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 :)