More investment in man city

3 Billion

Originally Posted by itisme_panaflex

it's all a load of shite.

I would love if some ridiculous socialist body took over the game. Someone with interest in the sport and development, rather than another #@&%! like platini in it for his own bank acc.

And this fantastical bolshevik idea would encompass united.

Even if it means everyone goes bankrupt and starts again.

Sick of it. A boring corporate game for £#%&!ers.

Originally Posted by dunk

This. It's all just about money. Who has the most, who spends the most, who makes the most shite. The football is an afterthought.

Originally Posted by sa7

Ah China, another country with a superb human rights record

Originally Posted by jem

the chinese have bought up half of africa to supply them with food whilst the africans starve. city youth system = operation long pig?

it's beyond obscene.

It's not just the way it's changing Football, it's where the money is coming from.
The death, poverty & crime associated with money from Saudi Royalty , Russian & Chinese gangsters, American Zionist businessmen etc.. is £#%&!ing shameful.
State of FIFA as well

Still, Football shows it's all heart by having the occasional 'Friendly' match for UNICEF or observing a minutes silence when something bad happens.

Absolutely sick to death of it tbh
Like fuzzy said, if I didn't love the 'game' so much I would have long since called it a day.

At least the defence and midfield is sorted

Originally Posted by jem

the chinese have bought up half of africa to supply them with food whilst the africans starve. city youth system = operation long pig?

and half of london
and half of most large american cities and port facilities
and greek shipping interests
etc,etc......

getting rid of the fiat dollars theyve been collecting and turning them into tangible assets before they become worthless.

That's not City themselves that are valued at $3b, that's the whole group; including the clubs in New York, Australia and some club in Japan as well I think.

Either way, who cares. It's just another step on the road to them ticking all the boxes that their supporters used to openly despise about United.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

That's not City themselves that are valued at $3b, that's the whole group; including the clubs in New York, Australia and some club in Japan as well I think.

Either way, who cares. It's just another step on the road to them ticking all the boxes that their supporters used to openly despise about United.

So Man City is valued at $2.9999999 billion then. Well, that changes everything.

Originally Posted by denis lawless

and half of london
and half of most large american cities and port facilities
and greek shipping interests
etc,etc......

getting rid of the fiat dollars theyve been collecting and turning them into tangible assets before they become worthless.

jem and denis agreeing on something

Originally Posted by Child of Darkness

jem and denis agreeing on something

i didnt think we disagreed on that much tbh.....im hardly his biggest nemesis

Looks like they have bought The Mirror as well.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...-noisy-6934538

Two months ago, David Gill stated as fact that Manchester City will never be as big as Manchester United .

The former Old Trafford chief executive was speaking at an event to mark the 500th anniversary of Manchester Grammar School and the audience lapped up his rhetoric.

"I'm not being arrogant, but Manchester City will never be as big as Manchester United in Asia and certain markets," said Gill.

"Look at Liverpool, the club haven't won the league for so many years but they are very popular in Asia.

"The big teams with history and heritage - Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Juventus and Real Madrid - have that."

Across the city at the Etihad Stadium, one senior club executive smiled wryly and told me: "Mr Gill had better be careful - 'never' is an awfully long time."

They were smiling again in the corridors of power at the magnificent £200million City Football Academy yesterday when it was announced that owner Sheikh Mansour's ADUG had sold a 13 percent stake in the City Football Group that now owns clubs in New York, Melbourne and Yokohama as well as Manchester.

The price? A cool £265million - roughly the same amount that the Sheikh paid to buy City in 2009.

It means the Sheikh has recouped more than a quarter of the £1billion investment he made to transform City into one of football's major players.

And, more importantly, with a stroke of a pen he has opened up untapped Chinese markets that United and the rest of football's major players are desperate to break into.

So much for Michel Platini's claim that Financial Fair Play isn't just a ploy to maintain the status quo.

The deal values the CFG at $3billion on the New York stock exchange, where United's share price currently has them at $3.05billion.

So, on paper at least, the gap between the Manchester clubs has closed significantly.

United, of course, cam still command massive sponsorship deals like the ones with adidas and Chevrolet that they estimate will see them become the first club to announce annual profits of more than £500million.

But City are no longer just Manchester's club. Or Abu Dhabi's, or New York's, or Melbourne's, or Yokohama's.

By adding a Chinese powerbase to their empire that will ensure this year's record £352million revenues are small change.

Expect a raft of huge sponsorship deals to start flooding in.

So what about the football?

Well City have finished above United in three of the last four seasons.

They are currently sat at the top of the Premier League and are already qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League.

So much for Sir Alex Ferguson's assessment when he was asked whether City would ever go into a derby match as favourites to win. "Not in my lifetime," was his answer.

City supporters have been notorious moaners down the decades, but you won't hear many complaints about the entertainment value of watching Sergio Aguero , David Silva, Kevin de Bruyne and Raheem Sterling.

That's why they will average over 50,000 at the Etihad this season and are ready to extend the stadium's capacity to more than 60,000.

City have always been well supported - even in the dark days of the old second division.

But their fanbase now goes well beyond the traditional blue heartlands of Ardwick, Gorton and Stockport.

Omar Berrada, the commercial director of City Football Marketing, outlined the worldwide scale of the club's support.

Berrada said that City now have 400million fans around the world, with 220million in Asia and 75million in China.

"About 97 percent of our fans are from outside the UK," he said. "The majority will probably never see the team play live.

"The stats tell you the sheer importance that Asia has for most, if not all, Premier League clubs.

"China is clearly very important for us as a group. We would like to develop our presence in many ways."

City's Academy is also starting to have a detrimental effect on United.

When the two rivals faces each other at youth level earlier this season, City won every game apart from one, which was drawn. The Under-14s triumphed 9-0.

It has been suggested that the Reds will refuse to play City at junior level because they feel their recruitment policy is over aggressive.

But when players like Robin van Persie, Darren Fletcher and Phil Neville opted to send their sons to the Etihad campus, it's clear where the future lies.

In 2008, the suggestion that City could ever become serious rivals to United - on or off the pitch - would have brought a van full of men in white coats.

But City haven't just closed the gap on United, they have overtaken them in so many areas.

Perhaps David Gill needs to go back to school.

Originally Posted by djsst

Looks like they have bought The Mirror as well.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...-noisy-6934538

No mention of floodlights?

Originally Posted by djsst

Looks like they have bought The Mirror as well.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...-noisy-6934538

Like Sparky said, they've become everything they professed to hate about us and more. Mind you that piece looks like it's been written by the editor of Boo Moon

New to the Mirror hating United, then?

sterling work by fuzlop.

modern football is a trans-national corporate shitfest. I preferred it when the grounds were all wrecks, snobs looked down on football fans, and footballers actually needed a testimonial to buy themselves a pub when their knees went at 31.

Originally Posted by irk

sterling work by fuzlop.

modern football is a trans-national corporate shitfest. I preferred it when the grounds were all wrecks, snobs looked down on football fans, and footballers actually needed a testimonial to buy themselves a pub when their knees went at 31.

This

That's when a player felt like one of us but now they feel like a subcontractor


City would still fold by Thursday if the Arabs £#%&!ed off tomorrow

Big club my arse

Simon Mullock is a confirmed Bertie, I wouldn't be expecting objectivity from him.

Originally Posted by djsst

Looks like they have bought The Mirror as well.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...-noisy-6934538

It's always about us. Everything they do. It's all about getting one over on us. They're utterly obsessed, as that article and the bertie that wrote it blatantly proves.

Originally Posted by RedMenace

Simon Mullock is a confirmed Bertie, I wouldn't be expecting objectivity from him.

http://football.sportingmemories.org...simon-mullock/

Exactly, there isn't a shred of impartiality in any of these bertie or scouse journalists. I'm struggling to think of any rampantly pro united journos who would churn out an article as £#%&!ing try hard as that.

We just get all our ex players and club legends lining up to join the ABU brigade in sticking the boot in.

Across the city at the Etihad Stadium, one senior club executive smiled wryly and told me: "Mr Gill had better be careful - 'never' is an awfully long time."

Transparent AF that this is completely made up. Journalists

You have to remember as well that what City and their owners are doing is so blatantly £#%&!ing dodgy at times and all with the view of finding more inventive ways around FFP, that they're on a huge charm offensive at all times.

Plenty of people, lots of them journos and important people in Manchester, are all buttered up, treated out to meals and other various perks.

You'll see very little to no negative press around City because they've done a very good job of buttering up the right people.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

You have to remember as well that what City and their owners are doing is so blatantly £#%&!ing dodgy at times and all with the view of finding more inventive ways around FFP, that they're on a huge charm offensive at all times.

Plenty of people, lots of them journos and important people in Manchester, are all buttered up, treated out to meals and other various perks.

You'll see very little to no negative press around City because they've done a very good job of buttering up the right people.

they've already bought keith and believe with their silky creamy goodness, who's next for a good buttering i wonder?

Originally Posted by General Woundwort

No mention of floodlights?

Berrada said that City now have 400m fans around the world

So they've added none since Ewood? I find that hard to believe.