The Der Spiegl emails were nothing to do with anything being artificially inflated. The figures for the Etihad sponsorship were accepted as "fair value" by all parties. Spiegl claimed that the emails implied City had received money directly from the Abu Dhabi Executive instead of directly from Etihad itself. Of course Etihad is a state-funded organisation (like Emirates, Saudi Telecom etc). If the Exec sent money to Etihad (to bail out its debts) and then later Etihad sent the money to City then are no problems with any FFP rules. But the emails were vague and out of context and did not prove anything at all. Some of them pre-dated FFP and at least one was fabricated by two mails being merged into one. In a sense the whole thing is just semantics.
I wonder if City will make an announcement once the PL investigation is brought to a close, perhaps that's why they've been fairly quite over the whole thing (UEFA & PL investigation)?
Evertons finances are shocking. Villa were for a while. No doubt Newcastle will bend a few rules over coming years. Those are the comparisons. Only no one would care (except Leeds or Burnley) if everton got a fine for failing FFP. If we do its end of the world.
Barca were hammered by the Spanish FA for FFP, their rules are very strict, too strict for me, it's killing their league.
Well Hull and Wolves have both been fined by UEFA for FFP breaches in recent years and no-one batted an eyelid. Some Wolves fans tried to excuse their breach by saying they over-achieved that season by unexpectedly qualifying for Europe (meaning they came under scrutiny from UEFA) and the plan was to qualify the following season instead when their finances would've been healthier!
It’s a question I’ve asked on here before. A soft loan of 1.5b that doesn’t attract interest payments and is not being paid back is surely a flagrant breech of FFP.
I’ve said it before, my sincere hope is that once the PL investigation is complete City will make it abundantly clear to anyone and everyone in the media that ‘open season’ is finally over. Anyone publishing, tweeting, retweeting or whatever else they do, false narrative about us will be brought to task. Apologies demanded, retractions and corrections and, of course, stadium bans for any twat named Harris, Delaney or McKenna!
How's fish going on these days?
How can you be exonerated before you are convicted?
It’s not a criminal case yet it is reported as if it is. The PL has similar powers to a golf club which wants to sanction a member. The coverage is laughable.
Fore!!!
Having had some experience in that department this could have a longer run than The Mousetrap!! It’s a pointless exercise and usually the only one who resigns is the poor bastard who they persuaded to be Chairman of the Disciplinary Ctte.
Has Rashford had a shot?
It’s great to have some “experts” on here when the rest of us are thick as two short days planks.
Golf clubs ban you for putting your score card in the wrong box, after watching you do it and saying nothing.
Is that a summer cold you've got there?! ('blanks' for 'planks'!) As the old advert suggested, 'You could do with some 'Dight Durse', Balcolm..!'
