City & FFP | 2020/21 Accounts released | Revenues of £569.8m, £2.4m profit (p 2395)

We could get Sanchez in January for £20m or on a loan. Either way we are in a comfortable financial position. If Vinny gets injured we can also go back for JFE or someone better in January. We don't need to make any panic buys. We'll know the answer to these questions after December 12 (when we play the rags and know the outcome of our CL group)
 
SilverFox2 said:
I think the latter is the case, the transfer window is not necessarily the only time we can spend and perhaps we are budgeting for the next window or maybe our ADUG bosses are more interested in personal reward by making the P and L look good rather than spending everything ?
Can´t blame them if that´s the case.
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Perhaps we just decided that it was worth a net payment of £7m to sell Mangala and buy Evans, but not worth £30m to buy Evans while keeping Mangala.
 
PSG passing FFP depends on the French Revenue excepting that 50% of Neymar's and Mbappe's wages are paid at 0% tax as "Ambassadors for the 2022 World Cup." Much like Image rights it won't wash with the French tax authorities as PSG and the Qatar World Cup are owned by the same parent company - i.e. Qatar.
That said they will have a couple of years to sort out alternative finance till the bill is due. It will be interesting to see how UEFA back date the increased wage spending mind.
Oh I forgot they aren't Manchester City so nothing will happen.

(I tried re-locating the articles on how Neymar's salary was structured but all I could only find was page after page of Salary per second/minute/hour/day/month/year tickers.)
 
Ric said:
Pretty sceptical about that report. Seems to be based on a tweet from a journalist with about 3000 followers. If UEFA really were investigating us again it would be widely reported in the mass media. The likes of Ben Rumsby and Rob Harris wouldn't be able to contain their glee. Nothing to see here.
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I take it back:

 
So as soon as Barca lose a player and Real Madrid can't afford their next shiny new toy it's not fair and someone isn't playing by the rules.

Fuck em!!!
 
Haha bitter bastards. I guess the state financing of Real Madrid for most of their existence has been perfectly above board?

Spanish League knows it could be in trouble soon. Griezmann will leave next summer, Ronaldo and Messi aren't getting any younger, Messi hasn't signed a new contract and City & PSG are now viable destinations for top top players. Losing their assets, so now they're kicking and screaming like little kids.
 
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It's more than a bit rich for La Liga to complain about "state aid distorting competition". Don't think we have anything to fear over any Abu Dhabi sponsorships though. The Etihad deal is well below market value now anyway.
 
BBC saying "psg and city have both spent hundreds of millions this summer"

our bet spend far less than psg and the rags

snide reporting. glad I don't pay for a tv licence these days. sunk to the depths of the SUN newspaper.
 
Anyone who seriously thinks this is the doing of La Liga or the Spanish FA need to look at the bigger picture as the whingers are much closer to home, would look pretty shit if our own FA were asking UEFA to investigate wouldn't it, but i'm quite positive that is where the complaint will be from, Gill is a poisonous bastard and won't mind others fighting for him when they have the backing of teams like Arsenal, Rags, Liverpool, Spurs etc to push for the same.
 
If La Liga were a football forum they'd be having the biggest meltdown in history right now. First they throw their toys out of the pram because PSG paid the buyout clause on a star player and now they're just firing shots at anybody, we didn't even purchase anybody from their league other than Danilo for what is pennies in comparison to what some of players teams from la Liga have brought in. Our record is £54 for KDB, Madrid have smashed that multiple times over the years, Barcelona too who have just spent comfortably more than double that for a kid that scored just 6 goals last season. I'm almost embarrassed for them at this stage and i don't think they're finished with their little meltdown yet either.
 
A lot of the comments to the stories on Twitter about this are actually laughing at La Liga rather than City.

Interesting turn around.
 
Ric said:
It's more than a bit rich for La Liga to complain about "state aid distorting competition". Don't think we have anything to fear over any Abu Dhabi sponsorships though. The Etihad deal is well below market value now anyway.
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  • We've been financially self-sufficient for 3 years.
  • The Etihad deal is now well under market value. If we changed to, say, Nissan, we'd get double what we now get from Etihad.
  • Our summer dealings effectively balanced out from an FFP point of view. Wages & amortisation of players going out at least matched that of the players coming in and may even have been slightly more, meaning we're up on the summer.
 
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