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Groucho said:
They'll be held to the same FFP rules as everyone else.
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FFP is hugely discredited as a rushed, poorly drawn up and totally inadequate sledgehammer to crack a nut of a policy which has and continues to be flouted by those newly rich clubs (PSG) favoured by the hierarchy at EUFA.

Mr Corruption himself Michel Platini has left a poisonous legacy that still turns on unintended targets and still penalises rich owners who want to spend their own money at soundly run clubs.

It may have City in it's 'protect the rich cartel' trap but not before they won plenty and shattered their racket, it urgently needs reform and has to be on it's way out as operated in it's current form.

Let it get back to protecting clubs overspending and going well beyond their means risking bankruptcy - that's what it should be for, not penalising ambitious club owners who would willingly gift their own clubs with their own money.
 
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Not worried at all about them doing owt Big Mike was always going to sell eventually

It wont be long before the 1992ers are hounding these out if they dont snap up Neymar and Mbappe

Actually remember Ashley buying them "Wuh got a billionaire owna now be like Chelsea"
 
GwladysBlue said:
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Bramley Moore walks all over that lopsided shed.
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But that's the point.
With £300 billion you can turn it into anything they want.
The Reuben Bros also own property around the stadium.
 

When Paolo Di Canio was appointed as manager at Sunderland I attended the Northern Regional TUC in Newcastle. There was a motion put to conference by the Miners' Union if I remember rightly about the absolute disgrace it was that Sunderland had appointed a fascist as their manager and called for a boycott. I wonder how those right on we're a great working class club fans now feel being owned by a misogynistic regime with one of the worst human rights records on the planet and whose leader, and their new owner, allegedly sanctioned the murder of a journalist in an embassy. The "fit and proper person bar" must be very low.

It won't matter to them - because we've got money and we're going to win stuff.
Sadly I'm married to one. I'm trying to ignore him. It's very hard.
 
Someone please point me to the last club that bought the league post City?

Plenty of clubs in the league are owned by billionaires and aren’t challenging for anything let alone winning anything. Recent history has shown that for a club to make the next step they need solid management and solid transfers ie. not getting fleeced for every bang average player under the son/spending alltheir money on a big name who’s on the way out. These are things that both us and Newcastle have historically been terrible at. Money ain’t enough and if you think it is you clearly don’t watch Everton...
 
anjelikaferrett said:
When Paolo Di Canio was appointed as manager at Sunderland I attended the Northern Regional TUC in Newcastle. There was a motion put to conference by the Miners' Union if I remember rightly about the absolute disgrace it was that Sunderland had appointed a fascist as their manager and called for a boycott. I wonder how those right on we're a great working class club fans now feel being owned by a misogynistic regime with one of the worst human rights records on the planet and whose leader, and their new owner, allegedly sanctioned the murder of a journalist in an embassy. The "fit and proper person bar" must be very low.

It won't matter to them - because we've got money and we're going to win stuff.
Sadly I'm married to one. I'm trying to ignore him. It's very hard.
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Here's an insight - they loved - and still love - that Facist at Sunderland.
 

killenefc said:
Someone please point me to the last club that bought the league post City?
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City were taken over by Sheik Mansoor of the UAE, noone has been taken over by anyone in the same ball park since then, not even close. It's not really very fair on any takeover since as it's like comparing apples with pears.

While I agree with your point on money not being everything, we've proved expert at wasting it - we're unsurpassed at that and others could do the same, it has to be a well managed progression from nobodies to the top table.

Even City had to go through the stages of progression, Mark Hughes and statement signings Robinho, Jo, de Jong, Bridge, Bellamy, Adebayor and Carlos Tevez until they replaced him with Mancini, Pellegrini and now Pep Guardiola.

No club can transform overnight and it will take years and mistakes even under the best scenarios for them.

The Saudi's PIF sovereign wealth fund however is the largest in the world and although they face barriers, not least the notorious and now largely discredited FFP monster - an unwanted legacy from Michel Platini, they have a far better chance than anyone since City by some distance

- In finance terms this puts them in the European super league and nowhere near the bottom of that either.
 

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