FFP reprise ..an article about our owners

[squirtyflower]

think your reading too much into it , whats wrong with this for eg

Mansour has invested an estimated £1.2bn in Man City since his takeover in 2008, but since the initial cash explosion his intelligent investments (in infrastructure and global branding, increasing their revenue by around 300 per cent since 2009) have led to Man City’s annual losses halving year on year since the £197 million registered in 2011. Not only are they about to become profitable and snuggly positioned as one of the world’s most powerful brands, but the recent £265 million investment from a Chinese consortium for a 13 per cent stake has valued the club, as a whole, at £2bn. In simple terms, that means that Sheikh Mansour’s eight year venture has already yielded him an outright profit of £800 million (if he were to sell today).

You have been very selective my friend
The article does finish like that but suggest we got to that point by bullying, threatening and cheating our way.
It's a piece of shit written by some jealous ****

 

[jaiguruKun]

think your reading too much into it , whats wrong with this for eg

Mansour has invested an estimated £1.2bn in Man City since his takeover in 2008, but since the initial cash explosion his intelligent investments (in infrastructure and global branding, increasing their revenue by around 300 per cent since 2009) have led to Man City’s annual losses halving year on year since the £197 million registered in 2011. Not only are they about to become profitable and snuggly positioned as one of the world’s most powerful brands, but the recent £265 million investment from a Chinese consortium for a 13 per cent stake has valued the club, as a whole, at £2bn. In simple terms, that means that Sheikh Mansour’s eight year venture has already yielded him an outright profit of £800 million (if he were to sell today).

The tone of the article suggests that our financial stability is something to be denigrated not celebrated.

 

[Blueknows]

You have been very selective my friend
The article does finish like that but suggest we got to that point by bullying, threatening and cheating our way.
It's a piece of shit written by some jealous ****

where does it suggest bullying , threatening and cheating ? still cant see where your coming from

 

[fallowfield]

You have been very selective my friend
The article does finish like that but suggest we got to that point by bullying, threatening and cheating our way.
It's a piece of shit written by some jealous ****

100% correct
Says we laughed off threat of FFP with series of legal threats. Utter bollox.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Sounds like our owner might be making another billion very soon, just to rub a few more noses in it.

If Amanda Staveley has her way, Barclays will pay a dear price for allegedly trying to con her and Shiekh Mansour, having bailed them out, yet offering the Qataris secret preferential terms.

And that's after making £3bn plus his £1.5bn stake returned.

Our owner really doesn't need to bend rules, he makes them.

 

[squirtyflower]

where does it suggest bullying , threatening and cheating ? still cant see where your coming from

It's bad enough that you had me click on that rag without me doing it again to point out each and every lie, mis truth and slur in the article
Suffice to say others have read it and thought the same

 

[unexpected item]

And the Mail reports HRH is '..in hot water with FIFA'

A believer in conspiracies might think it is part of a co-ordinated attack.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

 

[paulchapo]

I won't read the article because we know the format of these things by now and the title alone suggests just that. Everybody agrees that football is now big business. In business people invest and swallow up the smaller competition and football is no different.It has been going on for years and it was perfectly acceptable when it was the same clubs doing it,it was when their monopoly was threatened suddenly all the new rules popped up.

If anything WE were bullied and cheated and obstructed every step of the way and it was the Italian clubs I believe wanted the rules relaxing to compete again as they were starting to lose out. When I look at some of the blatant decisions going against us in the league in some of our games I wonder if they have not found another way. For the brand of the premier league how great would it be for Leicester to win the league?

 

[waspish]

The article is not from city's point of view it's mainly bile disingenuous claptrap fron the mind of a bitter no nowt!

What is it with the media that they don't do real research about a subject before writing it.

 

[lancs blue]

I'm guessing that the author of the Indy article is a scouser as his closing sentence suggests it would be a good idea if Everton and Liverpool followed the "super-rich" route. The bit that made me chuckle was the idea that European football's net debt had fallen significantly solely due to FFP, I thought it was mainly down to the various inflated TV deals and the trickle down effect of City and PSG splashing hundreds of millions on transfers.