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Unread 20-09-2018, 08:21 PM
£#%&! KFC
 
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Look at the exec boxes


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Unread 20-09-2018, 08:22 PM
atticusgrinch
 
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Look at the exec boxes
Hey Mr. M. Mouse pays a pretty penny for those boxes.
 
Unread 20-09-2018, 08:29 PM
doudou
 
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Hey Mr. M. Mouse pays a pretty penny for those boxes.
Mr M. Mouse, 15 Yemen Rd, Qatar
 
Unread 24-09-2018, 10:32 PM
Sparky***
 
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https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/...mpression=true

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Last week City published an impressively robust annual report. Turnover for the 2017-18 financial year had been pushed just beyond the symbolic half billion pound mark, returning a small profit of £10.4m, while keeping the reported wage bill below £260m despite a plethora of player acquisitions and contract upgrades.

Those revenues have increased almost sixfold since Abu Dhabi’s first year of ownership and place the club fifth in the world, behind the historic behemoths of Manchester United (£581.2m of revenue in 2016-17), Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich. In some ways, City have already surpassed Europe’s grandest clubs.
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Abu Dhabi’s spend on player recruitment has gone far beyond anything ever witnessed before. Recent studies by the CIES Football Observatory report that City have committed €1.47billion to transfer fees since 2010, easily outstripping all others, and some €558m more than famously high spending Madrid.

Forget the strategy of “playing catch up” by buying big in the initial years of ownership, City’s spending on players accelerated around Guardiola’s appointment. In the Catalan’s first two years at the club €586m was committed to transfer fees alone.

When CIES examine the transfer-fee cost of clubs’ current squads, City lead the way on €976m, a spend 24 per-cent higher than second-placed Paris Saint-Germain – another state-owned football club that has come into conflict with European football’s governing body. Barcelona and Madrid’s squads combined cost just €162m more than City’s alone.

The club’s annual report mentions “historical evidence of support provided of more than £1.3billion over the last 10 years” from parent company Abu Dhabi United Group. Yet that figure under-represents the flow of cash into City from the gulf state.

How does a club with a relatively small global support, one that was relegated to England’s third tier as recently as 1998, build the fifth-highest turnover in world football so rapidly? Part of the answer lies in commercial revenues.

City reports turnover from “other commercial activities” of £232.3m last year, 46 percent of all revenue. Only five clubs on the planet have ever returned higher numbers – Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Barca, Madrid and PSG.

City’s numbers are almost a £100m higher than Liverpool’s for 2016/17 and easily outstrip Chelsea (£139.8m) and Arsenal’s (£117.3m). How have City got within striking range of United – a club famed for its ability to mine sponsorship opportunities – and trounced clubs with larger followings?

Four of City’s global partners – Etihad Airways, Etisalat, Visit Abu Dhabi and Aabar – are owned or part-owned by the government of Abu Dhabi. As the emirate is a constitutional monarchy, this means that four of City’s main sponsors are owned by the same family that own the football club. In other words, sponsorship is just another way for Abu Dhabi’s royal family to bankroll the club’s pursuit of sporting dominance.

City’s annual report doesn’t break down the percentage of commercial revenue that hails from Abu Dhabi. In Scottish terms that circa £100m premium of commercial revenue on Liverpool is similar to the entire turnover of Celtic. It’s a lot of excess firepower.

And with it the PR and political powerplay that is Abu Dhabi’s ownership rumbles on. Last week, Sheikh Mansour released a letter to “fellow Manchester City fans”, announcing he was “truly honoured to be one of you”. (So honoured he last attended a match at the stadium his country’s airline lends a name to in November 2009.)
 
Unread 24-09-2018, 11:43 PM
ScarFace
 
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I only think it will be dealt with, if they were to properly dominate like we used to. Then all the bitches in the league would say its killing their money pig and £#%&! em up somehow with new Prem rules.
 
Unread 25-09-2018, 01:25 AM
The Stella Fella
 
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I only think it will be dealt with, if they were to properly dominate like we used to. Then all the bitches in the league would say its killing their money pig and £#%&! em up somehow with new Prem rules.
But Pep is a master coach...
 
Unread 01-10-2018, 07:50 PM
Sapien
 
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De Bruyne back in training ahead of schedule...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45706261
 
Unread 01-10-2018, 08:13 PM
Sparky***
 
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De Bruyne back in training ahead of schedule...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45706261
 
Unread 01-10-2018, 08:18 PM
sa7
 
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It was thought the midfielder would be out for three months when he picked up a lateral collateral ligament lesion in his right knee just over six weeks ago.
 
Unread 01-10-2018, 08:22 PM
andyroo
 
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De Bruyne back in training ahead of schedule...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45706261
 
Unread 01-10-2018, 08:27 PM
Sparky***
 
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I'll eat my £#%&!ing shoes if he's out for 3 months.

They'll be pumping him full of enough HGH to grow a new person.
 
Unread 13-10-2018, 01:33 PM
sa7
 
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The #@&%! Brennan has written a deranged piece intended as a guide to help Bert’s answer popular criticisms about their little operation, not that they’re insecure or anything.

He conveniently forgets to mention the human rights abuse stuff, presumably on the grounds that even they can’t double think their way out of that one.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co...money-15273934

In case you’re wondering, the word “United” is used 7 times in the main body of the article
 
Unread 13-10-2018, 01:46 PM
Switching Off
 
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Taking a hammering on Twitter.
 
Unread 13-10-2018, 01:46 PM
Knockers
 
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Quite like Brennan tbh. Clickbait genius.

And the last time United were in the second division for more than one season, in the 1930s, they averaged around 20,000.

Come on
 
Unread 13-10-2018, 02:19 PM
TripDownMiseryLane
 
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How do these journos get jobs? I missed a trick here, what kind of a wage do they get for churning this shit out, while getting the facts £#%&!ed?

is there a decent football writer in print?
 
Unread 07-11-2018, 12:21 PM
The Stella Fella
 
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WTF

Is that Summerbee or a #@&%! in slippers in the middle
 
Unread 07-11-2018, 12:24 PM
sa7
 
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WTF

Is that Summerbee or a #@&%! in slippers in the middle
Think it's Summerbee.

Honestly, if he was a dog you'd have him put down.

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De Bruyne's face says it all.
SHAME

"Think about the money Kevin, just keep thinking about the money..."
 
Unread 07-11-2018, 12:39 PM
Zorg
 
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Unread 07-11-2018, 01:08 PM
andyroo
 
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Christ. That's worse than anything in the FootballLeaks shit so far.
 
Unread 07-11-2018, 01:19 PM
Fat Al
 
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Think it's Summerbee.

Honestly, if he was a dog you'd have him put down.



SHAME

"Think about the money Kevin, just keep thinking about the money..."
No amount of showers & baths in bleach will ever stop him feeling dirty.
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