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

jrb said:
City have a habit of walking away from a transfer if the transfer fee and wages go past their ceiling.

It's no secret, unless it's a smokescreen for another centre forward, that City are interested in Haaland.

We all know Dortmund won't sell for less that £100mill+. On top of that Raiola will screw us (and every other club interested in Halland) for every penny he can get.

If City do make a move for Haaland, they make that move knowing the terms and conditions before hand. City are either in all the way, or they are not in. There's no point making a move for Haaland if City won't meet Dortmund's valuation of Haaland, and meet Haaland's personal terms and conditions via Raiola. If City stick to their current transfer ceiling and don't break it, Haaland won't be coming. City might get away with their current wage structure for Haaland. But Railoa's agent fees might be another problem.

The same could be said of Kane. Levy and..... https://ck66.co.uk/
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Sorry but you are making a lot of assertions that you cannot possibly back up.

Let's see what happens
 
jrb said:
City have a habit of walking away from a transfer if the transfer fee and wages go past their ceiling.

It's no secret, unless it's a smokescreen for another centre forward, that City are interested in Haaland.

We all know Dortmund won't sell for less that £100mill+. On top of that Raiola will screw us (and every other club interested in Halland) for every penny he can get.

If City do make a move for Haaland, they make that move knowing the terms and conditions before hand. City are either in all the way, or they are not in. There's no point making a move for Haaland if City won't meet Dortmund's valuation of Haaland, and meet Haaland's personal terms and conditions via Raiola. If City stick to their current transfer ceiling and don't break it, Haaland won't be coming. City might get away with their current wage structure for Haaland. But Railoa's agent fees might be another problem.

The same could be said of Kane. Levy and..... https://ck66.co.uk/
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What is City's current transfer ceiling?
 
StillBluessinceHydeRoad said:
Yes I wondered whether you were referring to the Dupont case, but that was the one brought on behalf of the agent wasn't it?
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Partly, but the key thing is the case was brought by a group of supporters clubs. It started with a complaint to the EU commission and went on from there.
https://www.espn.co.uk/football/uef...ictory-in-financial-fair-play-court-challenge
www.bbc.co.uk

Bosman ruling lawyer Jean-Louis Dupont in Uefa complaint

Bosman ruling lawyer Jean-Louis Dupont lodges a complaint with the European Commission over Uefa's Financial Fair Play regulations.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
There are a load of refs if you google ffp belgian case.
I think the courts bottled it, because of the power of football. How the commission ruled ffp ok, I just dont know.
 
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jrb said:
City have a habit of walking away from a transfer if the transfer fee and wages go past their ceiling.

It's no secret, unless it's a smokescreen for another centre forward, that City are interested in Haaland.

We all know Dortmund won't sell for less that £100mill+. On top of that Raiola will screw us (and every other club interested in Halland) for every penny he can get.

If City do make a move for Haaland, they make that move knowing the terms and conditions before hand. City are either in all the way, or they are not in. There's no point making a move for Haaland if City won't meet Dortmund's valuation of Haaland, and meet Haaland's personal terms and conditions via Raiola. If City stick to their current transfer ceiling and don't break it, Haaland won't be coming. City might get away with their current wage structure for Haaland. But Railoa's agent fees might be another problem.

The same could be said of Kane. Levy and..... https://ck66.co.uk/
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So, Lumpkaku it is then.
 
dave_blue12 said:
Sorry but you are making a lot of assertions that you cannot possibly back up.

Let's see what happens
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I think it would be hard to gainsay what he has posted. Seems likely scenario to me. But, as you imply, many twists and turns yet.
 
jrb said:
This time 'we can't walk away' once the transfer and wages start getting silly.
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Course we fucking can. We’re strolling the league without Aguero and may even win 4 pots. It’s not as if we are losing our leading goal scorer ffs.
 
inbetween said:
Let's see if the Saudi's end up buying Newcastle because then we'll have Qatari, UAE, Chinese, Russian and Saudi money dominating football. When you look around the world, no-one else has any money except for these guys.

UEFA aren't interested in stopping this, they just want a piece of the pie and FFP kerbs the excesses to protect their sponsors and their own interests. The old clubs like United have been left behind by it and well that's why you have people like David Gill (who is still a non-executive director at United) lobbying behind the scenes in UEFA.

The executive committee also includes the chairman of Juventus and as I said the chairman of BEin Sports and PSG. The latter chairman was in court recently for bribing officials to sell BEin TV rights, yes another Qatari official accused of bribery.... Hmm. He was acquitted but well who knows what really goes on nowadays.

You honestly couldn't make up a bigger group of crooks who shouldn't be in their position because of their massive conflicts of interest. Yet, these are the people who are driving FFP and who so famously claimed victory over city before our case was even heard.
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But i think American influence will still dominate. After all, MU, POOL and the ARSE are US owned.
Their views on competition, relegation, ffp etc are driven by profit motive and Uefa seem to agree as this suits G14.
 
SWP's back said:
Course we fucking can. We’re strolling the league without Aguero and may even win 4 pots. It’s not as if we are losing our leading goal scorer ffs.
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I'm not talking about strolling the league this season. I'm talking about buying another 'world class striker'. City(we) can't go into next season with Jesus as our lone and only proper striker, even if we are turning teams over this season with a false number 9 playing system.

There's no need for the ffs. ;-)
 
KS55 said:
But i think American influence will still dominate. After all, MU, POOL and the ARSE are US owned.
Their views on competition, relegation, ffp etc are driven by profit motive and Uefa seem to agree as this suits G14.
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I think the Saudis are now sniffing around Inter Milan, which makes plenty more sense.

Chinese want shut.
 
jrb said:
I'm not talking about strolling the league this season. I'm talking about buying another 'world class striker'. City(we) can't go into next season with Jesus as our lone and only proper striker, even if we are turning teams over this season with a false number 9 playing system.

There's no need for the ffs. ;-)
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My ffs is never ffs! It’s more like when you call your mate a twat. It’s an endearment thing ffs.
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
Jesus is going to be massive. If he can get rid of the persecution complex, get on the end of some good crosses, he's nailed on to be our saviour for the next few years.

We don't NEED haaland or mbappe
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Maybe we don't neeed Haaland or Mbappe but we need another striker with a clinical strike rate that's for sure. To many chances go begging in this team at the moment, they could still cost us this season yet in the cup comps.
 
The thought that the trophies we won could be retrospectively taken away because of jealous hypocritical rivals was too much. So I hate this thread ( He says joining in the discussion).
 
Cobwebcat said:
Agree If it were up to me I’d close this thread.

Nothing is really happening other than a chance there might be new rules that will apply to all teams so the title isn’t relevant. When the time comes start a new one on the general forum called Changes to FFP.

Lock It forever.
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Agreed. We should lock it and move on
 
jrb said:
Where do we find £200mill-£250mill to sign Haaland?(Grealish, Kane, etc)

The badly kept secret is now out. Serg is leaving. :-( City need a striker!! Clubs, players, and their agents will know that, so they will hold out for as much as they can get from us. Dortmund(Haaland), Villa(Grealish), Spurs(Kane), etc, will get as much out of City as they can. This time 'we can't walk away' once the transfer and wages start getting silly. City are either in all the way, or not in at all. Unless City have identified a player/s that nobody knows about? Dias.
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It's no great problem. City will always be in a position to offer top money and if it's refused the club will just move on to the next suitable candidate. Players always say they want to win trophies rather than sign up for the money, and as we can offer both to them, how likely are they to haggle and miss out on the one big offer of both in their entire professional careers?
 
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