Are City the only club to have received ‘controversial’ finance?

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There's been some idiotic, poorly-researched articles singling City out since the doc was released so I was just wondering whether we're the only club to have received morally controversial money seen as though it's never mentioned in relation to other clubs? That's if you put the law to one side and accept the conspiracy theory that Sheikh Mansour is a shill and the entity that owns the majority shareholding is, ultimately, the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi.

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Have to say I'm not a fan of this thread title? Why does the poster assume we have received morally questionable finance? Sounds like the kind of stuff that a Liverpool keyboard warrior would post?
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I get what you’re saying but if you read the title in the context of everything else I and others have written on this thread including the OP, you can see that the argument is, even if our money can be proven to be an Abu Dhabi state venture (which it can’t), the way that we’re financed is no worse than almost every other top club in the world who take money from states with a much worse human rights record than the UAE, namely Arsenal (Rwanda), Liverpool (Malaysia), United (Russia, Turkey etc) yet this is never once mentioned in the media. Not even by the MEN @stuart brennan . My point is not that it’s immoral: my point is that the journalists who do bring it up never mention it in relation to other clubs.
 
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The biggest benefactors of a wealthy owner has been our neighbour, believe it or not.

The 'United Ground' (which is the original name of OT because the cricket ground had already claimed the name for itself) was built on land owned and paid for by John Davies, wealthy brewer and Chairman of Newton Heath/MUFC. He kept the club afloat when it was broke, masterminded and part funded the move from Bank Street.

Of course most rags wont know about this or will be in denial...
 
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The biggest benefactors of a wealthy owner has been our neighbour, believe it or not.

The 'United Ground' (which is the original name of OT because the cricket ground had already claimed the name for itself) was built on land owned and paid for by John Davies, wealthy brewer and Chairman of Newton Heath/MUFC. He kept the club afloat when it was broke, masterminded and part funded the move from Bank Street.

Of course most rags wont know about this or will be in denial...
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The rags stealing a name from another organisation? I don’t believe it. Someone will be telling me next that they stole their nickname from a near neighbour as well.
 
Well there’s Chelsea and the enduring suspicions that Roman’s wealth isn’t entirely legitimate.
Over in Trafford, the rags also get money from China, Saudi and the UAE. They used to have Aeroflot as a major commercial partner.

In Liverpool the name on their shirt is Standard Chartered, who received a record fine for money laundering that involved drug and terrorist money. Their previous airline partner was Garuda, the Indonesian state airline and that country has a very questionable human rights record. And there’s Tibet Water, which even many of their fans protested against.

Arsenal have Emirates of course.
 
I recall hearing West Ham’s Icelandic owners had shady backers from elsewhere. Gold and Sullivan now are porn barons.

Imagine Vincent Tan style interference at City. Beggars belief.
 
We haven't received morally questionable finance since Dr Toxic sold the club to Sheikh Mansour. Unless all finance is morally questionable, of course.
 
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Is there any money around which is not morally questionable one way or another? Fortunes are always made at the cost of something or someone. Make no mistake, the articles you refer to are just part of a power play by forces who do not like to see City take over parts of the big football cake.
 
Check this twat out ! Honestly , claiming to be a city fan and writing this shock, attention seeking pile of absolute shit ! I’m not joking when I say he deserves the Adam teese treatment

 
There are some 15 - 20 billionaire/multibillionaire owners of English clubs. Even Brighton's owner's worth the thick end of £2b, and look at the wealth of those funding Palace. All the talk of City's wealth is so hypocritical. There's a point where it doesn't matter whether your club's owner's worth £3b/£4b or £20b. It's about getting value for money and coaching. We get better value for money than any other club and the have the world's best coach.
 
Getting bored of this human rights arguement. It’s got no relevance to football at all. It’s an arguement that’s been made up by Liverpool and United fans. They can’t find much faults with City on the pitch these days so they start going on about our attendances and our dodgy money from our monster owners.
 
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Well there’s Chelsea and the enduring suspicions that Roman’s wealth isn’t entirely legitimate.
Over in Trafford, the rags also get money from China, Saudi and the UAE. They used to have Aeroflot as a major commercial partner.

In Liverpool the name on their shirt is Standard Chartered, who received a record fine for money laundering that involved drug and terrorist money. Their previous airline partner was Garuda, the Indonesian state airline and that country has a very questionable human rights record. And there’s Tibet Water, which even many of their fans protested against.

Arsenal have Emirates of course.
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Arsenal also have Rwanda which is listed as the 2nd worst human rights record in the world according to Amnesty International (Congo worst).
 
Many football clubs were set up by churches of various religious hues. Might not be what you had in mind, but many might consider that morally questionable.

Overseas: AC Milan - Owned for many years by media tycoon and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi

Real Madrid bought land for their training ground at a discounted price from the Spanish state = effective State sponsorship.
 
From wiki page on Edwards

Controversies[edit]
Meat contracts corruption and malpractice[edit]
As an investigation by the Granada Television/ITV investigative journalism series World in Action, broadcast on the ITV network on 28 January 1980, alleged that such dominance had in fact been achieved through bribing school officials in order to win lucrative contracts in cities such as Manchester.[1]

The Granada investigation also claimed that his company supplied condemned meat that was unfit for human consumption to be used in school dinners.[2]

Compilation of the programme began in February 1979 and it alleged illegal share deals involving large cash payments and false documentation. The investigation also claimed how Manchester United had a secret fund for bribing parents of young players the club wished to recruit. In one case in the early 1960s it was alleged that a bribe of £5,000 was paid to the parents of Peter Lorimer, a promising young player whom the club had wanted to recruit. The bung was in fact later returned when the player chose Leeds United instead though this was a clear breach of football association rules. There were allegations that such behaviour occurred in the 1970s.[3]

On 29 January Edwards said "My conscience is clear. I have nothing to be ashamed of. I am proud to be chairman of this great club and I have only wanted the very best for it".

On 12 February, Manchester Police said they were going to investigate the allegations made against both Louis Edwards and Manchester United. Edwards himself hired a firm of lawyers to go through his business transactions and private papers in order to build evidence against all the charges levelled at him.

Death[edit]
Louis Edwards suffered a heart attack and died whilst in the bath on the evening of 25 February 1980.[4] The FA decided against a formal investigation and merely discussed the issue. The case was dropped.
 
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