PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

jamielowndes said:
I have literally never said other teams aren't trying to influence the Premier League. We saw the 9 clubs get named publicly by Pep that wrote to UEFA (and he was right to do so).
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jamielowndes said:
Yeah, the people who think there is a secret underground cartel of all the other big clubs and the PL collaborating together to plot our downfall are the rational ones.
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Yes you did
 
Damanino said:
if Chelsea pull this off regarding selling infrastructure to internally to themselves well then Boehly is really master of loopholes.

as the alternative is them urgently selling 3-4 players for decent fees, and limit their spending for the summer window or face heavy PSR punishments like points deduction for next season which likely crush their chances finish in CL place.

I kind of like they give lot of extra headache to PL PSR lawyers.

thank God Boehly isnt as creative and good in transfers ad squad building as in finding loopholes.
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Regarding City all rules are there to be pedantically observed.
I get the impression that any loophole usage by City would be ruled as bad faith.

I agree however that like dealing with tax affairs, loopholes are a continual area to be exploited.
 
PinkFinal said:
Ohhh look what's on Radio 4 just as the game at Spurs kicks off ...

www.bbc.co.uk

BBC Radio 4 - File on 4 Investigates, Teams and Regimes: Sportswashing in Football

Is middle eastern oil money being used to buy more than just success for football clubs?
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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:) I managed to put myself through the first part about City and, really, it was generally bollocks. McGeehan, that asshole from Sheffield Hallam, and some random locals with axes to grind.

Why can no-one get their head around the difference between a private investment from an AD businessman who happens to be a politician and a royal, and a sovereign investment fund? It really isn't difficult. They can ignore it as much as they want, but it just weakens their argument as no-one has ever, in any legal setting, put the case that City is, in fact, owned by the emirate of Abu Dhabi.

And then their point that Mansour invested in City so he could coerce the City Council into making profit out of regenerating the area. Really. I doubt Mansour had been to Manchester, was remotely interested in Manchester or had any interest in investing money in Manchester until after he bought the club. Why would he? What he did have, though, was the business acumen too see the benefit to himself, the council and the region as a whole in investing outside the club. As for gentrification, I didn't see any of these assholes being born and growing up in NE Manchester over the last decades. They can stick their concerns about gentrification up their arses along with their posh accents. Lived in Manchester since the 1990s? I bet it was a leafy suburb, not fucking Ancoats. Tosser.
 
halfcenturyup said:
:) I managed to put myself through the first part about City and, really, it was generally bollocks. McGeehan, that asshole from Sheffield Hallam, and some random locals with axes to grind.

Why can no-one get their head around the difference between a private investment from an AD businessman who happens to be a politician and a royal, and a sovereign investment fund? It really isn't difficult. They can ignore it as much as they want, but it just weakens their argument as no-one has ever, in any legal setting, put the case that City is, in fact, owned by the emirate of Abu Dhabi.

And then their point that Mansour invested in City so he could coerce the City Council into making profit out of regenerating the area. Really. I doubt Mansour had been to Manchester, was remotely interested in Manchester or had any interest in investing money in Manchester until after he bought the club. Why would he? What he did have, though, was the business acumen too see the benefit to himself, the council and the region as a whole in investing outside the club. As for gentrification, I didn't see any of these assholes being born and growing up in NE Manchester over the last decades. They can stick their concerns about gentrification up their arses along with their posh accents. Lived in Manchester since the 1990s? I bet it was a leafy suburb, not fucking Ancoats. Tosser.
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Top post. I knew McGeehan would be involved. I don't suppose there was anyone on that podcast who challenged him or put the alternative viewpoint?

We know that other clubs were looked at before Sheikh Mansour settled on City, so it certainly wasn't some cynical ploy to profit at Manchester's expense. And it was Garry Cook who sold the possibility of development around the stadium. Why wouldn't the council work with Abu Dhabi to maximise the investment and improvements to the area?

It was a post-industrial, brownfield, toxic area prior to the stadium (which pre-dated the takeover), the CFA and other developments. It wasn't some nice but rundown working class suburb where everyone got turfed out for foreign BTL investment. Clearly the likes of McGeehan and others never saw that side of Manchester.

Imagine if Sheikh Mansour hadn't spent a penny apart from on the club itself? The criticism would be off the scale and we'd be getting podcasts asking "Why isn't Abu Dhabi spending anything to improve East Manchester?"

Fuck the BBC and their hypocrisy.
 
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mancboy said:
despite suspicious accounting practices of liverpool and outright cheating in terms of hacking our database and despite the rags failing uefas version of ffp why have neither of these teams been subjective to the detailed investigation of their accounts going back over 15 years and an absolute forensic investigation of their books and business practices in the same manner that we have?
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Scared what they may find
 
PinkFinal said:
Ohhh look what's on Radio 4 just as the game at Spurs kicks off ...

www.bbc.co.uk

BBC Radio 4 - File on 4 Investigates, Teams and Regimes: Sportswashing in Football

Is middle eastern oil money being used to buy more than just success for football clubs?
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Isn't it funny how programmes like that always fail to mention the hundreds of millions of poumds arsenal have received from that well know UAE airline Emirates. Maybe Emirates don't use Aviation fuel in their aircraft. Perhaps they just use 100% green bio fuel from Rwanda, that would explain it...
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Top post. I knew McGeehan would be involved. I don't suppose there was anyone on that podcast who challenged him or put the alternative viewpoint?

We know that other clubs were looked at before Sheikh Mansour settled on City, so it certainly wasn't some cynical ploy to profit at Manchester's expense. And it was Garry Cook who sold the possibility of development around the stadium. Why wouldn't the council work with Abu Dhabi to maximise the investment and improvements to the area?

It was a post-industrial, brownfield, toxic area prior to the stadium (which pre-dated the takeover), the CFA and other developments. It wasn't some nice but rundown working class suburb where everyone got turfed out for foreign BTL investment. Clearly the likes of McGeehan and others never saw that side of Manchester.

Imagine if Sheikh Mansour hadn't spent a penny apart from on the club itself? The criticism would be off the scale and we'd be getting podcasts asking "Why isn't Abu Dhabi spending as nothing to improve East Manchester?"

Fuck the BBC and their hypocrisy.
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Next week will be on Monte Carlo Jim & his begging bowl.
 
LeonardoDaVnci said:
Isn't it funny how programmes like that always fail to mention the hundreds of millions of poumds arsenal have received from that well know UAE airline Emirates. Maybe Emirates don't use Aviation fuel in their aircraft. Perhaps they just use 100% green bio fuel from Rwanda, that would explain it...
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& the FA & therefore the England team or horse racing , Formula one, golf, rugby, cricket.
 
Prophet of Doom said:
White and Jordan discussing City and 115 and let an Irish LFC fan listener on to compare City to Lance Armstrong and they all have a good laugh about it.

This is the Talksport that we were informed last week supposedly got a legal letter warning them.
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Just heard that. Surely that's taking them to court stuff.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Top post. I knew McGeehan would be involved. I don't suppose there was anyone on that podcast who challenged him or put the alternative viewpoint?

We know that other clubs were looked at before Sheikh Mansour settled on City, so it certainly wasn't some cynical ploy to profit at Manchester's expense. And it was Garry Cook who sold the possibility of development around the stadium. Why wouldn't the council work with Abu Dhabi to maximise the investment and improvements to the area?

It was a post-industrial, brownfield, toxic area prior to the stadium (which pre-dated the takeover), the CFA and other developments. It wasn't some nice but rundown working class suburb where everyone got turfed out for foreign BTL investment. Clearly the likes of McGeehan and others never saw that side of Manchester.

Imagine if Sheikh Mansour hadn't spent a penny apart from on the club itself? The criticism would be off the scale and we'd be getting podcasts asking "Why isn't Abu Dhabi spending as nothing to improve East Manchester?"

Fuck the BBC and their hypocrisy.
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Spot on. Some of these clowns criticise the redevelopment of Ancoats when it was derelict and untouched by any other developers for decades.

Reminds me of when the training campus was being developed on acres of abandoned poisoned land, yet David Conn was there interviewing the boss of a one man band taxi rank that was being displaced and offered another location.
 
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