PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Norbiton said:
I’d prefer us to be cleared because we hadn’t broken the rules rather than having significant political and financial leverage. Then again, being cleared is the crucial bit!
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I don’t give a fuck about their rules to be honest when changed 120 years of status quo (allowing owner investment in their own business) with the sole intention of stopping City from competing with them.
 
M18CTID said:
Spot on. Get cleared first and foremost. If that happens, then destroy those clubs who tried to destroy us. Of course, if United get bought by the Qataris in the meantime we might leave them alone but the thought of that scrawny-necked **** John W. Henry's head on a fucking stick and Liverpool financially fucked will be a decent consolation prize! Not forgetting Spurs and that interfering boot-licking prick Levy ;)
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If United get bought out by the Qatari bidder I think it will motivate our management even more. The UAE and Qatar don’t have a cordial relationship, Mansour and Khaldoon will want to inflict more misery or the raggy hordes.
 
SWP's back said:
I don’t give a fuck about their rules to be honest when changed 120 years of status quo (allowing owner investment in their own business) with the sole intention of stopping City from competing with them.
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I've not given a fuck since '92 when the FA Premier League was announced. They certainly can't blame that on us.
 
Centurions said:
I really do believe that City's owners talk softly but carry a big stick. There have been various refs and officials who have been quietly moved on elsewhere who have crossed us in the past. They can't all be coincidences.
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Hope to see huge changes behind the scenes in English football, when we are cleared - including the likes of Mr Parry.
 
CC1 said:
I’ll take that!! Rather like your edit. Feeling nicely smug now :)
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I think @Centurions' amendment is about right.

There isn't any practical way to go after individual club(s), and it's wishful thinking that that was an aim.

More likely is that they'll aim to reduce their influence by revision to PL structures. I think they would also use it to lean on the media more about their reporting.
 
wolviedinho said:
Abu Dhabi has announced changes at two of the world's biggest sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). The moves put prominent members of the ruling family in charge of strategic investments worth some $1 trillion, and they may also hint at more leadership changes ahead in the oil-rich emirate.

Mubadala, conversely, was created to be a more nimble investor with a greater appetite for risk than the conservative Adia. It was spun off from the UAE Offsets Group in 2002 and since then it had always been headed by Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, who oversaw its expansion into a fund with a $284 billion portfolio and a presence in over 50 countries. From an early stage, Sheikh Mohammed entrusted Khaldoun Mubarak with the day-to-day management of Mubadala, and he will retain his position of managing director in the reshuffle.

Sheikh Tahnoon and Sheikh Mansour very high profile positions in managing the current and future wealth of the country, with combined assets of the funds totaling more than $1 trillion. It also demonstrates that they remain trusted lieutenants of the Abu Dhabi ruler, close observers say.

Sheikh Mansour is the deputy prime minister of the UAE, and has been an active international investor for decades, his best known acquisition perhaps being the British soccer club Manchester City in 2008.

So that’s Bellingham sorted then -:)

I think the premier has picked a fight with the wrong people! Masters, levy, Glazers, Fenway hahahahah!


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Very interesting. How incredibly lucky we are to have Mansour as owner and Khaldoon as Chairman of our wonderful club - & How lucky is Manchester to have these global giants active and investing in the City. If ever the EPL etc has bitten off more than they can chew it’s taking on these guys - to be clear, Mansour and Khaldoon are serial winners… definitely not losers. Never mind the fine legal points, in the end I‘m guessing this will be resolved in City’s favour by good, old-fashioned political leverage, followed by a bit of process “window-dressing” to square things away.
 
Centurions said:
I really do believe that City's owners talk softly but carry a big stick. There have been various refs and officials who have been quietly moved on elsewhere who have crossed us in the past. They can't all be coincidences.
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Who are these mystery officials that have been ‘quietly moved on’ after we have wielded a big stick ??
 
M18CTID said:
Yep - like I say, we were all gobsmacked too. It does make me wonder how much Vicky believed what she was saying or whether she was simply trying to discourage us from doing the banner. One of the ideas was to have Merson on it, pissed up with a can of beer in his hand. Vicky didn’t seem keen on that idea, particularly as she told us that she had the likes of Stelling in her mobile phone contacts and if any of the Soccer Saturday lot spouted any bullshit about us - ie: like their ludicrous pontificating about the fee we paid for KDB - she had that line of communication into them whenever their comments bit them on the arse.

It was clear though that she had a decent relationship with Stelling, and probably by extension the rest of the Soccer Saturday mob, so maybe she didn’t want us digging Merson and co out in that way.
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Let me get my head around this…You were telling VK that you were gonna make a banner showing a recovering alcoholic with a can of beer and you were surprised she didn’t give the clubs support ???

Really ???
 
Prophet of Doom said:
Perfectly fine to create whatever banners you want. But explaining that particular idea to a club official and then expecting some kind of approval is bizarre ?
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You need to lighten up sunshine. I'm fully aware of the implications of putting certain ideas into print on banners, and no I wouldn't expect anyone at the club to be particularly in favour of something of that nature. Speaking of bizarre, that doesn't explain Vicky's view that the media are no more biased against City than any other club though.
 
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wolviedinho said:
It’s an interesting take and certainly not beyond the realms of possibility. It might be a tad wishful thinking. Why would City want to help an organisation that is complicit in destroying the club? I know with Uefa we tried to stay cosy with Ceferin during and after the CAS hearing. The red shits handpicked masters so doubt he is only interested in doing their bidding.

The whole thing just needs to go away. Don’t care how we manage to do that. Either way I believe the club has did what it had to do to circumvent ffp to stay competitive. Khaldoon is clear that we have not broken any rules and provided the evidence needed to stop the charges from happening which seemly fell on deaf ears.

The rest is speculative smears with no merit. Fuck them all. It’s starts and stops with jealousy.
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You're right of course this is speculative, fanciful even, but I would hazard a guess that left to its own devices the PL would've preferred this to die a quiet death. If that is the case there's a gap between what the PL wants and what the four shit house clubs want, and given that two of them might be under new ownership soon, that might open up possibilities for us to exploit.

As it stands our relationship with the PL hierarchy must be one of mutual loathing, It's hard to imagine what the atmosphere must be like when we meet. If we do go on to win the league, there'll be a fair few rictus smiles through gritted teeth on the day.
 
M18CTID said:
You need to lighten up sunshine. I'm fully aware of the implications of putting certain ideas into print on banners, and no I wouldn't expect anyone at the club to be particularly in favour of something of that nature. Speaking of bizarre, that doesn't explain Vicky's view that the media are no more biased against City than any other club though.
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I would think that the fact you are posting what she said on this site tells you exactly why she would keep her cards close to her chest on the clubs real thoughts on media bias.
 
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