Manchester sold itself to Abu Dhabi’s elite - Guardian article

I read this article and came to the conclusion that this guy is motivated by anti Manchester City bias.
It's hidden in there, he's surely a fucking rag or a scouse cult follower trying his best to paint a nasty sordid picture of the Abu Dhabi group.
Manchester Council had swathes of derelict shitholes on the outskirts of the city due mainly to 90% of manufacturing going to China and Asia.
What can a council do with these huge area's of land/derelict buildings?
Then some mega rich Arabs come knocking wanting to transform these area's into something pleasant where people want to live, they offer a price where they can make some eventual profit (otherwise why would they bother)......what do you do ? Isnt profit why developers develop ? and why I imagine, hundreds if not thousands of new jobs are created.
It makes sense for all concerned to go with it. And be thankfull they didn't choose Detroit or some other city that used to manufacture and is still full of old slums.
It more than likely kept ratepayers bills down by a lot and solved a huge problem.
The journalist is nothing more than a biased a'hole attempting to turn public opinion against ADG.
A shining example of pathetic and biased media once again.
 
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This Richard Golding from the University of Sheffield is an embarrassment. Ludicrous “non story” that can only have been fuelled by a huge anti-City agenda.
East Manchester regenerated and transformed…….but Manchester City Council could have got possibly more money from the sale!!!
 
Bill Walker said:
I read this article and came to the conclusion that this guy is motivated by anti Manchester City bias.
It's hidden in there, he's surely a fucking rag or a scouse cult follower trying his best to paint a nasty sordid picture of the Abu Dhabi group.
Manchester Council had swathes of derelict shitholes on the outskirts of the city due mainly to 90% of manufacturing going to China and Asia.
What can a council do with these huge area's of land/derelict buildings?
Then some mega rich Arabs come knocking wanting to transform these area's into something pleasant where people want to live, they offer a price where they can make some eventual profit (otherwise why would they bother)......what do you do ? Isnt profit why developers develop ? and why I imagine, hundreds if not thousands of new jobs are created.
It makes sense for all concerned to go with it. And be thankfull they didn't choose Detroit or some other city that used to manufacture and is still full of old slums.
It more than likely kept ratepayers bills down by a lot and solved a huge problem.
The journalist is nothing more than a biased a'hole attempting to turn public opinion against ADG.
A shining example of pathetic and biased media once again.
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Spot on. And a fair bit of it is brownfield land that has been decontaminated and made safe for use at a cost to the investors n’all.
 
There is an attempt now been made across the media to link the ownership model of Newcastle to the ownership model of City. The owners of Newcastle, I believe, is the Saudi Investment fund which is state owned whilst City is owned privately by three investors based in China, America and Abu Dhabi, completely different. We as supporters just need to relax, put our slippers on, light our pipes get a beer from the fridge and wait for the next sponsored academic, press and tv report claiming nonsense about City and its owners. As I said in an earlier post it is City’s owners who have made this area "prime real estate" no one else and when it is finished, the stadium and coop live will bring employment to more people in this area than it did in the post war years. Manchester got a good deal when our owners came and transformed this wasteland of contaminated land and regenerated a part of the city that was in terminal decline. They can't do anything about that success story so chip away with insinuations about sportwashing and human rights in other countries and ignoring the shoot to kill policies and interment on Caribbean islands that happen nearer home.
 
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Cotontoquinn said:
This Richard Golding from the University of Sheffield is an embarrassment. Ludicrous “non story” that can only have been fuelled by a huge anti-City agenda.
East Manchester regenerated and transformed…….but Manchester City Council could have got possibly more money from the sale!!!
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Hes a rag apparently
 
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