I doubt very much that we have 75 million "fans" in China. Well not fans in the sense we class them, but if we're using the same criteria that United as a club use when tediously claiming to have 659 million fans worldwide every time a poxy new sponsorship deal is announced then we may well have 75 million people in China who "follow" City in some form or other. Remember that when we were utter dog shit and Sun Jihai was playing for us, hundreds of millions of people in China would tune into our games, just as they did with Everton games when Li Tie signed for them. We have 8.1 million followers on the Chinese social media platform Weibo and United have 8.6 million, yet United claim to have 108 million fans in China. Using those Weibo figures on a pro rata basis, it could be argued that 75 million City fans is actually a conservative estimate so what that City fan is saying on Rag Cafe might not be so daft after all.
You got the wrong end of the stick bud. I never mentioned a city club in south America. That would probably only work if they bought a lower league club begging for investment. I was talking about a similar deal to the Chinese. Media and capital for shares & territorial rights.
The Red planet? I think we'll give that one a miss.
I don't know about the numbers, M18, but suspect they are all spurious. My point is that arguing who has more Chinese plastics than the other displays nitshit thinking. We laugh at their claims, then try to outdo them.
imagine that interview on skysports news.Interview with Khaldoon:
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/02/s...tnership-explainer/index.html?eref=rss_latest
Manchester City to explore bid for Chinese club to boost expansion
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto//public/sport/article4629731.ece
Yeah, I agree about the last bit - I said earlier that I don't give a shit about how many fans we have in China (or anywhere else for that matter) and I won't get involved in any dick waving about numbers of fans even if we had more than them. I was just trying to explain how that 75 million figure may have come about (also note my point that many of them are probably "followers" as opposed to "fans") and that any Rags scoffing at it would do well to take their blinkers off.
I tell you what mate, I never click on any link to Sad Café but last night I made an exception. The knuckle dragging plebs are in the main delusional and are in denial about what's right in front of them. Its like that famous scene in Monty Python where the Black Knight has had his arms and one leg chopped off and reckons 'They're just mere flesh wounds' whilst he's hopping about on his last remaining limb still wanting to carry on the scrap. Yes, ManUre may have the ear of the corrupt officials running UEFA & FIFA but the men who run the planet are our mates and they refuse to acknowledge the magnitude of this deal and what it means in reality.Mate, you've got that all wrong. The Chinese President went along to City by mistake, and what he really wanted was a tour of Old Toilet. Said so on the BBC!
It's quite telling that this interview happened on the international (and fairly unbiased) cnn, rather than any uk media outlet.imagine that interview on skysports news.
sky sports news headline's
khaldoon looks a goon in his white arab festoon,vote now would you wear an Arab dress to the match :)
This is what I think is the best bit, the football world is slowly realising just how big the deal is, and City just dropped it on a Tuesday morning without any warning. I wonder how its being reported in China itself ?There was a handful of google news stories on this yesterday morning: there are now over 500.
Jack's just planted that bean. Time to watch it grow over the next few months/years.
Theres more post on here abt what red café and the rags think, they really are an irrelevance to us now.
How would you feel long term if this led to possibly Premier League/FA matches being exported?
So we'd play our potential league cup semi/final in Beijing?
We watch every round, going to the stadiums in our country, then the club have some agreement which states they play a match in Shangai.
Would cost us shitloads to fly over there :/
Would you still support City if they even moved this club abroad?
The day this club no longer includes Manchester the day I'm out of here.
The earthquake that shook football on 1st September 2008 was so big, so huge, so all encompassing, that it was simply too huge to be measured by any traditional yardstick.
What everybody initially believed - including let's be honest most if not all City fans - was that we had 'simply' been bought by a very very rich man, who would no doubt use some of his enormous fortune to take the club to previously unimaginable heights of excellence on the pitch, and maybe if we were very lucky, to invest in the clubs infrastructure along the way.
The old elites and their fans scoffed and moaned in equal measure but their underlying belief was, until perhaps even today, "we've seen off this sort of thing before. Blackburn, Chelsea, Dortmund, Forest, Villa. We've been the dominant forces in English and European football for generations. Sure this lot might win a title or two. A few cups even, and you never know, they might even do well in Europe given time, but then, eventually, order will restore itself and they will sink back into the abyss. Sure as eggs is eggs"
They scoffed at the CFA ("not yet produced a regular first teamer" / "FFP dodge"). They really really believed that FFP had sorted these upstarts out. "Show me a sponsor who isn't an Arab" they screamed with not even an attempt to disguise there xenophobia, "that's the measure of a big club" they laughed.
And then they, and us, woke up this morning and saw the football landscape for what it truly is. And what it will continue to be for years, even generations, to come.
Ours.
We dont have an owner who wants the best team. We don't have an owner who wants the best club. We have an owner who wants (and will most definitely get) to completely change the face of the game and how it is run as well as the best team and club.
Today was one more step on that journey and to all those who laughed, and scorned, and ignored, and cheated in order to preserve their bent, immoral, corrupt hold on the game....
This is just the beginning. There is more to come. Your time is over.
Talk about jumping the gun!How would you feel long term if this led to possibly Premier League/FA matches being exported?
So we'd play our potential league cup semi/final in Beijing?
We watch every round, going to the stadiums in our country, then the club have some agreement which states they play a match in Shangai.
Would cost us shitloads to fly over there :/
Would you still support City if they even moved this club abroad?
The day this club no longer includes Manchester the day I'm out of here.