Stoned Rose
Well-Known Member
They’ve run out of lemons in Merseyside judging by the Twitter responses.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
On the money
- Thread starter Bill
- Start date
Fiftyyearsandcounting
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 25 Oct 2009
- Messages
- 2,099
Even after we won the PL we were put in Pot 2 based on some dubious coefficient formula. The following UEFA this changed so Leicester could be put straight into Pot 1.
blueju
Well-Known Member
Now the big 7 or 8 or wherever the rags are at any given time100% agree. I could care less how much money City have spent. It was necessary on order to be able to compete after the big 3/4/5 organized PL and CL to suit themselves and increase the gap between them and the also rans every year.
FootballSense
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 29 Sep 2014
- Messages
- 534
not sure where to put this or if indeed its been posted but just in case here it is.
I didn’t write this - but it’s spot on!
Cheesy shared it on Facebook.
Once upon a time, there was a really prestigious football tournament called the European Cup, which was based on sporting excellence. It brought together outstanding teams from across the continent. To qualify teams first had to prove themselves by winning their own league, this truly was a competition for champions.
With the glory though also came the opportunity for great wealth & eventually the principal of sporting excellence was overtaken by greed. The self-appointed elite of the time "the European Royalty" decided they wanted a greater share of the spoils & they wanted it guaranteed regardless of their performance!
The grubby little cartel (later known as the G14) threatened to break away & form their own Super League, unless everyone else agreed to their demands! Feeling they had little choice, UEFA caved in & the"Champions" League was born.
At the heart of this self-serving little cartel were 3 English clubs (Man United, Liverpool & Arsenal) & coincidentally the format of the new competition granted 3 places to English teams. It also changed from a straight knockout format to an initial group stage. So now not only could they still qualify by only finishing 2nd or 3rd in the Premier League, they were also guaranteed at least 6 lucrative fixtures each season.
BOOM! The money started rolling in & the big 3 got fatter, as they disappeared over the horizon, leaving the rest of the league with little chance of ever challenging their increasing financial dominance!
Then out of the blue, a wealthy Russian Oligarch, Roman Abramovich, rolled into town to bankroll Chelsea & gatecrash the party! With the gravy train now under threat, the greedy little threesome convinced UEFA to increase the English allocation to 4 places! Phew disaster averted, onwards & upwards, no harm done...
That was until the "evil" Sheikh Mansour bought Manchester City with his unlimited "dirty oil money!"!
Now with UEFA unable or unwilling to accommodate this latest unwelcome guest at the top table, a new strategy was required to preserve the dominance of the established elite. Without further a do, the "Financial Fair Play" was conceived!
This had little to do with "fair play", turning a blind eye to debt ridden clubs & owners that systematically drained money out of the game! It was solely designed to stop wealthy owners investing in clubs & making them competitive; thus ensuring the lazy established elite remained unchallenged.
Undeterred by the bogus nature of these new constraints targeted at them & any future investors, Manchester City embarked on transforming the club, with initial investment to break the cartel & putting top quality people in place, off the field as well as on it.
In addition to breaking all records on the pitch, the club has now achieved commercial sustainability & delivered 4 years of profit. The club is now independently valued at over £2B (reportedly outstripping all the Premier League old-guard). This has shown a huge return on Sheikh Mansour's £1.2B investment & dispelling the lie of "financial doping".
So what do the owners of the established "European Royalty" do now? Up their game? Risk their own money to meet the challenge? No! They utilise their stooges in the media to try & discredit City's achievements & demand UEFA do "something" to derail City`s progress!
Manchester City FC -
Centurions
Fourmidables
Champions of England (again)
FA Cup holders
League Cup holders
The best ran football club in the world!
Thank you Sheikh Mansour, thank you Kaldoon & Thank you Pep Guardiola
Polemical some might say.
I would say I love it.
not sure where to put this or if indeed its been posted but just in case here it is.
I didn’t write this - but it’s spot on!
Cheesy shared it on Facebook.
Once upon a time, there was a really prestigious football tournament called the European Cup, which was based on sporting excellence. It brought together outstanding teams from across the continent. To qualify teams first had to prove themselves by winning their own league, this truly was a competition for champions.
With the glory though also came the opportunity for great wealth & eventually the principal of sporting excellence was overtaken by greed. The self-appointed elite of the time "the European Royalty" decided they wanted a greater share of the spoils & they wanted it guaranteed regardless of their performance!
The grubby little cartel (later known as the G14) threatened to break away & form their own Super League, unless everyone else agreed to their demands! Feeling they had little choice, UEFA caved in & the"Champions" League was born.
At the heart of this self-serving little cartel were 3 English clubs (Man United, Liverpool & Arsenal) & coincidentally the format of the new competition granted 3 places to English teams. It also changed from a straight knockout format to an initial group stage. So now not only could they still qualify by only finishing 2nd or 3rd in the Premier League, they were also guaranteed at least 6 lucrative fixtures each season.
BOOM! The money started rolling in & the big 3 got fatter, as they disappeared over the horizon, leaving the rest of the league with little chance of ever challenging their increasing financial dominance!
Then out of the blue, a wealthy Russian Oligarch, Roman Abramovich, rolled into town to bankroll Chelsea & gatecrash the party! With the gravy train now under threat, the greedy little threesome convinced UEFA to increase the English allocation to 4 places! Phew disaster averted, onwards & upwards, no harm done...
That was until the "evil" Sheikh Mansour bought Manchester City with his unlimited "dirty oil money!"!
Now with UEFA unable or unwilling to accommodate this latest unwelcome guest at the top table, a new strategy was required to preserve the dominance of the established elite. Without further a do, the "Financial Fair Play" was conceived!
This had little to do with "fair play", turning a blind eye to debt ridden clubs & owners that systematically drained money out of the game! It was solely designed to stop wealthy owners investing in clubs & making them competitive; thus ensuring the lazy established elite remained unchallenged.
Undeterred by the bogus nature of these new constraints targeted at them & any future investors, Manchester City embarked on transforming the club, with initial investment to break the cartel & putting top quality people in place, off the field as well as on it.
In addition to breaking all records on the pitch, the club has now achieved commercial sustainability & delivered 4 years of profit. The club is now independently valued at over £2B (reportedly outstripping all the Premier League old-guard). This has shown a huge return on Sheikh Mansour's £1.2B investment & dispelling the lie of "financial doping".
So what do the owners of the established "European Royalty" do now? Up their game? Risk their own money to meet the challenge? No! They utilise their stooges in the media to try & discredit City's achievements & demand UEFA do "something" to derail Citys' progress!
Manchester City FC -
Centurions
Fourmidables
Champions of England (again)
FA Cup holders
League Cup holders
The best ran football club in the world!
Thank you Sheikh Mansour, thank you Kaldoon & Thank you Pep Guardiola
Excellent post. City fans should remember all these points whenever the media start bringing up FFP which they try to do all the time. We should get stuck in on social media, talk shows etc. with all the points which would be great fun and cause havoc with all the City haters.
Blue Theatre
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 14 Feb 2011
- Messages
- 1,703
Exactly.
When (later disgraced) Platini brought in FFP, with the backing of (later disgraced) Blatter, they were both clear that it was to protect us, the fans, from "boom and bust" owners who would ruin our clubs.
But in what possible way could what Sheikh Mansour has done for our club over the past several years (or indeed for East Manchester as a whole) possibly be considered bad for us fans?
The only people it's been bad for are United, Arsenal, etc ... but that's quite a different thing / argument.
When (later disgraced) Platini brought in FFP, with the backing of (later disgraced) Blatter, they were both clear that it was to protect us, the fans, from "boom and bust" owners who would ruin our clubs.
But in what possible way could what Sheikh Mansour has done for our club over the past several years (or indeed for East Manchester as a whole) possibly be considered bad for us fans?
The only people it's been bad for are United, Arsenal, etc ... but that's quite a different thing / argument.
1.618034
Well-Known Member
Yep.
M
M
manchester blue
Guest
They’ve run out of lemons in Merseyside judging by the Twitter responses.
Have you got a link to it on Twitter mate?
Stoned Rose
Well-Known Member
Have you got a link to it on Twitter mate?
Sorry mate I haven’t. Someone posted a twitter link to the original tweet on a different thread and the responses from the dips were on there.
Have a gander of the search function it’ll pop up on whatever thread it was on.