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i would add that i don't really care about where the money is coming from. the rules were brought in to screw us over so if we've found a way around them then tough titties. presumably we have long term deals in place and you'd expect existing deals to be okay.

Of course Abu Dhabi linked businesses want to be associated with us. Our chairman Khaldoon has grown Mubadala massively since he's been running it. He is THE MAN, a true world stage player. This is my favourite of his interviews ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7rb1j_dRKQ .. but there are many. There is a flip side though. Etihad airways have been growing faster than Man City, so who's to say that we couldn't be asking for more? maybe its not fair on city

right, so pretty much as i suspected. so the question must be, will they allow to keep their commercial revenue artificially inflated in a world of "FMV" and if so, will the saudis be allowed to join the party? i suspect the reason we haven't done a stadium sponsorship or training ground deal yet (low-hanging fruit) is they're waiting to see how this plays out before trying to do a deal that will maximise revenue while not falling foul of the bullshit rules designed to stop us.

https://theathletic.com/3120837/2022/02/17/special-report-manchester-citys-sponsors-the-links-to-abu-dhabi-and-what-it-means-for-newcastle-united/

'it's a very proud moment for me and my family' That's his usual response 😂

Yeah, but imagine what Miley's will look like in 45 years. Actually probably better than mine will

you tell me - i'm no expert on man city. if it isn't the etihad deal, which other abu dabhi-affiliated companies have paid over "fair market value" because lets face it - that's how you increased your revenue isn't it? you can't just pump the sheikh's money in so it's funnelled in via "commercial revenue". it's not like man city are suddenly selling more replica shirts than man u is it? i'm sure PIF would like to do the same via affiliated saudi companies but we are not being allowed to repeat the man city model

30 years since Senna died. FFS it feels like yesterday!

Babadooooook! I feel like ewerk here.

if you take etihad out of the equation, our revenue is still greater than Man U. let that sink in a moment 🙂 etihad stadium naming rights is significant but at £15m a year it hardly explains the £712m. Etihad also sponsor our shirt and other stuff. . source guess the answer for city is to keep extending the existing naming rights deal.

It's a fucking shocker

How the fuck can he ever play for anyone else with that tattoo?

i think it's £712 million rather than 800. the question i would ask, is how does it fail ? all our annual reports going back 10 years are on the city website here https://www.mancity.com/club/annual-reports but you probably want to see page 33 of this pdf https://www.mancity.com/annualreport2023/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/manchester-city_financial-report_2022-23.pdf

didn't etihad give them £500m for a stadium naming rights or something? which was more than five times what arsenal got from emirates - if i remember correctly wenger kicked up a fuss at the time because he could see where things were going - arsenal can't compete with that. we are being denied the same opportunity. aramco could sponsor st james for 3bn tomorrow but there is no way the greedy six are going to let another chelsea or man city join the club. it'll be interesting to see whether man city are able to negotiate another massive namig rights deal under new FMV rules, as the first deal with etihad clearly blew FMW under water. it's probably why they haven't done a naing rights deal on st james' yet. they're waiting for this shite to blow over before trying to get the most they can without the greedy shites stopping us.

Sell ASAP.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6bPdMBoiT8/?igsh=Z2w0bTBnNW9mYnhk No no no Lewis.

The FMV stuff was very conveniently not backwards applicable. Only for new arrangements.

This a quote by Hitler before he came to power (lifted from an article by Adrian Chiles believe it or not) “It makes no difference whatever whether they laugh at us or revile us … whether they represent us as clowns or criminals; the main thing is that they mention us, that they concern themselves with us again and again …”

He was a celebrity beforehand which clearly put him on the map with his voters. Then he just bullshits and the sheep believe everything he says. Johnson was similar. He was a public figure buffoon we all laughed at

I was looking at that the other day. City £800+ mill in commercial revenue last year. Where are they getting it from and how does it pass the fair market value thing?…

I guess it's the charisma bit I don't get. Not in Trumps case anyway.

under psr rules spending was linked to revenue. now that city have broken revenue records they're linking spend to something we can't affect. same old cartel, always cheating.

i think there's a point where wealth becomes irrelevant as there is only so much that you can spend on players. for example no one is going to spend 2.5 billion which i think is a 25 man squad of 100 million players. Except maybe Chelsea. Just as you are a magnitude richer than us, so we are a magnitude richer than Chelsea. Yet they routinely outbid us for players. Recruitment is simple for us. We have a price. It's either accepted or it isn't. If not we move on. Declan Rice wanted to hear what Arsenal were offering so we didn't raise our bid as he didn't want us enough. Its a recurring story. We are lucky as we raced to get over that drawbridge just as the cartel were pulling it up. Remains to be seen if we did it legally. On that point (according to the itk crowd) City know the outcome is favourable and are preparing their response. City are known to have been in contact with lawyers regarding libel in the media and again supposedly warnings have been sent to various entities. It's interesting that City continue to invest heavily. Building work on the stadium & hotel are well under way. Odd behavior for someone guilty.

Well we voted for Brexit and Boris Johnson Propaganda works, and sadly both Johnson and Trump have charisma. Add in unlimited dark funding and its a dangerous cocktail