The minute the sheik walked in your club you were immediately 'elite' talk of buying any player in the world. Success was and is inevitable. Sponsors are onto a sure thing.
When you look at what United, Real Madrid, Liverpool, Juve offer to a sponsor, fan base, history, global support, then consider what city offer ? Success is all. Take the guarantee of success away......Puma aren't coming at you with 50 million. Neither are any of the other sponsors. Honestly you really think that you have a legitimate income that is on par with United, Real Madrid and Barcelona?
No there really wasn't, in fact Chelsea have been more successful than us since the takeover.
Our income is not on par with Uniteds, and yes, many economists have already said the Etihad deal is in no way over valued today considering what it offers. Again not my opinion but that of financial experts.
Heres the stadium deal info, so on a par with other CL clubs:
http://sportforbusiness.com/the-value-of-stadium-naming-rights/
Here is the current shirt sponsor deals and again we are only taking from Abu Dhabi what is on a par with again other CL clubs:
https://www.statista.com/statistics...ships-in-the-barclays-premier-league-by-club/
Once the Puma deal is through it will again be on a par with other CL clubs...
Yes Puma are coming with £50m I didn't pluck it out of my arse or just make it up, in fact it was a bit of a bidding war between themselves and Under Armor. Its pretty much well know in football circles.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...r-City-sign-50million-year-Puma-kit-deal.html
https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/soccer-news/manchester-city-set-land-50m-13028741
Our sleeve sponsor is also fair market value (less than Arsenal, even with Chelsea).
While our income in 2009 till we started winning was over the top and punished by UEFA it's pretty clear it's legit now.
http://priceoffootball.com/manchester-city-and-etihad-airways-economy-plus/
https://www.mcfcwatch.com/2018/09/1...ce-expert-kieran-maguire-talks-to-city-watch/
https://www.skysports.com/watch/vid...1496803/city-financially-strongest-club-in-uk
Yes you are here to stay, that's not my moot point was. I mean this period is very important for you guys to be actually recognized as the big club and when I say big , I mean one which can dominate the league and Europe for the next decade.
To be fair you guys are still behind Chelsea in the success achieved. They have atleast created a strong foundation to be here. I think if sheikhs leave today (which they won't ) , it would be a major blow for you lot.
As a big club, yes, its a very important period but as a financial force, I completely disagree.
Strongly disagree with the highlighted bit. Being a Chelsea fan I know a thing or two about the difficulty of figuring out how to remain successful and competitive when you go from blank check from your owner to trying to live within your own means.
I've been hearing the "when Abramovich fecks off" line from the rival supporters for the last fifteen years now. I guess it's possible that the club will suffer if sold to another owner but I doubt it. Chelsea has a solid foundation and a reputation of a winner. It has been successful both at home and in Europe. Most importantly, its sponsorship deals are legit and are based on the club's doing well on the pitch. City's financial clout is largely dependent on its owner. The sheik's people not only propped up the club with Abu Dhabi based "sponsorships", they've built a whole network, City Football Group, that helped them get around the FFP rules and kept injecting the club with money they couldn't possibly earn legitimately. I'd love to see the breakdown on how City earns their money to calculate just how much those Abu Dhabi connected sponsors pay for the "priviledge" of being associated with the club that cannot even fill their own stadium on a CL night.
In short, no, you cannot replace your income, not even half of it, if your owner leaves tomorrow, because unlike most other clubs, your income isn't based on legit sources and
on the open market you'll be royally fecked.
The multi club franchise model is Soriano's brain child not Abu Dhabi's (another myth) and something he tried to implement at Barcelona before moving on.
CFG doesn't inject money btw but it does keep directors off the books.
In the last 3 years the Sheikh has invested nothing but the Laporte money £54m amortised over the length of his contract which is a 5 year deal so will go through the books at under £11m per year.
Again this is kind of funny, they are "sponsorships" in the same legit means as any of Chelsea's and just like Chelsea's have been deemed market value by the people going through the books (it doesn't matter where they come from). As I've said many times, no one know how much comes from the other 3 Abu Dhabi companies and I too would love to see the breakdown. UEFA funnily enough have, as have the Premier League FFP team and both decided they are fair market value or else we'd be punished on them. You can say it's illegit but it's not. I've posted plenty of links above.
If you look there you'll see they are not above most top 4 clubs and when they are they are its very marginal.
Also we are the only english club who have played consistent CL football in the past few years which also plays a big part.
The point is, that your ground is around half the size of ours, you're playing football and are at a level you'll never better, and even with the inevitable glory fans such situations attract, you seem to have a fantastic struggle to fill your ground regularly.
That seems incredible to everyone outside of Man City.
What happens if the sheiks can't forever fund the same level, and you drop down?
No its not the point is you having 25k of 75k missing for Cluj meant 1/3 of your seats were empty, 33% no show, City have 1/4 of a smaller fan base missing. Granted Cluj are a smaller club but it you are gonna call one team out for missing 15k or so surely you call out both. You regularly report figures with over 10k extra at OT. Also I've already called us out on the no shows and openly admit its a problem and I find our supporters treatment of the CL quite strange but it doesn't change much financially.
The Sheikh has put nothing into the club bar the Laporte money in the past 3 seasons.. the Etihad deal is fair market value and would go for the same was it up for tender according to loads of professional economists (not the CAF internet kind) and we don't know how much or how little comes from the other sources. I tend to side with Uefa and PL financial experts and team of lawyers over random United fans on the internet.
. How many of these wankers envisaged the nights their club get to play against Bayern, Real, Barcelona, Juventus from just over ten years ago? They are spoilt by the Arab slave owners pumping billions so when the day they stop putting in their oil cash and feck off for good, maybe these City plastics will regret being ungrateful to the grandest competition in world football when they go back to slumming with Millwall, Bristol, and Wigan.