I'm not wishing to cause an argument with you mate, but I think it's you that got the wrong end of the stick. My original post was about a South American 'City' franchise not being viable according to Sorriano in his book. You replied saying I was being condescending.
It's still sinking in the endless possibilities that could be achieved by this deal. We are talking about how United must be feeling sick with what's going on, what about Barca and Madrid? Miles more marketable than the Rags with the two biggest players on the planet and they could not strike a deal like this.
If we did the unthinkable and went for Messi we have one bargaining tool available as we could market his image into an area where Barca have no influence. Brand Messi should be happy with that as long as he keeps the inland revenue sweet and Zabaleta shows him where the best chippies are.
I think some people are missing the point as to how we managed to strike this deal whereas other, admittedly bigger and more popular, clubs couldn't. Some of the clowns on Rag Cafe in particular don't get it and hence start lashing out with tedious accusations of corruption and money laundering, etc. But the reality is simply that the people owning and running our club are in a much higher league than the people that run the likes of United, Barca, and Real. Granted they're all huge clubs but when it comes down to it, they're relatively small-time in terms of global business. I don't agree with everything TH says but he nailed it when he said those clubs do deals with businesses whereas we do deals with countries. The Chinese government aren't interested in doing business with people that have little influence in the wider world - the cartel of elite clubs might hold a lot of sway over UEFA but they're fuck all when it comes to things like this. As someone else said a long time ago on here, how many other club owners have Barack Obama on speed dial?
The sooner these deluded opposition fans come to realise this and how powerful our football club is, the better it will be for them because then they won't be forever wishing that our owner gets bored or some other such bullshit. Even Baconface told United fans a long while ago to get used to City competing for and winning trophies because he could see we weren't going away anytime soon. The fucktards posting their ill-informed vitriol on that car crash of a thread on Rag Cafe could do with heeding that advice.
I think some people are missing the point as to how we managed to strike this deal whereas other, admittedly bigger and more popular, clubs couldn't. Some of the clowns on Rag Cafe in particular don't get it and hence start lashing out with tedious accusations of corruption and money laundering, etc. But the reality is simply that the people owning and running our club are in a much higher league than the people that run the likes of United, Barca, and Real. Granted they're all huge clubs but when it comes down to it, they're relatively small-time in terms of global business. I don't agree with everything TH says but he nailed it when he said those clubs do deals with businesses whereas we do deals with countries. The Chinese government aren't interested in doing business with people that have little influence in the wider world - the cartel of elite clubs might hold a lot of sway over UEFA but they're fuck all when it comes to things like this. As someone else said a long time ago on here, how many other club owners have Barack Obama on speed dial?
The sooner these deluded opposition fans come to realise this and how powerful our football club is, the better it will be for them because then they won't be forever wishing that our owner gets bored or some other such bullshit. Even Baconface told United fans a long while ago to get used to City competing for and winning trophies because he could see we weren't going away anytime soon. The fucktards posting their ill-informed vitriol on that car crash of a thread on Rag Cafe could do with heeding that advice.
But City will never be as big as United and the sheikh pays people to watch City. We are cooking the books and there is no value in our brand. Their tears are delicious.
I think some people are missing the point as to how we managed to strike this deal whereas other, admittedly bigger and more popular, clubs couldn't. Some of the clowns on Rag Cafe in particular don't get it and hence start lashing out with tedious accusations of corruption and money laundering, etc. But the reality is simply that the people owning and running our club are in a much higher league than the people that run the likes of United, Barca, and Real. Granted they're all huge clubs but when it comes down to it, they're relatively small-time in terms of global business. I don't agree with everything TH says but he nailed it when he said those clubs do deals with businesses whereas we do deals with countries. The Chinese government aren't interested in doing business with people that have little influence in the wider world - the cartel of elite clubs might hold a lot of sway over UEFA but they're fuck all when it comes to things like this. As someone else said a long time ago on here, how many other club owners have Barack Obama on speed dial?
The sooner these deluded opposition fans come to realise this and how powerful our football club is, the better it will be for them because then they won't be forever wishing that our owner gets bored or some other such bullshit. Even Baconface told United fans a long while ago to get used to City competing for and winning trophies because he could see we weren't going away anytime soon. The fucktards posting their ill-informed vitriol on that car crash of a thread on Rag Cafe could do with heeding that advice.