City & FFP | 2020/21 Accounts released | Revenues of £569.8m, £2.4m profit (p 2395)

bobbyowenquiff said:
That's a fair point. There are a few factual errors in the article (relating to the time barred stuff) but broadly it is just a background article which explains our business model. How can it be wrong for example for the Emirates Palace, the leading hotel in Abu Dhabi, to be one of our partners? The hotel has been given amazing exposure from its links with MCFC.
I also thought the reference to LFC having lower revenues than us is strange. Despite Liverpool's global reach they have underperformed badly for most of the last 12 years and City have overtaken them. We have probably been the most successful club in world football in the last decade..that has to come with a financial bonus.
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LFC has done relatively poorly in sponsorship in recent years whereas we have gone from strength to strength. Soriano transformed Barca's commercial operation and he is repeating the trick here. Lucky us to have some great execs.
 
pavelsrnicek said:
That Crafton article is pretty poorly written, full of insinuations, ignorance and innuendo. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing.

It’s carrion for the old money brigade and is a poor indictment of the Athletic’s declining journalistic standards.
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Declining journalistic standards ? The Athletic is nothing more than a repackage of the same old dross…. You genuinely cannot polish a turd….
 
The article, although there are some subtle digs and insinuations, plus some misleading and plain incorrect stuff about CAS/UEFA, actually showcases the absolute genius of our business model.

Qatar tried to copy it with PSG but they were about as subtle as a Bernard Manning joke. There are so many intertwined relationships, and the price of some of those is a City sponsorship agreement. The Hays sponsorship didn't come about by us ringing them out of the blue and saying "Fancy chucking a few quid in?"

Yes - Sheikh Mansour has put in a phenomenal amount of money but the return, in both success and value, has more than paid off.
 
I agree that the article isn’t that bad. However, it comes across to me as a very long winded way of trying to find some dirt on us but admitting we’ve not done anything wrong, while acknowledging that other clubs in the Premier League also have sponsors linked to their owners.

Now that we’ve been cleared of any wrongdoing by the highest sporting arbitration court in the world, the narrative seems to have moved on from certain clubs claiming that we’re cheating FFP to it not being fair that we have owners and employees who have a good network of commercial contacts across the globe. Well boo fucking hoo and pass me the world’s smallest violin. That’s called business you bitter cunts!

Oh, and the “well placed” anonymous source in the last paragraph saying it’s hard for Liverpool and Arsenal to get extra sponsorship income because they don’t have sponsors “known well” to those who run their clubs ought to do his/her fucking research before spouting such shite. After all, this is the same Liverpool whose Boston-based owners signed a club record kit deal some years back with a Boston-based kit manufacturer. Definitely a sheer coincidence that they were both from the same city and not known well to each other at all. Honest.

And if I’m not mistaken, didn’t United sign a sponsorship deal with Chevrolet, only for the guy at Chevrolet who brokered it to later be sacked by his employer for agreeing a figure for the deal that was deemed to be too high by his bosses? I could be wrong but I very much doubt that that particular sponsorship came about because Ewar Woowar decided to do a bit of cold calling ffs!
 
M18CTID said:
I agree that the article isn’t that bad...
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M18CTID said:
However, it comes across to me as a very long winded way of trying to find some dirt on us but admitting we’ve not done anything wrong, while acknowledging that other clubs in the Premier League also have sponsors linked to their owners.

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Surely that makes it a poor article? Pure click bait where they waffle on and on while using terms such as "critics would say..." & "City are understood to..." so they sound unbiased and are reporting facts only. I've no idea what to make of "Sheikh Mansour, whose name is sung by the City supporters..."

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And if I’m not mistaken, didn’t United sign a sponsorship deal with Chevrolet, only for the guy at Chevrolet who brokered it to later be sacked by his employer for agreeing a figure for the deal that was deemed to be too high by his bosses? I could be wrong but I very much doubt that that particular sponsorship came about because Ewar Woowar decided to do a bit of cold calling ffs!
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If I remember rightly, Chevrolet also persuaded them to lower the sponsorship deal as well as firing the guy who okayed it. I wonder how many off shore bank accounts he has?
 
CharliesRightPeg said:
Reading that. A lot of it seems to be, City's board has links worldwide. Rich people like to work with rich people who they've worked with before. City's board has the connections to take advantage of when they need to
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Spot on and why not.
Do you think the scum would be in the financial mess they are in now if shopping and retail had soared rathjer than dived due to Covid.
The Glazers would be letting their malls to the highest bidder and there would be plenty.
 
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