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Not much to write home about this year. Scum get the headlines of course. City:

Manchester City are in the Money League
top five for the second consecutive year,
after growth in both broadcast and
commercial revenue. The impact of the
Premier League broadcasting deals saw
broadcast revenue increase by over £40m
and a suite of new commercial partners
helped to boost commercial revenue by
almost £20m.
With reportedly significant commercial
deals agreed with Gatorade and Amazon
for 2017/18, it is clear that commercial
revenue generation remains one of City’s
priorities, but the impact of a strong
season on-pitch, may well be the factor
that could propel them even further up
the Money League. The effect of strong
performance in UEFA competitions is clear
in other club rankings in this year’s edition
and were City to reach the latter stages
of this year’s Champions League, they will
close the gap to Bayern Munich.

Full PDF report (hope this will work. If not Deloittes link is below

file://tremictssan.fal.ac.uk/staffdocs/ ... ml2018.pdf

https://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/s ... eague.html

Didn't realise just how recent that report was when I quoted from it yesterday.
Downloaded it but not yet had chance to read it through.
Think it will make interesting reading this year, especially as City could be threatened by the FFP2.

I remember remarking when our own results came out how little progress we seemed to have made in that season compared to previous. Arsenal are catching up.

But then there's all sorts of financial jiggery-pokery, 11 month years, CFG worldwide etc etc. Maybe we will be in for a big commercial increase in the next figures?

Either way there is so much ignorance about City and FFP. among pundits (and Wenger), who all seem to think our owners pile money in annually. As far as I know the investment has been made and the club has been built. Not sure what they can do to us now to be honest.

Banning any debt over 20 million would be my recommendation. Along with the permission of continued investment in infrastructure!