Fortunately for them, due to FFP regs, they can buy themselves out of trouble. But let’s be honest for one second here... and I feel that this is important...
Our owners were promising things post takeover, few understood. They were talking about a plan and a vision... these are highly educated men, and highly intelligent, the kind of people that I occasionally had the pleasure to meet in boardrooms, you only have to listen to a Khaldoons end of season talks to understand what I mean here. I’ll discuss what we have now as fact before I go back.
We have completed an unprecedented domestic treble, the season before we have smashed most records standing, the season before we set out a style of play on the pitch we were going to use with our next manager.
The previous manager was someone who could start a style of play which Pep Guardiola could continue on from, and was strategically instilled by the strategically appointed directors who were to bring him in, plus player acquisitions.
If anyone thinks anything was left to chance they are wrong, these guys are informed and relentless, especially Khaldoon Al Mulbarak.
Prior to that we had to get from where we were, to where we wanted to go, via Hughes and then Mancini.
They scouted the world best sports facilities, took copies, made improvements and implemented them without fuss. This was nothing new to them.
Read this, come back...
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp....2009/sep/19/inside-manchester-city-david-conn
They bought a club for £150M in 2009, with a plan to make it the best ran club within 10 years. We are without doubt the best ran football club in world football right now.
We are a champions league win away from a dominance never seen before.
Fans of rival clubs and the media written by those very same fans, ignore us as they wallow in their bitter tears, as they watch us grow and dominate.
They cry about things that have no bearing to our success as they have nothing left to cling on to, empty seats... human rights records or anything else.
The fact is we’re ran by a few of the worlds most successful businessmen, and if anyone wants me to go into detail I will.
As you said, they have neither a long term vision nor a plan, as long as they keep spanking their financial dominance on over priced players I’m happy.
The Glazers plan and Khaldoons plan are polar opposites.