UEFA Ask City Football Group to Divest its ownership of Girona

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Meh.

Does it affect my pension?

No?

Couldn't give a shit.

You would have done if we’d finished a place below Girona..

 

[Kinkys Left Foot]

There was no such stipulation for Red Bull Salzburg when they qualified for the CL alongside Leipzig was there? What's the difference. If I was the CFG that's what I'd be asking. If there was then fair enough.

 

[Lavinda Past]

You would have done if we’d finished a place below Girona..

I wouldn't give a shit if we never played in European competition again. But that's just my opinion.
I can't see how anyone can genuinely enjoy a competition that's weighted purely to benefit / protect the interests of certain clubs... i.e.'the product'.

 

[cptaidan88]

I thought we already owned less than the limit of Girona

We own slightly less than 50% which is generally the number considered to equate to a controlling interest.

A figure of 30% is quoted in that article as the maximum UEFA allow although not sure where that has come from, and don't think this applied to Red Bull.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

I wouldn't give a shit if we never played in European competition again. But that's just my opinion.
I can't see how anyone can genuinely enjoy a competition that's weighted purely to benefit / protect the interests of certain clubs... i.e.'the product'.

Entirely your prerogative obviously and I’m often ambivalent to it.
However, I do realise that, without it, we’d have a much poorer team and far less chance of being on the brink of creating yet another slice of history that is likely to never be repeated.

 

[Northblue]

Not a huge amount of detail but from a talksport article:

Austrian drinks company Red Bull owned both teams up until this investigation when they were forced to make changes due to UEFA rules.

Salzburg chose to remove members of staff that were allegedly linked to Red Bull and their cooperation deal with Leipzig was ended with the sponsorship scaled back.

Once all of these changes were made, UEFA then accepted that there was ‘insufficient evidence’ that the clubs had a shared ownership and they were both allowed to compete in Europe.

 

[kaz7]

When are the cunts going to leave us alone , just fuck off playing with us

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Eric Garcia will go back to Barca so the squad will be decimated and we cannot loan them anyone.

What has Eric Garcia got to do with us?

 

[why me? Blue Manchester]

116 incoming

 

[Centurions]

What has Eric Garcia got to do with us?

With City? Nothing. I think their point was Girona are going to be fucked if we can't help them with loans next season. I wonder if Barcelona and Madrid have been stirring?

 

[Corky]

With City? Nothing. I think their point was Girona are going to be fucked if we can't help them with loans next season. I wonder if Barcelona and Madrid have been stirring?

We can loan them 3 players.

 

[TinFoilHat]

With City? Nothing. I think their point was Girona are going to be fucked if we can't help them with loans next season. I wonder if Barcelona and Madrid have been stirring?

I am in no doubt they are.

Girona have come along using the CFG business model and if allowed to sustain their projectory will be winning La Liga's.

Barca/Madrid lose their share of TV revenue. Their state sponsored debt goes up. The Catalan club can see what we've done to the rags and trying every which way they can to prevent it happening to them.

From a piss boiling point of view can CFG 'sell' Pep enough of shares to stave off the threat?

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

There was no such stipulation for Red Bull Salzburg when they qualified for the CL alongside Leipzig was there? What's the difference. If I was the CFG that's what I'd be asking. If there was then fair enough.

I imagine because Salzburg and Leipzig were not likely to win it or upset the domestic apple cart by usurping Bayern or PSG?

 

[richards30]

We can loan them 3 players.

i think the new multi club ruling comes in this summer so it seems we cant?

 

[No One Understands]

I could not believe when I read that they recommended a blind trust run by UEFA. By who? The likes of Rick Parry, David Gill, Leterme, alKhelafi.

Who in that cesspool of an organization would one trust? So many conflicts of interest.
The same organization that tried to hurt us over a long period of time. There'd be nothing blind about any trust.

From google:
"A blind trust is a financial arrangement in which a person in public office gives the administration of private business interests to an independent trust in order to prevent conflict of interest. Under the trust, the owner does not know how the assets are managed."

Hysterical...we won't know how our assets are managed. Might as well give our shares away.

 

[cheekybids]

https://www.espn.co.uk/football/sto...ity-girona-owners-given-ucl-clearance-options

City asked to reduce its shares or transfer all their shares in one of the two clubs (city or girona) to a blind trust controlled by UEFA so that both clubs can compete in the champions league next season. Otherwise, Girona would have to drop down to the Europa league.

Not sure how I feel about this, but one thing I do know, is that I hate UEFA.

Not sure this was needed, makes it sound like we’ve been match fixing.

But the teams have severely tested UEFA's ruleson multi-club ownership that guard against collusion in games.

 

[Keeper!]

Not sure this was needed, makes it sound like we’ve been match fixing.

But the teams have severely tested UEFA's ruleson multi-club ownership that guard against collusion in games.

"Not sure this was needed, makes it sound like we’ve been match fixing."

No it's does not say that in anyway, to have two clubs in the same competition with the same ownership is not good for anyone.

This is the major problem with multi club ownership and personally I am totally against it.

There are huge positives in terms of cherry picking the best up and coming talent in each continent but then when it comes competitions there is a serious issue.

And with Liverpool and the rags wanting to go down the same route the problem is only going to get worse.

 

[Gabriel]

Savio is "owned" by Troyes in France and loaned to Girona. Albeit he never actually played for them. If we buy him, we buy him from Troyes.

Troyes are particularly miffed about their ownership by CFG having been relegated twice to Division 3.

Still a game to go and the decision by the Ligue on what should happen with the abandoned match with Valenciennes is still pending. Unlikely to survive, however. Been on the slide for a while but not helped by the fact that the slide has coincided with the reduction in the number of teams in the top leagues.

 

[give it to gordon]

Conflict of interest, oh so what is a club and a domestic Cup both sponsored by the same company ? Remember the semi final when we got screwed over so the sponsored club to reach the final of their sponsors ?

 

[Iassel]

Non-story. Happened several times before, most recently Tony Bloom having to reduce his holding in Union SG so that Brighton could play in the Europa League