Well this thread has been a fascinating read this Saturday morning. Posters coming at it from different angles and not yet being insulted because of their views. Is this because they are not empty ships and can understand the complexities of City’s ownership rather than other threads where the empty ships make most sound. Anyway I would like to give you all a like for your contributions today because it has given me a little more insight into City’s ownership. What I am taking from it is that these constant attacks on our ownership will never stop and is indeed political plus the need of our detractors to keep a larger piece of the pie. All City can do is keep winning and eventually people will see that the way to run a football club is the City way not like the greedy ones who just want the pie to themselves. Phew, going to have a cup of tea now in my bone china cup, which I bought with my money, as opposed to my mate who drinks his out of a pint sized mug, which he bought with his money, and he calls me a snob. I ask him why I cant buy whatever type of cup I want, and he has no answer, the rag supporting fool married to a scouse red. PS. plus a nice piece of fruit cake;-)
Is he an absolute monarch though when UAE has an elected President and written constitution?Explain to me the difference between a nation's wealth and ones personal wealth, when you're an absolute monarch?
I think you'll find the clue lies in the word absolute.
then why are they unpopular owners with just about anyone other than us?As long as a club owner's wealth is not the result of criminal activity, from whence it came should be immaterial, and in the fit and proper test it is immaterial.
The racism you allude to is the assumption by too many football fans, that because are owners are who they are, Arabs, they must be up to something shifty, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Human rights and sports washing? That's bullshit, City is just a handy high profile vehicle to promote a political cause.
What became BP was one of the first oil companies in what became UAE when it was still a British protectorate.And there you have it. But it's not ‘wop’ oil, you see.
By the way, I can't speak for Abu Dhabi. But the oil giants, Exxon, BP, Texaco, are balls deep in Middle Eastern oil interests and always have been. It was one of the main reasons for the first Gulf war. it was nothing to do with human rights in Kuwait. The Strait of Hormuz — through which a huge chunk of the world's oil passes every day — could not be threatened by Saddam Hussein controlling Kuwait. This idea that the west is somehow clean and detached from Middle Eastern sources of wealth is based on pig ignorance or, just as reprehensible, pure bad faith.
By the way, wonder if Tebas runs a petrol-driven car or two. Cheers, mate…
I think it is Klopps dentist.I have been asking the same question about Newton. Does anyone know?
It must be an exciting election when a limited few have only one candidate they can vote for who has been named as successor.Is he an absolute monarch though when UAE has an elected President and written constitution?
I think it’s a simple distraction tactics . He must be facing loads of shit thrown at him by madrid and barca .All seems embarrassingly desperate from a man seemingly losing the plot. Makes me feel quite smug if anything. Shows where the power lies at the moment, and now he's totally given the game away that he knows it
Is he an absolute monarch though when UAE has an elected President and written constitution?
then why are they unpopular owners with just about anyone other than us?