Chinese Consortium invests $400m in CFG

i am genuinely moist/scared/excited/flabbergasted by this whole deal and the possibilities it could lead too.

I wish i could fast forward another 30 years and see how it all panned out!
 
I can't think of another club, anywhere in the world, who I would most like to see get some serious investment than West Ham.

I don't believe in "second clubs", I think that smacks of the modern fan a bit too much. But I've always had a great admiration for them and their fans. I would love it if they could get bought out and become serious players , much like ourselves. It would be ace (providing they didn't get too close to ourselves in power terms obviously!)
 
Kazzydeyna said:
I can't think of another club, anywhere in the world, who I would most like to see get some serious investment than West Ham.

I don't believe in "second clubs", I think that smacks of the modern fan a bit too much. But I've always had a great admiration for them and their fans. I would love it if they could get bought out and become serious players , much like ourselves. It would be ace (providing they didn't get too close to ourselves in power terms obviously!)
Click to expand...

I lived in Sheffield for a few years and, in my opinion, its a fabulous footballing city and I would love to see either United or Wednesday get a decent owner. I now live in London and do not disagree with your comments about West Ham.
 
Como Cat said:
I lived in Sheffield for a few years and, in my opinion, its a fabulous footballing city and I would love to see either United or Wednesday get a decent owner. I now live in London and do not disagree with your comments about West Ham.
Click to expand...
Always like west ham.
Great fans who have had fuck all to cheer.
 
Wreckless Alec said:
Very good. I'd love West Ham to benefit from similar investment. That would really wind them up.
Click to expand...

I think it would put Arsenal over the edge. The death rate amongst Arsenal fans would rocket, with people choking on their couscous or driving their electric twat mobiles over the edge of a cliff.
I would love another fan base to experience what we have. Especially one so similar to our own as West Ham. Mark being happy is a drawback, but I suppose I could live with it.
 
stony said:
I think it would put Arsenal over the edge. The death rate amongst Arsenal fans would rocket, with people choking on their couscous or driving their electric twat mobiles over the edge of a cliff.
I would love another fan base to experience what we have. Especially one so similar to our own as West Ham. Mark being happy is a drawback, but I suppose I could live with it.
Click to expand...

Electric twat mobiles - quality! Someone should stick that on Attwood's Twitter ;)
West Ham are definitely the elephant in the room for me - instead of worrying about what City are doing, the pontificators from the usual suspect clubs should be more concerned that another club joining the party is potentially more damaging. Bring it on I say.
 
M18CTID said:
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 ;)
Click to expand...
Arsenal fan in "completely misses the point" shocker.

Like DD says, I don't think many blues really understand where this leaves us, its too big, I'd love to hear uefas opinion, but that much smaller things to worry about.

When I got up on Tuesday and saw it on the BBC's news page, I only really glanced at it in passing, then later in the day started reading up about some of those we're involved with, its little wonder most football fans can't really get their heads round it. Samuel is doing a good job, but I doubt many have really read much into it.
 
TFC said:
I dunno about West Ham, if they were to get serious investment it would be akin to rewarding Mark for those shit album of the day threads ;)
Click to expand...

If his fate were truly to be defined by those threads he'd be buried alive so let the investment commence.
 
Does anyone know when are we likely to start seeing this deal make an impact and what are the first signs to look for? E.g. is that weibo thing gonna get more followers? Is the chinese media gonna start plugging city? When will we see a difference in turnover etc?
 
I suspect that this has already been mentioned, but Sun Jihai' appointment as our Ambassador in China makes even more sense now.

The club and the CFG are both going to be giants in a few years' time and I can't fucking wait!
 
The Fat el Hombre said:
Does anyone know when are we likely to start seeing this deal make an impact and what are the first signs to look for? E.g. is that weibo thing gonna get more followers? Is the chinese media gonna start plugging city? When will we see a difference in turnover etc?
Click to expand...

We might get a kick in weibo followers (doesn't seem to have been much of one yet though) but honestly the ramifications of this deal will likely only be felt in Manchester in a decade or more. This deal is going to take a while to get going in the first place, and when it does it's primarily going to be about City investing in China, not about China investing in City.

As NYCFC and Melbourne City have shown, it will take several years to build up a winning team in China, and after that happens we will have to wait for the drip effect to take place as the chinese slowly get interested in football (if we are being honest, it's not going to be a short term thing) and then many of them to (hopefully) opt for the CFG Chinese team over others. Even accounting for the reputation of Asian fans as inveterate glory hunters it's unlikely that those who support whichever team we buy (not convinced it would work to found a brand new team in a non-franchised league) will likely not adopt City as their second team in their swathes as they will already have second teams who are probably one of our direct rivals already. In all honesty we will be waiting for the next generation of Chinese football fans to come into the sport before we see any real effects.

Even then, I think people are greatly exaggerating the potential financial ramifications for City. Foreign fans don't tend to bring in a half of the money people claim they do - the reason the scum and Real etc make so much money is at the end of the day their sponsorships not their merchandising. While they both do make a lot of money off merchandising too, I think you'll find it's still heavily weighted towards their home markets. Merch in Asia might be worth £10m or even £20m a season, but at the end of the day that only buys 1/3 of a player these days; it's not going to revamp our finances.

The real money for us is going to come in when China suddenly gets willing to shell out billions a year on Premier League TV rights - which obviously will benefit every club in the league, not just us - and when Chinese companies follow this trend and line up far bigger sponsorship deals than we see right now. The thing is, if China does commit to football in this way, the CFG Chinese team will benefit from the increased TV revenues and sponsorships more than we will, as it will actually be based in the target market for those companies - same as British TV companies will never pay higher rates for foreign football than for its own product.
 
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