PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Man_City_Loyal said:
I knew they were tapping him up, never knew they met in secret in Blackpool!
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Yes they met in the VIP section in Legends on central pier. I heard Klippity was going to renage on the deal as van dyck was moving like he had lead in his boots untill someone pointed out it was the famous Legends sticky carpets ;-)
 
paulchapo said:
I'm finding it amusing that fans of Newcastle, Everton and Forest are all crying it isn't fair now they are suffering as a result of ffp. We have been warning them for years, but they were so bitter and twisted with envy and labelling us cheats, after being drip fed by the redshirt owned media, that they wouldn't listen. Well you know now don't you, lol!
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I`ve no sympathy with any of these clubs, seeing they`ve fought like fuck to screw us over.
People who live in glass houses ... springs to mind.
 
Everton fans along with Villa and Newcastle have been trending all day about FFP . Said exactly the same (as above ) to a few of them. We’ve been telling them for years about it and the penny is finally dropping. No sympathy whatsoever. Most Everton fans think we are in with the PL chiefs and and getting away with murder. How stupid can you get ? Banging our heads against a brick wall for years
 
paulchapo said:
I'm finding it amusing that fans of Newcastle, Everton and Forest are all crying it isn't fair now they are suffering as a result of ffp. We have been warning them for years, but they were so bitter and twisted with envy and labelling us cheats, after being drip fed by the redshirt owned media, that they wouldn't listen. Well you know now don't you, lol!
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It didnt make sence to me at the time that these clubs and others voted in favour of ffp. They signed their own death warrant and consigned themselves to mid to bottom table teams. Bonkers
 
give it to gordon said:
It didnt make sence to me at the time that these clubs and others voted in favour of ffp. They signed their own death warrant and consigned themselves to mid to bottom table teams. Bonkers
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The owners presumably thought that it'd keep costs down and increase profits.
 
Pezzer2 said:
Everton fans along with Villa and Newcastle have been trending all day about FFP . Said exactly the same (as above ) to a few of them. We’ve been telling them for years about it and the penny is finally dropping. No sympathy whatsoever. Most Everton fans think we are in with the PL chiefs and and getting away with murder. How stupid can you get ? Banging our heads against a brick wall for years
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lets be honest, when it comes to football scousers are not the brightest.

Always something out there against them.
 
give it to gordon said:
It didnt make sence to me at the time that these clubs and others voted in favour of ffp. They signed their own death warrant and consigned themselves to mid to bottom table teams. Bonkers
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In fairness it was their chairman as they didn't want to spend the money I guess.
 
StillBluessinceHydeRoad said:
I can't guarantee it was 1962 but four clubs were done for it: Peterborough and (I think) Northampton Town were demoted from the old Second Division to the fourth, which was a draconian punishment, and the FA (or FL) announced that any clubs found to be in breach of the same regulation would be treated in the same way. Then it came to light that United and Derby County may have actually breached the same regulations in the same way. The investigation showed this to be the case but the punishments were, for some reason, not on the same scale. I add that Matt Busby had apparently agreed a deal with at least one player which involved illegal payments right at the start of his managerial career in 1945. This was never actually proven but a Blackburn Rovers official went to meet the player at the railway station, having already agreed a deal with him, but was ignored by the player, who walked off with Busby and later signed for the rags.
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Don Revie met Alan Ball on the moors regularly and handed over some brown envelopes. Imagine Revie’s mood when Ball signed for Everton.
 
The premier league claim to have iron clad evidence against city. I am surprised they need lawyers at all. Why didn't the league release the findings of the 4 year investigation? Surly they don’t need a tribunal?

I call and smell…Bullshit.

City would have settled if we genuinely thought the league had nailed us to fraud.

So instead of being able to prove anything, they decide to release the baying mob. As someone else said, if the American clubs can’t win on the field they litigate!

So spit and rat should be asking the league to show their hand not MCFC. Wonder why they don’t?
 
wolviedinho said:
The premier league claim to have iron clad evidence against city. I am surprised they need lawyers at all. Why didn't the league release the findings of the 4 year investigation? Surly they don’t need a tribunal?

I call and smell…Bullshit.

City would have settled if we genuinely thought the league had nailed us to fraud.

So instead of being able to prove anything, they decide to release the baying mob. As someone else said, if the American clubs can’t win on the field they litigate!

So spit and rat should be asking the league to show their hand not MCFC. Wonder why they don’t?
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Carbon copy of UEFA, who had fuck all.
 
Originally FFP was seen as a way of reducing the levels of debt carried by clubs. Seeing as those levels were highest at those clubs which had contested the CL for almost two decades they threatened legal action against UEFA if any such measures were introduced. UEFA sold out and FFP became a mechanism for restricting spending. It was sold to clubs as a measure of cost control and chairmen/owners supported and welcomed it - with some exceptions. This was a serious miscalculation because debt was always going to be a major obstacle even though expenditure on some things was allowed as long as the interest on loans could be afforded but even more so the connection between high spending on players (which was all that FFP tried really to control) was not precise. So we have the unintended consequence that debt has risen most alarmingly (?) at those clubs which sought to entrench their position at the top of the pyramid, and it is becoming an evermore serious constraint on spending. In paticular Barcelona and United are suffering badly and for United qualification for the cash cow of the CL is becoming much more difficult and irregular. Of our "cartel" clubs Liverpool fell out of the top 4 in n 2009 but have qualified since 2017 but not because of lavish spending, Arsenal dropped out while Wenger was still there and only re-entered when they began to spend wisely and Spurs have had to rely on increased income from a new stadium and sensible management to qualify, though they have not been consistent qualifiers for the CL. City have qualified every year since 2010 thanks to increasing their revenue rapidly, employing very good managers (one of whom is a football genius), excellent officials to run the club and very intelligent use of the clubs increasing, permitted revenue streams. Success, both on the field and off, is as complicated and elusive as ever. This sounds like nothing but good news for football, as if it is now a world of well run, profitable businesses, but this may not be the case. The threat from competition law is probably greater now than ever and there is the threat from alternative competitions. UEFA and the PL may have to sharpen up their act and concern themselves with the interests of smaller clubs, while many of the "bigger" clubs of yesteryear have to deal with an increasing mountain of debt, with an independent regulator unsympathetic to their privileged position.
 
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