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[The Manhattan Project]

If the Americans don't sell quickly to DIC, fourth place and our future involvement in the Champions League next season is in severe jeopardy.

[Ciggy]

The Shiehk might step it up now Cigg i mean let the Abu Dabs have a Ford Escort when Shiekh Mo can have a rolls

Tellin yer , and they are so childish like this aswell Sheikh Mo will be fuming today

[Igor Zidane]

If the Americans don't sell quickly to DIC, fourth place and our future involvement in the Champions League next season is in severe jeopardy.

agreed.

[Gerrard30391]

Sooner rather than later:

1) To take the club closer to the title

2) Ensure CL next season

3) New stadium

[Ciggy]

Amanda Staverley done the City take over it lasted 10 hours.

When you think of our take overs its gone on for around 5 bleeding years.

[GYBS]

is it actually happening or rummour control again ? heard the same rumour so many times now over the last 12 months but not once has it happened

I know it sounds like groundhog day again, but them buying City could work in our favour.

Plus they have cancelled the new stadium and have no money for transfers its end game time for them to give it up.

No one will lend them any more money so its best if they stop wasting everyones time and their own and just sell and go.

i hope your right mate - we need more money to compete and i hope to god this link comes true nd rafa gets backed by big money

[Gerrard30391]

i hope your right mate - we need more money to compete and i hope to god this link comes true nd rafa gets backed by big money

But i reckon that if DIC gain control, all we're going to see of Rafa is his back with the door shutting behind him, so it'll be money to spend for a new manager.

[NANNY RED]

I feel so gutted for us at the mo though its heartbreaking i just hope now the jealousy they have for each other works in our favour quick. The Mancs must be lovin it knowing theve got money to throw away i mean the Abu Dabs have only owned the club for a few hours an there trying to buy everyone on the planet. Gutting. Shiekh Mo needs to Flick his head thing back now and get a move on

[aCe']

My clubs bigger than yours so there.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport....pu.html

Since the country's creation in 1971 - a move driven by Sheikh Khalifa's father, the revered late Sheikh Zayed - Dubai and Abu Dhabi have competed against each other for the world's affections, a rivalry that has gone into overdrive since the turn of the century.

When Dubai built its own seven-star hotel, the Burj Al Arab, Abu Dhabi responded with its own, the Emirates Palace. When Dubai embarked on huge, glamorous construction projects that stole headlines across the world, Abu Dhabi followed suit with plans to build a Guggenheim and a Louvre. Even sporting events have witnessed this economic one-upmanship, with Abu Dhabi setting up a rival to Dubai's PGA tour golf event and tennis tournament.

From the outside, it appeared that Abu Dhabi resented the success of its glamorous neighbour. Dubai's royal family had been so successful in branding the emirate that many assumed that it, and not Abu Dhabi, was the capital of the UAE.

So when DIC, itself an investment arm of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's sovereign fund, tried and failed to buy a Premier League club, Abu Dhabi just had to keep up with the Joneses. Well, the Maktoums.


Buying Man City is as much about putting Abu Dhabi's flag in the sand. The emirate wants to be a global sports hub, and there's no better way of fast-tracking that than buying one of the grande dames of English football.

It is also ample evidence that the world's financial power base is shifting eastwards. But more importantly than that, the capture of Man City gets one over on Abu Dhabi's glamorous neighbours over their Eastern border. And that, they will conclude, is worth any price.

The Shiehk might step it up now Cigg i mean let the Abu Dabs have a Ford Escort when Shiekh Mo can have a rolls

I am pretty close with some of the Sheiks down in Dubai and know alot about how (Dubai Holdings, Dubai government, Shk. Mohammed...etc in particular) run business and i tell you what, iv put that exact same thought earlier as i broke the Mancity news in this very thread. I dont think that its far fetched that the sheiks of Dubai and AbuDhabi would have agreed to buy 2 premier league clubs and battle it out in the big stage to see who can outspend and make a bigger name out of their clubs in X years. No doubt if Sheik Mohammed is allowed to buy Liverpool he'd have a great lead over his AbuDhabi rivals but i can actually see them going for Newcastle if a deal with the Americans is not agreed soon. ManCity seem to be throwing money left, right and center at any and every good player seemingly available atm and the statelments from Mark Hughes and the ADUG representatives seem to sum up the vision and direction them rich Arabs seem to be going about.

[GYBS]

i hope your right mate - we need more money to compete and i hope to god this link comes true nd rafa gets backed by big money

But i reckon that if DIC gain control, all we're going to see of Rafa is his back with the door shutting behind him, so it'll be money to spend for a new manager.

i dont think it will - i think he will be backed by them .

[Number 9]

I feel so gutted for us at the mo though its heartbreaking i just hope now the jealousy they have for each other works in our favour quick. The Mancs must be lovin it knowing theve got money to throw away i mean the Abu Dabs have only owned the club for a few hours an there trying to buy everyone on the planet. Gutting. Shiekh Mo needs to Flick his head thing back now and get a move on

 
His head thing??

[Rush Job]

If the Americans don't sell quickly to DIC, fourth place and our future involvement in the Champions League next season is in severe jeopardy.

agreed.

Dont you mean...  Agreed 

[NANNY RED]

My clubs bigger than yours so there.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport....pu.html

Since the country's creation in 1971 - a move driven by Sheikh Khalifa's father, the revered late Sheikh Zayed - Dubai and Abu Dhabi have competed against each other for the world's affections, a rivalry that has gone into overdrive since the turn of the century.

When Dubai built its own seven-star hotel, the Burj Al Arab, Abu Dhabi responded with its own, the Emirates Palace. When Dubai embarked on huge, glamorous construction projects that stole headlines across the world, Abu Dhabi followed suit with plans to build a Guggenheim and a Louvre. Even sporting events have witnessed this economic one-upmanship, with Abu Dhabi setting up a rival to Dubai's PGA tour golf event and tennis tournament.

From the outside, it appeared that Abu Dhabi resented the success of its glamorous neighbour. Dubai's royal family had been so successful in branding the emirate that many assumed that it, and not Abu Dhabi, was the capital of the UAE.

So when DIC, itself an investment arm of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's sovereign fund, tried and failed to buy a Premier League club, Abu Dhabi just had to keep up with the Joneses. Well, the Maktoums.


Buying Man City is as much about putting Abu Dhabi's flag in the sand. The emirate wants to be a global sports hub, and there's no better way of fast-tracking that than buying one of the grande dames of English football.

It is also ample evidence that the world's financial power base is shifting eastwards. But more importantly than that, the capture of Man City gets one over on Abu Dhabi's glamorous neighbours over their Eastern border. And that, they will conclude, is worth any price.

The Shiehk might step it up now Cigg i mean let the Abu Dabs have a Ford Escort when Shiekh Mo can have a rolls

I am pretty close with some of the Sheiks down in Dubai and know alot about how (Dubai Holdings, Dubai government, Shk. Mohammed...etc in particular) run business and i tell you what, iv put that exact same thought earlier as i broke the Mancity news in this very thread. I dont think that its far fetched that the sheiks of Dubai and AbuDhabi would have agreed to buy 2 premier league clubs and battle it out in the big stage to see who can outspend and make a bigger name out of their clubs in X years. No doubt if Sheik Mohammed is allowed to buy Liverpool he'd have a great lead over his AbuDhabi rivals but i can actually see them going for Newcastle if a deal with the Americans is not agreed soon. ManCity seem to be throwing money left, right and center at any and every good player seemingly available atm and the statelments from Mark Hughes and the ADUG representatives seem to sum up the vision and direction them rich Arabs seem to be going about.

Not bein funny like Mate but if your close like you said to the Shiekhs have a word will yeh and tell them its doing my heart no good and to get there finger out an hurry up. Ill even wear a yash mak thingy for them .

[woof woof !]

Clutching at straws here Cig but if the rivalry between the powers in Abu Dhabi and Dubai is as fierce as painted maybe the move on Man City might prompt DIC to make an offer for LFC that the yanks just can't refuse.

Please god.

[LFC2007]

I am pretty close with some of the Sheiks down in Dubai.