🗣️ Arsenal fan, “Of course I’m backing City”
Would you like to know that your team can spend money to buy quality players to give an opportunity to win something but they CAN’T SPEND.
Remember us cussing Kroenke FOR NOT SPENDING, for not backing Wenger !
‼️‼️NEWS: Former Man City Council Leader DEFENDS Abu Dhabi owners!
As Man City face fallout after being found guilty of 100+ PL financial breaches, Sir Richard Leese who led Manchester City Council for 25 years and is now Honorary President of Man City, has come out fighting for Sheikh Mansour's group.
🗣️"From a Manchester point of view, the involvement of Abu Dhabi United Group has been entirely positive. The city is a lot better place for the work they have done."
"They are quite clear they are innocent and that they are going to prove it. If I have a choice of believing the Premier League or Man City, I wouldn't choose the Premier League."
Since the 2008 takeover, Abu Dhabi United Group has invested over £1bn in East Manchester 6,000 homes via Manchester Life, the £200m City Football Academy, the Co-op Live arena, and a new £300m entertainment district.
The comments mirror PM Andy Burnham, former Mayor of Manchester, who said he would be "really concerned to lose them" calling them a "huge partner in building modern Manchester" before Downing Street clarified City are not above the rules.
We’ve truly reached a point in football where, under our Premier League regulators, it is acceptable to be:
✅£1.15bn in debt
✅Playing in a decaying stadium after years of chronic under investment
✅Borrowing a further £90m in recent months - but that's not unfair investment
✅Spending heavily while building turgid football teams
But a club with
✅No debt,
✅Owners who have invested hundreds of millions in developing a stadium and regenerating East Manchester
✅Teams that have thrilled football fans around the world is somehow the bad one....?
This is the state of the UK today.
But it’s all about "profit and sustainability", right?
Sad times.
🔵 CAS said Etihad & Etisalat met their sponsorship obligations in full and payments weren’t funded by ADUG.
Now the Premier League Commission has reached a different factual conclusion. 👀⚖️
So what evidence changed the picture?
🚨🔵Ferran Soriano On Manchester City Financial Breaches.‼️
🗣️Soriano: "Let us strip away the romanticism for a moment and speak the cold, unvarnished truth about these so-called financial breaches. When we arrived in Manchester, the doors to the VIP room of European football were firmly padlocked from the inside by a self-appointed cartel of legacy clubs."
🗣️"Their definition of 'Financial Fair Play' was never about sustainability; it was a protectionist racket, a bureaucratic moat designed specifically to pull up the drawbridge and ensure no new enterprise could ever disrupt their monopoly on trophies."
🗣️"They call our methods financial doping. I call it aggressive venture capitalism applied to a stagnant, aristocratic market."
🗣️"Did we stretch the fabric of their regulations? Of course we did. You do not build a global entertainment empire by respectfully asking the old guard for permission to sit at their table. You buy the restaurant and you rewrite the menu."
🗣️"The 115 charges leveled against us are not an indictment of our integrity; they are a monument to the establishment's absolute terror. They are the panicked, itemized receipts of a system that realized far too late that we possessed superior imagination, superior lawyers, and an utterly bottomless appetite for systemic supremacy."
🗣️"Do you honestly believe a project of this magnitude, meticulously engineered across multiple continents, is going to be undone by the archaic spreadsheets of a few terrified executives in London? We didn't break the rules of football; we exposed them for the fragile, hypocritical guidelines they always were."
🗣️"We are not apologizing for accelerating the future, nor will we beg forgiveness for outsmarting a regulatory body that was actively weaponized against us."
🗣️"In fifty years, no one will remember the Premier League’s profit and sustainability footnotes. They will only study Manchester City as the definitive, ruthless blueprint of modern sporting dominance. We didn't just play their game better than them. We bought the board, we changed the rules, and we won."
🗣️"Let them cry over the dice."🔥👀
🚨💣 EXCL: Pep Guardiola has officially told Manchester City that if the Premier League rejects their appeal, he will come back and sign for the team.
He reportedly wants to return and take the team back to the top if that happens.
City has already appealed the decision.
🚨 Pep Guardiola is planning a surprise return to Manchester City to show his support for his former club.
The Spaniard is expected to attend City's Champions League home game against Paris Saint-Germain on October 14.
Guardiola has told senior club figures he wants to "be with his people" during the club's current crisis.
(Source: @Daily_Express)
It is only CHEATING when they are not involved.
The points that saved Manchester United from relegation in 1915 came from a match the FA ruled was fixed.
Sheikh Mansour’s influence on Britain and Manchester extends well beyond football:
🏦 Helped rescue Barclays during the financial crisis
🏠 Thousands of new homes in Manchester
🏗️ Major regeneration across East Manchester
🎵 Helped bring the £365M Co-op Live arena to fruition
🏨 New hotels and commercial developments
👷 Thousands of jobs created
🏆 Bought City’s first FA Cup trophy and donated it to the National Football Museum
⚽ Turned Man City into a global football powerhouse
A legacy that reaches far beyond football.
Football intellectuals like Klopp, Emery and others respecting everything that happened on the pitch when it’s their teams that lost to City but half brain degenerate keyboard warriors on Twitter telling me otherwise 😭
🚨 NEW: #ManCity believe Etihad’s 2015 statement that it funded its City sponsorship from its own “liquidity” actually STRENGTHENS their defence.
City will reportedly argue Etihad received funding from the Crown Prince Court to promote Abu Dhabi, after which it became part of the airline’s liquidity.
Their case: the Abu Dhabi government did NOT pay #ManCity directly on Etihad’s behalf.
[via @martynziegler / @Lawton_Times]
Red Dead Redemption 2 is running at 30+ FPS on an iPhone 18 Pro.
No PC, no streaming, fully on-device via Madeira.
x86-64 → arm64 with FEX
Windows → iOS syscalls with Wine
DX12 → Metal with the madeira-d3d12 runtime
What AAA game should we get running next?