You said it was dirty oil money better suited in improving its third world cess pit of a country....which in the context of the statistics above makes you look ignorant (at best). They've spent more money than you can possibly imagine on their city..like I said Man City is mere loose change in comparison.
What are you talking about ??? Just sounds like irrational hatred to me. Is their royal family any different to our royal family ? Are their sheikhs owning the oil any different to our government owning the water that belongs to all of us, can we claim ownership of it ? Do we all have the ability to harness and filtrate and treat the water to make it drinkable ? Do the Abu Dhabans have the mining tools to extract the oil under ground ?? None of your comments make sense, you are being completely irrational in this argument. The Oil sheikhs have done nothing to deserve these comments.
Unlike America huh ? where a city drowns and the Government send in the ****ing army to stop 'looters' getting water and food to survive. There's a staggering difference here to...just read any report about the number of children growing up in poverty in this country and how so many kids are going to school hungry as a result. You're comments are at best ignorant and at worst are more suited to a John Terry Louis Suarez after dinner speech.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...rich-and-poor-growing-fastest-in-Britain.html Gap between rich and poor growing fastest in Britain The gap between rich and poor has grown faster in Britain than in any other developed country over recent decades, research suggests. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a leading economic forum, said that the wealthiest tenth of society now earn 12 times as much as the poorest, up from eight times as much in the 1980s. In addition the amount of total income taken by the top 1 per cent of earners - including bankers, managers and executives - has doubled to 14 per cent. By contrast, the top tax rate has fallen while benefits for the poorest have become less generous. Open your eyes and you will see the truth past all the propaganda....
I asked a question actually. I wanted to see what you all think. You assumed I had an answer. Emboldened part accepted as true, and deemed completely irrelevant. Their royal family is no different from our royal family. Do you think I'm some kind of BNP nationalist now? No, they're all rancid parasites. No difference except oil is the only thing Abu Dhabi has going for it. It is literally the only commodity they have. Heh, were you being sarcastic? Apologies if so. Holy... enough of the moral condemnation please. As an example of your ridiculous argument, where did I talk about America? Nowhere is the answer. Stop putting words into my mouth, and go sit on someone elses moral highground because I have no patience for manipulative ego-building do-gooders.
Gooner - an average 0f $17m doesnt mean they are all millionaires. There are poor people there too. example Person 1 - worth $1bn Person 2- person 57 - worth $1 Average - $17m
The question element of your statement was wether or not they should or shouldn't spend their money on Man City. The part of you're statement which showed blatant ignorance relates to your description of Abu Dhabi as a THIRD WORLD CESS PIT. That wasn't a question but a sentiment borne out of ignorance. The Abu Dhabi Royal Family is the royal family of the CITY STATE...ie they have no responsibility on any other parts of the UAE or Arab World, in the context of spending money on their own before lavishing it on foreign football clubs it has complete and utter relevance.
Please you do not need to tell me what an average is. The average net worth of $17m was stated in response to an ignorant comment...I'm sure some of them are only worth $800k etc but that doesnt mean they are living in a cess pit. You're failing to distinguish between the migrant workers and Abu Dhabi citizens, the former are very poor but they come and go from their own countries...they do not form a part of that statistic.
I think the point is though that there are more poor peope in Abu Dhabi than rich, so the average is meaningless. Still in terms of City - I think what they are doing is bad for football. If it goes much further we could see 2-3 players in every team as City loanees, who would not be able to play against them.
I definately agree that what City are doing is not healthy for football, but tbf it's no different from Chelsea or the Glacticos of RM...lets not forget it was RM who payed £60m (?) for one player. I just hope they bring the financial fair play rules sooner rather than later. Personally, I'm proud that our club is run better than most...but I just hope the fans are not being financially exploited in the interest of SH wealth....and at the expense of winning silverware.
I think we are in full agreement I do have serious doubts about FFP though - when the money starts flowing I dont trust UEFA to say no, and hold the moral ground.
you want to talk about ignorant comments? you think that the expats don't form part of the statistics? of course they do. most of the population is made of up the working class, probably 700,000 out of the million or so inhabitants, and they are about as close as you get to a modern day's slave labour, who live in slum conditions and are exploited by the big corporations. this is tried to be hidden by the fact it's illegal for any journalist to report anything negatively reflecting on the economy or government. I'm guessing that's what he was getting at in terms of a "third world cess pit"..
Those migrant workers would probably have absolutely nothing if they didn't have the jobs in Abu Dhabi...remember they chose to go there. They certainly wont be provided with jobs from you or I. If you want to advocate global socialsim than a good place to start is to stop worshipping a sport which pays a player £200k a week to kick a bag of air around. Personally, their extravagangt wealth and inequality disgusts me as much as anybody else...but its getting difficult to escape the feeling that some find the source of City's wealth more uncomfortable to deal with than the source of wealth of Chelsea, Real Madrid...and countless other teams in countless other sports.
And here's what I actually said: Notice the "Maybe" and the QUESTION MARK. Like everyone has told you, there is a horrible rich-poor divide in Abu Dhabi that makes your statement about average wealth laughable. The billionaires could certainly spend it on helping the poor rather than lining the pockets of foreign footballers. I probably know more than you do about all the flashy architectural masterpieces they have constructed on the backs of the poor, but like I've been trying to tell you, that is completely irrelevant to the rich-poor divide.
I don't get the point of your post either. There is a rich-poor divide in England. We agree! What was your point? How about we forget about it? Today is a good day! I don't want to have to start telling you how many black and muslim friends I have
A bit presumptious there about your knowledge of Abu Dhabi (relative to mine). There's no getting away from the fact that your original comment was the kind of bitter statement normally associated with those who find it difficult to deal with the concentration of wealth in the hands of people whom they dislike.
His point was the likes of Sir John Hall or Jack Walker have never been vilified for not spending their money to eradicate the poverty in the council estates of Newcastle and Blackburn (respectively) before lavishing it on a football club...
