PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

City always seem to be described as Abu Dhabi in the press, a kind of negative connotation, never the UAE probably due to its links to Arsenal , fa Cup etc as if they are totally unconnected things.
 
Revolver said:
Still get a feeling of dread clicking on to this thread.

The hypocrisy of the cartel and the borderline racism towards our owners grates. I veer from not giving a damn to what will happen to dreading the outcome.

Sooner it’s resolved the better.
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The bolded point is so very true.

Obviously both the Premier League and ourselves don't want any new publicity from this to distract from our ongoing competitions at present, but you'd have to think there will be some significant movements over the summer.
 
Norman kneejerk said:
City always seem to be described as Abu Dhabi in the press, a kind of negative connotation, never the UAE probably due to its links to Arsenal , fa Cup etc as if they are totally unconnected things.
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Yep, definitely an intentional editorial policy to besmirch our owners and club. Also the only substantive allegation they make is that Ethihad paid an artificially high sponsorship of City. That just does not stand up to any scrutiny,
In July 2022, Etihad announced a record breaking 1st half profitability of 296 million dollars. So the sponsorship is doing wonders for them.
 
Mr Fraser said:
Real Madrid loses court case ref mubadala sponsorship deal
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Real Madrid lose $440 million sponsorship battle with Abu Dhabi fund - The Economic Times

Real Madrid has lost a $440m court case with Abu Dhabi's sovereign investor, Mubadala, regarding a proposed sponsorship of the Spanish soccer club's stadium. Real Madrid had sought the claimed amount from Mubadala, alleging it had failed to honour a deal to sponsor the Santiago Bernabeu stadium...
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Luca1894 said:

Real Madrid lose $440 million sponsorship battle with Abu Dhabi fund - The Economic Times

Real Madrid has lost a $440m court case with Abu Dhabi's sovereign investor, Mubadala, regarding a proposed sponsorship of the Spanish soccer club's stadium. Real Madrid had sought the claimed amount from Mubadala, alleging it had failed to honour a deal to sponsor the Santiago Bernabeu stadium...
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Interesting that isn’t it considering Madrids PR were releasing rumours regarding City players all last week. It wouldn't surprise me if this Dortmund reporter has been told what to say regarding Bellingham.
 
Luca1894 said:

Real Madrid lose $440 million sponsorship battle with Abu Dhabi fund - The Economic Times

Real Madrid has lost a $440m court case with Abu Dhabi's sovereign investor, Mubadala, regarding a proposed sponsorship of the Spanish soccer club's stadium. Real Madrid had sought the claimed amount from Mubadala, alleging it had failed to honour a deal to sponsor the Santiago Bernabeu stadium...
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No wonder Real bear a grudge, the CEO of Mubadala is Khaldoon..
 
Luca1894 said:
There's no doubt the integrity of all the sponsorships by Abu Dhabi based companies will be scrutinised yet again. Of course if our owner was American and the sponsors were American companies they would never be questioned. There is a disgusting streak of Arabic xenophobia that at some point will be called out, hopefully when the UKGOV takes over as the football regulator.

At CAS, HHSM provided a written affidavit in which he explicitly stated he had never authorised any third party payments to sponsors. So are the PL prepared to accuse the vice president and deputy prime minister of the UAE of lying. The CEO and Chairman of Ethihad Airways stated under oath that the sponsorship of MCFC had been an outstanding commercial success for the airline and that it exceeded all their expectations. So are the PL going to accuse him of lying ? and claim the sponsorship was not fair market value ?.
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Kick racism out of football and take a knee and all that before games though
 
paulchapo said:
This isn't strictly on topic but I think it's worth a mention. Last night I watched an excellent podcast with Viv Anderson. Part of it discussed the situation of the points deduction when he was at Middlesbrough. If you remember they refused to play a game away at Blackburn because of illness and were deducted three points. This ultimately led to them being relegated.

Anderson said they rang the fa and explained the situation and were assured if they didn't play they would just get a fine. They got absolute reassurance that would be the case and that's why they went to court when it wasn't. Steve Gibson hired the top and most expensive man in the field. After three days he told them there was no way he could win the case as the fa operated by their own set of rules. He added if it was in a court of law he would have wiped the floor with them but not operating by these rules. Anderson was adamant they had been told there would be no points deduction, if there had been they would have played all the fringe players. The outcome would probably have been the same but at least they went down trying.

I mention this just as a reminder that we can have the best legal brains in the business but if their rules stitch us up it will make no difference unless there is some kind of legal recourse.
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Steve Gibson ain’t no Sheikh Mansour.
 
Luca1894 said:

Real Madrid lose $440 million sponsorship battle with Abu Dhabi fund - The Economic Times

Real Madrid has lost a $440m court case with Abu Dhabi's sovereign investor, Mubadala, regarding a proposed sponsorship of the Spanish soccer club's stadium. Real Madrid had sought the claimed amount from Mubadala, alleging it had failed to honour a deal to sponsor the Santiago Bernabeu stadium...
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Let's hope it's the start of Real Madrid defeats against Abu Dhabi-owned entities.

Mubadala, or one of its subsidiaries, should sponsor the PL.
 
Luca1894 said:

Real Madrid lose $440 million sponsorship battle with Abu Dhabi fund - The Economic Times

Real Madrid has lost a $440m court case with Abu Dhabi's sovereign investor, Mubadala, regarding a proposed sponsorship of the Spanish soccer club's stadium. Real Madrid had sought the claimed amount from Mubadala, alleging it had failed to honour a deal to sponsor the Santiago Bernabeu stadium...
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Surely Madrid and the Spanish league wouldn't have wanted all that dirty oil money anyway.

Hope this isn't going to cause them any financial issues...
 
paulchapo said:
This isn't strictly on topic but I think it's worth a mention. Last night I watched an excellent podcast with Viv Anderson. Part of it discussed the situation of the points deduction when he was at Middlesbrough. If you remember they refused to play a game away at Blackburn because of illness and were deducted three points. This ultimately led to them being relegated.

Anderson said they rang the fa and explained the situation and were assured if they didn't play they would just get a fine. They got absolute reassurance that would be the case and that's why they went to court when it wasn't. Steve Gibson hired the top and most expensive man in the field. After three days he told them there was no way he could win the case as the fa operated by their own set of rules. He added if it was in a court of law he would have wiped the floor with them but not operating by these rules. Anderson was adamant they had been told there would be no points deduction, if there had been they would have played all the fringe players. The outcome would probably have been the same but at least they went down trying.

I mention this just as a reminder that we can have the best legal brains in the business but if their rules stitch us up it will make no difference unless there is some kind of legal recourse.
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Reminds me of the old statement by I think Sam Goldwin to the effect that a verbal contract is not worth the paper it is written on.
 
Luca1894 said:
There's no doubt the integrity of all the sponsorships by Abu Dhabi based companies will be scrutinised yet again. Of course if our owner was American and the sponsors were American companies they would never be questioned. There is a disgusting streak of Arabic xenophobia that at some point will be called out, hopefully when the UKGOV takes over as the football regulator.

At CAS, HHSM provided a written affidavit in which he explicitly stated he had never authorised any third party payments to sponsors. So are the PL prepared to accuse the vice president and deputy prime minister of the UAE of lying. The CEO and Chairman of Ethihad Airways stated under oath that the sponsorship of MCFC had been an outstanding commercial success for the airline and that it exceeded all their expectations. So are the PL going to accuse him of lying ? and claim the sponsorship was not fair market value ?.
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Ive said it before - Abu Dhabi based businesses sponsoring us shouldn't even be considered an issue... of course companies will want to be associated with the club a member of their Royal family partly owns...
...it's no different from Wrexham having Aviation Gin as a sponsor or TikTok, both due to Reynolds... all of their new, lucrative sponsors are down solely to him... then there's King Power sponsoring Leicester, American sponsors like Chevrolet with the Rags etc. etc.
 
dario2739 said:
Ive said it before - Abu Dhabi based businesses sponsoring us shouldn't even be considered an issue... of course companies will want to be associated with the club a member of their Royal family partly owns...
...it's no different from Wrexham having Aviation Gin as a sponsor or TikTok, both due to Reynolds... all of their new, lucrative sponsors are down solely to him... then there's King Power sponsoring Leicester, American sponsors like Chevrolet with the Rags etc. etc.
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And don't forget Liverpool and Standard Chartered, both criminals.
 
paulchapo said:
This isn't strictly on topic but I think it's worth a mention. Last night I watched an excellent podcast with Viv Anderson. Part of it discussed the situation of the points deduction when he was at Middlesbrough. If you remember they refused to play a game away at Blackburn because of illness and were deducted three points. This ultimately led to them being relegated.

Anderson said they rang the fa and explained the situation and were assured if they didn't play they would just get a fine. They got absolute reassurance that would be the case and that's why they went to court when it wasn't. Steve Gibson hired the top and most expensive man in the field. After three days he told them there was no way he could win the case as the fa operated by their own set of rules. He added if it was in a court of law he would have wiped the floor with them but not operating by these rules. Anderson was adamant they had been told there would be no points deduction, if there had been they would have played all the fringe players. The outcome would probably have been the same but at least they went down trying.

I mention this just as a reminder that we can have the best legal brains in the business but if their rules stitch us up it will make no difference unless there is some kind of legal recourse.
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I think and hope that legal recourse would come via the implications that we have cheated and financial rules/laws, or that the UAE govn itself have lied and cheated.
 
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