Khaldoon's end of season interview | Pt 1 (p3) | Pt 2 (p12)

bert38 said:
perhaps I'm more cynical but you can see its cut before the question, and the head shakes, the particular eye closures during his answers, the brief hesitation at one point and his lips smacking suggesting a dry mouth don't fill me with as much confidence...his eyes do sparkle though..all more likely to mean he doesn't know the outcome and is apprehensive but wants to project calm, confidence.
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You are Allan Pease. I have a copy of the Daily Mirror under my right arm and collect my £5.
 
Fans of other clubs just DO NOT GET IT! They just dont get we are ran by operators far beyond their owners.

Rags have uncle malcom (rip) selling half the club to grim jim, bleeding the club dry, sacking tea ladies, lurching from one coach to another whilst winning little in 13 years, where as we have an chairman sat with world leaders and taking a $200m investment to one valued at $10b

Its apples and pears
 
Kazzydeyna said:
I think, especially after watching part 2, that what virtually all journalists and rival fans (and even a few on here) don’t quite ‘get’ is that City aren’t run like any other football club in world football.
Football, naturally enough given the emotion it engenders in everyone, has always been run on the basis of “what will win us our next game/ what will get us through to the end of the season”. Our owners have never taken that view. From day one it has always been a seriously long term view, decades into the future.

Football, particularly English football, just did not recognise that level of forward thinking. This country had fallen into the trap, for many years, of believing that football was always going to be a fait accompli. One of United, Liverpool, Arsenal, and at a pinch Chelsea, were always going to win the biggest prizes. For sure there may occasionally be a bone thrown to the masses with a FA cup/league cup shock - it keeps them coming back - but ultimately the game was sewn up for the Sky four.
And as an industry, this was not just accepted, but celebrated. There just wasn’t the ability to imagine an outsider with the wherewithal to hijack this cosy little club. And when City came along not only was this NOT celebrated, it was dismissed. And then targeted. And they’ve been trying to destroy us ever since. Everyone involved in any capacity with the game in this country, fans, owners, media, journalists, everyone, simply did not and still does not, have the mental capacity to understand that City weren’t just trying to win a league or two, they are purposely disrupting the game.
This lack of understanding lead directly to the charges. From the PL, they are simply a case of “kill them. Literally kill this football club. We cannot allow the also rans to be given ideas above the station we have given them.”
From everyone else, lead by the hateful English media, it isnt jealousy, or embedded fans of United/other clubs, it is simple ignorance of what HHSM is building. They just don’t understand the concept of building a football club from the ground up with a view that stretches 30 or 40 years into the distance. Because that’s never been done in the modern game.
Clubs and fans have been conditioned to accept that if they’re not one of the “big four” ( remember that term?) then their role is to be grateful for the odd point at old Trafford/anfield, and back home on the coach you go. See you next year.
And like sufferers of Stockholm syndrome they have embraced it. So much so that instead of looking at City and thinking “we could do with owners like that” they look at City and think “we need to get rid of these, they’re ruining the game”. The game that gave them fuck all and patted them on the head every season as one of the originals hoovered up most of the trophies and almost all the money.

We won’t change their minds in my lifetime, it will take decades.
So instead we’ll get to watch them torture themselves in Plymouth, derby, Middlesbrough, Ipswich et al as we continue to grow. And fuck them. I despise the also rans more than I do “the big four”. Because I despise rank stupidity.

Oh, and anyone watching part two who still has ANY doubt that we have/are going to shortly, win the charges case, watch it again. Does anybody seriously think this man and the men he represents has had any need or desire to act in a grubby manner? It’s more simple than that. He’s been operating far beyond their level of knowledge for years now and because they cannot fathom how a club like city could grow so far and so fast they have fallen back on the old comfort blanket “they must have cheated”. Because the truth is even more terrifying for them. “They’re cleverer than we thought and they decided they weren’t going to settle for the odd crumb”

Fuck them all. I can’t wait for the announcement day.
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That's a very comprehensive summary of what's been unfolding over the past eighteen years.

What you've eloquently described here is the wonderful disparity between the short-term view of the established clubs in the Premier League and the long-term vision of sheikh Mansour and MCFC.

When Sheikh Mansour bought the club in 2008 his goal wasn't to compete with the likes of Trafford, Liverpool Arsenal and Chelsea - his vision was to build the best football club on the planet. Hence, "The Project" which every journalist, pundit, CEO and fan of other clubs mocked (it's funny how every other club just happen to have a project now).

What Sheikh Mansour and Khaldoon have done with MCFC and across the City Group is beyond just building a sustainable successful business and lasting legacy; they've created a paradigm shift.

They're essentially operating from within a worldview that just isn't visible or accessible to the owners and CEOs of other clubs.

The contrast is jarring; it's the difference between thinking the world is flat and knowing it's round.

I loved your analogy of the way other clubs operate just to win their next game and fight to remain relevant while MCFC take a global view of things.

It reminds me of that wonderful line from the waterboys: "I saw the crescent, you saw the whole of the moon"
 
Tracking back said:
That's a very comprehensive summary of what's been unfolding over the past eighteen years.

What you've eloquently described here is the wonderful disparity between the short-term view of the established clubs in the Premier League and the long-term vision of sheikh Mansour and MCFC.

When Sheikh Mansour bought the club in 2008 his goal wasn't to compete with the likes of Trafford, Liverpool Arsenal and Chelsea - his vision was to build the best football club on the planet. Hence, "The Project" which every journalist, pundit, CEO and fan of other clubs mocked (it's funny how every other club just happen to have a project now).

What Sheikh Mansour and Khaldoon have done with MCFC and across the City Group is beyond just building a sustainable successful business and lasting legacy; they've created a paradigm shift.

They're essentially operating from within a worldview that just isn't visible or accessible to the owners and CEOs of other clubs.

The contrast is jarring; it's the difference between thinking the world is flat and knowing it's round.

I loved your analogy of the way other clubs operate just to win their next game and fight to remain relevant while MCFC take a global view of things.

It reminds me of that wonderful line from the waterboys: "I saw the crescent, you saw the whole of the moon"
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Looks like City will be taking over the US of A . What does Donald think if that?
 
Kippax Street 1880 said:
2nd time you have literally copy and pasted Khaldoons Wikipedia at me, I never said he wasn't decorated or qualified so not sure what your point is. I just said Pep would be a bigger miss than Khaldoon if he were to leave and no financial figures or boards of Emirati institutions the guy sits on will change my opinion.

All it says to me is this guy must be incredibly busy and not have much time to spend on City and all decisions on the everyday running of the club, other than major appointments such as Viana, possibly Enzo are delegated down the chain of command.

He isn't some infallible superhero, how's his board of Peace with Trump going?
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I don’t think you realise the influence Khaldoon has on City. If he ever left, we would see how important he is to us. He is arguably as important than Pep was.
 
remember arthur mann said:
Looks like City will be taking over the US of A . What does Donald think if that?
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Donald Trump is an obsequious megalomaniac who will defer to anyone with power and money; Elon Musk comes to mind.

I would imagine Khaldoon and other executives of the CFG will be welcomed with open arms and enthusiastically encouraged to invest in the City, is my guess.

I understand your point about Trump, what with him being racist and all. However, the level of power, financial sovereignty and political reach that Sheikh Mansour holds will render Trump's ignorance to a mere irritation.

Although Donald Trump is a philistine he doesn't strike me as someone who would cut off his own nose to spite his face.
 
City legends can stay for as long as they want.

We won every game after beating Liverpool at home in Jan 2019.

Hyperbole.
 
To hear Khaldoon say you don't sell your jewels, says it all really, whilst a 10 billion valuation is probably pocket change to him and Mansour, it's value in terms of kudos, publicity whatever you want to call it probably outweighs any other investment they have ever or will ever make again.

I,m sure I've read somewhere, wherever he, Khaldoon, goes first thing people want to talk about is CITY.

We are Massive :-) and I believe the jewel in their very fabulously adorned jeweled crown.

Don't think we could ask for more, I,d of died happy after the Aguero goal, everything since and going forward post pep is just an added bonus.

Happy days whichever way you look at it.

CTID :-)
 
halfcenturyup said:
Self-promotion is a terrible look

So I will do it for you. These are the best and most informative posts on the forum since I have been here.

Anyone doubting who Khaldoon is and how important he is to the club should read them all ten or twenty times.

I've learned a lot on legal issues from @slbsn and a few others (you know who you are) over the years and I have shared the occasional accounting thought with @Prestwich_Blue but these posts (and a few older ones, iirc) just stand out so far from the rest.

Everyone should take the time to read them.

Edit - PS: Will you sleep with me now?
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Corky said:
City legends can stay for as long as they want.

We won every game after beating Liverpool at home in Jan 2019.

Hyperbole.
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Except for Newcastle
 
bert38 said:
perhaps I'm more cynical but you can see its cut before the question, and the head shakes, the particular eye closures during his answers, the brief hesitation at one point and his lips smacking suggesting a dry mouth don't fill me with as much confidence...his eyes do sparkle though..all more likely to mean he doesn't know the outcome and is apprehensive but wants to project calm, confidence.
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Really. That's the spirit mate.
 
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