Media thread 2022/23
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The PM gets 160k a year to run the country, is this a nonsense?
So now we see that you've actually got a bias in the argument, it is a bit pointless continuing tbh
wolviedinho
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The c*nts are pushing it like f*ck.
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How a great English city sold itself to Abu Dhabi’s elite – and not even for a good price | Aditya Chakrabortty
Manchester’s Labour council let Sheikh Mansour buy up acres of public land for seemingly a fraction of its worth, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakraborttywww.theguardian.com
The Athletic are all over it as well. F*ck them and the Guardian, which is a much more indepth article.
Here's the Athletic article, minus 1 word, so it's not the full article. Word missing at the start.
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** independent report has found the sale of public land from Manchester City Council to the Abu Dhabi-based owners of the reigning Premier League champions was “too cheap” and “difficult to justify”.
The research, carried out jointly by the Centre for Research on Accounting & Finance in Context (CRAFIC) and the Urban Institute, concludes the relationship “has the potential to become an ethical, political and economic liability”.
Research focuses on the Manchester Life scheme, launched in 2014, a £1billion deal between the city council and the club’s owners to regenerate swathes of brownfield land.
However, the report claims this land, comprising nine sites, was sold to City owner Sheikh Mansour at a price well under market value, and on unusually long 999-year leases. The typical lease length is between 150 and 250 years.
They argue that the benefits of this sale were “asymmetric”, with the report’s authors “not able to identify any income received by the council… despite being exposed to some of the risks of the project”.
Investment has so far delivered 1,468 housing units, with rental proceeds going to the development’s Abu Dhabi-based landlords. Further construction is planned.
“Our assessment of the Manchester Life development is that Manchester City Council ‘sold the family silver too cheap’,” the report summarises. “It represents a transfer of public wealth to private hands that is difficult to justify as prudent.”
Due to Abu Dhabi’s human rights record, there are also concerns over how the relationship affects Manchester’s image.
The Abu Dhabi United Group investment fund, which owns City, is technically independent of the Gulf nation’s government. However, as well as owning City, Mansour is deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates.
In addition, German newspaper Der Spiegel published allegations in April, summarised by The Athletic here, that Mansour disguised millions of pounds in additional funding to the club by sending the money via UAE-based companies linked to the state. City have not commented on Der Spiegel’s latest allegations.
The UAE has been accused by Amnesty International of being “one of the most brutal police states in the Middle East,” while homosexuality is punishable by death.
The report concludes: “Longer-term, it raises questions about what values — and whose values — the city represents.
“The potential for the relationship to become an ethical, political and economic liability are growing against the backdrop of concerns about the foreign policy and geo-politics of authoritarian regimes.
“Manchester’s self-image as a vibrant, open, tolerant city may be compromised if the council is seen as aiding elites from authoritarian regimes to generate investment returns that shore up their political and economic power back home.”
Can't find the report. Probably not uploaded yet.
Centre for Research into Accounting and Finance in Context
CRAFiC is at the heart of the debate about the role of accounting and finance in the development of inclusive and sustainable societieswww.sheffield.ac.uk
Hahah what is this shit?
Written and shared by a bunch of lying cunts who have a negative angle on all things MCFC and Abu Dhabi.
Investing in Manchester is now a bad thing. Or should I say the blue side.
The sheikh has seriously put the shit up a lot of influential people of a certain colour and they use the most biased powerful platform at their disposal the corruptible media.
Run along you lying lackies, run along.
wolviedinho
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Can’t find our match report on the bbc. Did I dream the best team in England started pre season infront of 60tho???? Bitterness is rife with these perverts.
jimmygrimblesboots
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After selling under appreciated Sterling and underrated Jesus , indispensable Zinchenko has now gone , strange how a change of football shirt has the media fawning over our ex-players , if Gundo or Bernardo leave they are no doubt potential Balon D'Or material.
BillCarlisle
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Frankly, did you expect anything different ? How many times do we have to win this league in order to be respected as The Champions ? For the media it's all about clicks nowadays. I've given up caring about it anymore.
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Ask her why they sent Stone thousands of miles to cover United friendly games then when he’s meant to be a Manchester football correspondent. And why I can find any mention of the champions’ friendly score on their football page yet there’s loads of incidental stories from Stone about their friendly games.
Complete waste of licence money. I stopped paying after this. The sooner it crashes the better. There’s a reason two million people stopped paying last year.
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It’s the Ashton canal between the Etihad and Great Ancoats Street.
oakiecokie
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To be fair it was a blessing in disguise ... for Pep.
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