Well said sir.

The Real Madrid situation is a joke. As you point out, they are a national institution and are constantly being bailed out by the Spanish Government - who, by the by and if you want to get political/historical - have always favoured RM over Barca.

One of their favourite tricks is to buy a plot of land from the club, say a training facility, and pay way over the odds for it.

for a better, more unbiased view of the city deal, have a read of this.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/jul/09/manchester-city-sheikh-mansour-stadium

Topdawg, that article isn't about the same issue. Try to be less defensive and more rational.

i am not being defensive. try to read a little more and become better informed

i am not being defensive.
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Hmmmm.... irony?

By the way, the only thing your link says on this topic is where it agrees with the OP by saying renaming the stadium in this way "will help the sheikh circumvent Uefa's forthcoming financial fair-play regulation".

So not only are you being defensive and posting an irrelevant article, but it actually supports the opposite position that you think it does.

i just cannot see how these FFP rules will ever be implemented(sp)

the CL is by invitation only,so in theory you could finish in top 4 and still not get in.

but can you really imagine a scenario where UEFA say to the likes of real,barca,manure or chelsea.........

no sorry,you don't meet this or that reg,so your out?!

UEFA need these club's in the comp as much as the clubs need the $$$$.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/uefa-promise-hard-line-on-citys-163400m-windfall-deal-2309866.html

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The whole thing is easy to dodge. Ridiculous example, but what is to stop the owner of a club from buying a bazillion shirts and give them all back one day after the refund date?

Let's be clear people like the owners of Man City and
Chelsea are not interested in fair play. They are in the sport 'to win' at all cost.

These people have the resources both legal and financial to outmanoeuvre organizations such FIFA and UEFA who are frankly run by very low calibre people.

If you don't believe me just take a look at the decision taken to award World Cup to Abu Dhabi! Noone in his
right mind would have made such a decision unless there had been corruption within system.

These new Uefa Financial (un)Fair Play Rules are a complete joke.

They may work in US sports where everyone starts from the same base but Uefa are introducing these rules when Man United, Barcelona and Real Madrid are so far ahead that no-one will be able catch up. How is any other club supposed to catch and compete with these clubs if they are forced to spend less? These rules will just give Man United, Real and Barca a divine right to win everything.

These rules make football far less competitive.

Barcelona and Man Utd are not in such a great situation,because these clubs are still run by conventional rules.

The clubs that you need to worry about are Real Madrid with their Government backing and the clubs like Chelsea and Man City with their sugar daddies.

I have worked in Gulf. The whole economy in Abu Dhabi revolves around the ruling family who are for
record significantly richer than their cousins in Dubai.
They would not have made an investment in Man City
unless they are in control of that club's destiny.

UEFA and FIFA are a distraction which will be easily
overidden by them.

Buy shirts, executive boxes for millions?

Accounts will be checked, no way to cook the books

If you don't believe me just take a look at the decision taken to award World Cup to Abu Dhabi! Noone in his
right mind would have made such a decision unless there had been corruption within system.

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You're intelectualy corrupt if you think FIFA awarded the World Cup to Abu Dhabi.

If you're going to rant about things that you obviously know little about, at least try and some of the most basic facts right.

so you think that the vote for Abu Dhabi was made on
football grounds!

Take a look what has transpired since with suspension of Abu Dhabi rep of Fifa on bribery charges and resignation of Warner.

Noone in his right mind would have selected Abu Dhabi in heat of summer and having barely a single
football stadium unless there had been shinnanigans.

<laugh. Nice bit of wumming.

Do you think that FIFA were right to award the 2018 World Cup to Lithuania?

Abu Dhabi is not in Qatar.

Jalisco -He's a either a wum or extremely thick, just let him carry on - He might be telling us next that Tevez has been a let down for Brazil during the Copa America.

But I agree with what he said in principle (about the World Cup), so I want to help him in his hour of need.

If we move the subject away from Abu Dhabi a few hundred miles to Qatar then I'll join in the condemnation.

He's busy writing a piece on how the Abu Dhabi Royal Family are personally responsible for the decline of Pilot Whales in the South Atlantic because Uganda are hosting the 2016 Winter Olympics and the Eurovision Song Contest.

Well Uganda did have the Last King of Scotland …

He is not thick, just very stupid!

He probably thinks that next seasons FA Cup Final will be played at Lords.

comment by Boris Inky Gibson (U5901)
posted 20 minutes ago
He probably thinks that next seasons FA Cup Final will be played at Lords.

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Well we all know it will be at Headingley