Manchester City's plan for global domination.

Excellent read.Just shows how everything is clicking into place. Unbelievable that it happened to us!

So glad Thaksin sold us to Sheikh Mansour
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
The PR team are clearly earning their crust, with this plus the recent FT article projecting us in a good light.

It's a good read, even if there's little new (and a mistake saying the 2012 title win was our first major trophy in 36 years) but I'm torn on this. I understand the vision and potentially it's a great idea to have feet on the ground in these countries but I really don't care about any club other than City. And I know people who watch NYCFC who are rags or otherwise hate us. So the supposition that we're going to become fans of these clubs or that Uruguayans will all become City fans is fanciful in my opinion. However these plans reinforce the notion that the Sheikh (or at least Abu Dhabi) aren’t getting bored anytime soon and will be around for quite a while.

Ultimately though, as the biggest club in the CFG stable, it's our success that will affect the perception and global popularity of the club. All over the USA there are fan clubs and these fans gather to watch games and, having watched games with some, in both Pittsburgh & Phoenix, they are passionate. My son said over 100 people watched last Sunday's match in the Kettle Black in downtown Phoenix, the overwhelming majority being blues.

My criticism, as a match-going fan, has always been that Garry Cook saw us as real people whereas Soriano sees us as cells on a spreadsheet. That he'd be happier having 40k in the stadium paying £60 each than 55k paying £40 each. That he'll look at revenue projections and say "Increase those by 5%" with no thought at all for the impact on a working class family with a couple of kids and an already stretched budget.

I also feel that the board & executives, in their rush to create a footballing Disneyworld, took their eye off the ball as far as City were concerned. One League Cup in 3 seasons without a serious challenge for the PL is simply not a good enough return for what we’ve spent and where we think we are now as a club. Hopefully that’ll be put right this season but I want sustained and consistent success and I believe it’s taken too long to put the right factors in place. We should also have focused on gaining a foothold in the corridors of power at the FA & PL but we still seem to be seen as a target and fair game for the likes of Wenger & Mourinho, who have got that foothold. To me, that would have served our purpose better than buying some club no one’s heard of in South America.
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I agree with all you wrote apart from the last sentence, gaining a foothold in the FA/PL will inevitably happen, buying the Uruguayan club is a good move, in my opinion of course.
 
Great article, and backs up something I've been meaning to start a thread on all week but been too busy:

Mansour
Khaldoon
Soriano
Begeristain
Guardiola.

The dream team. There is no better in world football. And only now is their combined intelligence and ability starting to bear fruit.
 
until we get an official tractor and noodle partner we are small fry i'm afraid ;-)
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Great article, and backs up something I've been meaning to start a thread on all week but been too busy:

Mansour
Khaldoon
Soriano
Begeristain
Guardiola.

The dream team. There is no better in world football. And only now is their combined intelligence and ability starting to bear fruit.
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This is the point I was making to an Arsenal fan the other day. In the days of the Invincibles, they'd had investment from Danny Fiszman, had great vision in the boardroom with Fiszman and Dein and they got in a progressive coach in Wenger. And it all fell into place (although they failed to capitalise). We're now at the same point.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
This is the point I was making to an Arsenal fan the other day. In the days of the Invincibles, they'd had investment from Danny Fiszman, had great vision in the boardroom with Fiszman and Dein and they got in a progressive coach in Wenger. And it all fell into place (although they failed to capitalise). We're now at the same point.
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Agreed, pal. Abu Dhabi have to take the credit. They know through their business dealings that to be the best you have to hire the best and look after them. It's taken a while and some long-term planning, but they are all in place now, across the senior management of the club. I wouldn't swap a single on of those 5 for anyone in world football. Obviously I haven't got insider knowledge on football executives at other clubs, but I can see the way that every one of those men oozes class, intelligence, gravitas and nous. They are the sort of people who achieve big things, and The Sheikh has given them the investment and the platform.

I know you and others have legitimate beefs at the micro level at some of the things the club overlooks or gets wrong. But when it comes to the big decisions, the big calls, the high-level negotations...these guys can handle it all easily.

On a simple level, I was listening to the radio earlier about all the clubs who are interested in Van Dyke, and now we have entered the race, and I just thought "If we want him we will get him" with absolute sureity. That's where we are already as a club: sitting right at the top table and maneuvering our way around to the head of that table.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
On a simple level, I was listening to the radio earlier about all the clubs who are interested in Van Dyke, and now we have entered the race, and I just thought "If we want him we will get him" with absolute sureity.
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He's 92 mate. Not sure we'd get much use out of him.

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I think the mistake City fans are still making is we are thinking the next 5 years is important whereas CFG are looking at 30 years. The first brillaint idea was the family stand, it was an expansion of the old Junior Blues, the idea being that you get the 8 year olds hooked and you have them for life, now they are rolling that out as a global idea. Get an 8 year old into New York City FC and he becomes a Manchester City fan as well.

Also do not forget, Abu Dhabi and CFG are not in this for football. To them it is a business and this is highlighted by the Chinese paragraph. The Chinese PM wants pitches and training facilities built, one big reason for this is obesity, football is merely a way to tackle that. The article states that the CFG are in the driving seat to get those facilities built therefore making the group even more money.
 
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