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

[cheekybids]

Jesus, the fucking world's going to implode when we get found not guilty on the 115 isn't it.

Going through all this shit because the old guard really didn't want the new boys taking over, which is basically what the last 16 years boils down to. FFP, PSR blah blah blah. Wasn't a fucking problem on the 30th August 2008 was it.

They fucking shat their pants when little old City dropped a fucking wedge on Robinho.

Wait til Pep signs a 5 year extension.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Ten Haag sacked definitely not a win!

It is for me. They won't benefit by getting a replacement in - nobody worth having wants the poisoned challice.

It is painfully embarrassing listening to the fucking imbecile. Care in the community's clients are more cogent.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Fulham are

Thought he was Asian but search suggests he is Pakistani/American? I assume his business interests are very much American?

 

[MMA]

Who the fuck are arsenal going to write to about this?

They've probably run out of arsenal headed paper by now anyway the amount of letters they like sending out.
Cunts.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Pissing myself at this bit of Samuel's article. Martin you are a wordsmith!

 

[Don Karleone]

Thought he was Asian but search suggests he is Pakistani/American? I assume his business interests are very much American?

Yeah, pretty sure he owns an NFL team as well.

 

[dadnlad]

Until it's on the Sky Sports yellow ticker tape, I refuse to believe it ;)

only in BLACK it's sad day for football

I wonder who this female presenter on sky now supports? She seems very pro the premier league and anti City.

she's a scouser

 

[cheekybids]

It depends on what the new rules are. For sure you don't apply penalties to rules that weren't in place at the time. But it now means APT transactions aren't arbitrarily capped by the PL. I'd say that's particularly good news for Newcastle as well.

It’s funny you say that cos they tried that shit with us when they changed the rules. But as you say, I’m sure you’ll be fine.

 

[jazzy]

Yeah, pretty sure he owns an NFL team as well.

Jacksonville jaguars

 

[TShed]

BBC fucking joke. The leader on this story which is fucking massive is not written by the Head of Sports Simpleton Stone has swerved it
And if you read their article we actually lost the fucking case except for two technical issues which just need to PL to tweak at their next meeting ffs

 

[Bluearmy]

I think he thought we would lose this one too. Which shows that even experts don't know it all.

He said it would be difficult to see City winning this case… to be fair to him he probably wasn't privy to all of the information available to the IC at the time.

 

[M12Blue]

Can we get a banner or rendition of ‘we know what you are’ sorted for next tv game

 

[ufo]

Just checking out twatter and seen someone saying Pep might be on way soon to Abu Dhabi to sign a 2 year extension!?

 

[BringBackSwales]

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Pissing myself at this bit of Samuel's article. Martin you are a wordsmith!

Let’s not forget he’s had a lot of negative shit he’s written about us since he’s been at the Times. I just think in this occasion it’s a better part of the story to nail the PL

 

[mancboy]

Yeah, pretty sure he owns an NFL team as well.

He owns jacksonville jaguars and aew wrestling, his dad is the money tho and tony khan is the face

 

[SebastianBlue]

Yeah but it isn't retrospectively applied. So they'll have to factor in an extra £20m for the loans or so however in reality what you'll see is a massive Walmart sponsorship deal at whatever value the Kroenkes can get away with so I don't think it affects Arsenal in reality as that will just replace the shareholder loans. It's the same money basically.

Smaller clubs without super wealthy owners who own other massive companies may feel it more though.

And you have just explained why the APT (and PSR and FFP) rules are a farce, and were solely designed to protect clubs like Arsenal and Liverpool, and hinder clubs like City and Newcastle.

That said, I am not convinced that the shareholder loans won’t now have to be retrospectively assessed given the language of the ruling. It will be a very difficult argument to make for any regulatory oversight that unfair competitive practices and asymmetric rules enforcement over a number of years, which brought about material advantage to some clubs and harm to others, should be ignored in some sort of amnesty, particularly when the entity declaring the amnesty is the one that wilfully brought about the unlawful advantage and harm.

It would be akin to a company being found guilty of financial fraud over five years and then claiming they should not be forced to pay damages or compensation as long as they promise to stop cooking the books moving forward.

 

[bluemonkey71]

Zieglers piece is just snidey in parts.

He mentions Etihad and First Abu Dhabi Bank deals from 2023 were blocked then goes on to say

"This is a potentially defining moment for the PL. will the other clubs just concede defeat and accept that the previous limits on state-owned clubs will no longer apply"

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Ian Darke needs to just wallow off into a dark room

 

[crystal_mais]

Great victory for us and shows some of the underhand tactics going on and how the PL have been manipulated by a few members.
We have won a battle but the main war is still ongoing. Lets hope that also brings us a sweet victory

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

BBC fucking joke. The leader on this story which is fucking massive is not written by the Head of Sports Simpleton Stone has swerved it
And if you read their article we actually lost the fucking case except for two technical issues which just need to PL to tweak at their next meeting ffs

No surprise I suspect he was kicked out of school for being a snivelling and thick little **** with no fucking friends.