City launch legal action against the Premier League | Club & PL reach settlement | Proceedings dropped (p1147)

[Stephen230]

It's tragic, what the hell are they thinking?

Same situation with Leicester, another club with superb ownership that has transformed a club and City, back in the PL but already looking at taking a points reduction.

The PL is imploding in front of our eyes, La Liga and Serie A must be pissing themselves.

I’m no financial expert but Leicester seem to be running at close to a £100 million loss most seasons recently. So I’m not sure how superb their owners are?

 

[Keeper!]

I’m no financial expert but Leicester seem to be running at close to a £100 million loss most seasons recently. So I’m not sure how superb their owners are?

Relegation and some bad deals without question.

But again it comes down to owner investment, stunning training ground, vastly improved stadium etc.

The Leicester of today is an incredible transformation of the club taken over in 2011.

 

[train man]

Tell him all their titles are tainted. They were won without any spending restrictions. They haven’t won the league since FFP came in, I wonder why?

Sounds a good point but they still spend what they want on players, just very badly...

 

[Franny 1234]

I see the clubs are already cherry picking the likes of Everton and Villa. These clubs will never be allowed to get any kind of momentum into the big time. Feel sorry for Everton, their fans must be gutted. First Gordon and now Branthwaite.

First was granny shagger

 

[Centurions]

Half way through. Not a single detail leaked

Must be going remarkably well

Who for though?


;)

 

[eastmanc]

I’ve and fall outs with two lifelong friends over this.
One is a United fan of over 50 years and that one was a big old fall out. Happily, we have managed to get past it over the last few months. We still fall out over it but it is no longer toxic, and I’m fine with that.
The other is with another friend of over 30 years, who has basically outed himself as a knuckle-dragging, racist, antagonist who thinks he was being smart and clever. That one will not heal.

I’m waiting patiently for the day of exoneration and then the fun will start.

If Ushited mates fall out with you over this then they are not very good mates after all. I haven't fallen out with one United mate yet. Even though I wouldn't consider myself to be an expert about our case, being a Blue you tend to know more about the ins and outs of it. They just read the headlines and really don't want City to be innocent. So they know better than to argue with me about it because I'll rip their argument apart with facts.

 

[dadnlad]

Every team buys and sells for loads s of reasons but now they have to sell to stay within rules don't let media narrative tell you otherwise

 

[lonestay]

Who for though?


;)

If it was going the Prems way there would be more leaks than a culender

 

[train man]

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I see the clubs are already cherry picking the likes of Everton and Villa. These clubs will never be allowed to get any kind of momentum into the big time. Feel sorry for Everton, their fans must be gutted. First Gordon and now Branthwaite.

Is it right that Everton value Branthwaite at £80m and rags offered £35m?
Small time shithouses..!!

 

[SatOnTheWall]

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Is it right that Everton value Branthwaite at £80m and rags offered £35m?
Small time shithouses..!!

They shouldn’t even be offering that when they are paying off staff. Twats.

 

[JASR]

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Is it right that Everton value Branthwaite at £80m and rags offered £35m?
Small time shithouses..!!

That’s their entire summer budget offered, until they manage to sell themselves.

 

[the talisman]

Sounds a good point but they still spend what they want on players, just very badly...

They do indeed
I just love pointing out that everything they won was done without any restrictions on spending

 

[metalblue]

Tell him all their titles are tainted. They were won without any spending restrictions. They haven’t won the league since FFP came in, I wonder why?

Brilliant that pal.

 

[CC1]

Tell him all their titles are tainted. They were won without any spending restrictions. They haven’t won the league since FFP came in, I wonder why?

Great response :-)

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Tell him all their titles are tainted. They were won without any spending restrictions. They haven’t won the league since FFP came in, I wonder why?

FFP came in 2011 and they won the league in 2013. They haven't won it since because they've never replaced Baconface.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Tell him all their titles are tainted. They were won without any spending restrictions. They haven’t won the league since FFP came in, I wonder why?

And tell him they had not just one, but two sugar-daddies pretty well continuously from 1901 to 1951. Davies saved them from bankruptcy in 1901 and funded them all the way to 1927, when he died.

They were in severe financial difficulty after that and on the verge of bankruptcy again in 1931, when James Gibson bailed them out and continued to fund them, paying for the rebuilding of the swamp after the war. When he died in 1951 they managed to survive on their own for the first time in 50 years.

When they say we'd be in League 1 if not for Sheikh Mansour, tell him they would have ceased to exist completely if not for their two sugar daddies.

 

[the talisman]

FFP came in 2011 and they won the league in 2013. They haven't won it since because they've never replaced Baconface.

I suspected that, I was hoping to sneak it past the fact checkers :-)

 

[ganganvince]

FFP came in 2011 and they won the league in 2013. They haven't won it since because they've never replaced Baconface.

Wasn't prem ffp 2013

 

[laserblue]

And tell him they had not just one, but two sugar-daddies pretty well continuously from 1901 to 1951. Davies saved them from bankruptcy in 1901 and funded them all the way to 1929, when he died.

They were in severe financial difficulty after that and on the verge of bankruptcy again in 1931, when James Gibson bailed them out and continued to fund them, paying for the rebuilding of the swamp after the war. When he died in 1951 they managed to survive on their own for the first time in 50 years.

When they say we'd be in League 1 if not for Sheikh Mansour, tell him they would have ceased to exist completely if not for their two sugar daddies.

Davies also gave them a free stadium. The club didn't pay a penny towards its construction. Rags don't like to hear that and their Pavlovian response is angry denial.

From the rags' own website:

"Davies himself paid for the building work, which commenced in 1908 under the supervision of architect Archibald Leitch. By 1910, the club had moved lock, stock and barrel from their old home of Bank Street. United's opening fixture at Old Trafford was played on 19 February 1910."

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Davies also gave them a free stadium. The club didn't pay a penny towards its construction. Rags don't like to hear that and their Pavlovian response is angry denial.

From the rags' own website:

"Davies himself paid for the building work, which commenced in 1908 under the supervision of architect Archibald Leitch. By 1910, the club had moved lock, stock and barrel from their old home of Bank Street. United's opening fixture at Old Trafford was played on 19 February 1910."

I wonder what the logic was for relocating to the borough of Trafford at that time. Presumably there were plenty of plots available in and around Manchester. Was it expanding at the time? Were the transport links better? Maybe the land was especially cheap.