PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

BongoBlue said:
From our "friends" at RTE today - apologies if already posted:

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2023/1127/1418668-manchester-city-fans-sportswashing/

Well I guess BM is famous now: we are linked in this article. Apparently for this "study", they wanted to see how the average City fan was able to justify our stance about our (brilliant) ownership. Warning, there are links to Delooney and David Conn in here also.
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Since when have we fans defended the UAE Government and the Abu Dhabi royal family?

Sportswashing? How much Middle Eastern money is invested into horse racing in Ireland? Not a fucking peep about that is there?
 
At the risk of sounding like a complete homer- I do wonder if any part of this investigation is due to City's dominance in the league. City winning the league year in and year out isn't good for the product that is the Premier League. The cynical part of me says that City not winning the league this season would potentially lessen a punishment down the line. If there were grounds to be one that is.
 
The perfect fumble said:

UAE approached to invest in Sizewell C nuclear power plant​


A United Arab Emirates investor has been approached to take a stake in the Sizewell C nuclear power plant project in Suffolk, it has emerged.

Ministers are searching for new investors in the project, which could cost between £20bn and £44bn, after removing the Chinese state-owned CGN last year due to security concerns over UK infrastructure amid poor Anglo-Sino relations.

The Times reported on Monday that the UK government had lined up Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi fund run by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the owner of Manchester City football club, to back the energy project, with a decision due early next year.

However, a source close to Mubadala denied the fund was interested in Sizewell but said other UAE entities were interested. A separate source said that Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, which is owned by Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ, could be a good fit for the project.

The UAE interest comes against the backdrop of Westminster tensions over a separate Emirati deal. Last week, RedBird IMI – a joint-venture between America’s Redbird Capital and International Media Investments, an Abu Dhabi investor also backed by Mansour – announced a deal to take control of the Telegraph group. The government has indicated it will launch a public interest investigation into the newspaper deal.

The Sizewell C plant aims to generate enough energy to power 6m homes. It is backed by France’s EDF and the UK government, which has spent nearly £100m buying CGN out of the project. CGN had held a 20% stake.

Rishi Sunak hosted Mubadala’s Khaldoon Al Mubarak at a meeting of global business leaders at Hampton Court, south-west London, on Monday as he attempts to attract foreign investment to the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/busines...ched-to-invest-sizewell-c-nuclear-power-plant

By the way Khaldoon is also chairman of the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation.
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Energywashing.
 
Can City get a grass sponsorship deal with the nuclear power plant if the sheikh buys in?
£50m a year would do nicely just to rub it in the faces of United and Liverpool fans.
 
Gingers Dad said:
If Al Jazira say they were happy that Mancini completed his contract with them isn't that the end of it?
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Yeah but to paraphrase Simon Pearce in the leaked emails when this situation reared its head after Mancini was fired “I’m not sure how much influence we have there any more”
 
Gaylord du Bois said:
Yes mate.

forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk

PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Breaking PL rules by not providing them with accounts which show a true and fair view. That can only happen for two reasons. One, the PL disagrees with the management and the auditors on some accounting treatments. Goid luck with that one. Or two, management didn't fulfill their responsibility...
forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk
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oh I meant the audio it being mentioned lol
 
Dannyblue52 said:
The interesting aspect of this case is on what basis does the commission determine that Everton gained an advantage when spending more. Who can say that they got more points when the spend was only 20 m over 3 years. Spend does not guarantee more points in a season. Rightly a fine is inappropriate. Surely a total ban on transfer signing for say 2- 3 years would be more appropriate. This would really impact on their performances on the field.
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I said this earlier
20m = 6.5m (ish) a year
If that is contract amortisation, you can then multiply it up by five for the true amount spent
 
BringBackSwales said:
I think Burnham needs a formal warning. It’s one thing being able to keep your private life separate from your working life, but it’s not appropriate when you are in a high profile job in charge of one city and speaking out about a football club if another city, and not just that but making it public. I wouldn’t expect sunak to make a public statement about his club (probably Eton polo and tax dodgers club) and I don’t expect the mayor of Manchester to do it
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I'm just glad he's not a fuckin Dipper!
 
manimanc said:
I'll say it yet again and will keep on repeating the magnitude of the accusations.
Someone, somebody or the entire employees of the Premier league, have unanimously accused a figurehead, a deputy prime minister of a country, who pumps billions into the UK economy, who is high fiving and eating caviar with the Royal Family, of being a fraudster and a liar and fiddling figures and making up sponsorship deals.

That's pretty fuckin heavy and seeing as Andy Burnham has just outed their amateur approach to Everton and their ridiculous charges against us, I'm absolutely and 200% chilled that they will get absolutely nothing on us.

All this is the Premier League trying to show everyone they don't need an independent regulator and falling flat on their arse.
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I so hope you are right.
 
Cassandra said:
Whilst it is reasonable for him not to complain about operation of the disciplinary proceedings per se at this stage, he could comment on the negative publicity received by City, and by association Manchester itself and the manner in which the charges were presented. In that way he would have shown his concern for the team in the City of which he is mayor.

Perhaps I missed it, living up here in Scotland, but I don’t recall him criticising the attack on the City coach by Liverpool fans.
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Not taking Burnham's side, but may him being a scouser will be well aware of the abuse he would receive from the feral fuckers that are scousers.
 
BongoBlue said:
From our "friends" at RTE today - apologies if already posted:

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2023/1127/1418668-manchester-city-fans-sportswashing/

Well I guess BM is famous now: we are linked in this article. Apparently for this "study", they wanted to see how the average City fan was able to justify our stance about our (brilliant) ownership. Warning, there are links to Delooney and David Conn in here also.
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By sharing the link you've given them what they want - more clicks, more engagement.

Just ignore them.
 
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