Media Thread 2020/21

[KS55]

And he has made £765m back selling a 13% stake to the chinese investors and a 10% stake to silverlake

which means he is only out of pocket for approximately £150m he spent when he purchased the club.

Gotta think that 77% of the city football group is worth considerably more than £150m.

The man has made a killing, while at the same time making us the most successful premier league team over the past 10 years.
I was about to post that the man sure knows how to run a football club, but I am not sure he does, but he knows who does and employs them to do it. Khaldoon, Txiki and Ferran are those people.

As other posters have said the way we are organised is making red history clubs fearful for the future and rightly so.

He is certainly a very smart investor. Made a fortune by propping up Barclays in the banking crisis.

 

[SilverFox2]

The problem with articles like this is that it sustains a lie that MCFC are fundamentally different to other English football clubs in that they are owned and managed by an overseas state who are cynically manipulating football for their own ends but MCFC are not owned or controlled by the UAE state. Never once has MCFC been branded as a UAE club in England or in the UAE, npt by City's owner anyway, the only people who do so are a small current in the UK media who have a certain view of the world which colours their interpretation of it.

By their conduct they are telling the world that Arab Sheikhs are not fit and proper to own football clubs because they can not be separated from their nation-state but Russian, Uzbek oligarchs, Thai Junta/King associates, Chinese and US finance capital no problem. Mention this and they cry 'whataboutery' yes but you can't operate by these standards.

If you wish to discriminate then you will be viewed as such.

I think all journos have a position of bias which allows some of them to not only show extreme bias but also lie.
Because those who are affected usually have no vehicle to retaliate, they either ignore, sue or resort to trying to plead their innocence.

News no longer is reported, simply views of news with extremist journos hired by politically motivated, click bait seeking at best, media trying to survive or spread their propaganda.
Our owners prefer to publically ignore this provocation putting their money into a successful business plan rather than being sidetracked into fighting publically a battle of opinion.

When our income streams are affected or our objectives banned action will follow.

 

[madloaf]

From The Ringer :

"The Premier League is a manager’s league. We probably haven’t seen a depth of talent like the whip-smart minds in charge of teams all the way down the table. This season, amid unusually challenging circumstances, several of them distinguished themselves. Marcelo Bielsa was typically thrilling and strikingly effective at Leeds United. Scott Parker coached far beyond his means at relegated Fulham. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, through shrewd man management and some brave tactical tweaks, has converted many doubters with Manchester United’s second-place finish, especially given their advance to the Europa League final. Dean Smith, before injuries to key players derailed his Aston Villa team, led a joyously irreverent side to an early surge up the table. Brendan Rodgers has been excellent at Leicester City, bringing the best from their superbly recruited playing staff. Given the abundance of resources at Pep Guardiola’s disposal, it is sometimes difficult to assess the quality of his work: Limitless wealth should, in theory, mean that you win the league each year. Yet he has still managed to make his team evolve, and the game along with it. Most managers would not have regularly and successfully fielded İlkay Gündoğan as a central forward ahead of the club’s record goalscorer Sergio Agüero, but Guardiola is not most men. Yet the manager of the year, by a narrow margin, is David Moyes."

Fucking laughable.

 

[malg]

He is certainly a very smart investor. Made a fortune by propping up Barclays in the banking crisis.

He made a killing on that.

 

[Mike Cledford]

Conn has a problem. He's a few years younger than me but I suspect our experiences growing up, him in Prestwich and me in Crumpsall, were similar.

He may have gone shopping on Cheetham Hill with his grandma, probably on the bus. If she wanted chicken or a piece brisket, she went to the butcher. If she wanted bread, she went to the baker. Veg, to the greengrocer. Vimto, to the grocer. Milk or cheese, to the dairy shop. Etc. When she'd got everything they would have gone home, she'd have made a cup of tea with tea leaves in a pot, poured through a strainer and, at 5pm, the first programmes would start on the TV they rented. If it was cold, she might have put sme coal on the fire or put the gas heater on. There were 4 or 5 cinemas in walking distance of the house I grew up in, and she might have taken him to one of those. Polio and diptheria were real fears and catching measles, mumps and rubella was expected

If it was a Saturday, they might have watched the football results, of clubs owned by local small businessmen made good, like butcher Bob Lord, our own TV supplier, or a purveyor of bribes and rotten meat to councils. For these people, it elevated them into loal dignitaries, like modern days squires of the manor. One or two, like Liverpool and Arsenal, might have been owned by seriously rich families, who saw it as their civic duty to provide entertainment for the masses who worked for them and provided their riches.

Gradually the world changed. Supermarkets, where you could get everything under one roof, and there was at least one in every town. Central heating, mass car ownership, multiplex cinemas, where you had a choice of ten or more films. Not needing to wait for the results of matches, because you could watch or stream them live.

Football moved out of the realm of the local boy made good and became big business. Conn probably shops in supermarkets or online, owns more than one TV and car and has central heating. His kids will have been vaccinated and don't fear the childhood diseases he and I did.

He accepts this as part of modern life but he's never accepted football changing.

Where would people go in Cheetham Hill for Italian ice cream?
I knew Conn's father, Phillip, for a while and l liked him. He was a very jolly round man and the complete opposite to what l know of his son. He was a keen Bolton fan and was at Burnden when just after WW2 when they had a disaster.
As KS55 says you painted a familiar picture of life after the war but what about the Coop? Were you never sent on errands? I can remember many a dangerous mission to our local coop clutching the shopping list, ration book, 'divi' book and the cash. I joke about 'dangerous'. There was never anything for parents to worry about.

 

[Mike Cledford]

God, these relentless recycled articles in the Grauniad are boring beyond words. On and on and on they drone. The eyes of even those who are committed adherents to the stuff they spout must be glazing over by this time. Even the law of diminishing returns must be losing the will to live.

Imagine the poor proof reader having to check it time after time.
That's IF they ever proof read anything.

 

[BringBackSwales]

DC (David Conn, Dickhead ****, take your pick) is an irrelevant bitter twat, and he isn’t a City fan. Nobody reads the guardian, the only time I see what he writes is in this forum. Ignore the bait seeking fuckwit

 

[bluemanchester]

Look at it from Conn's point of view. He has a well paid job which usually involves a degree of originality yet he gets well paid and many column inches writing the same story different ways. Other journalists on national newspapers must shake their heads in disbelief when they have to do the hard miles looking for a new story. Did they have old rope shops in Cheetham Hill and Prestwich in the 60s, because if they did he must have bought it all.

 

[KS55]

When our income streams are affected or our objectives banned action will follow.

The trouble is, that is only half true.
1. You do not know when your income streams are affected. When a third party makes a decision not to deal with you because they believe the crap, most of the time you never hear of it. That is why you should not sit back and let it happen. The correct course is to head it off at the pass.
2. City spend little effort in reputation and issues management.
3. City are averse to litigation.

 

[Jazzman]

I used to get myself worked up by the likes of Conn, Delaney and the other nutters. But that was during the FFP case and they were sticking the knife in while the could. Now that’s over and were winning trophy after trophy, all I do is laugh. Writing about City having money 13 years after the takeover is funny as fuck.

They all say that though, all the time, and I find it highly irritating. For example the commentator on Sky Germany talked about our owners "unlimited resources" when they showed the Everton game on Sunday.
I doubt Sky Germany have a special agenda, except promoting the German couches/players in the Premier League, they are probably just repeating it like brainless parrots, and it shows how the brainwash organised by the Cartel has worked to an extent.
Fact is that FFP does ensure that we cannot benefit from the "unlimited resources" of our owner, yet they make it sound as if he personally finances the whole thing.
I hope we win the CL come Saturday !