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

I am at the point where i don't really bother reading the Man City attacks in the media, particularly the FFP ones.

The fact is, in its current format, we are way out of sight of any sanction. The performance of the club / CFG in laying the foundations for financial stability, and moving on to robustly achieve that goal, has been nothing short of amazing. We should actually be held up as a benchmark of what can be achieved in REAL club growth if the club is allowed to invest properly and with stability and control in place.

People think UEFA may "move the goalposts" again, but one of the key lessons they (UEFA) will have learned from the original application of FFP rules is, no matter how the rules are phrased, while trying to aim at certain clubs, you will inevitably draw in other peripheral clubs, which will lead to some embarrassing and unwanted collateral damage...
 
Karma is a bitch, and it's about to come down very, very hard on Barcelona.

Bienvenido a Manchester, Lionel.
 
They want a transfer ban imposed before January so Messi can't sign a pre agreement with us :-)
 
MillionMilesAway said:
2014 is there, listed at around 149M.

Not sure where the figures cam from, but some of the transfermarkt costs look high to me (di Maria is listed as 67.5M, when I thought it was 50M)
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transfermarkt seem to be the source for a lot of transfer data. They don't have the Jadon Sancho deal yet. Strangely it's in Dortmund's arrivals but not City's departures.
 
For once, I really hope we make a statement, I'm sick to death of us taking it up the arse without a worthwhile whimper.
 
Marvin said:
transfermarkt seem to be the source for a lot of transfer data. They don't have the Jadon Sancho deal yet. Strangely it's in Dortmund's arrivals but not City's departures.
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Normally they're pretty good, and are probably at least internally consistent.

Sancho is there, but it's a little convoluted as he is listed as sold by City U18, rather than the first team. That will be something that will comfortably slip by casual stat collectors like journos - I only noticed because you said it was on Dortmund's listing.

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/manchester-city-u18/transfers/verein/6930/saison_id/2017
 
Kris_Musampa said:
I am at the point where i don't really bother reading the Man City attacks in the media, particularly the FFP ones.

The fact is, in its current format, we are way out of sight of any sanction. The performance of the club / CFG in laying the foundations for financial stability, and moving on to robustly achieve that goal, has been nothing short of amazing. We should actually be held up as a benchmark of what can be achieved in REAL club growth if the club is allowed to invest properly and with stability and control in place.

People think UEFA may "move the goalposts" again, but one of the key lessons they (UEFA) will have learned from the original application of FFP rules is, no matter how the rules are phrased, while trying to aim at certain clubs, you will inevitably draw in other peripheral clubs, which will lead to some embarrassing and unwanted collateral damage...
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Absolutely, our financial performance and the development of the club on and off the field is a shining example to all.
 
thor said:
They want a transfer ban imposed before January so Messi can't sign a pre agreement with us :-)
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Something has rattled Barca's cage in relation to City. It's either the bad blood with our present (ex Barca) Exec team or its related to us talking to Messi but they have no obvious good reason to drag us in with PSG. I do wonder whether the Premier League should be asking about some of the more obvious and more clear cut financial doping that has been going on for over 50 years in Spain in relation to subsidies and back handlers to their top clubs. This really is a cheek and as a few have said the pot calling the kettle black.
 
For what it's worth I've complained to the BBC about their half arsed stories and constant ridicule of my club. Enough is enough now, I don't mind them giving it us when we're in the wrong or broke the rules but it's getting beyond a joke now when they print these lazy, untrue and slanderous headlines.
Surely somebody who works at the BBC with half a braincell should be pulling whoever writes these headlines and saying have you thought about what you are about to put on social media.
Absolute imbeciles.
 
MillionMilesAway said:
Normally they're pretty good, and are probably at least internally consistent.

Sancho is there, but it's a little convoluted as he is listed as sold by City U18, rather than the first team. That will be something that will comfortably slip by casual stat collectors like journos - I only noticed because you said it was on Dortmund's listing.

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/manchester-city-u18/transfers/verein/6930/saison_id/2017
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Thanks. That explains it. As you say though data collectors are probably going to miss that so when papers report the net transfer spending they're unlikely to capture that.
 
The thing is, PSG's deal with the Qatar Tourism Authority is clearly dodgy. There's no way that should have been benchmarked at anything like the EUR 100 million reported here: http://www.espnfc.com/paris-saint-g...in-to-value-qta-contract-at-175m-euros-report

And now they're trying to value it at EUR 175 million, which is 30% of their income. I remember reading an assessment on a football business site that suggested the benchmark figure could be ten times too high. UEFA bottled a confrontation with them in the past, but is now being pressured to act by the vested interests. OK, fine.

But leave us out of it. Our Etihad deal is now clearly undervalued, we agreed as part of our FFP settlement in 2014 not to increase two AD second-tier sponsorships and AFAIK haven't done so since, or announced any new ones. We aren't the same as them at all.
 
It's got to the stage where I feel as a club we should start fighting back publically not necessarily in this instance against UEFA, as they have confirmed there is no case to answer, but against La Liga & cronies tell them a few home truths, as one person stated 'stop taking it up the Arse'
 
Barcelona, a club that likes to paint itself as a moral guardian in a sea of shit but in reality they are the most cynical club on the planet.
Yes, worse than the Rags
 
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