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

FfS. Sky just explained related party by quoting Etihad deal with City. And then went on about an ongoing apremier League investigation into it when no one actually knows the nature of it. How do they get away with such bollocks?
 
FfS. Sky just explained related party by quoting Etihad deal with City. And then went on about an ongoing apremier League investigation into it when no one actually knows the nature of it. How do they get away with such bollocks?
The media has no interest in accuracy or even facts, they simply want to sell their wares.

Football allows them to literally side with their largest customer base to feed what they want to hear.
 
I imagine they’ll appoint someone on a short term basis who they think can keep them up and then appoint a bigger name in the summer assuming they stay up. Someone like fat Sam although he proved a bad bet for West Brom and Newcastle aren’t that much better than West Brom, but only 8 games played and a winter transfer window to come
My money would be on them signing Isco.

Whoever they go for, we should outbid them just for a laugh.
 
Does that mean all cartels are not necessarily illegal or that a group has to be careful it does not become a cartel?
A group of organisations become a cartel when they act illegally together, for example if they meet to set prices between themselves, or to set industry rules that prevent a competitor from entering the market.
 
If it's anything like FFP this potential PL ruling will end up screwing over the other clubs outside of the old top 4 more than City and Newcastle in the long run.
 
A group of organisations become a cartel when they act illegally together, for example if they meet to set prices between themselves, or to set industry rules that prevent a competitor from entering the market.
Presumably if the last phrase was a cartel case for City they chose to ignore it rather than legally query UEFAs right to write and amend FFP rules that are still a barrier to entry for others?

Not a legal person but do cartel offences have to be brought by the offended company or is it something that can bring direct action by police or other public bodies?
 
Disagree. They’re maybe a year behind where we were when the great Thaksin sold up. Assuming they stay up they’ll be pushing for the top 4 by 24/25 at the latest. I don’t buy the London theory, Manchester’s pretty similar to Newcastle,the same northern city it always was just with a few more twats living in town now. A Louis Vuitton doesn’t really change things much yet we’ve attracted the world’s best players and kept them here.

Top players want $$$ and a working environment conducive to success, if Newcastle provide that then money, as it always has in the past, will talk and they’ll be successful
Newcastle's a lot smaller than Manchester, although still a great city to live in my personal opinion - not sure whether that translates to a footballer with cash burning a hole in their pockets though.
 
I would say the Top Brass at City and Newcastle should sit down and work out a plan.

1. Aramco replace Etihad as our shirt sponsor and jack up our Shirt deal to not exceed but MATCH the biggest shirt deal currently on the Market.

2. Etihad: become the shirt sponsors of Newcastle at the rates currently City are on.

Win win and let the piss boil they can’t touch it and do any thing it just won’t be legal to pull those deals up. Not related parties….Lol
Brilliant, come on get it done.
 
A group of organisations become a cartel when they act illegally together, for example if they meet to set prices between themselves, or to set industry rules that prevent a competitor from entering the market.
Cartels aren't always illegal, and City benefited from the most successful price fixing cartel and still does.
 
Got this before and he isn’t even a City fan. What do you think? Method for winning the PL:

1. Suck! Badly!

2. Find an oil rich Gulf state willing to sink the GDP of a minor nation into the club in order to sportswash a horrendous and brutal human rights record.

3. Have them find “sponsors” with hyper inflated “sponsorship deals” to permit the sovereign wealth fund of that oil rich state to transfer cash out of that state and into your club, all in the while pretending that those deals are legitimate. IMPORTANT: considerations as to the ethics of moving money out of that state and into a European football club are, under no circumstances, to be made.

4. Buy up all of the top players using the tax dollars of another nation, thereby prohibiting honest sporting competition.

5. Win titles and bury your head in the sand with respect to the first four points.

6. When people start to question, draw up a cute defence mechanism that pushes the conversation as far away from the sporting ethics of the first four points as possible. Preferably, you should use logical fallacies such as Ad Hominem attacks.

7. Enjoy. (But, for the love of whichever God you believe in, DO NOT ever consider the sporting ethics of this methodology).
 

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