More Nonsense From The Ethical Club Up The Road

At least we are worried about our owners losing interest, and not our owners bank losing interest like Manure and Redscouse.
 
Reads even better on here...!

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/we-will-not-compete-in-wage-game-say-united-1759125.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 59125.html</a>
 
Out of this world: Manchester City are set to tempt John Terry with a £1m a month wage offer, a year after splashing £32.5m on Robinho

Read more: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1201810/Warning-shot-Chelsea-Manchester-Citys-huge-wage-spark-meltdown-warns-Manchester-United-chief-David-Gill.html?ITO=1490#ixzz0M8WjGnNx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... z0M8WjGnNx</a>

Errrrr and how much was spent on Berbatov that exact same day?
 
"Changing times: Top-flight spending

Manchester City's wage bill for the 2007-08 season, the most recent available, was only the seventh highest in the Premier League.

Chelsea £172m

Manchester United £121.1m

Arsenal £101.3m

Liverpool £90m

Newcastle United £79.3m

Portsmouth £54.7m

Manchester City £54.2m"

Amazing really, 2 years ago, and Newcastle had the 5th highest wage bill, they really are going to struggle down in the Championship. Also puts paid to the MYTH that Arsenal get by on PEANUTS.
 
BlueRoscoe said:
David Gill has warned big-spending Chelsea and Manchester City they face uncertain futures at the whim of billionaire owners who are lavishing millions on buying short-term success.
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Chelsea isn't my club, so I won't comment on them, but what Gill has said really does show that he doesn't have the first understanding of what our owners are about. I've been banging on about this - tediously and at great length, I admit - on the John Terry thread in the transfer forum, and someone commented that the current Big Four really have no inderstanding of the City 'project'. Gill is proving that assessment correct.

Everyone assumes we've been taken over by some Sheikh who's fabulously wealthy, has more money than he knows what to do with, wants to have some fun in English football and will then walk away when he gets bored. In fact, this is a carefully planned business venture, with very long-term intentions.

Firstly, as discussed at great length on other threads, Cook thinks that fotballers' image rights are generally grossly undervalued at present. He's backing himself to change that, which is reflected in the pay offers we're prepared to make. For instance, in this Independent article from January, just after the Kaka deal broke down, it's suggested that he believed he could make that deal largely self-financing: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...to-convince-shooting-star-to-fly-1452158.html.

[Note in passing - A Chelsea fan on the Terry thread suggested that I was making Cook out to be some kind of genius when in fact lots of clubs have comparable image rights expertise at their disposal. I'm not. I have no idea if he's right or whether he can deliver what he thinks he can. All I'm saying is that this is the strategy].

Secondly, a big part of what our owners are about concerns development of land around the stadium. Now, Everton have played this down, but in the reports yesterday that an Arab group is interested in a takeover, the passage below talking about a wider tie-in with the entertainment industry was very interesting. There was a thread on the development of the Supercasino site recently, for which the Council have already invited bids. What the magazine Crains Manchester Business expects to happen at the site sounds very reminiscent of what's discussed in the extract below. Note in particular the phrase, "It’s not about owning a trophy, it’s a sound business venture."

[Further note - in fact, our plans are better, because they don't just involve the match-day experience. There will be MAJOR attractions at Sportcity aiming to attract people there on all the days when there's no football too].

What I'm saying, in a typical, long-winded fashion, is that our owner isn't (despite what the wider world seems to think) just a bored billionaire chucking cash at the club for want of something better to do. He has a vision for a very profitable leisure/sports/entertainment complex and thinks that having a very, very successful football club at the heart of it will greatly enhance the commercial possibilities. He's prepared to throw money at the club tomake it happen, but is doing so following a strategy which he and City's executive management think will allow them to claw back at least a fair chunk of that money.

Now, we can't predict the future and maybe things won't pan out as the Sheikh or Garry Cook expect. But what's happening at City is a lot more sophisticated, and based on thinking of a much longer term character, than the wider world appreciates. I have to be rational and hard-headed in my professional life and I'm trying to look at our prospects making use of those qualities rather than with the emotion of the fan I also am. And I STILL think that we have a very good chance of having some very exciting times ahead over the medium term, with a good shot at sustaining it in the longer term when the Sheikh expects us to be self-financing.

Old David Gill may just get a bit of a shock a little bit further up the track at how durable our 'project' is. Which would be nice.



Businessman Christopher Nathaniel has revealed that he is working with a UAE based consortium with a view to buying Everton Football Club.

“I can confirm I am acting on behalf of a UAE-based business consortium, who are chaired by a prominent Dubai businessman, and that I am currently in discussions with a number of Premier League clubs, one of which is Everton Football Club,” said Nathaniel.

“In this case, I’ve been approached because of my background in the entertainment industry. I can bring that element of big celebrity names and concerts – I can help realise my client’s plans to make a football club a wider entertainment platform. The Middle East understands the entertainment element, and how introducing it to football clubs can turn loss-making vehicles into profit-making ones.”

Plans for the new owner, whoever that may be, include building a "football village" and as Nathaniel himself has said, concerts and big celebrity names, which would hint that major changes would need to be made to the Kirkby proposals which currently forbid concerts and have extensive plans for retail around the stadium.

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"The interesting proposition for the group is Everton’s new stadium plans. Nathaniel’s client’s vision – for whichever club he ultimately owns – is to build a football village alongside the ground.

“It’s about purchasing a club as a viable business proposition. It’s not about owning a trophy, it’s a sound business venture.

“Football clubs aren’t being maximised as brands and this consortium want to keep fans at the club after the game, offering them restaurants and a football village to spend their money in – it’s about making an entire match day experience.”
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Talking about spending money people dont have aren't united in 800m quids worth of debt?
 
ColinBall said:
"Changing times: Top-flight spending

Manchester City's wage bill for the 2007-08 season, the most recent available, was only the seventh highest in the Premier League.

Chelsea £172m

Manchester United £121.1m

Arsenal £101.3m

Liverpool £90m

Newcastle United £79.3m

Portsmouth £54.7m

Manchester City £54.2m"

Amazing really, 2 years ago, and Newcastle had the 5th highest wage bill, they really are going to struggle down in the Championship. Also puts paid to the MYTH that Arsenal get by on PEANUTS.
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and 50% of that was on danny mills wage bill
 
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