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    Man Utd's brand is global and has been for many years. Their revenue income is only surpassed by Real Madrid & Barcelona. Even the financially doped clubs like Paris St Germain & Man City can't match Man Utd's revenue income. The Glaziers use Utd as a cash cow, and reinvest little if any of their own money into the club.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gsq4848 View Post
    Man Utd's brand is global and has been for many years. Their revenue income is only surpassed by Real Madrid & Barcelona. Even the financially doped clubs like Paris St Germain & Man City can't match Man Utd's revenue income. The Glaziers use Utd as a cash cow, and reinvest little if any of their own money into the club.
    Their value is on the wane as the scale of debt has an impact on the sporting strategy. FFP was allegedly designed to protect clubs against dodgy owners

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    Debt has come down but at expense of the football side, which of course has affected share prices. Although it has dropped dramatically it increased a bit this year, certainly not due to football reasons tho lol. Maybe it dropped too low and became attractive again
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    The allegation, if proven, against Man City is over statement of asset values and income revenues to balance the books. There is plenty of conjecture surrounding FFP in general and UEFA's motives for applying it. I guess people will form their own view. Quite how Paris St Germain got away with seemingly very clear FFP breaches is another story of smoke and mirrors.

    I agree, the debt loaded onto Man Utd when purchased by the Glazer family wasn't in the best interests of the club. My point was more so, the revenue income Man Utd are still able to attain, despite less success on the football pitch in recent years.

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    I think the issues with clubs being given external finances has always been with us, and lets face it, its really the only way the current top clubs stay there, by arranging this penalty to stop others joining their club. City could never have got where they are without it, and that applies to PSG too.
    But Madrid, Barca etc have had it in past and are now very strong. they dont want others doing better.
    Its a difficult one tbh. is it wrong for someone to push their cash in; maybe... but there again its a professional sport, and the side effects to the communities can be great...
    One thing for sure, Uefa/Fifa calling anyone cheats is a laugh.
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    I agree Grant. The game has changed so much since Jack Walker's romanticised bankrolling of Blackburn. Was that any different to the state sponsorship of the likes of Man City & PSG? People will have differing views.

    You're dead right, FIFA & UEFA, are in no position to take the moral high ground.

    Anyway, my affiliation is to Spurs, a seemingly financially well run club, who just don't happen to win anything!
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    Today's game at Ibrox cancelled and re-arranged for tomorrow.
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    certainly wet and the pitch im told is a mess.. obviously a bad choice of surface
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    Quote Originally Posted by rmcin626 View Post
    Today's game at Ibrox cancelled and re-arranged for tomorrow.
    Yup, *if* the pitch is playable, and the wild weather doesn't look like abating anytime soon... The forecast for tomorrow isn't much better.

    What dod you think of the Gerrard interview I linked to earlier?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Yup, *if* the pitch is playable, and the wild weather doesn't look like abating anytime soon... The forecast for tomorrow isn't much better.

    What dod you think of the Gerrard interview I linked to earlier?

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    yeah saw the interview, we'll see what happens this week, if the players can get back to where they were before the break, a couple of big games that must be won.
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