:) I managed to put myself through the first part about City and, really, it was generally bollocks. McGeehan, that asshole from Sheffield Hallam, and some random locals with axes to grind.
Why can no-one get their head around the difference between a private investment from an AD businessman who happens to be a politician and a royal, and a sovereign investment fund? It really isn't difficult. They can ignore it as much as they want, but it just weakens their argument as no-one has ever, in any legal setting, put the case that City is, in fact, owned by the emirate of Abu Dhabi.
And then their point that Mansour invested in City so he could coerce the City Council into making profit out of regenerating the area. Really. I doubt Mansour had been to Manchester, was remotely interested in Manchester or had any interest in investing money in Manchester until after he bought the club. Why would he? What he did have, though, was the business acumen too see the benefit to himself, the council and the region as a whole in investing outside the club. As for gentrification, I didn't see any of these assholes being born and growing up in NE Manchester over the last decades. They can stick their concerns about gentrification up their arses along with their posh accents. Lived in Manchester since the 1990s? I bet it was a leafy suburb, not fucking Ancoats. Tosser.