Media Thread - 2021/22

[Manchester1894]

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HELLO?! IS THAT WEST HAM ABU DHABI?!

 

[its grim up north]

Didn't know he was into necrophilia as well.
;-)

Wouldn't imagine Wazzer is shy of anything.

 

[Kinki's Boots]

Sly Sports talking about Messi and PSG managed to shoehorn City FFP and State owned in what a surprise;)

 

[mat]

Wouldn't imagine Wazzer is shy of anything.

Hair?

 

[Blue Mist]

He would have been past his best mate.

And a greedy mercenary who only came for the money

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Sly Sports talking about Messi and PSG managed to shoehorn City FFP and State owned in what a surprise;)

Seems to get a mention by every gob on the channel in every programme. I'm watching The Hundred from Cardiff at the moment. I expect before he's finished the presenter will ask de Kock what he thinks about sportswashing and state sponsorship.

 

[Chris in London]

And a greedy mercenary who only came for the money

Yeah but that’s every player we ever signed, isn’t it?

 

[Damocles]

 

[Damocles]

We're never going to stop people calling us state owned because no one believes we are privately owned, not even you.

"effectively we're owned by Sheikh Mohammed & the Executive Council. There's simply no way Khaldoon & Simon Pearce would be involved so heavily if weren't. Anyone who thinks otherwise is astoundingly naive."​

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.... we are now very much an arm of the Abu Dhabi government, albeit what's known as a soft one in diplomatic terms."​

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I'm sure you don't need to guess who I'm quoting there...


It's a completely lost cause, we can't stop it, and I'm not convinced a legal challenge would succeed in anything other than shining a light on just how non-independent we actually are.

If the club wanted to oppose the notion of us being state-owned, they should start playing up the role of Silverlake, but we never hear about them really, they are completely silent and 99% of people outside the fanbase wouldn't know we were associated at all.

But perhaps the most important question is "Do the club care?". I'm not sure Khaldoon and Sheikh Mansour and other ADUG higher ups see being that associated with Abu Dhabi as a bad thing.

I read somewhere, and I can't recall where so there's a possibility that it was on social media or that I'm making it up, that the higher ups in Abu Dhabi are more irritated than interested in City. The general idea being that they do all of these really impressive and professional deals but all anybody knows them for is a football club in the back arse of Manchester and they get 4000 stories a year on their human rights. We're their version of that gurning idiot at parties who jumps in the pool essentially.

 

[asahartford1]

I read somewhere, and I can't recall where so there's a possibility that it was on social media or that I'm making it up, that the higher ups in Abu Dhabi are more irritated than interested in City. The general idea being that they do all of these really impressive and professional deals but all anybody knows them for is a football club in the back arse of Manchester and they get 4000 stories a year on their human rights. We're their version of that gurning idiot at parties who jumps in the pool essentially.

I guess i haven't lived. Never been to a party where a gurning idiot jumps in the pool.)