Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

Kippaxpete said:
'This is the story which the London-based media has chosen to ignore.'
Oh it's far worse than than that. You only need to take a gander at this deeply prejudiced, ill-informed piece from The Guardian in 2022 to know that there's a barely disguised, negative agenda against our club and its owners on the part of the mainstream media.

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How a great English city sold itself to Abu Dhabi’s elite – and not even for a good price | Aditya Chakrabortty

Manchester’s Labour council let Sheikh Mansour buy up acres of public land for seemingly a fraction of its worth, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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This article was full of lies. It was debunked by the council comprehensively.
 
waspish said:
The glazers haven't because they'd had to loan more money
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Exactly- housing is a long term sure bet for hedge funds and institutional investors that have the cash and want a 50 year return.

You don't borrow to do that and it isn't their area.

The money has helped regenerate east Manchester, but Manchester has a woeful record on affordable housing delivery and 3,000 homeless households in Temporary Accommodation. Not the fault of the investors but myopic by the Council. Manchester is an expensive place to live but still very deprived, a dystopian housing situation.
 
Kippaxpete said:
'This is the story which the London-based media has chosen to ignore.'
Oh it's far worse than than that. You only need to take a gander at this deeply prejudiced, ill-informed piece from The Guardian in 2022 to know that there's a barely disguised, negative agenda against our club and its owners on the part of the mainstream media.

www.google.co.uk

How a great English city sold itself to Abu Dhabi’s elite – and not even for a good price | Aditya Chakrabortty

Manchester’s Labour council let Sheikh Mansour buy up acres of public land for seemingly a fraction of its worth, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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‘Struggling football club’? Yeah ok. Finished 9th in the Premier League and average attendance of 42,000, the 5th best in the country. Many clubs dream about struggling like that!
 
Mike N said:
‘Struggling football club’? Yeah ok. Finished 9th in the Premier League and average attendance of 42,000, the 5th best in the country. Many clubs dream about struggling like that!
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They have this strange impression we were Stockport County level before we hit the gas guzzling jackpot, fits the narrative I suppose. Regardless of the takeover, our support has always been top notch
 
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The Glazers don't have money to invest. Their mode of business is to borrow to buy things, and then load the debt onto the company, and use the company to pay off the debt (or in United's case, not).

City's owners have shit loads of money that they need to spend, and they spend/invest it with the intention of making more money. The reason they have shit loads of money is because they were born into the right family, in a country where the monarchy owns most of the country's wealth.

As 'custodians' of a football club, one is certainly better than the other. I can also understand the argument that, after the 2008 crash, Manchester needed investment, but not sure we should be quite so unquestioningly grateful.
 
Reading comments on here and the expansion thread. Would we have been better creating an exhibit centre instead of the Arena and then down the line turning the stadium into an Arena and building a new stadium with a higher capacity 100,000 instead of 60,000 -70,000 ?
 
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