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

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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My dick got hard reading that
 
havefaith said:
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.
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That's correct but also applies to Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed and Sheikh Mansour. I was told that they were completely taken aback by the interest shown in City by the foreign dignitaries they encounter. Even the late Queen specifically mentioned us in her toast to MBZ during the banquet given when he made a state visit to the UK.
 
Damocles said:
I'll link a few for those who want to go down an UAE power structure shaped rabbit hole:






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Very interesting, thanks mate.
 
There is an article in Germany which, unfortunately, requires payment to access, I will try to get that shit; the opening words are:

Gold, mercenaries and the Premier League

The United Arab Emirates are destabilising Africa and supporting war criminals. What this has to do with Manchester City, the NBA and Germany.

If there are any Manchester City fans reading this column: sorry, the football club doesn’t come off well in the following lines. This has nothing to do with the missed Premier League title. Rather, it’s about the owner: Mansour bin Sajed al-Nahjan
 
Damocles said:
I'll link a few for those who want to go down an UAE power structure shaped rabbit hole:






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I don’t claim to know half as much as you however I do lay claim to adding my take on how good Khaldoon is for us:)
Below taken from the ‘Alleged Breach of PL Rules Thread’.

normskih said:
I didn’t see any photos of Khaldoon being there, so pleased he was. Khaldoon hardly gets a mention regarding City, obviously along with Sheikh Mansoor but Khaldoon is the man, isn’t he?
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Prestwich_Blue said:
That's correct but also applies to Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed and Sheikh Mansour. I was told that they were completely taken aback by the interest shown in City by the foreign dignitaries they encounter. Even the late Queen specifically mentioned us in her toast to MBZ during the banquet given when he made a state visit to the UK.
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The Queen was a Blue so no shock there. Probably asked about Berts neck.
 
Sebi said:
There is an article in Germany which, unfortunately, requires payment to access, I will try to get that shit; the opening words are:

Gold, mercenaries and the Premier League

The United Arab Emirates are destabilising Africa and supporting war criminals. What this has to do with Manchester City, the NBA and Germany.

If there are any Manchester City fans reading this column: sorry, the football club doesn’t come off well in the following lines. This has nothing to do with the missed Premier League title. Rather, it’s about the owner: Mansour bin Sajed al-Nahjan
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Oddly I never read or hear anything bad about UAE pro cycling team
 
Sebi said:
There is an article in Germany...
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It's just another pathetic attempt, by a supposedly highbrow newspaper, to lambast our club by dragging our name into political debate. Just to appease their morally superior and self-righteous clientele.

Might as well have been written by that useless twat Dan Roan.

Just ignore the uppity cunts...
 
havefaith said:
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 :-)
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& “first thing people ask is to talk about city” is part of the reason why they bought us. At that level it’sa fantastic conversation starter. This was mentioned years ago by Khaldoon
 
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