Daily Fail - They will try anyting to bury the club!

Smell the fear, I bet Rob Draper is a supporter of one of the old top 4

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Rob Draper has form for this, it's pretty obvious he has an agenda

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1252622/Roberto-Mancini-facing-players-revolt-Manchester-City.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... -City.html</a>
 
<a class="postlink" href="http://m.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/sep/10/manchester-city-champions-league?cat=football&type=article" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://m.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2 ... pe=article</a>

Something nice from the Guardian.
 
It must be the first of a series. Next will be about Abramovich's links to the Putin regime, which murders its critics while doling out fortunes to its friends.

Then we should see one about the delightful Alisher Usmanov at Arsenal and his links to the appalling Uzbekistan regime.

The business practices of the Glazers should be next, followed by the links of any other American owners to the establishment there.
 
Dom38 said:
http://m.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/sep/10/manchester-city-champions-league?cat=football&type=article

Something nice from the Guardian.
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I don't read that as complimentary either. I know, I am paranoid
 
FFS Cookster, not hard to copy/paste.



Garry Cook's departure from his job at Manchester City in the aftermath of his latest gaffe may suggest the club's Abu Dhabi owners will not allow anything to tarnish the image of their expensive asset.

But it remains to be seen whether sacking a hapless chief executive will gloss over the more serious concerns many in football - and beyond the confines of the sport - have about the Champions League's latest addition.
Perception problem: Owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (left) with former chief executive Garry Cook (centre) and chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak (right)
Even as Cook clears his desk and City prepare for their elevation to Europe's elite by taking on Napoli this week, further questions will be posed about the suitability of the involvement of the Abu Dhabi's ruling Nahyan dynasty in football.

Most doubts have centred on the ability of City's owner, Sheik Mansour, and his family, who control an emirate sitting on nine per cent of the world's oil reserves, to amass the likes of Sergio Aguero, David Silva, Edin Dzeko and a whole squad of superstars in an unprecedented £380million spending spree in three years.

No fan of the model: UEFA president Michel Platini
The audible murmur from the crowd of UEFA and club delegates when City's name was read out at the recent Champions League draw was interpreted as an indication of the hostility directed at the club by the game's traditional elite.
City, having finally returned to the top table of European football after 41 years, do not seem to be universally welcome.

Michel Platini, UEFA's president, has admitted that he does not like City's model of buying success and many City fans feel UEFA's Financial Fair Play regulations, which come into force in 2013, are aimed at curtailing their club.

Yet, perhaps more pertinently, when the likes of Samir Nasri, Yaya Toure and Nigel de Jong run out at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday night to be greeted by a banner in Arabic thanking Mansour for supporting the club, five of the owner's countrymen will be languishing in Al-Wathba Prison in Abu Dhabi, facing up to five years' imprisonment for calling for constitutional reforms in the United Arab Emirates, the federal state in which Abu Dhabi is the major constituent part.

Ahmed Mansoor, Nasser bin Ghaith, Fahad Salim Dalk, Ahmed Abdul Khaleq and Hassan Ali al-Khamis are a mixed bunch: a human rights campaigner, an academic and a group of bloggers.
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As the Arab Spring gained momentum last April, with uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain and Libya, they are said to have committed a variety of offences that the authorities in the UAE claim breached a law which forbids insulting government officials or members of the royal families.

Some signed a public petition calling for universal suffrage and for the parliamentary body, the Federal National Council, to be given more power; another called for a boycott of this month's elections, claiming they were unrepresentative; others made allegations about the funding of poorer Emirates by Abu Dhabi.

All have been imprisoned since April, were charged in June and their trial is due on September 26, two days after elections to the Federal National Council.
Amnesty International are calling for their immediate release.

High life: Wigan Athletic's Maynor Figueroa (right) clatters intoTevez
Drewery Dyke, Amnesty's Middle East expert, said: 'There is nothing that I have seen in the calls they made for political reform or in the manner in which they did that which has suggested violence and no evidence has been brought to the court that has suggested it. These were peacefully made expressions of criticism.'

Dyke adds that the UAE should not be ashamed of many aspects of its human rights record.

But he said: 'This is exceptional and not in keeping with the vision of the United Arab Emirates espoused by its leaders. This hasn't happened before, to see this many people detained for expressing opinions.'
Shaking things up: Samir Nasri (right) and Sergio Aguero
One of the prisoners, Ahmed Mansoor, 42 and married, is an Abu Dhabi citizen and another, Nasser bin Ghaith, was a lecturer at the Abu Dhabi Sorbonne, the university modelled on the Paris original and set up, ironically, to demonstrate the emirate's openness to western ideas.

Figures close to the Abu Dhabi government claim that the five men are members of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is outlawed in the United Arab Emirates, and that this will become clear during the trial, although the men are not thought to have been charged with terrorism offences.

Durham University professor Christopher Davidson, author of Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond, insisted: 'These are peaceful, responsible intellectuals calling for democratic reform. The ruling family does not want reform or accountability.

'Abu Dhabi is a complete autocracy - any parliament or democracy that appears to exist is purely window dressing,
'They asked in a very polite way but they did cross the line because they talked about the need for constitutional monarchy. That is enough to get you locked up. Clearly what happens in Abu Dhabi doesn't compare to Saudi Arabia, Oman or Bahrain but it is a good reminder that, despite all of the lovely companies and the love of sport, Abu Dhabi is a dictatorship.'

The link between Abu Dhabi and Manchester City appears inextricable, given the involvement of Mansour, who is Minister of Presidential Affairs in the United Arab Emirates, and Abu Dhabi companies - airline Etihad, investment firm Aabar, the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority, all of which are controlled by the royal family of Abu Dhabi.

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Some argue that Manchester City are now a direct arm of Abu Dhabi's international foreign policy, although City say the club are not an official vehicle for Abu Dhabi.
'Manchester City is a private equity investment by Sheik Mansour,' said a City spokeswoman.

Certainly, though, the investment in City is seen as a public relations coup for the Nahyan dynasty.
'Buying City is essentially a means of convincing the West that they are good guys, reliable partners,' said Davidson.
Looking to Europe: Roberto Mancini
'In the past this has been done by buying weapons from the West or putting money into western universities, but sport is a fairly safe area and the Gulf states have latched on to this.
'It's a good way of smoothing relations, encouraging tourism, providing a pathway to investment in the UK and gaining visibility for companies like Aabar and Etihad.'

But as the rulers of Abu Dhabi have already discovered in their decision to work with Garry Cook, whose apparent mocking of City defender Nedum Onuoha's mother, Anthonia, in saying she was 'ravaged with cancer' shamed the club, high profile can also mean high risk.


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If I was the editor and had that dropped on my desk, I would have one question...............out on the piss then last night were you?

Racist fucking drivel. Nothing more. And if Platini says we are buying success, then remind me again who the most successful club in Europe has been? Real Madrid perhaps......home of the Galactico policy. Fucking lazy journalism. As I said, if GC goes, the fuckers will have the taste of blood in their mouths and guess what........
 
'Yet, perhaps more pertinently, when the likes of Samir Nasri, Yaya Toure and Nigel de Jong run out at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday night to be greeted by a banner in Arabic thanking Mansour for supporting the club, five of the owner's countrymen will be languishing in Al-Wathba Prison in Abu Dhabi'

What the fuck has that got to do with football? Wankers.


'Some argue that Manchester City are now a direct arm of Abu Dhabi's international foreign policy'

Manchester City - ruining Western - Middle East relationships since 2008.

Being serious, the media need to fuck right off.
 
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