City & FFP | 2020/21 Accounts released | Revenues of £569.8m, £2.4m profit (p 2395)

Fuzzy80 said:
Interesting take, I see Qatar/ Paris in it after the WC as much as before.

However you could be right, I always thought they were hanging Mbappe out by not accepting Reals bid and saying he has promised to not leave on a free. He got them a very fair deal TBF.

However, the main motivation in all this could be a CL win the year the WC is in Qatar and as you say that could then be seen as job done.

Not sure I agree, but I do get your logic.
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Do you think that we need or are even likely to be able to get further external funding from our original investor?
I ask because Sheikh M has wanted City to be self sustaining from day 1 but invested massively to achieve that independence.
His business plan has been left with City Management. with up to now leaving money in the Club for further investment content to watch his equity value rise and get on with other projects in other sectors of business.
Certainly if he decides to take out from that pool of self generated cash then we become a cash cow utd or pool style.
Until then his investment phase seems to be over for City.
 
Surely after FFP and PL bias we are not surprised?

Just because we managed to get into the golf club that tried to blackball us doesn't mean they should allow us on their commitee.
We have very little in common with them other than demonstrating that football is not a special case and a proper business plan from top to bottom works.

Did we really think all would be normal once we started beating them at their own game.
By all means trjy to get elected onto governing body's but letting us have a say on how they can target us unlikely.

I think City knew this as well and are having a quiet chuckle about it
 
waspish said:
Ah see why levy didn’t want to talk to us about Kane the other premier probably told him they’d vote for him! Maybe Ferran soriano now realise no fucker likes us and they are all colluding together and through the media to keep us down!
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One sad part is the player missing out on trophies due to all of this
 
I hope we are keeping records of all this colusion and cartel on a computer not connected to the interweb !
 
I can see us only being allowed to deal with a certain number of clubs in the future regarding transfers.
Like being told by the "authorities" which shops we're allowed to enter and purchase goods.
Welcome to today's football as of the cartel
 
Marvin said:
The British media lump the Arab owned clubs together but in France PSG are the leading club who bring in economic interest into Ligue 1. They have domestic rivalries with Marseille for instance but they don't have a powerful rival club(s) who would seek to exclude them from competitions. So in France, PSG are the dominant club. In England, Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal etc have formed a covert alliance of sorts and hence the domestic UK media play on this.

The financial media know full well that the City and PSG are run on a completely different basis. PSG are financed by the Qatari state. MCFC are not hence City group took on a debt issue recently for $650m and raised $500m from Silverlake investments for an equity stake in City. I think it is clear that PSG are state-owned. Manchester City are not although if you were a Man Utd fan I could see why you might think we were as there are state functionaries running City.
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Yes, City and PSG have completely different models and I don't doubt the financial media are aware of the differences.

But, how many times do you need to be told that, whilst not state owned, we have benefited from Abu Dhabi state funding? As it happens all perfectly legal and within FFP rules...

I mentioned Mubadala in the sportswashing thread and gave you a long and detailed reply of how Abu Dhabi money filters into CFG. You have ignored this.
 
Pablo ZZZ Peroni said:
Yes, City and PSG have completely different models and I don't doubt the financial media are aware of the differences.

But, how many times do you need to be told that, whilst not state owned, we have benefited from Abu Dhabi state funding? As it happens all perfectly legal and within FFP rules...

I mentioned Mubadala in the sportswashing thread and gave you a long and detailed reply of how Abu Dhabi money filters into CFG. You have ignored this.
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How have we tho ?
 
Kippax77 said:
I can see us only being allowed to deal with a certain number of clubs in the future regarding transfers.
Like being told by the "authorities" which shops we're allowed to enter and purchase goods.
Welcome to today's football as of the cartel
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What a load of nonsense.

Club's are still going to be taking our money. We just refused to go for a ride with Levy on the price. Now he has a pissed off star player.

I really wouldn't be concerned about Soriano stepping down, hes been replaced by Levy ffs. Spuds are playing against a load of part timers this season, not exactly smashing the doors down of the european elite are they.
 
Kippax77 said:
I can see us only being allowed to deal with a certain number of clubs in the future regarding transfers.
Like being told by the "authorities" which shops we're allowed to enter and purchase goods.
Welcome to today's football as of the cartel
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I can foresee the players themselves perhaps with Agent agreement insisting on Release Clauses being part of the Contracts.
 
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