Are City the only club to have received ‘controversial’ finance?

[Fame Monster]

There's been some idiotic, poorly-researched articles singling City out since the doc was released so I was just wondering whether we're the only club to have received morally controversial money seen as though it's never mentioned in relation to other clubs? That's if you put the law to one side and accept the conspiracy theory that Sheikh Mansour is a shill and the entity that owns the majority shareholding is, ultimately, the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi.

Have to say I'm not a fan of this thread title? Why does the poster assume we have received morally questionable finance? Sounds like the kind of stuff that a Liverpool keyboard warrior would post?

I get what you’re saying but if you read the title in the context of everything else I and others have written on this thread including the OP, you can see that the argument is, even if our money can be proven to be an Abu Dhabi state venture (which it can’t), the way that we’re financed is no worse than almost every other top club in the world who take money from states with a much worse human rights record than the UAE, namely Arsenal (Rwanda), Liverpool (Malaysia), United (Russia, Turkey etc) yet this is never once mentioned in the media. Not even by the MEN @stuart brennan . My point is not that it’s immoral: my point is that the journalists who do bring it up never mention it in relation to other clubs.

 

[WhenProgrammesWereAShilling]

The biggest benefactors of a wealthy owner has been our neighbour, believe it or not.

The 'United Ground' (which is the original name of OT because the cricket ground had already claimed the name for itself) was built on land owned and paid for by John Davies, wealthy brewer and Chairman of Newton Heath/MUFC. He kept the club afloat when it was broke, masterminded and part funded the move from Bank Street.

Of course most rags wont know about this or will be in denial...

 

[Vienna_70]

The biggest benefactors of a wealthy owner has been our neighbour, believe it or not.

The 'United Ground' (which is the original name of OT because the cricket ground had already claimed the name for itself) was built on land owned and paid for by John Davies, wealthy brewer and Chairman of Newton Heath/MUFC. He kept the club afloat when it was broke, masterminded and part funded the move from Bank Street.

Of course most rags wont know about this or will be in denial...

The rags stealing a name from another organisation? I don’t believe it. Someone will be telling me next that they stole their nickname from a near neighbour as well.

 

[aguero93:20]

No.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Well there’s Chelsea and the enduring suspicions that Roman’s wealth isn’t entirely legitimate.
Over in Trafford, the rags also get money from China, Saudi and the UAE. They used to have Aeroflot as a major commercial partner.

In Liverpool the name on their shirt is Standard Chartered, who received a record fine for money laundering that involved drug and terrorist money. Their previous airline partner was Garuda, the Indonesian state airline and that country has a very questionable human rights record. And there’s Tibet Water, which even many of their fans protested against.

Arsenal have Emirates of course.

 

[peoffrey]

I recall hearing West Ham’s Icelandic owners had shady backers from elsewhere. Gold and Sullivan now are porn barons.

Imagine Vincent Tan style interference at City. Beggars belief.

 

[The Future's Blue]

Why was our funding morally questionable?

 

[BlueAnorak]

We haven't received morally questionable finance since Dr Toxic sold the club to Sheikh Mansour. Unless all finance is morally questionable, of course.

 

[Jazzman]

Is there any money around which is not morally questionable one way or another? Fortunes are always made at the cost of something or someone. Make no mistake, the articles you refer to are just part of a power play by forces who do not like to see City take over parts of the big football cake.

 

[aguero93:20]

Why was our funding morally questionable?

Went to City instead of the Sky 4. Disgraceful.