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one final thing on Khaldoon, he can play a bit too. here he is scoring a hat trick ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgeL71lmdSs this is why we always leave it to the last day of the season to win the league, otherwise he'd be subbing himself on

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

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.

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

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.

we've been saying this for over 10 years. it's only now that clubs other than city are being affected that people are saying its wrong.

at this point i wish there was an independent regulator to say "no lads, this psr is barmy, and we the government aren't having it"

not sure what rtg stands for so probably not. think i read it on twitter and/or bluemoon so not necessarily a strong source. he would be a good alongside Rodri and could replace him sometimes too. good energy and grit. my understanding is that he could play either 6 or 8 depending. Gundogan mark 2? not sure of his goals and assists output. i'll bother to look if there turns out to be any legs to it.

and an instant ban for me no doubt. or maybe a suspension

Paqueta has an ongoing investigation that put City off before, and possibly still will. City do like defending an investigation though.

if thats the case then you're right. a non-starter. good as he is we won't be paying 150m. i was shocked we paid 100m for jack. Guess our interest would come down to the release clause. City do like a release clause. I read somewhere that Newcastle might be willing to listen from 80m. but thats probably bollocks. ps i have no real opinion but its probably better to balance the "we can get him" noise, with the toontastic "no chance" noise.

think jack read your post. against forest he stayed on his feet and made the defender disappear magic jack

Supposedly Man City are looking at both Bruno (to replace phillips) and Paqueta (to replace bernado) Tolmie is usually a decent source for City targets ... https://twitter.com/RealTolmie/status/1785354577744691250 Obviously I have no idea if there is any substance to it. Maybe you guys do. My question is, IF Newcastle were inclined to sell Bruno to City, what would it take? oh and please don't shoot the messenger, i know what it's like we've had bernado to barca every summer. just like we had david silva and aguero to real madrid every summer (they stayed so maybe bruno will too)

ah, he's also PSG president. hmm then we wait on uefa implementing before we implement 😏

i reckon being fined by the size of the breach would be adequate enough for psr.

pretty sure it hasn't been voted in yet. they've voted to produce spending cap models. if the models are ready then they may get voted in at the June AGM. the shape of the model could change dramatically in that time. i get the feeling that in the longer term this will be an own goal by the PL. As it may mean fewer superstars are likely to come to the PL. it might also lead to the gap between english teams and overseas teams moving in the wrong direction. i'd feel better lobbying UEFA for this to be a european wide rule. PSG being linked to Claremont would be funny as! as would Real Madrid being anchored by Almeria. one thing is for sure. once the spending cap is introduced it will be here to stay. and likely as not it will be tightened not relaxed. really unsure of the need for any of this. just the americans trying to get american style rules.

that's a reasonable view. i'd counter that with Everton being an example of a turkey that voted for Christmas

can't believe, well i'd believe anything these days,but the wife was warning our girls about a tiktok viral thing, "national rape day" today. telling them to be extra vigilant at school and to and from school. i even got sucked in and said same goes for her on the bus.

Abu Dhabi's new airport looks pretty impressive. Not the football, look at the ridiculously big airport.

and the world running out of petrol

my cats? Saturn and Fish? Both pretty regular, we have litter trays so we check daily. several times. Good texture, colour, consistency tbf. not left long enough to turn white. doggy poop bags are cheap and plentiful and double up as pussy poop bags too.

i cut off anything remotely stringy from chicken and cook it for our cats saves the kids pushing bits to the side of their plates