2021-2022 Annual report - City post club record profits and revenues

[Keeper!]

Could see Qatar cashing in on PSG and going full Dipper, the reaction to that on dipperland would be priceless.

 

[StillBluessinceHydeRoad]

I hope the scousers don't have trouble with the fit and proper persons test ..... or it might just be that FSG have to stop spending, sell what players they can and take as muh out of the club while they can before.... As a way of doing things it's not English ... it's not even scouse ... but it might be American.

PS Does anyone know if Hicks and Gilette are interested?

 

[Danny Hoekman]

I honestly don’t understand why it’s so difficult for other fans to grasp the concept that the best/most successful team earns the most money. United and Liverpool are the biggest culprits yet they have been through it themselves. They had periods of sustained success and lo and behold they grew bigger fan bases and enjoyed the financial fruits from it. City become successful on the pitch and revenues grow off it. It’s the natural order.

In any other walk of life people accept that this is how the world works. What percentage of people had a Nokia phone in the late 90s/early 2000s? How many have them now? When Apple came along with the iPhone in 2007 nobody was like “oh no, you can’t do that, you’re a nobody”. It was just accepted as progress.

Big companies are interested in growth potential. City started from a pretty low level and growth potential was huge. It has paid off handsomely. Mansour could sell us tomorrow and get every penny back plus plenty more. In any other industry (or at any other club) it would be considered fantastic business. It will be considered fantastic business when FSG sell up and realise a huge profit on their outlay. Only in football and specifically at City is owner investment frowned upon. It’s a complete stitch-up narrative peddled by media shills from certain clubs.

They don't want to believe it, so they convince themselves not to believe as a mechanism to make themselves feel better.

 

[LongsightM13]

FSG. We accept your total and unconditional surrender

 

[domalino]

I honestly don’t understand why it’s so difficult for other fans to grasp the concept that the best/most successful team earns the most money. United and Liverpool are the biggest culprits yet they have been through it themselves. They had periods of sustained success and lo and behold they grew bigger fan bases and enjoyed the financial fruits from it. City become successful on the pitch and revenues grow off it. It’s the natural order.

In any other walk of life people accept that this is how the world works. What percentage of people had a Nokia phone in the late 90s/early 2000s? How many have them now? When Apple came along with the iPhone in 2007 nobody was like “oh no, you can’t do that, you’re a nobody”. It was just accepted as progress.

Big companies are interested in growth potential. City started from a pretty low level and growth potential was huge. It has paid off handsomely. Mansour could sell us tomorrow and get every penny back plus plenty more. In any other industry (or at any other club) it would be considered fantastic business. It will be considered fantastic business when FSG sell up and realise a huge profit on their outlay. Only in football and specifically at City is owner investment frowned upon. It’s a complete stitch-up narrative peddled by media shills from certain clubs.

IMO the club does just about as much as it can to support the idea all of our sponsors are from Abu Dhabi (or "fake" as rival fans would put it).

We're still advertising Etihad despite the airline seemingly on the verge of collapse. We plaster the stadium with Aabar and Visit Abu Dhabi, and the clubs response to new PL rules about sponsors under £1m not being checked was to announce 3 small sponsors from Abu Dhabi almost one after another.

We employ people on the boards of loads of our sponsors, we use people like Simon Pearce when I'm sure there's thousands of less visible, less tied to Abu Dhabi chief legal officers we could use.

That's before we get onto the absolutely amateurish crypto scam sponsor the club had to drop as soon as journalists pointed out it was a scam (not that we're the only club to do this).


If Mansour/Abu Dhabi wanted people to distance the club's image from Abu Dhabi, they could do so very easily.

They don't want to. Why would they?

 

[AirbagsOptionalTheReturn]

The end of Simon Stone’s bbc article

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He is such a bellend. References \ implies we have done "serious financial fair play" when we were cleared and then has to mention an investigation that has been ongoing for ages with no details whatsoever as to what we have done wrong or been accused of. How about praising the club and the immense work we have put in to get to this point and the fact that we should be the model all other teams should strive for? The BBC and especially that toad are completely unfit for purpose and it grinds that we pay their bloody wages! So much for impartiality

 

[OrigamiNinja]

IMO the club does just about as much as it can to support the idea all of our sponsors are from Abu Dhabi (or "fake" as rival fans would put it).

We're still advertising Etihad despite the airline seemingly on the verge of collapse. We plaster the stadium with Aabar and Visit Abu Dhabi, and the clubs response to new PL rules about sponsors under £1m not being checked was to announce 3 small sponsors from Abu Dhabi almost one after another.

We employ people on the boards of loads of our sponsors, we use people like Simon Pearce when I'm sure there's thousands of less visible, less tied to Abu Dhabi chief legal officers we could use.

That's before we get onto the absolutely amateurish crypto scam sponsor the club had to drop as soon as journalists pointed out it was a scam (not that we're the only club to do this).


If Mansour/Abu Dhabi wanted people to distance the club's image from Abu Dhabi, they could do so very easily.

They don't want to. Why would they?

Yep. I find it hard to believe we couldn’t get a new main sponsor for a similar amount of money. You could argue that at this point it would be worth the club taking a little less money from a “non AD” company just to make the media nonsense that surrounds it go away. As you say, the only explanation is that they don’t want to.

 

[Vienna_70]

What a lovely story to come home to.

My first thought was the amount of piss it will boil among the red shirts.

And then, I read Khaldoun say that the figures will be even better next year, following our transfer business last summer, and it made it even sweeter.

Fantastic news.

 

[Vienna_70]

I still don’t get why RAWK are so worked up by the De Bruyne penalty??? Surely it helps them in their battle for eighth place with Fulham.

Anyway these accounts are false, they are backhanders and illegal sponsorship from well know Abu Dhabi based companies such as Puma. I know this because a Scouser on the internet told me so.

And Nissan and SAP.

Both founded by HRH's great grandfather.

 

[hertsblue]

He is such a bellend. References \ implies we have done "serious financial fair play" when we were cleared and then has to mention an investigation that has been ongoing for ages with no details whatsoever as to what we have done wrong or been accused of. How about praising the club and the immense work we have put in to get to this point and the fact that we should be the model all other teams should strive for? The BBC and especially that toad are completely unfit for purpose and it grinds that we pay their bloody wages! So much for impartiality

Lots here inc me have said it, he should be banned from the club and told to stick to his beloved Rags. How we even acknowledge him and let him ask questions in press conferences is beyond belief