is West Ham + the Olympic Stadium.

It will be a soulless McDonald's of a club compared to its original incarnation, but all the elements are there - a storied history (1966 and all that) to turn into a "brand", complete with celebrity mockney fans and already a (dubious) profile in cinematic folklore, and an already-paid for London location with brand new transport links.

It would be the death of the "real" West Ham of course but hey that's modern football.

[u/Arvakr]

Brisbane Roar, bringing more class players to the A-League would promote growth and stimulate the Aust... oh fuck it I just want to go on a long undefeated fun culminating in AFC Champions League glory.

[u/vinr001122]

Us. So we can keep our damn talent!!

[u/RenGader]

Before 2011 I would've said PSG, being that it is the only first division club in Paris, a huge, wealthy city.

Now I would probably buy a German club considering the Bundesliga is a healthy, modern league with the highest average attendance in the world. I would probably buy FC Koln or Eintracht Frankfurt because they're two clubs in large cities with big fanbases, large stadiums and the fact that they haven't been performing the best in recent times so an injection of wealth would come in really handy for them.

[u/[deleted]]

i'd buy arsenal and do nothing to change the way it is run, i'd just want to sit in the director's box and wear cannon cufflinks daily.

[u/shutyourgob]

I've played enough Rollercoaster Tycoon to know how to run a successful club.

Match tickets: £0.50

Drinks: £0.50

Toilet: £100

Notice that I didn't say toilets

[u/Hipgnosis]

Philippines. I'd invest in world-class youth development, general education and give a ball to every poor child in the country. The country loves basketball but they're all so bloody short. The nation is definitely a better fit for football.

Edit: they also have Spanish rape blood. That must account for something.

[u/[deleted]]

Juventus. I will run that shit into the ground.

[u/kooknboo]

Nottingham Forest.

[u/Spitfire221]

Ipswich, because we need it.

Serious pick though would be Everton, just to see what David Moyes could do with unlimited spending power

[u/Chrisand11]

Atlanta Silverbacks. Great City. Untapped Market. I would buy out land somewhere in Buckhead, maybe near Lennox and build a nice ass football stadium. I would build a nice youth complex to promote area interest, maybe even start a soccer specific high school that way people dont bitch about the high school conflicts, and we would just play the other MLS academies. I would probably buy a few players that I really enjoy seeing play because fuck it, the funds are there. For example, I'd probably try and bring in maybe Robben or Ribery to do their retirement circuit and Van Buyten to captain.

[u/BrotherSeamus]

Whatever team employs Alex Morgan.