PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[dario2739]

@tolmie's hairdoo said recently that you'll be surprised that journalists don't take money from clubs. They write sympathetic articles to the red tops as they're fans.

I still don't see them ignoring what would be breaking the biggest story in football in years.

With news now being online, journalists get what is effectively a commission based on clicks... the more clicks an article gets the more money in their pocket - and the pocket of the media outlet, as it attracts more ad revenue.
So, they pander to whatever gets them those clicks... it's the same reason Talkshite come out with outrageously stupid topics in the hopes it will get people to phone in!

 

[donkinho]

I see on the BBC Football page this morning that two of the most prominent stories are Liverpool not for sale and Glazers may not sell United ??
Bearing in mind that the Yanks are only in this to make money, do we infer from this that they are now more confident of making money, and by continuation, City are going to get screwed ??

Could do with some input from @petrusha, @Prestwich_Blue or @projectriver.

Gents - with your legal, financial backgrounds, would that be a fair assumption ?? Or am I just being my usual typical City, glass-half-empty pessimistic self ???

 

[waspish]

I see on the BBC Football page this morning that two of the most prominent stories are Liverpool not for sale and Glazers may not sell United ??
Bearing in mind that the Yanks are only in this to make money, do we infer from this that they are now more confident of making money, and by continuation, City are going to get screwed ??

Could do with some input from @petrusha, @Prestwich_Blue or @projectriver.

Gents - with your legal, financial backgrounds, would that be a fair assumption ?? Or am I just being my usual typical City, glass-half-empty pessimistic self ???

Mentioned this on another thread! It’s like they’ve been told we are going to get punished what ever that punishment will be no idea

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I see on the BBC Football page this morning that two of the most prominent stories are Liverpool not for sale and Glazers may not sell United ??
Bearing in mind that the Yanks are only in this to make money, do we infer from this that they are now more confident of making money, and by continuation, City are going to get screwed ??

Could do with some input from @petrusha, @Prestwich_Blue or @projectriver.

Gents - with your legal, financial backgrounds, would that be a fair assumption ?? Or am I just being my usual typical City, glass-half-empty pessimistic self ???

Hard to say really. My suspicion is that they're looking for more than anyone is prepared to offer. Could also be that they're testing the water, to see what peoole are prepared to pay. Or maybe they're really just looking to sell a minority stake to bring in some cash.

 

[BeerIsTheBest]

Hard to say really. My suspicion is that they're looking for more than anyone is prepared to offer. Could also be that they're testing the water, to see what peoole are prepared to pay. Or maybe they're really just looking to sell a minority stake to bring in some cash.

PB. Probably correct on the greed on the price combined with a desire to hang onto a trophy asset via secondary investment.
Or, perhaps the latest incarnation of the ESL has offered hope to the Yanks that the ESL could yet bear fruit.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I see on the BBC Football page this morning that two of the most prominent stories are Liverpool not for sale and Glazers may not sell United ??
Bearing in mind that the Yanks are only in this to make money, do we infer from this that they are now more confident of making money, and by continuation, City are going to get screwed ??

Could do with some input from @petrusha, @Prestwich_Blue or @projectriver.

Gents - with your legal, financial backgrounds, would that be a fair assumption ?? Or am I just being my usual typical City, glass-half-empty pessimistic self ???

If you want a really left-field theory, the Glazers could just be using this to drive up the share price. I've long had a suspicion that they could be using united shares to secure debts on their shopping malls, and the lenders could be after more collateral.

 

[FantasyIreland]

If you want a really left-field theory, the Glazers could just be using this to drive up the share price. I've long had a suspicion that they could be using united shares to secure debts on their shopping malls, and the lenders could be after more collateral.

Not so leftfield,ive heard that said a few times.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I think they at least subconsciously buy into the whole money narrative and underdog crowds. Saturday a perfect example.
No absolute shockers but definite in-game microagressions and marginal decisions against us every time. He couldn’t wait to blow up for full time despite them wasting half the alloted four minutes
We have to be sufficiently ruthless to make the officials irrelevant and we haven’t done that often enough this season

It's human nature, confirmation bias.

Arsenal were fucked over a few times recently by ref decisions.

And journos writing negative articles about City is simply those who have their own agendas or partisan allegiances.

If the lines are somewhat grey, it gives those type of detractors the open goal to hide in plain sight.

 

[donkinho]

If you want a really left-field theory, the Glazers could just be using this to drive up the share price. I've long had a suspicion that they could be using united shares to secure debts on their shopping malls, and the lenders could be after more collateral.

Thanks for the prompt reply - does seem a bit suspicious to me for them both to have a complete volte face all of a sudden.

 

[decmancity]

If you want a really left-field theory, the Glazers could just be using this to drive up the share price. I've long had a suspicion that they could be using united shares to secure debts on their shopping malls, and the lenders could be after more collateral.

I thought that was already well known tbf. Buying the rags has been the best business decision of a lifetime. They have been funneling money elsewhere and if they sell they are about to walk away with billions.

 

[Big mals fedora]

I thought that was already well known tbf. Buying the rags has been the best business decision of a lifetime. They have been funneling money elsewhere and if they sell they are about to walk away with billions.

So why wouldn’t they keep the club for , say, another 10yr, keep taking hundred of millions out, then sell in 10yr and still make circa £6billion??

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Told our disclosure stuff will fill a decent sized skip.

That should keep people busy.

 

[decmancity]

So why wouldn’t they keep the club for , say, another 10yr, keep taking hundred of millions out, then sell in 10yr and still make circa £6billion??

I agree. Seems odd they are selling up, unless they want to turn the 6bn in cash into something else right now.

 

[jim_tolmies_perm]

Hopefully they sell up and buy Liverpool :-)

 

[HelloCity]

Told our disclosure stuff will fill a decent sized skip.

That should keep people busy.

As in our evidence to prove we're not guilty of the charges?

 

[whipper]

Told our disclosure stuff will fill a decent sized skip.

That should keep people busy.

That's where the PL put it, in a skip.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

As in our evidence to prove we're not guilty of the charges?

As in our pile of evidence.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Hopefully they sell up and buy Liverpool :-)

It's what I would do if I could sell for £6bn and buy Dippers for £2.5bn less.

 

[domalino]

It's what I would do if I could sell for £6bn and buy Dippers for £2.5bn less.

I'd sell United for £6Bn and buy an NBA team.

 

[HelloCity]

As in our pile of evidence.

Sounds like we've just done what we did with CAS. Refused to give them the evidence, or all of it, and saved it for the proper review. Otherwise they'd have just gone through it trying to find more things to do us over with. We'll be happy to take the thump in the arm for not co-operating.