Negative Daily Fail article on shirt sponsor.

[BoyBlue_1985]

Was there an implication of state sponsorship in that article? "Etihad is effectively underwriting the club"....get the lawyers!

It is.

Well technically all sponsors underwrite football clubs or no one would have them<br /><br />-- Sun May 19, 2013 9:05 am --<br /><br />

Reads like complete bullshit, their 'sources' just manage to criticise the holistic approach when the article is about shirt sponsors.

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Manchester City are seeking to replace Etihad Airways as their shirt sponsor but the search is being hampered by the chaos surrounding Roberto Mancini’s sacking and uncertainty over the club’s future.

Tom Glick, the club’s American chief commercial and operating officer, is using a group of external consultants and agencies to find sponsors and, according to one source, initial feedback is that City ‘are not the easy sell that was perhaps imagined’.
The source, who has knowledge of City’s commercial affairs, says: ‘Developments over the past four or five weeks haven’t been helpful. The defence of the title ending so early and with no real fight was bad enough, especially after failure to progress past the Champions League group stage. Then the manager’s been fired in embarrassing circumstances after not winning matches that were expected to be won, like the FA Cup final.

All change: Manchester City want to replace Etihad as their shirt sponsor
‘For all this talk about a ‘holistic’ approach, we’ve yet to see consistency in how different parts of the club are operating.’
That last comment is a reference to a perceived three-way split in the club’s hierarchy.
At owner level are Sheik Mansour and his day-to-day lieutenant, chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak. At football level are the Barcelona boys: director of football Txiki Begiristain, who answers to a fellow Spaniard who was also formerly at Barca, chief executive Ferran Soriano. They want to implement a youth to first team 4-3-3-based football philosophy, with Manuel Pellegrini seen as the ideal initial coach as this evolves.
At commercial level there is Glick and a team of deal makers.
The uncertainty is whether and when the three areas can gel to build a club successful on and off the pitch who are serious and consistent European contenders.
Industry sources say City’s hierarchy decided months ago to find a major sponsor to replace Etihad on City’s shirts, although Etihad will remain a major club sponsor.

Sacked: Roberto Mancini's dismissal is hampering the club's search for a new sponsor
Glick is using outside agencies working under contracts issued by City Sports Marketing Limited, a subsidiary of Manchester City registered at Companies House in January.
It is understood one potential shirt sponsor, an international financial services firm with their headquarters in the United States, were considering a five-year £25million-a-year deal but have dropped out of negotiations ‘because of uncertainties about where City are going, medium-term’.

It should help City’s global marketing ambitions that they are due to announce a Mansour-funded team in America’s MLS, perhaps as early as this week.
‘But anything that tarnishes the brand like a controversial manager sacking doesn’t help,’ says a source. ‘City are trying to break new markets but without the historical presence of Manchester United or Liverpool or even Tottenham.’

Manuel Pellegrini
One source said City wanted a new shirt sponsor for 2013-14 but ran out of time, with limited options to do a quick deal. Glick is understood to have told his contracted consultants he wants £25m a year at least.
Etihad’s 10-year, £340m deal to sponsor City’s shirt, stadium and academy is about to enter its third year and Etihad will remain significantly involved in the club. ‘Etihad will stay as a major commercial partner because they are effectively helping to underwrite the club,’ a source says.
City want to replace Etihad to gain extra revenue, needed keep up with clubs like United, Chelsea and Arsenal. It is anticipated Etihad’s cash will still be injected into City, albeit as sponsorship of the stadium, academy and other areas.
Glick is based in Manchester most of the time but City, like their cross-city rivals United, also have a London office which is envisaged to be the hub of global commercial empire.
That office is located at Old Park Lane, near Hyde Park Corner and next door to the famous Playboy Club. The premises were set up as a City outpost by former owner Thaksin Shinawatra and were inherited by Mansour.
City’s London-based operations are expected to move to larger premises in another area of London, Fitzrovia, this summer, when 20 new employees are expected to start work.

A Ten year 400 million shirt and stadium name rights deal was done in 2012..

Come on kloss.. sue these c u n t s.

Sue them for what?

 

[Statt0]

Although a negative slant article, it does actually make complete sense.

After a quiet word from Mansour, Etihad will be happy with what they've got and we get a nice new £25/30mil per year shirt sponsorship on top.

All helps with FFPR.

100% this.

Putting aside the routine Daily Mail negativity, the real news behind this story is a POSITIVE one.

City have in place a brilliant and flexible deal with Etihad

Etihad will be in total agreement in City seeking a new shirt sponsor

City are actively seeking a new shirt sponsor because it boosts revenue

Increased revenue needed to comply fully with FFP and new PL financial regs and to be able to compete always at all levels with the world wide big 4 (Bayern, Barcelona, Real, rags)

Shows our intent to be a truly global force

The only negative is that we might not have found a new shirt sponsor yet. No doubt we will be actively pressing it for it.

 

[The_Boxing_KangaBlue]

Could be true, but only insofar as we want some extra cash, not linked to ADG to keep Twatini off our backs.

Probably bullshit though.

 

[johnbmcr]

Sack kloss, get someone capable of fighting our corner, not a glorified buffet orderer for these pigs. The last 2 weeks are a joke. Time to fight back, ban ladyboy for starters. Sue him for defamation of character for his hit piece yesterday.

Also flash subliminal messages like those split second ones on TV "don't buy the Mail" on our advertising hoardings constantly during live TV matches, banners in the crowd and chant anti mail songs. Take it to them

don't agree with the ban stuff its a bit to much like the rags would do
like racists and homophobes bans don't work but visibility does encourage them to open their mouths the same method is the best way to deal with the mail not anti mail songs but to make the paper freely available to all and everybody one read and it will never be touched again

 

[Deleted member 52846]

Whoever wrote that I can guarantee has just breezed through this forum in the past week and took opinions from Posters on here to base his thoughts on.

It feels like I've already read it (as I frequently read this forum)

That's exactly what's happened.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Eulogising about the relative "history" of Tottenham, a club that hasn't won the league for over half a century, tells you all you need to know about the disrespectful and contemptuous regard the Daily Nazi holds for our club.

Wankstains.

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

Although a negative slant article, it does actually make complete sense.

After a quiet word from Mansour, Etihad will be happy with what they've got and we get a nice new £25/30mil per year shirt sponsorship on top.

All helps with FFPR.

100% this.

Putting aside the routine Daily Mail negativity, the real news behind this story is a POSITIVE one.

City have in place a brilliant and flexible deal with Etihad

Etihad will be in total agreement in City seeking a new shirt sponsor

City are actively seeking a new shirt sponsor because it boosts revenue

Increased revenue needed to comply fully with FFP and new PL financial regs and to be able to compete always at all levels with the world wide big 4 (Bayern, Barcelona, Real, rags)

Shows our intent to be a truly global force

The only negative is that we might not have found a new shirt sponsor yet. No doubt we will be actively pressing it for it.

We should get on the phone to Apple ...

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[TGR]

What a bullshit article that really is - these so called sources are just voices that the press have in their own head

I am really getting fucking fed-up with all the anti-City shite that gets put out by the press

One question. Why does our PR team not publicly comment on these anti-City stories, if only to set the record straight? I thought one of the major responsibilities of a PR department is to manage the public perception of the club especially in light of negative press. I can't remember the last time our PR team actually did that.

We don't have PR department. We just think we do.

 

[BlueAnorak]

We don't have PR department. We just think we do.

Ain't that the truth.

Ladyboy loves negative stories about City. Don't think he every does a positive one. Even the good stories are done with negative spin. The perfect journo to leak stories you want out in the wild though.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Eulogising about the relative "history" of Tottenham, a club that hasn't won the league for over half a century, tells you all you need to know about the disrespectful and contemptuous regard the Daily Nazi holds for our club.

Wankstains.

100% this. One of the most hateful and insidious publications in the world. City have long since been lumped in with immigrants, public servants, the unemployed, single mothers, gays, unions, and all the other putative anti-establishment, non WASP, groups that the Fail despises. Tells me we must be doing something right!!