Chinese Consortium invests $400m in CFG

The news of this broke as I was travelling don to the match and its only now that i'm home that I've had a chance to properly read and digest it all.

Not for the first time with regards to City and finances Martin Samuel gets the mood music right. I think the lad has a soft spot for City TBH as we were laughed at, the Sheikh was mocked and then UEFA played dirty and Martin didnt like any of that.

Some things that really become clear though ( and please forgive me if I'm repeating points previously made by others ). Firstly nobody at City at a local level knew much, if anything about this and thats how it should be.

The money wont be used to buy Messi or any other player, its clearly there to fund infrastructure of the CFG and one tease in the press release hints perhaps at the Collar Site? i.e. development of CFG 'infrastructure assets'??

The reason the money wont be used to buy Messi is simple, that money was already there if it was needed. But what this deal will do is make the top players and their agents sit up and almost beg to be part of this club now. How much were your image rights worth last year Lionel? Well we can do better than that old chum.

And of course sponsors. Image if you will the value of any deal that Nike want CFG to sign up to, or NIssan or indeed whoever.

I made a bold and some thought crazy prediction a couple of years ago that City would be the first club to turn over £1bn in a year - I didnt have a clue as to how it was going to come about but I was told it would happen with Sheikh Mansour at the helm. By god I wish I had laid a few quid on it now.
 
argyle said:
I will never read that site so any favourite quotes?
Click to expand...

This is a peach

red_devil83 said:
We can smell the coffee. It's laced with Rohypnol. Even the most ardent and blinkered Citeh fan must know it's all corrupt? Just because no football authorities are doing anything about it (because they're corrupt as feck) doesn't mean you have any legitimacy.

Yea, you have unlimited money, from morally bankrupt sources. Yes, with unlimited resources should come unlimited success. Maybe in 20 years you'll have won another 10 league titles. If you believe it's all above board, then I don't know what to say to you, except that just because you haven't been caught yet (and maybe you never will) doesn't mean you aren't cheating.
Click to expand...
 
This isn't the the end, it is not even the beginning of the end.......
I only want to stay alive long enough to see those bitter red cunts choking on their own bile. See if they still sing their little dittys about biggest floodlights and scoff about our aspirations. Will they still make up nursery rhymes about us fucking off home when we live here anyway, surprisingly not all in Stockport at all. Most of them still can't see what's coming. Like a tsunami once the earthquake has passed they won't know how big it is until it's too late!

Can you feel the ground moving Blues - it's gonna be biblical.....
 
I wrote on here a while ago that we would be streets ahead of the lot of them before they realised what was happening.

They'll be trailing in our wake, desperately trying to keep up.

When you know what is going to happen around our site in the next few years, with all that income it will bring...........

What makes me laugh now is thinking back a few years, when the top clubs like Liverpool and whoever else was involved, wanting their own special league, and sod the rest of us, because they wanted the money for themselves.

They don't like it up 'em do they?

Fuck them like they wanted to fuck us off years ago.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
The article from Martin Samuel explains it all so clearly, just read again and WOW. The guys running our club are very astute, visionary businessmen that have quite simply gone to another level from any other club.

Which is so unfair.
 
Reading some of the stuff written about the deal makes you realise the scale and enormity of what we're doing and trying to achieve.

Whether or not expected on field success follows is another thing, but boy this club and group is going to be huge in the next 10-15 years - it'll be one of the biggest sporting brands in the world.
 
Kazzydeyna said:
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.
Click to expand...
That is such a great post. Love it.
 
Beats the fuck out of travelling to Plymouth in the back of a Transit with a beer and a banana hoping we'd get to the next round of the cup and a home tie against a big team like Ipswich!!!!!!

I need to look after my health, I want to be around for another 30odd years to enjoy the good times.....
 
Kazzydeyna said:
I'm loving it too.

My personal favourite (you see it on rawk a lot too) is the old "I live in China/New York/kuala lumpur/Sydney etc and you never see a city shirt"

What these thick, ignorant, fools fail to realise, indeed are incapable of EVER comprehending , is that their world view is the VERY reason they are ultimately doomed to come off second best in the long run.

It's a view that has permeated their clubs for decades.

'Let's keep the colonials happy. We can sell a few shirts, travel for pre season friendlies every year or two and we will be just fine'. They have been guilty of gross patronisation.

They completely failed to understand that the "United/Liverpool/Arsenal fans etc in China and the Far East" aren't fans of those clubs at all. They are fans of the "team that is currently successful in England"

They didn't see it then and they don't see it now. Whoring your club with a media blitz every year or two is great for short term gain. City though (and even though this news today was a huge surprise it really shouldn't have been when you look at our owners) have taken the decidedly longer term and more professional view.

We haven't tried to sell our club as just another successful English team for the locals to love for a year or two. We've invited the entire country into our club, into our "group". We haven't patted them on the head and said "thanks for your support. See you in a couple of years. Oh, and here is a great soft drink for you to drink"

Remember Gill stating with a smirk "City will never be as big as Utd in SE Asia"? I'm going to stick my neck out and suggest he won't be smirking tonight. The ****.

We have said "we are building something special here.come along, see what you think, and if you like it you can get in on the ground floor. And stay for years"

The truly scary thing for the old elites is that it will take years yet for the scope of what has happened today to be fully realised. And when they do, it will be too late.

So, to any Red lurkers reading this... Those wearing Utd shirts today will have forgotten who you are in another few years. They won't just be wearing city shirts in the future, or eating "city noodles washed down with a City soft drink" they will be watching the city TV channel, and going to see Hong Kong City FC, who will have players that look like them, and speak their language. They will be following an organisation that they can feel belongs to them


We did that. City.

You took them for granted and payback is coming.
Click to expand...

Bravo Sir !!
 
This ownership is playing monopoly while the rest of the clubs are stuck playing tic tac toe. City's ambitions are astronomical and that's what makes this entire thing exciting. I think the next couple of tasks on the priority list should include getting a stadium built in NYC, finding a feeder club in Europe (there are talks with Girona) and expanding their brand in South America. With how motivated these group of men seem to be, I have no doubt they will accomplish all this and way more. I have no doubt we will also soon have a sister club in the Chinese Super League.
 
I'd flipping love it to be Hong Kong City FC. Or Beijing City FC.

WOW! I promise you folk, someday I will be blessed enough to travel the world and see a game of every member of the City Football Group - New York, Melbourne, Yokohama and China!!!

I love CFG - and am firmly behind the project and the teams.

Thank you Sheikh Mansour!!!!
 
Not wishing to put any kind of downer on things but isn't there some kind of restriction on an owner owning more than one club in a confederation?

As CFG already are part-owners of Yokohama in Japan, it can't buy/set up a club in China?

Hope I'm wrong. (Usually am according to Zubrwoman.)
 
red_devil83Full Member
Joined:

Mar 6, 2014
Messages:

1,459
↑Polite Pister said..
The reactions on this thread are very funny.

When SM took over at City we had the 'not in my lifetime' 'noisy neighbour' 'massive club' stuff. Well, see how that went, City are now established at the top table in England.

Now we sign a strategically important deal for the massive Chinese market and it's 'money laundering' 'bribes' 'ffp dodge'. Well, again we'll see.

One day you guys are going to wake up and smell the coffee :lol:
We can smell the coffee. It's laced with Rohypnol. Even the most ardent and blinkered Citeh fan must know it's all corrupt? Just because no football authorities are doing anything about it (because they're corrupt as feck) doesn't mean you have any legitimacy.

Yea, you have unlimited money, from morally bankrupt sources. Yes, with unlimited resources should come unlimited success. Maybe in 20 years you'll have won another 10 league titles. If you believe it's all above board, then I don't know what to say to you, except that just because you haven't been caught yet (and maybe you never will) doesn't mean you aren't cheating.

Red devil obviously not taking at all well, so badly in fact that the irony of his post his completely escaped him.
 
City out in force on Redcafe.

The tone if this thread says a lot about the perception of this news for me. City sell 13% for £265m and all anybody can have a dig about is how they've never seen a City shirt in China. The fact that nobody really has much to say about the actual deal tells me it's generally viewed as a good step for the club - and I agree with you.

For me the most telling aspect is that it's a fresh issue of shares, rather than the sale of existing shares. Pumping the money back into the group (not specifically MCFC). It seems quite obvious to me that the high investment comes off the back of assurances that the money will find it's way back into China, through academy infrastructure or perhaps a club to join the group in China, similar to NYCFC.

However you view it, it opens up another opportunity to exploit further revenue and exposure for the City brand as a whole, and it'd be silly to just write-off the significance of the deal because of our lack of popularity in China... It's an exciting time for the club, and I'm genuinely interested to see what plans the club have in place for this partnership.

Seven years on since the club was sold, are you slightly worried yet?
Click to expand...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top