Taking our Owners for Granted!

It's all fuckin small change. They can spunk billions into airlines, f1, football and still have billions left. They're only just getting going with City.
Imagine if we still had Swales/Bernstein/Wardle running the gaff?!!!!
 
It's all fuckin small change. They can spunk billions into airlines, f1, football and still have billions left. They're only just getting going with City.
Imagine if we still had Swales/Bernstein/Wardle running the gaff?!!!!

Actually I would like to see Bernstein back at our club in some capacity.
 
Be interesting to revisit this idea in a year's time. I suspect the mood will be VERY different.

I agree to a degree BUT I think Manuel did a job, ended professionally whilst everyone dreamed of his successor. Also, the final ten minutes of every home game was the best football I have ever seen, not that many people stayed for that...
 
I believe taking into account all global brands you will find that if he were to capitalise his stake (as in the 13% that was sold to the Chinese as a guide) he would make significant gains. The City footballing group is valued at over £2bn, then add the agreements in place with Manchester City Council plus all the spin offs from other clubs in the group and the amounts become staggering. Plus the group was purchased with a specific aim of putting Abu Dhabi on the global football map. The Sheikh and his advisors are very shrewd, and he would never lose out with any of his investments - wish I had a few shares! Bit like the money he made helping out Barclays. Money makes money.

Whether its £1.2b or £2b its still a different entity to the one he bought. The new regime has made mistakes, there are things that they could do much better. But isn't part of the dissatisfaction that many City fans really still want to be part of a "small" cosy club that is close to the fans, whilst also wanting the trappings of being part of a really big club?

Some of the criticisms that you hear, eg complaints about "tourists" at CL games, seem to me to represent an unrealistic expectation.
 
It's all fuckin small change. They can spunk billions into airlines, f1, football and still have billions left. They're only just getting going with City.
Imagine if we still had Swales/Bernstein/Wardle running the gaff?!!!!

Don't mention John Wardle in the same sentence as Peter Swales.

Mr Wardle was a fan who put a very considerable amount of money into our football club, he made mistakes, we all do, but the man was incredibly generous.

He even had to bail us out under the Thaksin regime.
 
Don't mention John Wardle in the same sentence as Peter Swales.

Mr Wardle was a fan who put a very considerable amount of money into our football club, he made mistakes, we all do, but the man was incredibly generous.

He even had to bail us out under the Thaksin regime.
John Wardle is a proper blue and a very nice man
 
Two ex Barcelona execs' and one of the finest and most impressive business men in the world , khaldoon al mubarak

Your either a troll or idiot

Khaldoon quite a decent footballer too!

Thankfully the game has moved on for some Clubs since when Len Shackleton put a blank page in his autobiography to describe the average football knowledge of Directors!
 
Khaldoon quite a decent footballer too!

Thankfully the game has moved on for some Clubs since when Len Shackleton put a blank page in his autobiography to describe the average football knowledge of Directors!

We must have one of the most impressive board rooms in any industry never mind football clubs.
 
Neither of the Barcelona wasters are on the board actually.
Thanks for the correction, and something I did not realise, especially concerning Soriano.

Is it normal for the CEO not to be on the board? that seems a strange one.

Both Barcelona execs have been a major disappointment, There was speculation about Tixki moving to the academy on a full time basis, just hope its true, Soriano big no for me, has brought nothing to the club.
 
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Neither of the Barcelona wasters are on the board actually.

That was rather my point. Rather an idiot or a troll than a loud-mouthed know-nothing who can't understand the relevance of the fucking question (not aimed at you by the way PB, I dont know why I ask this question on here, I asked the same question last year and was told by someone who thinks he has a business brain that HRH's entire investment management strategy is to appoint the best people and let them get on with it. YCMIU.)

So the answer is no. There is no-one with any football experience on the Board .....
 
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Thanks for the correction, and something I did not realise, especially concerning Soriano.

Is it normal for the CEO not to be on the board? that seems a strange one.

Both Barcelona execs have been a major disappointment, There was speculation about Tixki moving to the academy on a full time basis, just hope its true, Soriano big no for me, has brought nothing to the club.

It's a non-executive board, a supervisory board. It is there to check what the executives are up to, hence the relevance of the question.
 
It's all fuckin small change. They can spunk billions into airlines, f1, football and still have billions left. They're only just getting going with City.
Imagine if we still had Swales/Bernstein/Wardle running the gaff?!!!!
Bernstien did an excellent job for us under the circumstances and John Wardle bailed the club out with his own cash on more than one ocasion
 
Bernstien did an excellent job for us under the circumstances and John Wardle bailed the club out with his own cash on more than one ocasion


Correct Cyber, Wardle was excellent. I think there is confusion on this thread. Those who commented on the thread " are the fans taken for granted" are not criticising the owners. Our owners are the best in the world, we want them here for ever, there will never be anyone like them.

The concern is with the lack of communication/understanding with fan issues by the middle layers of management at the club. The chances are that the fans and our wonderful owners are all on the same page on issues, ie, filling the stadium with affordable prices. It's just that the management in the middle are getting it wrong.
 
Bernstien did an excellent job for us under the circumstances and John Wardle bailed the club out with his own cash on more than one ocasion
Bernstein was an outstanding Chaiman, the club made a terrible error when they backed Kegan over Bernstein over the Fowler transfer.
 

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