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

[Prestwich_Blue]

Related party sponsorships are perfectly legal under FFP. They're just subject to a fair value test
m expecting United to

In response united about to be sponsored by travel lodge

I doubt Travelodge would want to damage their brand reputation by associating with the football equivalent of a doss house.

 

[mrbelfry]

We can't really let our competition dictate who we get into sponsorship deals with. This should be decided by the big wigs at City. No sponsorship would ever be legit enough. If apple or amazon sponsor us it will only be because Sheik Mansour bought a couple of trillion fire sticks to bury in the desert.

 

[Sir peace frog]

There’s certain things the club don’t or won’t do to improve our image, one of them is to get rid of Etihad and all the signage, get them off our kit, off our stadium name etc etc Etihad is pure toxic, it perpetuates the myth that the others cling to. I would rather we cut a less lucrative deal and juggle our books even if that means cutting a player or two, it’s now way past a joke. The Etihad deal is a millstone, my understanding is it’s about 10% of our total income and these days hardly represents a good deal.

jam tomorrow, i presume youve had vodka today, grow a pair

 

[meltonblue]

I do care how other see us. I find sadness when Liverpool fans put on twitter , nothing to see here , meaning that City keep on cheating , that tweet is then retweeted 1000 times.
Personaly I know we are not cheating but with this deal we are giving all our enemy fuel on the fire.
I know I should not care but I do , Our owners want bigger global fanbase, I think it is time to be more global , our partners deals with Abu Dhabi Company´s are the only thing they have left to beat us with. UEFA ban and CAS had everything to do with sponsors income and relations to our owner.
Again I know we did nothing wrong, but UEFA did and everyone else did think we did cheat.
I want something else then Etihad as our mane sponsors , we are big enough to find another partner, when that happenes we can finally say fuck you to everyone.

I get this to an extent. Ultimately though, we have an Abu Dhabi owner. Why wouldn’t he want to promote Abu Dhabi companies if he could? Mike Ashley wasn’t going to lease out the stadium rights for Newcastle when he had that to JD Sports.

 

[Norbert D]

jam tomorrow, i presume youve had vodka today, grow a pair

How dare you! I have a nice set of moobs!

 

[Eebo]

I do care how other see us. I find sadness when Liverpool fans put on twitter , nothing to see here , meaning that City keep on cheating , that tweet is then retweeted 1000 times.
Personaly I know we are not cheating but with this deal we are giving all our enemy fuel on the fire.
I know I should not care but I do , Our owners want bigger global fanbase, I think it is time to be more global , our partners deals with Abu Dhabi Company´s are the only thing they have left to beat us with. UEFA ban and CAS had everything to do with sponsors income and relations to our owner.
Again I know we did nothing wrong, but UEFA did and everyone else did think we did cheat.
I want something else then Etihad as our mane sponsors , we are big enough to find another partner, when that happenes we can finally say fuck you to everyone.

So do you really think fans of other clubs will be nice about us just because we have different sponsors? They don’t actually give a toss about our sponsors, they just hate the fact we are successful and will find something else to use to put us down even if we were sponsored by Greenpeace and Amnesty International.

 

[Bozzie]

I get this to an extent. Ultimately though, we have an Abu Dhabi owner. Why wouldn’t he want to promote Abu Dhabi companies if he could? Mike Ashley wasn’t going to lease out the stadium rights for Newcastle when he had that to JD Sports.

Most sponsorship deals are based on some form of relationship so it'll be interesting see what impact these new PL sponsorship rules have on the clubs in the league if they're ever implemented. Yes, it might clip Newcastle's wings but if sponsorship deals become tied up in red tape, delays and particularly if the PL try and overstep their mark and use their investigations as a fishing exercise then I can see some angry CEO's if they lose sponsors or are forced to accept lower deals. Equally of course, we'll see if deals are investigated across all the clubs without fear or favour.

 

[Silva2021]

Be a sad day when the Etihad sponsorship finishes.

I can’t see why it would, possibly the kit but I can’t see the value for the stadium sponsor and campus having the same value for another company.

This is no conspiracy but it is known as the Etihad, if it became the Amazon Stadium it would still be known as the Etihad.

Think of the Emirates

 

[HypnoticBlue]

Be a sad day when the Etihad sponsorship finishes.

I can’t see why it would, possibly the kit but I can’t see the value for the stadium sponsor and campus having the same value for another company.

This is no conspiracy but it is known as the Etihad, if it became the Amazon Stadium it would still be known as the Etihad.

Think of the Emirates

Same as the Reebok for Bolton or the Nynex for the MEN Arena, people always refer to places as they were originally.

 

[mexico1970]

Be a sad day when the Etihad sponsorship finishes.

I can’t see why it would, possibly the kit but I can’t see the value for the stadium sponsor and campus having the same value for another company.

This is no conspiracy but it is known as the Etihad, if it became the Amazon Stadium it would still be known as the Etihad.

Think of the Emirates

I still call it maine rd sometimes even though it has never been maine rd, I call the emirates highbury .

There will be people who live in Southampton who still call their stadium "The Friends Provident". ;)

 

[KS55]

Equally of course, we'll see if deals are investigated across all the clubs without fear or favour.

See that pig flying across the sky?

 

[bluekeith]

I see we have another one

ABU DHABI, 6th January, 2022 (WAM) -- Manchester City today announced a new global partnership with Masdar, which will see the renewable energy and sustainable development company become an Official Partner of the Club

 

[waspish]

I see we have another one

ABU DHABI, 6th January, 2022 (WAM) -- Manchester City today announced a new global partnership with Masdar, which will see the renewable energy and sustainable development company become an Official Partner of the Club

That’s 2 in two days I did say when they brought this in we should get 100 sponsors under 1m :))

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Be a sad day when the Etihad sponsorship finishes.

I can’t see why it would, possibly the kit but I can’t see the value for the stadium sponsor and campus having the same value for another company.

This is no conspiracy but it is known as the Etihad, if it became the Amazon Stadium it would still be known as the Etihad.

Think of the Emirates

I'd love for it to go back to something like the city of manchester stadium again, or just something without a sponsorship attached to it.

 

[bluekeith]

That’s 2 in two days I did say when they brought this in we should get 100 sponsors under 1m :))

I think we are going to have to get the biggest pot on the market for all the boiling piss that is coming our way

 

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

 

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

Manchester City announce global partnership with Masdar

Premier League Champions Manchester City today announced a new global partnership with Masdar, which will see the renewable energy and sustainable development company become an Official Partner of the Club.

www.mancity.com

Masdar,(Arabic:مصدر‎), also known as the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, is a UAE-government owned renewable energy company based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Masdar is a subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company and was founded by the UAE government in 2006.

 

[Sir peace frog]

we should get venkys chicken to sponsor us, great commercials

 

[jrb]

City boiling renewable green piss since 2022.

 

[Doctor Jimmy and Mr Jim]

There’s certain things the club don’t or won’t do to improve our image, one of them is to get rid of Etihad and all the signage, get them off our kit, off our stadium name etc etc Etihad is pure toxic, it perpetuates the myth that the others cling to. I would rather we cut a less lucrative deal and juggle our books even if that means cutting a player or two, it’s now way past a joke. The Etihad deal is a millstone, my understanding is it’s about 10% of our total income and these days hardly represents a good deal.

I'm not sure I follow the logic of this. Firstly, why should the club have to improve our image to appease a bunch of mindless bigoted cretins who are ill informed about our owner/club at best and racist at worst? Secondly, why would removing the Etihad name change anything with regard to our image? The Etihad brand isn't toxic. This "myth that others cling to" - or as I prefer to put it, the bile that they spout - is based on far wider reaching issues than the name of an airline that sponsors us. You just need to listen to the recent rant by that idiot off QI to understand that. Does the Emirates brand make Arsenal toxic? The Russian government isn't exactly a paragon of virtue but is the association that Utd has with Aeroflot toxic? The answer to both is no ....and ask yourself why that is. If you think naming the stadium or having our shirt sponsored by British Airways will solve anything and get rid of this 'myth', think again....because it won't.