CAS judgement: UEFA ban overturned, City exonerated (report out p603)

halfcenturyup said:
So I found the Sun article. Ignoring the headline, which is probably written by someone other than the author of the piece, the text of the article doesn't mention sister clubs at all.

It talks first about off-shore payments to agents and then adds that a club is using foreign "partner" clubs to disguise amounts paid for transfers into their UK squads.

It then goes on to say that these "off-shore" payments by "partner clubs" have often been made as "scouting agreements" and that 16 transfers are being reviewed.

It then goes on to talk about satellite teams and how many PL club owners have them (strange observation about owners).

So, to conclude. Assuming the writer is able to properly express what he is trying to talk about .... a PL club is using its European satellite clubs to pay "scouting arrangements" to agents as part of at least 16 transfers into its UK squads. Not much to go on there.

I suppose this could be something to do with CFG and a group-wide scouting network, some misunderstanding of sophisticated shared service processes and a willingness from some clubs to throw shit in the direction of CFG because they are losing out. But I doubt anything CFG has done is anything less than squeaky clean from the accounting, fiscal and FFP viewpoint.
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Props for the research. So the Mail article is not only rehashed but fundamentally incorrect in parts.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
The fact the story has been mostly ignored by the UK media confirms it is United. Let's face it a few hundred fanboys cheering at Bangkok airport is clearly a much bigger story than finanacial corruption at the world's biggest club. This story will be treated the same way as these below. It will be airbrushed out of history.

Rooney facing tax probe over £1.5m: Revenue investigate image rights

Wayne Rooney's Manchester United contract is being investigated by the taxman after court documents revealed he earns a staggering £1.52million in image rights.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk
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Despite garnering some props for his stint as Derby manager he's just run off to the MLS to manage DC United. With rumours of HMRC floating around again am I adding 2+2 to get 5 or is there more in it?
 
Salford_Blue said:
I seem to remember a couple of manyoo players setting themselves up as initials+squad no., akin to Ronaldo.

The names that seem to stick in my mind were Phil Jones and Anthony Martial.

Maybe getting the wrong end of the stick.
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Phil should register his face
 
NZBlue said:
I think the problem is that the people writing this stuff don't understand what they are talking about
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Yet they get paid, and presumably paid well, for writing bullshit about subjects they have zero understanding of. Think all the so called journos who know the square root of fuck all about FFP and the WhatsApp group who know the square root of fuck all about anything.
 
Apologies if not the right place to discuss this and probably buried some where in the many pages, just curious about our current Etihad sponsorship deal of 67.5m a year which I've just googled now as I had no idea we received this, seems like a good deal, that's equivalent to 675m over 10 years.

Was hoping we would announce another 10 year deal, the shit would really hit the fan if we announced a new 10 year deal for 675m or more, would be pleasure to sit back and watch the fallout from this.
 
Auden night mail said:
Apologies if not the right place to discuss this and probably buried some where in the many pages, just curious about our current Etihad sponsorship deal of 67.5m a year which I've just googled now as I had no idea we received this, seems like a good deal, that's equivalent to 675m over 10 years.

Was hoping we would announce another 10 year deal, the shit would really hit the fan if we announced a new 10 year deal for 675m or more, would be pleasure to sit back and watch the fallout from this.
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I seem to remember rumours going around a year or so back that we may (repeat for the hard of hearing, MAY) be looking to replace Etihad as our main sponsor. But that seems to have disappeared without trace.
 
Auden night mail said:
Apologies if not the right place to discuss this and probably buried some where in the many pages, just curious about our current Etihad sponsorship deal of 67.5m a year which I've just googled now as I had no idea we received this, seems like a good deal, that's equivalent to 675m over 10 years.

Was hoping we would announce another 10 year deal, the shit would really hit the fan if we announced a new 10 year deal for 675m or more, would be pleasure to sit back and watch the fallout from this.
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It's a good deal which City are well worth but if you break the deal down across shirt, stadium and training complex rights and compare to any top 6 club bar Arsenal, it looks about the going rate if anything. As the most successful club of the last decade, we could probably ask for more and justify it(if it weren't for the economic impact of COVID and Ukraine). Look at what Barca have signed recently, without the training complex component if I remember right and it makes it an easy argument to make.

Also, we haven't been on 67.5m for 10 years, it started out at 45m per season. They've nothing to fume about at all. We renegotiated a few years back, it's probably more like 3-5 years we've been on that deal. I'm not quite sure which year it happened, there are some ITKs who might be able to clear that up on here.
 
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Auden night mail said:
Apologies if not the right place to discuss this and probably buried some where in the many pages, just curious about our current Etihad sponsorship deal of 67.5m a year which I've just googled now as I had no idea we received this, seems like a good deal, that's equivalent to 675m over 10 years.

Was hoping we would announce another 10 year deal, the shit would really hit the fan if we announced a new 10 year deal for 675m or more, would be pleasure to sit back and watch the fallout from this.
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Shirt, stadium, campus. Even a tram stop
I’d say it is pretty undervalued
 
Erling01 said:
On this Day 2020:City Defeated UEFA at CAS, lifting their ban from European football.
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This is an anniversary well worth commemorating - it was arguably City's biggest win of the Abu Dhabi era. As the club itself asserted, the attempt to damage us was "organised and clear", with rival clubs, their client journalists whipping up a complicit and hysterical rest of the media, and their stooges in football's governing bodies being the driving forces behind the issue.

Make no mistake, City's ambitions to compete at the top of domestic and European football were well and truly at stake here. Had we lost at CAS, that would have cost us a couple of hundred million Euro over the two years of the ban, but that would have been only the start. Key players would have had to be sacrificed for financial reasons, but the best of them would have wanted out anyway. Meanwhile, though Pep maintained throughout that he trusted his mates among the execs who'd told him we'd get off, he'd surely have walked had their assurances proved mistaken.

It doesn't bear thinking about. Just as the swingeing and disproportionate FA punishments in 1906 ensured that a vibrant City wouldn't then seriously compete at the top of the game until well after the end of World War One, so this would also have seriously crippled us over an extended period. I hope the full story is revealed one day, because I'm convinced it will show just what a set of odious, venal cunts we've been up against.
 
petrusha said:
This is an anniversary well worth commemorating - it was arguably City's biggest win of the Abu Dhabi era. As the club itself asserted, the attempt to damage us was "organised and clear", with rival clubs, their client journalists whipping up a complicit and hysterical rest of the media, and their stooges in football's governing bodies being the driving forces behind the issue.

Make no mistake, City's ambitions to compete at the top of domestic and European football were well and truly at stake here. Had we lost at CAS, that would have cost us a couple of hundred million Euro over the two years of the ban, but that would have been only the start. Key players would have had to be sacrificed for financial reasons, but the best of them would have wanted out anyway. Meanwhile, though Pep maintained throughout that he trusted his mates among the execs who'd told him we'd get off, he'd surely have walked had their assurances proved mistaken.

It doesn't bear thinking about. Just as the swingeing and disproportionate FA punishments in 1906 ensured that a vibrant City wouldn't then seriously compete at the top of the game until well after the end of World War One, so this would also have seriously crippled us over an extended period. I hope the full story is revealed one day, because I'm convinced it will show just what a set of odious, venal cunts we've been up against.
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Orchestrated campaign by some big clubs in europe and a snide 9 in the prem.

After we won the league v villa we were on the train back home when someone said Burnley had gone down and what a shame that was.
Their ears are probably still ringing now as my opinion of fuck them, they signed ‘the letter’, i hope they disappear forever , was told loudly
 
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