Thaksin,, we salute you...

[stockportblue]

No 'we' don't. He's a self serving bellend who had not interest in this club what it means and used it only for his own political ends.

Have I said this before?

Cant fault you mate.Couldnt have put it better myself.

 

[Matty]

Without Thaksin we were pretty much nailed on to go down, no money to sign anyone, lost Distin & Barton, no manager etc. If we'd got relegated then we'd have lost most of our decent yougsters as the vultures would have swooped, we'd be in the Championship now battling for promotion again on a shoe-string budget. That's if we hadn't done a Leeds and gone into administration.

Frank got us SGE and some players which helped us to a 9th placed position and into Europe, via a back door admittedly, but if (big IF though) we win EUFA then who gives a shit how we qualified?

I don't give a crap why Frank bought the club, I'm concerned about the CLUB. What's the difference between the sheikh buying us to promote the UAE between Frank buying us to promote himself in Thailand - the only differences I can see is Frank has, shall we say, a much more dubious past and the arabs are much richer. We've been bought twice now by owners for personal and promotional reasons, I hope no-one is kidding themselves that the sheikh is a died in the wool, true blue City supporter.

People woman about what MIGHT have happened under Frank but the fact is that it didn't. He couldn't sustain the cost of running MCFC so he bowed out and we ended up being owned by one of the richest (if not THE richest) people in the world. He enabled the club to come out of a disastrous situation, possibly on two occasions - pre-Frank and pre-arab takeover. Even if you blame him for the situation before the sheikh I'm reasonably sure he never expected to have all his assets seized and if they had been released I do think he would have continued to invest.

IF it had all gone pearshaped and we did a Leeds I'd be slagging him off like everyone else but the plain fact, as far as the club is concerned, we are now unrecognisable from the City of early 2007. We have spent £80m on players for 2 seasons, signed Robinho, looking at signing Kaka for £100m with more to come I believe.

Yeah, I'd say we owe a lot to Frank.

Great post. Pretty much summed my thoughts up perfectly...

Agree, the club is in a FAR better situation now than it was 2 years ago, and anyone thinking we would have been where we are now without Shinawatra taking over is seriously deluded.

 

[Petetheblu]

I agree with the OT.

If you can forget about some of the less glamouress things he brought to City and I don't mean Castillo then he helped us along just nice and I'm grateful to him.

Sadly not all will be able to take the good from the bad.

Oh and a bigger thanks to ADUG.

 

[Irlamblue]

This would never have happened had thaksin not took over,, got a jail term, lost his wonga,, and had a rich pal buy city for a lot less than it was worth,, thaksin thankyou very much,, you are honorary president in my eyes...

P.S HOPE YOU DONT GET SENT DOWN AND MADE SOMEBODYS woman..

Says it all really

 

[Petetheblu]

No 'we' don't. He's a self serving bellend who had not interest in this club what it means and used it only for his own political ends.

Have I said this before?

Jesus your one grumpy Fe*ker!! ;)

 

[Wheelsy]

This would never have happened had thaksin not took over,, got a jail term, lost his wonga,, and had a rich pal buy city for a lot less than it was worth,, thaksin thankyou very much,, you are honorary president in my eyes...

P.S HOPE YOU DONT GET SENT DOWN AND MADE SOMEBODYS woman..

Says it all really

Yeah, but what about this?

 

[Irlamblue]

Says it all really

Yeah, but what about this?

superb wheelsy.

can you change his head to sheik monsour

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

Don't do that

 

[mcfc78]

the memory of him singing bluemoon on stage in town,, what a guy,, he's the only man ever to get the shiekhs involved... superb thaksin,,

 

[Rösler's Dad]

Without Thaksin we were pretty much nailed on to go down, no money to sign anyone, lost Distin & Barton, no manager etc. If we'd got relegated then we'd have lost most of our decent yougsters as the vultures would have swooped, we'd be in the Championship now battling for promotion again on a shoe-string budget. That's if we hadn't done a Leeds and gone into administration.

Frank got us SGE and some players which helped us to a 9th placed position and into Europe, via a back door admittedly, but if (big IF though) we win EUFA then who gives a shit how we qualified?

I don't give a crap why Frank bought the club, I'm concerned about the CLUB. What's the difference between the sheikh buying us to promote the UAE between Frank buying us to promote himself in Thailand - the only differences I can see is Frank has, shall we say, a much more dubious past and the arabs are much richer. We've been bought twice now by owners for personal and promotional reasons, I hope no-one is kidding themselves that the sheikh is a died in the wool, true blue City supporter.

People woman about what MIGHT have happened under Frank but the fact is that it didn't. He couldn't sustain the cost of running MCFC so he bowed out and we ended up being owned by one of the richest (if not THE richest) people in the world. He enabled the club to come out of a disastrous situation, possibly on two occasions - pre-Frank and pre-arab takeover. Even if you blame him for the situation before the sheikh I'm reasonably sure he never expected to have all his assets seized and if they had been released I do think he would have continued to invest.

IF it had all gone pearshaped and we did a Leeds I'd be slagging him off like everyone else but the plain fact, as far as the club is concerned, we are now unrecognisable from the City of early 2007. We have spent £80m on players for 2 seasons, signed Robinho, looking at signing Kaka for £100m with more to come I believe.

Yeah, I'd say we owe a lot to Frank.

Absolutely 100% agree. Whatever his motives, (and to be honest, I don't give a toss what they were) without him I'm sure we'd now be bust or struggling in the Championship with big debts and players like "Stevie I" playing for the bindippers or the gooners.