PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Funny how none of these financial controls were suggested until we became successful. As for a salary cap what naive nonsense. What about the rest of a player's income, image rights, win bonuses and so on.
I recall that a world wide investers like Sheikh M would be out of his depth in the football sector of business.

That went well with the already American owned clubs but what else is left for them to to stop the landslide of pure football, investment phase domination and progress to domination in Europe?
I'm sure that sticking to investment and only using legal process when necessary makes for zn easy life ffoe Sheikh M..
 
it's illegal and a restriction of trade there's no point even going any further with it. It's no surprise that the clubs want it. Employers wanting to restrict their largest outgoings for more profit
There's already a salary cap in Rugby in England so can't see why it would be legal for Rugby and illegal for Football and it's already happening in La Liga bought in because of big losses due to covid.
 
Put money on it! Headline will be Premie to dock city points making arsenal champions
Well - it's understandable that there has so far been no information on the process and proposed 'punishment' - the red shirt puppets will not yet know how many points they will need to decduct from us to make Arsenal champions!!
 
There's already a salary cap in Rugby in England so can't see why it would be legal for Rugby and illegal for Football and it's already happening in La Liga bought in because of big losses due to covid.
The point here is that a league can get agreement from the players’ union for a cap and it will remain in place de facto if unchallenged in court by a player.
 
There's already a salary cap in Rugby in England so can't see why it would be legal for Rugby and illegal for Football and it's already happening in La Liga bought in because of big losses due to covid.

Rugby has a total expenditure on salary cap same, as La Liga, not individual player salary caps which is what's being discussed. If fact a similar total salary cap comes into football from 2024 but what Cerefin is banging on about goes well beyond the limits of law
 
I'm sure I've read that article from him.

After pretty much every good result.
Immediately after the game he wrote an extremely complimentary review and then this one. Very strange. When you boil down what he says in this one;
  • City have developed a model of footballing flawless brilliance that is so good it is uncompetitive
  • They have done it with investment from an owner who is part of the ruling class of an oil state
  • There are human rights ‘concerns’ about that State.
A deeply pointless article that just shouts hypocrisy and bile.
 
Immediately after the game he wrote an extremely complimentary review and then this one. Very strange. When you boil down what he says in this one;
  • City have developed a model of footballing flawless brilliance that is so good it is uncompetitive
  • They have done it with investment from an owner who is part of the ruling class of an oil state
  • There are human rights ‘concerns’ about that State.
A deeply pointless article that just shouts hypocrisy and bile.
I wonder if it is something he and several others have been legally advised to do ie segregate football from owner criticism.
 
Hypothetical Scenario -
City are found to have unwittingly breached some conditions on technicalities and these are the ‘top five’ conditions.

All other charges are unconditionally dismissed.

What range of sanctions could be imposed ?
 
I wonder if it is something he and several others have been legally advised to do ie segregate football from owner criticism.
I really don’t know mate. I read the Guardian as I despise just about everY other rag. they do some good stuff but their coverage of our team is bizarre. The odd complimentary article is interspersed with Bile and bad feeling and there is certainly an enormous editorial bias against us. It feels desperate when the only adverse comment they can make about the football is it’s ‘cold’ and too brilliant. I mean really, in what walk of life are you criticised for striving for perfection? As for human rights, It’s a wide world with many differences of culture and custom.
 
Oh yeah, we can expect a deluge of this sort of shizzle, dripping with same old clichéd bollocks....


Ronay is a bitter racist…. He will change his tune if the Qatar consortium buy the Rags…. He will trumpeting owner investment and community investment as if it’s a first!
 
The salary cap is the best thing about the American game imo, it ensures that smaller teams in smaller cities can actually compete.
You really think it has to do with competing, this will go before the G14clubs who will change it to suit their needs, we saw what FFP was until it was altered, we've had 10 years of bullshit that tries to suit a few select clubs
 

100% support this as oposed to FFP to be honest, as it removes all the bullshit ambiguity.
In this scenario, Haaland would be paid the same as Rashford and Nunez. How is that fair on Haaland? Also Messi and Ronaldo in previous years have been worth far more commercially than all other players.

Doesn't seem fair to me.
 
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I'd imagine it would be a maximum percentage of a clubs total out goings rather than X amount of pounds per player per week.
That pretty much already exists with FFP2 in a few seasons money spent on football expenditure getting down to 70% of revenue
Making % of turnover ensures that its very difficult for clubs to break into the top echelon
 
It’s important to recognise that salary caps are used in sports like the NFL to guarantee owner profits…. Might be spun as a way of ensuring competition but some teams don’t even bother to spend up to the cap. Any salary cap in football would be related to income - so in many ways I don’t think it would erode our position given our commercial firepower.
 
There's already a salary cap in Rugby in England so can't see why it would be legal for Rugby and illegal for Football and it's already happening in La Liga bought in because of big losses due to covid.
Its not a salary cap, its a cap how the total amount that a club can spend on salaries, to be illegal it would have to be a cap applied on an individual basis. If an individual was challenged it in law then it might well be deemed "restraint of trade"
 

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