Chinese Consortium invests $400m in CFG

Didsbury Dave said:
Great post as always fella. That "shirt sales" phrase has irritated me for years, and your "hit parade" comparison is perfect. Shirts make hardly any money. Broadcasting football is of course where the money is now, and will be more and more and more. I remember talking to someone who knows football about the time of the takeover, and questioning exactly how much more money football can make, and his answer was "Trust me, when you have tens of millions of Asians paying £50 for a season ticket to watch their English club on the internet, you'll see real money in the game. The current stuff is pin money".

I think this is what we are seeing realised before our eyes, small step by small step. And this is part of it. China is fucking massive. And is getting fucking rich.
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Almost a fifth of the world's population - that's one hell of a, largely, untapped market.
 
shemnel said:
sorry, i might go slightly against the grain here, but this doesn't sit very easy with me, football just aint what it was.

(yes yes, its a global business etc, i know)
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Aye how i yearn for that Kippax asbestos roof,crumbling terraces,shithole khazis,bovril and smax,greenhall whitley bitter,being herded about like animals and being battered by the south yorkshire police and Tony Cunningham missing 3 yard sitters.
 
shemnel said:
sorry, i might go slightly against the grain here, but this doesn't sit very easy with me, football just aint what it was.

(yes yes, its a global business etc, i know)
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Console yourself with the thought that it was the G14 that made football that way and we've now outflanked them completely off the field and I'm sure that in the next few years we'll grind them into the dust on the field.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Whilst the precise content of this announcement might be unexpected, its overall mood isn't. It's novel, bold and commercially groundbreaking, as we've come to expect in the last seven years or so.

Many people in and around football, and I don't just limit this to 'mouth-breathers' on rag cafe, seem unable to evaluate the world of football, and most especially Premier League football as it is today, and the currency it now holds; not how it was a decade or so ago. When the club was bought in 2008, smart phones and tablets were very much in their infancy. Planet earth was a much bigger place. The world has changed immeasurably since then, particularly in technological terms, and yet we have putatively intelligent people seemingly unable to grasp what that means to the most popular sport on the planet. They're still taking about fucking shirt sales, like an ageing DJ talks about the 'hit parade'. Fucking clowns.

Quite simply, by accident or design, or in all likelihood a combination of the two, City's takeover on that sunny late summer's day in 2008 has come to be revealed as the ultimate footballing conflation of being in the right place at the right time, for both ADUG and us as supporters. We should never forget our good fortune in that regard.

Eventually, for the mouth-breathers, the penny is going to drop, but for the less intellectually gifted among those who seek to denigrate us, I fear it's still going to take a little while longer of them to wake up to the scale of a project that they used to so love openly mocking.

Fuck me, I love supporting this club. What a ride we've been on for the last 40 years.
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I don't think that even the might of ADUG could have fully foreseen the inexorable rise of smart phones in particular and internet access in general. Not sure even Steve Jobs knew. The outcome is the ultimate game-changer
 
Just been watching the BBC Northwest News and they were interviewing fans outside the stadium.One guy who is Branch Secretary,was complaining that tickets for home games were both difficult to get hold off and expensive and basically he felt that this was not good news for MCFC. I mean WTF ???
 
M18CTID said:
Cuntanoid has spoken:

Why doesn't Mansour pay a load of people money to support City forever, fill their stadium and buy all their stuff perpetually? He could stop the existing ones going back to Chelsea or PSG and recruit a load more and it would look far less obvious than this skullduggery.
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I'm loving the reaction on the caf. Has that Belfast slapper said anything yet?
 
shemnel said:
sorry, i might go slightly against the grain here, but this doesn't sit very easy with me, football just aint what it was.

(yes yes, its a global business etc, i know)
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Ask yourself this mate - will this deal impact on your match-day routine? If it doesn't, then what's the problem? For me, the biggest issues that have affected my enjoyment of watching City over the past 20 years or so have been related to the sanitisation of the sport - the end of the terraces, the ever worsening atmosphere, and the ever rising ticket prices. We can't do anything about the first one until such a time that safe standing is legalised in this country but we can do something about the atmosphere and many of us are doing. There's currently an ongoing FSF campaign regarding away ticket prices and the club have made thousands of cheaper season tickets available with the building of the new 3rd tier in the South Stand so some inroads are being made on that front.

This deal won't affect any of that whatsoever. It won't stop me meeting my mates for our traditional pre-match slurp and it certainly won't stop me getting the train to Stoke at daft o'clock on Saturday morning with hundreds of other like-minded blues.
 
coleridge said:
I don't think that even the might of ADUG could have fully foreseen the inexorable rise of smart phones in particular and internet access in general. Not sure even Steve Jobs knew. The outcome is the ultimate game-changer
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That's miles off, mate. Many sharp minds saw this coming. I posted earlier that a friend of mine told me years ago how the internet would revolutionise football finance. And I knew the owner of a telecomms company who told me about 15-16 years ago that the day was coming soon when the whole world could place a bet on a horse and then watch the race on their mobile phone, or watch the football highlights in the pub. It sounded so grand at the time, I remember.

To be fair, the teleomms guy is now a multibillionaire.
 
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