FFP reprise ..an article about our owners

Dribble said:
Mate, I think you've got the whole essence of the article wrong and surely you can see that? We've used our business acumen, football expertise backed by our financial status to advance our club, which is different to 'throwing our weight around' like some playground bully.

They say a fool and his money are soon parted and believe me our owner is no fool as he has subsequently proved. Yes, we've ruffled the feathers of Europe's elite, but this was not by design it was by consequence. Europe's 14 elite clubs have basically ran European football to suit their own interests for the last 2 decades, so when City came along and the reality of the situation began to dawn on the G14, they reacted just like the privileged would, they came out fighting to protect their way of life.

A version of FFP had been on the table for years previously and it was there as a noble attempt to tackle the issue of growing debt within the game due to spiralling costs. City come along and the emphasis of the early FFP was shifted from controlling debt by over borrowing, to clubs living within their means as a way of controlling debt. Still this sounded fine until you peeled away the first layer of the onion only to find this model also inhibited genuine affordable owner investment which in turn would enshrine a place at Europe's top table for those already sat there feasting on the fatted calf of CL football.

Allowing a club model like ours to come along unchallenged would mean places at the top table being lost by G14 members, so the likes of Bayern all backed a methodology that would stop us and those like us dead in our tracks, so FFP as we know it was born. It was obvious from the beginning, it was aimed at Manchester City and you as a City fan surely must have seen this.

This article is just purely a sneering, post FFP dig at us by a fan of a club displaced by City. Villa were at the front of the chasing pack when our owner first emerged, whilst right now they're favourites for relegation. This article was written through the teary eyes of a broken hearted, bitter football fan who saw his owners model of getting rid of high earning players and buying lower earning players with potential fail miserably, and the internet has provided him with a platform to vent his spleen.
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Post of 2016 so far.
 
We should make a list if journalistas and their links to other organizations and clubs. It would at least help find out where the patterns of sh-t throwing comes from.
 
Wrong assumption made by this and similar diatribes is that the motivation of super rich owners investing in football clubs is to make money. Sheik Mansour is hardly concerned about the odd billion here and there, but I bet he was fucking delighted when we won the title.
 
mammutly said:
Wrong assumption made by this and similar diatribes is that the motivation of super rich owners investing in football clubs is to make money. Sheik Mansour is hardly concerned about the odd billion here and there, but I bet he was fucking delighted when we won the title.
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A bit of an over-simplification there, mammulty? I suspect that if the Sheik wasn't interested in piling up more money, he'd invest in nothing. Interest in City may well have started out as a publicity venture or even a dalliance but, undoubtedly, the image and all that entails (successful or otherwise, well-run or otherwise, socially conscious or otherwise etc) is now intrinsically linked with that of Abu Dhabi.
In this respect, it is vital to them that City be seen as a good organ to do business with (tee-hee! I said "organ"!) and by extension so also is Abu Dhabi. So, make no mistake, it may be small potatoes in the grand scheme of things but the Sheik wants to make money.

Also, not unlike Alan Sugar, JP McManus, Donald Trump, Mrs Windsor of Buckingham (not forgetting, of course our erudite friend, Mr Davies-Moustache Esq.) and other such inhabitants of those somewhat tacky, tabloid Rich Lists, I would contend that for all their undoubted magnanimity in certain situations and despite their repeated protestations to the contrary, the evidence is staring us in the face that the rich (and probably especially the super-rich) do like making more and more money.
 
unexpected item said:
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.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
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You've got to love this bit:

When contacted by Sportsmail, a FIFA spokesman responded: ‘We are not in a position to provide information on the number of hypothetical proceedings allegedly pending against a certain party.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ot-water-FIFA-missing-fees.html#ixzz42gNq5OS3
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Talk about covering your ass.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
I did wonder if you'd lost your marbles when you posted that.
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I should have said a different 'bin Zayed Al Nathan' rather than 'Mansour' specifically Sheik Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Sheik Hamad bin Zayed Al Nahyan - but yeah I am - losing my marbles that is.

I note the Mail has amended their story to make it clear that Sheikh Mansour is only an honorary vice chairman. I wonder how much they paid to charity for that gaff?
 
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