City launch legal action against the Premier League | Club & PL reach settlement | Proceedings dropped (p1147)

halfcenturyup said:
Owned by a state agency, either directly or indirectly.

So yes, Newcastle is owned by PIF, which is a state-controlled sovereign wealth fund and therefore imho Newcastle are state-owned.

City are owned by an individual. Yes, I know he is a very important individual, is closely related to the Emir and lines between authority, influence and control can be blurred sometimes but, legally afaik, the club is not state-owned. I had wondered if the change in Mansour's choice of holding company (from ADUG to Newton) was something to do with a PL challenge on that, but it has never been mentioned anywhere.
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Right. Worth remembering that neither the AbuDhabi gov nor the sovereign wealth fund have ever put a penny into City or CFG.
 
WRicko said:
Look don’t insult me. Are our owners from Abu Dhabi ? Yes so what the issue ? Is there rightly or wrongly an issue or alleged however miss guided issues around our funding ? Yes is there the same issue rightly or wrongly alleged or otherwise around say Liverpool etc no. So is it racist to point this out no. (He might still be a racist or pointing it out because he is a racist ) Your going to look daft they will ignore you and your minimizing actual racism.

Question how many clubs and where they get their money from should be mention ? For it to be inclusive enough for you all 92 ?
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Our majority owner (singular) is from Abu Dhabi, not ‘our owners’. Silver Lake (USA) also own a significant stake and CMC (China) retain a minor stake.
 
levets said:
Our majority owner (singular) is from Abu Dhabi, not ‘our owners’. Silver Lake (USA) also own a significant stake and CMC (China) retain a minor stake.
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Fucking absolutely grinds my gears when anybody mentions City and our Owners in Abu Dhabi as you have posted it’s one person Shiek Mansour,with other Owners ( a stake ) from USA and China…Who are these other owners from Abu Dhabi..
 
deano ou812 said:
Fucking absolutely grinds my gears when anybody mentions City and our Owners in Abu Dhabi as you have posted it’s one person Shiek Mansour,with other Owners ( a stake ) from USA and China…Who are these other owners from Abu Dhabi..
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We don't have China anymore it's 77% Sheik and 23% Silverlake
 
johnny crossan said:
I've done my best to explain how singling out City for unfavourable treatment on the grounds of our owner's nationality is ugly and illegal racism. If you still don't understand the law or think it's just not a very serious breach and trivialises "proper racism" perhaps others can help you understand what's going on better.
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How about actually dealing with my points rather getting all aggressive
 
WRicko said:
Look don’t insult me. Are our owners from Abu Dhabi ? Yes so what the issue ? Is there rightly or wrongly an issue or alleged however miss guided issues around our funding ? Yes is there the same issue rightly or wrongly alleged or otherwise around say Liverpool etc no. So is it racist to point this out no. (He might still be a racist or pointing it out because he is a racist ) Your going to look daft they will ignore you and your minimizing actual racism.

Question how many clubs and where they get their money from should be mention ? For it to be inclusive enough for you all 92 ?
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In the Queens lifetime horses she owned won over 1600 races with a lot of these horses gifted to her. If you are correct you should be able to find articles describing them as state owned.
 
cheekybids said:
In the Queens lifetime horses she owned won over 1600 races with a lot of these horses gifted to her. If you are correct you should be able to find articles describing them as state owned.
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Never ever mentioned as state owned, in fact the opposite it was the Queen's love of Horses. Which was factually true.

This shite that City are state owned is all part of the media narrative, that our achievements are tainted, it's a slur.

Anyone arguing that there's nothing wrong with saying City are Abu Dhabi funded, or state owned (with the implication that our majority owner isn't actually the owner) is a **** in my book.
 
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The Stockport Iniesta said:
Never ever mentioned as state owned, in fact the opposite it was the Queen's love of Horses. Which was factually true.

This shite that City are state owned is all part of the media narrative, that our achievements are tainted, it's a slur.

Anyone arguing that there's nothing wrong with saying City are Abu Dhabi funded, or state owned (with the implication that our majority owner isn't actually the owner) is a **** in my book.
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Even bigger cunts are the ones who say we're owned by Saudis. What most of these ill informed and ill educated twats don't see or even want to see is the contribution our owners have made to the area around the Etihad. They've regenerated an economically and socially deprived area of East Manchester into a place that is thriving and boosting the local (and maybe) the national economy. The press conveniently ignore this and just come up with the ruining football and cheating bastards mantra day in, day out. God help them if and when we are cleared because they could be looking at some serious legal action coming their way.
 
bigA said:
Even bigger cunts are the ones who say we're owned by Saudis. What most of these ill informed and ill educated twats don't see or even want to see is the contribution our owners have made to the area around the Etihad. They've regenerated an economically and socially deprived area of East Manchester into a place that is thriving and boosting the local (and maybe) the national economy. The press conveniently ignore this and just come up with the ruining football and cheating bastards mantra day in, day out. God help them if and when we are cleared because they could be looking at some serious legal action coming their way.
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The Guardian paid for an Opinion Piece not so long ago in which some weirdo argued the Eastlands regeneration was a complete sham and City were exploiting GMC. There are no depths the cartel & their anti-arab media allies will not plumb to try to destroy us.
 
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bigA said:
Even bigger cunts are the ones who say we're owned by Saudis. What most of these ill informed and ill educated twats don't see or even want to see is the contribution our owners have made to the area around the Etihad. They've regenerated an economically and socially deprived area of East Manchester into a place that is thriving and boosting the local (and maybe) the national economy. The press conveniently ignore this and just come up with the ruining football and cheating bastards mantra day in, day out. God help them if and when we are cleared because they could be looking at some serious legal action coming their way.
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I truly hope so
 
cheekybids said:
If we include sponsorships as direct investment from the state then the Gas Board pre competition was always displayed at the swamp.
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And for a number of years the ruSSian government as it owns aeroflot and the Saudi government as it owns Saudi telecom
 
deano ou812 said:
Fucking absolutely grinds my gears when anybody mentions City and our Owners in Abu Dhabi as you have posted it’s one person Shiek Mansour,with other Owners ( a stake ) from USA and China…Who are these other owners from Abu Dhabi..
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I don't remember Fulham being constantly referred to as being Egyptian state owned
 
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