adu - Football's world bank

[AlgarveBlu]

Having followed financial events very closely for the past 20 years due to my job, I am confident that the timing of the involvement of ADU's purchase of City couldn't have come at a better time.

As rich as our backers are, ( apparently around Euro 1 trillion, pretty much the equivalent of the U.K's national debt) had the purchase taken place 2 years ago the effect would not have been as explosive as it is going to be from now on.

This recession is different from all those before due to one main factor - no credit in the global markets. This means that we will not necessarily be held to ransom as much as people think, as the months go by more and more footballing institutions are going to have their nuts squeezed as the credit isn't there anymore. This in my opinion will accelerate the time it takes City to where we all want it to be

I think there is a similarity to when United got their shit together at the advent of the sky takeover of football and hats off to them they were very astute in turning the developing events hugely in to their favour - will City do the same I ? I think you would have to be a genius of the highest order to screw this up from the position we have just inherited...

In essence City will become the world bank of football and should in two to three years time be at the edge of world recognition... Is this a good thing ? probably not, but rather us than someone else!

Long live the credit crunch.. viva Man City!!!

 

[S04]

I think we have all tried to consider a scenario where we got money but almost no one else..;)

As for myself I´ve been working with SWF:s for some time and like to think that I have a rough grasp of our "owners" wealth.
The numbers are unbelievable, even if we just assume that it´s the close knit Bani Fatima fraction within the Al-Nahyan family involved..fronted by Sheikh Mansour who´s a influential member of them.

But in total Royal Al-Nahyan wealth I´d say that in assets right now we are looking at between $2-3 trillion..post crisis that is.
The lions share is of course the Oilfields that are valued by IMF to $1.6 trillion..They used a five year history of price fluctations and costs involved. Not bad eh?

The different SWF:s might add something like another $600bn..The crisis did remove a sizeable chunk I´m afraid, ADIA was heavily into emerging markets..it was a bloodbath.

The third main part is of course private funds, of those I´m not willing to speak but if you can imagine something like 20 former Abramovichs having the big money and hundreds of mere multi-millionaires spread out around them you might get the picture..

As for other assets they are hard to estimate, they basically own the country..the huge "sour" gasfields in the gulf outside Abu Dhabi are hardly touched, central bank holdings etc.


I Hope you enjoyed reading it..you´ll hardly find anything like this estimate in any financial paper I might add.

 

[Challenger1978]

I think we have all tried to consider a scenario where we got money but almost no one else..;)

As for myself I´ve been working with SWF:s for some time and like to think that I have a rough grasp of our "owners" wealth.
The numbers are unbelievable, even if we just assume that it´s the close knit Bani Fatima fraction within the Al-Nahyan family involved..fronted by Sheikh Mansour who´s a influential member of them.

But in total Royal Al-Nahyan wealth I´d say that in assets right now we are looking at between $2-3 trillion..post crisis that is.
The lions share is of course the Oilfields that are valued by IMF to $1.6 trillion..They used a five year history of price fluctations and costs involved. Not bad eh?

The different SWF:s might add something like another $600bn..The crisis did remove a sizeable chunk I´m afraid, ADIA was heavily into emerging markets..it was a bloodbath.

The third main part is of course private funds, of those I´m not willing to speak but if you can imagine something like 20 former Abramovichs having the big money and hundreds of mere multi-millionaires spread out around them you might get the picture..

As for other assets they are hard to estimate, they basically own the country..the huge "sour" gasfields in the gulf outside Abu Dhabi are hardly touched, central bank holdings etc.


I Hope you enjoyed reading it..you´ll hardly find anything like this estimate in any financial paper I might add.

It puts a massive grin my face anyway. Can you do us a favour though and give us a minimum figure an maximum figure of the financial backing of City.

Edit: Pretty please with sugar ontop ;-D

 

[S04]

It puts a massive grin my face anyway. Can you do us a favour though and give us a minimum figure an maximum figure of the financial backing of City.

Edit: Pretty please with sugar ontop ;-D

Does it matter how much money they got? They will hardly spend it all on City..lol

The minimum figure would be Sheikh Mansours private wealth which is hard to estimate as it´s a secret..like all Royals in UAE I might add.
But as a guess..$40-45bn
As I suspect that the other five Bani Fatima brothers are stakeholders we might look at something like say $200bn in total for the six of them.

But if this City lark is a united Al-Nahyan project sanctioned by the Emir and the Bani Mohammad bin Khalifa fraction as well as the Bani Fatima the sky´s the limit..Se note on Al-Nahyan wealth above.

 

[Challenger1978]

It puts a massive grin my face anyway. Can you do us a favour though and give us a minimum figure an maximum figure of the financial backing of City.

Edit: Pretty please with sugar ontop ;-D

Does it matter how much money they got? They will hardly spend it all on City..lol

The minimum figure would be Sheikh Mansours private wealth which is hard to estimate as it´s a secret..like all Royals in UAE I might add.
But as a guess..$40-45bn
As I suspect that the other five Bani Fatima brothers are stakeholders we might look at something like say $200bn in total for the six of them.

But if this City lark is a united Al-Nahyan project sanctioned by the Emir and the Bani Mohammad bin Khalifa fraction as well as the Bani Fatima the sky´s the limit..Se note on Al-Nahyan wealth above.

I just need somthing to put a smile on my face with the results we've been getting recently.

 

[heatonmoorblue]

this little song i made up might cheer you up.

to kelis: milkshake

our mega rich sheick brings all the boys to the yard
and they're like, hes better than ours
damn right, theyre super stars
you can watch them, but they'll overcharge


or to hokey kokey

weve got a left back in
(insert useless player or manager) out
in, out, in, out, our sheiks got all the clout
we may look a little like chelsea
but you'll soon find out
this is what its all about

oh manchester city
oh super city
were rich, were shit, hahaha

enjoy?
classics i know, leave your praise in comments below. thanks

 

[S04]

Not a bad effort...A bit to complicated to become a proper footy chant I reckon but let´s not be stingy with the praise.