Chairman's Interview

stan bowles said:
Does the model work without the EPL then ? Are we looking at competitive games being played overseas in 10 years time ?
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I assume that City FG will try to get into every major growing league. Football will be absolutely huge in China. A nation of 1.4 billion. Only a matter of time before there is some kind of meaningful international competition.

Hitherto, I thought this project was doomed to fail and hence would be a drag on City FG and eventually City because I thought it was unlikely that an outsider would make a better job than traditional owners of these clubs but it seems successful.
 
tweety said:
Look forward to his interview every year, sure its polished spin but he's not going to give out strategic thinking to the public. We have the best ownership and management in football I believe. Some of the needy people on the thread need to give their heads a wobble, we could have the Glazers in charge!
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Pretty much agree, but actually he does set out in some detail the strategic thinking to achieve growth followed by consistent success.
What he doesn’t do (rather sensibly) is go into the tactics. Which individual player is needed to be bought this year? Who will be sold? Which coach is needed at which club in the group? Which club will be added to the group in which country?
The issue with these reviews is that ‘we told you what we were going to do, we did it, it worked’ gets a bit repetitive every year. Which to my mind is absolutely fucking marvellous. You cannot over stress how much of our current golden age is built on the long term, consistent and voracious appetite for success our owners bring. Looking forward to many more polished, calm and repetitive season reviews in the years to come.
 
Comes across as a lovely fella, but that's his job and he's very good at it. As for the global ambitions I don't care about them, I only care about our ambition in our country, when the group buys another side in another part of the world it means the sum total of jot.
 
stan bowles said:
So you've got different priorities from other people who want a better match going experience and who think the stadium needs investment. Good for you.
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Yes my priority is watching City continually win trophies as opposed to your good self who wants sprucing up the stadia as a priority.
Glad you`re not in charge of the clubs finances !!
 
Keeper! said:
LOL what a pathetic statement.
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Khaldoon holds the keys to one of the worlds biggest investment funds, he has the great . the good and the worlds barm pots on speed dial, he talks to them on first name terms, yet posters on bluemoon are still unhappy, words fail me.

A couple of years ago the Premier of China visited little old Manchester, did he go to Old Trafford, NO, he walked straight into the Etihad, arm in arm with our main man Khaldoon, we have come a ****ing long way.

We used to be owned by a tv rental man, with a comb over, cuban heels and shinny suits, as said, words ****ing fail me on here.
 
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oakiecokie said:
Yes my priority is watching City continually win trophies as opposed to your good self who wants sprucing up the stadia as a priority.
Glad you`re not in charge of the clubs finances !!
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Too much of this fancy dan cock and bull going on mate, the smell of the liniment and the clatter of boots on concrete in the tunnel is all that is needed.
 
oakiecokie said:
Yes my priority is watching City continually win trophies as opposed to your good self who wants sprucing up the stadia as a priority.
Glad you`re not in charge of the clubs finances !!
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The two are not mutually exclusive and you know it.

Stop playing the pedant.
 
The perfect fumble said:
We're really excited about that. We all want to be singing from the same hymn sheet.

Happy Friday!
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His 360 review described our best practices, but the building consensus was that by sticking to our core competencies maximise our matrix structure. This also augments our results driven enterprise.

Let‘s hope we don’t need to push the needle any time soon.
 
Marvin said:
I assume that City FG will try to get into every major growing league. Football will be absolutely huge in China. A nation of 1.4 billion. Only a matter of time before there is some kind of meaningful international competition.

Hitherto, I thought this project was doomed to fail and hence would be a drag on City FG and eventually City because I thought it was unlikely that an outsider would make a better job than traditional owners of these clubs but it seems successful.
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The CFG is groundbreaking , the first ever of it's type, as the Chairman said, mistakes have been made and will be made, but when we look back, we will have an organization leading the world with us at the very top of it.
 
lancs blue said:
In the interests of accuracy Swales barely qualified as a small shareholder, let alone "owner".
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I seem to remember that Swales became chairman after overhearing an argument between club directors at his golf club. He intervened and acted as peacemaker and somehow then got the opportunity to run us into the ground for a couple of decades.

As with a lot of our history it was totally bizarre.
 
Invisible Man's Bandage said:
I seem to remember that Swales became chairman after overhearing an argument between club directors at his golf club. He intervened and acted as peacemaker and somehow then got the opportunity to run us into the ground for a couple of decades.

As with a lot of our history it was totally bizarre.
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"As with a lot of our history it was totally bizarre."

Has anything changed, shit chairman, shit manager, shit stadium, shit players and an average goal keeper, oh for the old days......
 
Keeper! said:
"As with a lot of our history it was totally bizarre."

Has anything changed, shit chairman, shit manager, shit stadium, shit players and an average goal keeper, oh for the old days......
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That's a strange over reaction to the fact that some posters find our current (excellent) chairman's end of season interviews a bit fluffy and lacking in substance.
 
The City group in my opinion is a terrific idea, no point in putting all your eggs in one basket. The chairman stressed that they were looking 20 years ahead, even that one statement shows their commitment. They are forward looking and will not settle for what they currently have, our young fans should be in for some exciting times.

Many years ago when I introduced my son to MCFC I thought that he would never see us win a thing, that was back in the early 1980’s and he had nothing to celebrate until the 1998/99 play offs.

He has had a good run since then and I am delighted for him.
 
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