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Chinese Consortium invests $400m in CFG
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He must have forgot who paid for their current stadium come from ..
M18CTID
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He must have forgot who paid for their current stadium come from ..
According to Attwood's sidekick Walter Broeckx, that's all fine and dandy because Emirates are sponsors not owners! Which completely misses the point or course ;)
Sorry but I don't agree with that. Of course there are human rights abuses in UAE. Same goes for India, Israel, China, Russia and, some would say, the US and UK.love the sentence 'deniers of human rights in the Uae'. My sister has lived in Dubai since 2005, I've never heard her complaining about that, I've been there and it feels a lot more safer walking the streets than it is over here.
You could level that claim of the construction workers over there. They go of their own free will to the UAE and return back to India the equivalent of millionaires. More salty tears from a team in red I'm seeing a trend here.
The construction workers are treated appallingly and don't go home as millionaires. They just pay to keep their families fed whilst their slave labour greases the wheels for both the Indian and Pakistani governments and their corrupt officials. The most expensive villas in Emirates Hills are effectively owned by such politicians. Everyone in UAE knows this.
Of course, the world is not a fair place and that's what the likes of Attwood fail to recognise.
As for your sister, I doubt she has much to complain about but that's because she's second top of the social pile after Emiratis. Like many expats, I've taken the money and run from UAE. However, I am not going to pretend that it's a free-living utopia. It is anything but that. There is no such thing as a benign dictator but, hey, it's not my country.
M18CTID
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Sorry but I don't agree with that. Of course there are human rights abuses in UAE. Same goes for India, Israel, China, Russia and, some would say, the US and UK.
The construction workers are treated appallingly and don't go home as millionaires. They just pay to keep their families fed whilst their slave labour greases the wheels for both the Indian and Pakistani governments and their corrupt officials. The most expensive villas in Emirates Hills are effectively owned by such politicians. Everyone in UAE knows this.
Of course, the world is not a fair place and that's what the likes of Attwood fail to recognise.
As for your sister, I doubt she has much to complain about but that's because she's second top of the social pile after Emiratis. Like many expats, I've taken the money and run from UAE. However, I am not going to pretend that it's a free-living utopia. It is anything but that. There is no such thing as a benign dictator but, hey, it's not my country.
Difficult to disagree with too much of that. The issue with Attwood though is that he hypocritically levels the accusation at the owner of MCFC while blatantly ignoring what part of the world the money from Arsenal's main sponsor comes from!
I inferred the same, be that Emirati, Russian or other such monies. Yes, it's a weird argument from a Gooner. Does he want their stadium renamed?Difficult to disagree with too much of that. The issue with Attwood though is that he hypocritically levels the accusation at the owner of MCFC while blatantly ignoring what part of the world the money from Arsenal's main sponsor comes from!
Attwood has a real hard on for City. I fucking love the fact that City keep him awake at night.
john@staustell
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I think we should boycott American owners as they do nothing to stop the daily mass murder of their citizens. If the fella on TV is to be believed the number of mass shootings in 2015 is running at about 30 more than the number of days so far.
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I like his notion of us "buying" uefa when his club and the other g14 sides already own it and are dictating its financial policies to the rest of us!
I seem to remember that we were told that football clubs should be put on a sound financial footing and run in a more "businesslike" fashion.
Well , they can carry on with their corner-shop business mentality while our owners run a multi-national giant.
They really will have to careful what they wish for!
I seem to remember that we were told that football clubs should be put on a sound financial footing and run in a more "businesslike" fashion.
Well , they can carry on with their corner-shop business mentality while our owners run a multi-national giant.
They really will have to careful what they wish for!
Le Havre Oswald
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Exactly. You don't piss off a man who has the most powerful leaders in the world on speed dial.I said in another thread that its a mistake to cross a rich man. Platini and co have crossed a mega rich man with connections at the very highest level, rich men have their revenge not necessarily obviously or immediately.
sir baconface
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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.
An excellent post.
Like this statement:
"What next? City Group buy Uefa? Don’t laugh. It is possible ..."
:-)
Haven't they already been "bought"?
I love the part where he puts the bombing of Syria down to Khaldoon. Bless.
We only accept responsibility for the bombing of Old Trafford.