PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

The perfect fumble said:
Welcome....



You seem a decent enough bloke and I'd like to say I have some sympathy, but I'm afraid I don't. All the Newcastle fans I came across prior to your takeover gave us absolute shit. In my experience, outside of the usual suspects, Newcastle fans were some of the worst gobshites when it came to our owners, and some of your YouTube fan sites were a f**king disgrace.
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That true Geordie fella was a right Wanker , constantly trying to make out their take over was different.

Although I know he doesn’t speak for most of the lads from the North East I know, they think he’s a twat.
 
The Fish said:
As a Newcastle fan these new rules they're* trying to push through are hilarious and so fucking transparent. We've abided by FFP, we've got a stack of new 'fair market value' commercial deals, and now here's some new hurdles. The established cartel are bricking it that we'll usurp them.

We can't loan a player from the Saudi league, but literally every other club in the league can? That seems totally fair. Will it stop Chelsea hoovering up young players from their feeder clubs, or Man Utd, or Liverpool? Course it won't.

We can't get a sponsor unless we've got similarly valued bids from other companies? Has that been the case for Man Utd's official tractor partner? Were there multiple tractor companies all offering up partnership deals for the same price? Was there shite.

We've not spent anything like the money Chelsea and Man Utd have, and yet we're still above them, still playing better football, still fielding the likes of Jamall Lascelles and Jacob fucking Murphy. This is all because they're scared their time at the top is coming to an end, they're trying to pull the drawbridge up behind them.


*by "they" I mean Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man Utd and Spurs.
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What were your views on FFP prior to your take over?
I ask because many fans outside of the clubs you mentioned are still for it to this day and I can't get my head around it. Without FFP they could always dream that one day a wealthy owner could buy them and invest in the club to compete with the worlds best. They fail to see that FFP's only objective was to keep the elite, elite and instead believe the narrative that an owner investing his own money in his own business is cheating! It's the literal definition of turkeys voting for Christmas. In any other industry in the world what our owner has done would be lauded, it's staggering to me that fans of other clubs can't see that.
So what were yours (and your friends) views of us prior your take over because I'm genuinely interested?
 
blueste41 said:
What were your views on FFP prior to your take over?
I ask because many fans outside of the clubs you mentioned are still for it to this day and I can't get my head around it. Without FFP they could always dream that one day a wealthy owner could buy them and invest in the club to compete with the worlds best. They fail to see that FFP's only objective was to keep the elite, elite and instead believe the narrative that an owner investing his own money in his own business is cheating! It's the literal definition of turkeys voting for Christmas. In any other industry in the world what our owner has done would be lauded, it's staggering to me that fans of other clubs can't see that.
So what were yours (and your friends) views of us prior your take over because I'm genuinely interested?
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Bit of honesty on their part required here.
 
blueste41 said:
What were your views on FFP prior to your take over?
I ask because many fans outside of the clubs you mentioned are still for it to this day and I can't get my head around it. Without FFP they could always dream that one day a wealthy owner could buy them and invest in the club to compete with the worlds best. They fail to see that FFP's only objective was to keep the elite, elite and instead believe the narrative that an owner investing his own money in his own business is cheating! It's the literal definition of turkeys voting for Christmas. In any other industry in the world what our owner has done would be lauded, it's staggering to me that fans of other clubs can't see that.
So what were yours (and your friends) views of us prior your take over because I'm genuinely interested?
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These fuckers you’re talking about couldn’t admit to being against it because they’re pinning all their hopes and dreams on it being our downfall.
 
It's interesting and possibly a bit disturbing that @projectriver is saying that the latest Chelsea allegations mirror the charges we are facing. Clearly evidence is needed and they need to be proven but if found guilty then punishment could be extremely severe. The fact is that they haven't gone away and the process is still ongoing. The longer it goes on surely the less likely it is that the PL have nothing and we have been able to disprove each and every one of them?

 
Invisible Man's Bandage said:
It's interesting and possibly a bit disturbing that @projectriver is saying that the latest Chelsea allegations mirror the charges we are facing. Clearly evidence is needed and they need to be proven but if found guilty then punishment could be extremely severe. The fact is that they haven't gone away and the process is still ongoing. The longer it goes on surely the less likely it is that the PL have nothing and we have been able to disprove each and every one of them?

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Also interesting that, if the PL charge Chelsea, it impacts on an American owner rather than an Arab one.

The whole thing is ridiculous. FFP was the silliest rule ever devised. Anti investment while running up huge debts.

Ridiculous rule causes ridiculous problems. Who knew!?

The PL are attacking its own stakeholders under pressure from certain clubs who were prepared to leave them for a Super League!

The EPL was one of Britain’s few remaining export success stories so we have to ruin it.

You couldn’t make this shit up.
 
Invisible Man's Bandage said:
It's interesting and possibly a bit disturbing that @projectriver is saying that the latest Chelsea allegations mirror the charges we are facing. Clearly evidence is needed and they need to be proven but if found guilty then punishment could be extremely severe. The fact is that they haven't gone away and the process is still ongoing. The longer it goes on surely the less likely it is that the PL have nothing and we have been able to disprove each and every one of them?

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It’s going to very competitive in the National league …
 
Invisible Man's Bandage said:
It's interesting and possibly a bit disturbing that @projectriver is saying that the latest Chelsea allegations mirror the charges we are facing. Clearly evidence is needed and they need to be proven but if found guilty then punishment could be extremely severe. The fact is that they haven't gone away and the process is still ongoing. The longer it goes on surely the less likely it is that the PL have nothing and we have been able to disprove each and every one of them?

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What it might tell you is just how difficult it is to prove this kind of thing.

It took a leak of all City's emails, and even then all they needed was for everyone involved to say "no", and City won at CAS.

There wasn't much talk of this going on at Chelsea while Roman was there (despite his background and links to Russian gangster capitalism), and it took a change of ownership, and even then a leak of bank records unrelated to the club, for anything major to come out.
 
Cobwebcat said:
Also interesting that, if the PL charge Chelsea, it impacts on an American owner rather than an Arab one.

The whole thing is ridiculous. FFP was the silliest rule ever devised. Anti investment while running up huge debts.

Ridiculous rule causes ridiculous problems. Who knew!?

The PL are attacking its own stakeholders under pressure from certain clubs who were prepared to leave them for a Super League!

The EPL was one of Britain’s few remaining export success stories so we have to ruin it.

You couldn’t make this shit up.
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I like FFP. It's now benefitting City and screwing all of our rivals. We didn't vote for it, we didn't want it. But we've confronted it, taken it on and are winning. All of those clubs and fans who wanted it are now lamenting it. Well they can get fucked. You reap what you sow.
 
From BBC webpage a reply to how we can top them by Mr K.
Seems it is more of the same with continuing investment.
Oh dear, how their "football is a special sector* argument has failed.

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Manchester City post Premier League record revenues

Manchester City reveal revenues of £712.8m for the last financial year, eclipsing the Premier League record posted last month by Manchester United.
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