PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

bakerdave76 said:
A thef and a Blackmailer..
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'A thef'? Is that like a cross between a 'thief' and a 'chef'?! Mind, probably like you down the years, I've been in many a supposed 'top' restaurant and got the bill at the end thinking 'that's daylight robbery!' Might be onto something with a new word definition! I mean, I was once in one London eatery and the final bill included 10% on top for 'Ambience'..!'
 
Gary James said:
I think this is the point. His article back in 2011 was believable and seemed to be well thought out. Obviously, we can all change our minds as we hear other stuff but this was such a strong piece and so it's really odd that a view can swing so much.
I'm not certain if he'll edit this article now but here's what is currently on his site from August 2011 and it's well worth reading:

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It's kind of incredible that him more than most were naming the things that City were promising in this article: branding and redeveloping one of Europe's fastest growing cities, Etihad on the tram map in a city that then looked poised to add thousands of people with a huge international student population, a new academy stadium for the then promised women's team that people smarter than the average Talksport caller knew was a huge potential growth market. I've said it over and over here: sports sponsorship is a grubby business, but that deal looked fair value when you looked at it in 2011 and it looks like exceptional value in 2024. Biggest arena in Europe all get off at the Etihad campus. Ancoats a model in post-industrial regeneration and Etihad and City group central to it. There will be five new independent pubs and a couple of nice street food places around "Etihad campus" before the decade, and people from all over the world will be seeing the world's biggest pop stars there. I'm sure the social capital and links were central to getting the deal done, but Etihad knew our owners were not fucking about as was a generally held view then. "Holistic" was a joke to the press then, it isn't now, is it.
 
johnevans said:
'A thef'? Is that like a cross between a 'thief' and a 'chef'?! Mind, probably like you down the years, I've been in many a supposed 'top' restaurant and got the bill at the end thinking 'that's daylight robbery!' Might be onto something with a new word definition! I mean, I was once in one London eatery and the final bill included 10% on top for 'Ambience'..!'
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Bit hungover
 
I see the massive Pinto exclusive story in the Sun has disappeared from most red shirt tabloid papers, and it’s fallen down to the bottom of the page on the Sun website. I’m absolutely shocked there’s been no follow up by the Sun, and a an exclusive interview with Pinto himself.
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
2011 City were playing for the first time in the champions league and then five months into 2012 won a Premier League trophy. The figures on that Etihad deal had in mind what was to come and what exposure that would get them as a company being associated with City. It was hardly like the deal was being handed out to a mid table club such as West Ham or Crystal Palace who wouldn’t be anywhere near challenging for the league for the foreseeable.
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Exactly. At the time of the takeover a lot of people including myself concluded that it was only a matter of when not if we would win the league and probably more than once.
 
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