PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[bobbyowenquiff]

I have a feeling this will result in just another non-cooperation charge sticking like was the case with UEFA. The only charge which I am aware of that slightly concerns me is the consultancy payments made to Mancini, but even if proven the punishment would be a fine? It certainly isn’t cheating - the word that opposition fans love to level at us. To me cheating is the match fixing exposed in Italy.

The Mancini consultancy deal with the club in Abu Dhabi happened four years before FFP rules came in for the PL and before he joined City.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Ha. I remember CAS judgement day, I did absolutely zero work all fucking day and immediately went to the pub as soon as the result came in and drank their finest (cheapest) Cava all afternoon whilst reading the full 91 page verdict. (I was 4 hours ahead so it wasn’t morning drinking)

I’d accept the same day all over again.

It was glorious, Sky Sports camped on the other side of the road of the South Stand ready to broadcast our demise. The guy reporting looked like he had been told his wife had been shagging someone else and his dog had been run over when having to read out the statement.

Has anyone got a YouTube clip of it? It will be fucking glorious when we can play this one out again with the Premier League.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

City don't think this will last beyond the year.

It's unravelling and had holes torn all the way through it.

Happy days.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Serie A docked points from Juventus with games remaining.

The Premier League made a statement and allowed it to get to the end of the season.

UEFA did something and little happened.

Italian football does appear stronger, whilst the PL and UEFA ruin their own brands.

Thats the bit that gets me. We have the best coach in the world. He's attracted top talent, our finances have been trickling down the other clubs and the PL product. (Haaland wouldnt be in this league if it wasnt for Pep).

Its clear this is all about getting Pep, stopping our success from becoming something that eclipses the red clubs.

Literally it feels like they just want Pep to go... Hence all the questions "when are you leaving Pep, will you leave, does this make you feel differently about leaving".
They known our success is the ultimate of football, you cannot achieve what he has again... Top manager, limitless finances (Within FFP), the same business mindset from top to bottom (Basically Pep has had his dream come true - fashion the team of his dreams, he couldnt achieve that anywhere else because of the politics of those clubs and money which only those clubs have)

So they want Pep gone, and where is he going to go? Maybe France make that league better? Spain again? whatever, this league loses out and on top of that a rival league might just eclipse what's happening here in the PL.

Meanwhile we go back to a red top league.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Ha. I remember CAS judgement day, I did absolutely zero work all fucking day and immediately went to the pub as soon as the result came in and drank their finest (cheapest) Cava all afternoon whilst reading the full 91 page verdict. (I was 4 hours ahead so it wasn’t morning drinking)

I’d accept the same day all over again.

I was quite confident up to about 30 minutes before the verdict was due to be announced, then I was absolutely bricking it, having been quite vocal that we'd not be found 'guilty'. I had to take the afternoon off work as my head had gone completely.

 

[Manc Born & Bred]

City don't think this will last beyond the year.

It's unravelling and had holes torn all the way through it.

Happy days.

Well who would have guessed. This might send the likes of Harris, Tariq etc over the edge.

 

[Oyster28catcher]

Thats the bit that gets me. We have the best coach in the world. He's attracted top talent, our finances have been trickling down the other clubs and the PL product. (Haaland wouldnt be in this league if it wasnt for Pep).

Its clear this is all about getting Pep, stopping our success from becoming something that eclipses the red clubs.

Literally it feels like they just want Pep to go... Hence all the questions "when are you leaving Pep, will you leave, does this make you feel differently about leaving".
They known our success is the ultimate of football, you cannot achieve what he has again... Top manager, limitless finances (Within FFP), the same business mindset from top to bottom (Basically Pep has had his dream come true - fashion the team of his dreams, he couldnt achieve that anywhere else because of the politics of those clubs and money which only those clubs have)

So they want Pep gone, and where is he going to go? Maybe France make that league better? Spain again? whatever, this league loses out and on top of that a rival league might just eclipse what's happening here in the PL.

Meanwhile we go back to a red top league.

Nail. Head.

 

[horlock_was_super]

I was quite confident up to about 30 minutes before the verdict was due to be announced, then I was absolutely bricking it, having been quite vocal that we'd not be found 'guilty'. I had to take the afternoon off work as my head had gone completely.

This site crashing didn't help either!

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Masters has completely washed his hands of it. Khaldoon, ever the diplomat, was still able to get his message across.

Surprisingly, perhaps, Chelsea's own executive were also in our corner.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Well who would have guessed. This might send the likes of Harris, Tariq etc over the edge.

Our payback will be people like this being left permanently on the outside, as we become a true giant of the game in the next decade.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

The Mancini consultancy deal with the club in Abu Dhabi happened four years before FFP rules came in for the PL and before he joined City.

He signed the one that was published by Der Spiegel on the same day he joined the club iirc but it was only the final year of that contract that was covered by FFP. PL rules only came in after FFP, in 2014 I think. So it's basically one year of £1.75m for UEFA FFP and not covered at all by the PL's equivalent rules.

They could argue that the omission of that £1.75m meant our accounts weren't true and fair but given the scale of our losses in those years - £95m in 2012 and £195m in 2011 - good luck with that!

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I am kind of halfway there. I don't blame the PL for opening an investigation once UEFA had started their process. My issue is more with timing. The PL should have waited for the end of the UEFA process and taken their findings into account, imo.

ehAnyway, Masters gets a lot of stick on here, but dettevyllwasn't it Scudamore who started the investigation? Masters can't really be expected to stop it without going through the process, in the same way Ceferin couldn't at UEFA.

In fact, I see this as the PL's Platini/ FFP moment. Weak management leading to a situation they rather wouldn't be in. Hopefully the same outcome.

As for Levy, he is just a useful idiot . We all know who is really driving this.

Masters is not very smart. He is out of his depth. How he got the job is a mystery but he was personally vetted by Directors of LFC and MUFC.

 

[BlueAnorak]

City don't think this will last beyond the year.

It's unravelling and had holes torn all the way through it.

Happy days.

Hope this is true. Some of the charges are ludicrous.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

How he got the job is a mystery but he was personally vetted by Directors of LFC and MUFC.

I can only assume the interview involved demonstrating his blow-job skills on the above panel.

 

[mattcity5]

Mansour looking very dapper there. All he needed was a sky blue tie :)

Light the sky blue touch paper and retire to a safe distance :P

He's wearing one of his many state-sponsored suits.

 

[Tb1981]

It’s amazing how people don’t care about the details they just assume we are guilty.
Dick heads like Scott minto yesterday saying we should be stripped of titles if found guilty.
Found guilty of what??
which charge? Which year? What are we supposed to have done exactly?
All these nobody’s handing out punishments but no idea at all of what we are alleged to have even done!!!

 

[Claytop]

It was glorious, Sky Sports camped on the other side of the road of the South Stand ready to broadcast our demise. The guy reporting looked like he had been told his wife had been shagging someone else and his dog had been run over when having to read out the statement.

Has anyone got a YouTube clip of it? It will be fucking glorious when we can play this one out again with the Premier League.

 

[SWP's back]

The verdict was announced by a short press release. The 91 page document with the full details did not follow until 2 weeks or so later.

Alcohol plays tricks with memory ..my bet is that you were pissed on both days :)

Then I must have read Bluemoon. Either way I like drinking and pissing on UEFA’s chips.

 

[jaiguruKun]

City don't think this will last beyond the year.

It's unravelling and had holes torn all the way through it.

Happy days.

This may be the reason why Pep was so bullish about a quick resolution in his press conference earlier this week.

 

[HelloCity]

City don't think this will last beyond the year.

It's unravelling and had holes torn all the way through it.

Happy days.

I needed to hear this.