PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[HelloCity]

Posted at 11:45am. Don't they lock school gates anymore?

Telling the time is at least a step in the right direction. ;)

 

[mrbelfry]

Imagine 5 years from now when the MEN is putting #ff0000 ellipses around discarded vr headsets and everyone is calling it the Nullihad.

Just imagine

 

[OntarioBlue]

I was wondering if the Chairman’s very restrained comments on this issue during his state of the nation interview and the appearance of Ceferin in Manchester a few days later making mea culpa noises about the Champions League final fuck up are linked and significant.

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn there were high level discussions between the Club, The FA and UEFA to make this situation go away as quickly as possible.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

How would that be a good thing? One of the reasons the PL marches ahead of La Liga is the equalitarian approach to tv money among PL clubs. This has fostered a more competitive league and appealed to a broader audience. Luton Town need to be getting as good a deal as anyone else in the league.

If broadcast deals were negotiated individually, rather than collectively, thats the beginning of the end of the PL. It really alarms me when fans of clubs see football through the prism of thier own club maximising thier own share of the pie, rather than the collective. Man City are only big because you are in the PL. The Premier League is the product, not Man City, Manchester United, Liverpool or Arsenal, the Premier League.

Your last comment worries me. Its like your up for it and want it to happen. Let Luton Town eat the bones that get tossed them

I don’t want to see individual clubs keeping all the broadcast income. I think the clubs as a collective should own all the broadcast income instead of giving it to a third party like SKY or BT. The technology now means the PL or any league could control broadcast income and distribute in a fair way. The bigger clubs would still get more from European games. This will happen in some sort of format whether we like it or not.

 

[Keeper!]

We will be selling Virtual season tickets soon enough, VR headsets from Norway to Sydney, that's the plan.

I hope they have made a provision for virtual empty seats, it won't feel authentic if they haven't!! ;)

 

[KS55]

I was wondering if the Chairman’s very restrained comments on this issue during his state of the nation interview and the appearance of Ceferin in Manchester a few days later making mea culpa noises about the Champions League final fuck up are linked and significant.

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn there were high level discussions between the Club, The FA and UEFA to make this situation go away as quickly as possible.

Ceferin tried twice to end UEFA case before it concluded. His proposal was City payed a small administrative fine and UEFA would drop the case. He was sent away with a flea in his ear. Our current policy will be no different. Either the league announce that they have no evidence or the case goes ahead. No fudge will happen.
UEFA is not a party to this case, nor is the FA. It is just The PL vs City.

 

[schfc6]

How would that be a good thing? One of the reasons the PL marches ahead of La Liga is the equalitarian approach to tv money among PL clubs. This has fostered a more competitive league and appealed to a broader audience. Luton Town need to be getting as good a deal as anyone else in the league.

If broadcast deals were negotiated individually, rather than collectively, thats the beginning of the end of the PL. It really alarms me when fans of clubs see football through the prism of thier own club maximising thier own share of the pie, rather than the collective. Man City are only big because you are in the PL. The Premier League is the product, not Man City, Manchester United, Liverpool or Arsenal, the Premier League.

Your last comment worries me. Its like your up for it and want it to happen. Let Luton Town eat the bones that get tossed them

Couldn’t agree more to be honest. I’d actually prefer all TV revenue distribution even, I think it is to an extent. I do agree that the teams having games affected by tv should then receive compensation. That way there teams chasing at the top and fighting relegation get similar TV revenues.

Every City fan I know, wants the game to be as even as possible, if our owner is richer than yours so be it, but if Newcastle’s or Leeds or whoever is richer than ours, then fair fucks to them.

But they’ll be a growing number of City fans that will start to think, fuck the rest of the league, fuck the G14. And I don’t think you can blame them for that. The other teams especially the reds shirts and Spurs have tried to fuck us over royally. If we are the best at making money, if we’re the biggest tv draw, why shouldn’t we want the lions share? That’s how we’ve been treated.

I know it’s short sighted, most will. But the powers that be at your club, United, Liverpool, the Spanish giants don’t. So, you can see why some City fans wouldn’t give a flying fuck about anyone else.

 

[johnnytapia]

How would that be a good thing? One of the reasons the PL marches ahead of La Liga is the equalitarian approach to tv money among PL clubs. This has fostered a more competitive league and appealed to a broader audience. Luton Town need to be getting as good a deal as anyone else in the league.

If broadcast deals were negotiated individually, rather than collectively, thats the beginning of the end of the PL. It really alarms me when fans of clubs see football through the prism of thier own club maximising thier own share of the pie, rather than the collective. Man City are only big because you are in the PL. The Premier League is the product, not Man City, Manchester United, Liverpool or Arsenal, the Premier League.

Your last comment worries me. Its like your up for it and want it to happen. Let Luton Town eat the bones that get tossed them

Individual deals would be the death knell of competition.

 

[HalfwayUpTheKippax]

How would that be a good thing? One of the reasons the PL marches ahead of La Liga is the equalitarian approach to tv money among PL clubs. This has fostered a more competitive league and appealed to a broader audience. Luton Town need to be getting as good a deal as anyone else in the league.

If broadcast deals were negotiated individually, rather than collectively, thats the beginning of the end of the PL. It really alarms me when fans of clubs see football through the prism of thier own club maximising thier own share of the pie, rather than the collective. Man City are only big because you are in the PL. The Premier League is the product, not Man City, Manchester United, Liverpool or Arsenal, the Premier League.

Your last comment worries me. Its like your up for it and want it to happen. Let Luton Town eat the bones that get tossed them

Could you please refer to our club as Manchester City rather than Man City, particularly when you refer to our rivals who play in a neighbouring town as Manchester U.....

 

[Chris in London]

Got no problem with them. We bought them for 5 euros each in Istanbul. Costs the club nothing they get their money from Puma anyway. It just turns the wearer into a walking advertising board for the club, the sponsors and the kit manufacturers.

This is right. Someone somewhere will sell snide shirts. That being so, I’d sooner the kids who buy them walk round in a shirt with Haaland on their back than Vini Junior or Mbappe

 

[paulchapo]

Couldn’t agree more to be honest. I’d actually prefer all TV revenue distribution even, I think it is to an extent. I do agree that the teams having games affected by tv should then receive compensation. That way there trans chasing the top and fighting relegation get similar TV revenues.

Every City fan I know, what’s the game to be even as possible, if our owner is richer than yours so be it, but if Newcastle’s or Leeds or whoever is richer than ours, then fair fucks to them.

But they’ll be a growing number of City fans that will start to think, fuck the rest of the league, fuck the G14. And I don’t think you can blame them for that. The other teams especially the reds shirts and Spurs have tried to fuck us over royally. If we are the best at making money, if we’re the biggest tv draw, why shouldn’t we want the lions share? That’s how we’ve been treated.

I know it’s short sighted, most will. But the powers that be at your club, United, Liverpool, the Spanish giants don’t. So, you can see why some City fans wouldn’t give a flying fuck about anyone else.

Yep I say fuck every single one of them. We had to sit and watch as every year Arsenal and the rags shared all the trophies out and bought all the best players. Fucking Super Sundays that didn't involve us and we were all supposed to marvel at how great it was. Well fucking marvel at how great we are now!

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I was wondering if the Chairman’s very restrained comments on this issue during his state of the nation interview and the appearance of Ceferin in Manchester a few days later making mea culpa noises about the Champions League final fuck up are linked and significant.

His appearance in Manchester was for the European Supporters Federation Conference which had been planned months ago - pure coincidence that it came a week or so after the CL final that City just happened to win

 

[nmc]

How would that be a good thing? One of the reasons the PL marches ahead of La Liga is the equalitarian approach to tv money among PL clubs. This has fostered a more competitive league and appealed to a broader audience. Luton Town need to be getting as good a deal as anyone else in the league.

If broadcast deals were negotiated individually, rather than collectively, thats the beginning of the end of the PL. It really alarms me when fans of clubs see football through the prism of thier own club maximising thier own share of the pie, rather than the collective. Man City are only big because you are in the PL. The Premier League is the product, not Man City, Manchester United, Liverpool or Arsenal, the Premier League.

Your last comment worries me. Its like your up for it and want it to happen. Let Luton Town eat the bones that get tossed them

There's an irony in a Gooner adopting this egalitarian position when it was your club at the helm when the sharing of gate receipts was abolished and again when the PL was created and the rest of the football pyramid was cast aside by the greed of Arsenal, United and Liverpool. Arsenal as a primary player in the Sky 4 wanting (and expecting) a guarantee of Champions League football and revenues year on year and very much wanted an us and them two tier Premier League. Its only since Plan A went tits up and you were no longer able to invest the minimum to finish 4th in the PL and get that place in the Champions League (in Pot 1 of course) that you have become so bitter against the likes of City who have changed the rules of the game and challenged the old order. You might also stop to think that the huge growth in the PL will be partly as a result of the not insignificant equity investment in the English game by our owner (under Wenger you bitched and criticised us for taking players from you but you always agreed to sell and took our money!) - compare and contrast the investment in facilities and the community in East Manchester with the policy of taking money out of the game and letting the infrastructure rot by a set of owners up the road.

 

[BamberBridgeBlue]

How would that be a good thing? One of the reasons the PL marches ahead of La Liga is the equalitarian approach to tv money among PL clubs. This has fostered a more competitive league and appealed to a broader audience. Luton Town need to be getting as good a deal as anyone else in the league.

If broadcast deals were negotiated individually, rather than collectively, thats the beginning of the end of the PL. It really alarms me when fans of clubs see football through the prism of thier own club maximising thier own share of the pie, rather than the collective. Man City are only big because you are in the PL. The Premier League is the product, not Man City, Manchester United, Liverpool or Arsenal, the Premier League.

Your last comment worries me. Its like your up for it and want it to happen. Let Luton Town eat the bones that get tossed them

Fuck me I liked HumbledGooner post. Proof if proof were needed that a broken clock is right twice a day. It’s the wrong reaction to the spineless Premier League administering. I can only hope upcoming Government review followed by regulation might help but I’m not hopeful.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Where was your dad when all this happened?

what's that got to do with it??

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Tits Out Jackie in 3-D. Beautiful

Bigger than a 3D, surely?

 

[Sir peace frog]

Yeah seriously I wanted to buy a Camaro.. always wanted one as a kid, but after Chevy sponsored the rags.. no way!

I'll just get a Ford Mustang instead!

buy a ford puma , they do do our kits :)

 

[Sir peace frog]

It’s changing rapidly. I (now) live in Borneo, one of my best mates out here is a dyed in the wool Gooner from London. He’s been out here for ten years and has two boys under ten. They’re both City fans.

I volunteer for an under 8’s kids football team at the weekend and the vast majority are in City kits for practice.

I don’t think for a minute that City have more adult fans than United worldwide, but keep going like this for a few more years and they’ll have far more 10-25 year olds supporting them than the reds.

People that don’t live within a few miles of a ground very often support the teams that were doing well when they were young. That’s always been the case and always will. We’re getting our own share of what we used to call “plastics” now, just like Arsenal, Chelsea, Pool and utd have done in the past.

your spelling is really good for a 7 year old :)

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Individual deals would be the death knell of competition.

Agree with this but some new format is inevitable. Fans are being ripped off by the likes of SKY and BT. No one wants to pay £100 plus a month to watch re-runs of United and Liverpool matches. The pay per view model will be operated by the clubs themselves as a collective (this is one reason why the Superleague was proposed). An agreement will need to be struck amongst the clubs about how the money is carved up. This needs to ensure fair competition. The potential global income from live streaming of matches is gigantic compared to the current broadcast incomes. The clubs own the content and will cut out the middle men. Content on demand will be the model moving forward.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Really only seems to be the red shirted fans who keep banging on about this, the scouse bastards being by far the worst. They're actually bordering on obsessive, it's eating away at their sad lives, that we get titles stripped, relegated ten divisions, owners jailed, City fans banned etc etc