PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Stoned Rose]

“Our job is to make clubs successful”.

Hmmm.

 

[dadnlad]

“Our job is to make clubs successful”.

Hmmm.

Alot of heavy swallowing going on

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Who is the sixth?

 

[calumdown]

Alot of heavy swallowing going on

 

[halfcenturyup]

Tbh I quite liked some of the comments made by the muen with regards to City -v- the PL

"this is the man leading the PL in the middle of a titanic legal battle with its defending champions, having lost a courtroom battle with the same club in recent months forcing a significant rule change.....

"Masters did reference the Profit and Sustainability Rules that require changing after City successfully proved the old version was against UK competition law.....

"There was no talk of the independent panel in the PSR case ruling so damningly against the Premier League (although their statement in response claimed a baffling victory so that isn't a surprise)

Lots of true stuff there

Yes, I think we are all a little over-sensitive at the moment. There was nothing wrong with the "what the fuck were the PL doing if they couldn't prove the allegations" comment (paraphrasing). This will be exactly the right question to be asked.

 

[halfcenturyup]

I thought Masters was distancing himself from everything by complimenting how Dharmash Mistry & Mai Fyfield have major roles.

Executive roles by the look of it .....

 

[cheekybids]

“Our job is to make clubs successful”.

Hmmm.

Is that really their job.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Good Lord. Narrative changing, perhaps .......?

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

It wasn't 6.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Is that really their job.

It's a strange thing to say. Again.

His job is to make the league successful, nothing else. If the league is successful, he has given the clubs the environment to be successful but then it's up to them.

Unless he knows full well what his job is and he meant to say "our job is to make some clubs successful".

 

[halfcenturyup]

It wasn't 6.

Ratcliffe's knowledge of football seems to be pretty much the level of the bore down the pub who gets his news from the Daily Mail. He thinks he gets that there is a cartel of six clubs at the top of the league but he doesn't get how fucking stupid it is for him to actually be saying it.

Long may it continue.

He is certainly dispelling the notion that you have to be intelligent (in the wider sense) to become a billionaire.

 

[KS55]

“Our job is to make clubs successful”.

Hmmm.

“Our job is to make the redshirts successful.”

 

[cheekybids]

It's a strange thing to say. Again.

His job is to make the league successful, nothing else. If the league is successful, he has given the clubs the environment to be successful but then it's up to them.

Unless he knows full well what his job is and he meant to say "our job is to make some clubs successful".

Is it in their charter?

“To make every club more successful” & what measure is success?

He says 1 club has gone into administration but that’s whilst they are a premier league club. What about all the clubs after that.

I was always under the impression that their role was to organise a competition.

I believe Mistry is on the board to look after Arsenals interests & Fyfield is there for Sky.

 

[KS55]

The role of the PL:
1. To organise a league competition.
2. To maximise the income of the PL by selling broadcasting rights to that competition all round the world.
3. To distribute the income fairly amongst the clubs, cynically avoiding the need to fund other levels of the football pyramid where possible.
4. To create rules which preserve the pre-eminence of the redshirts and punish any club who dares to challenge them.
5. To instruct referees on who we want to win the league.
6. To waste huge sums on legal wild goose chases.

 

[halfcenturyup]

The role of the PL:
1. To organise a league competition.
2. To maximise the income of the PL by selling broadcasting rights to that competition all round the world.
3. To distribute the income fairly amongst the clubs, cynically avoiding the need to fund other levels of the football pyramid where possible.
4. To create rules which preserve the pre-eminence of the redshirts and punish any club who dares to challenge them.
5. To instruct referees on who we want to win the league.
6. To waste huge sums on legal wild goose chases.

Not sure about the first two ....

 

[jaiguruKun]

Good of Masters to agree to do a TV interview with Jack Sullivan, a board member of a PL club. Maybe one of ours could interview him next time?

 

[cheekybids]

Good of Masters to agree to do a TV interview with Jack Sullivan, a board member of a PL club. Maybe one of ours could interview him next time?

“Richard you are concerned about the calendar but have done absolutely nothing to assist those clubs & you also seemed to be concerned about wealth gap from competing in the CWC but never gave a shit about the champions league affecting others.”

 

[slbsn]

That’s surely contractual.

Don't need to show the trophy at all - that bit isn't contractual even if the ribbons are

 

[cheekybids]

This is what I mentioned about the contrast of what the PL is dealing with. This is no doubt in the PL office - there are City's ribbons...

It would be fucking small time not to dress it in the current champions ribbons but I suppose we’ve seen examples of that pettiness.

 

[Gazza]

It was like one of those US president 'hard hitting' interviews where all the questions are preprepared and vetted in advance (masters probably wrote them) - just a PR exercise really.

Masters has the air of a small town estate agent.