PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

WRicko said:
Complaint about City but not PSG or Newcastle both state owned when City are not
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An article I read earlier said he'd put in a complaint about us and PSG but he'd held off on Newcastle because 'they didn't have the data/figures yet' or words to that effect.
 
chesterbells said:
Someone should tell Rory Smith who repeats it every Monday night on 5 live. Or Mark Chapman. Or the production team. Or Shay Given. Or Joe Hart. Or Steph Houghton. Or Micah Richards. Or any of the other fuckwits who let it pass unchallenged every single fucking week.
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Shame on these ex City players for not standing up for us. Not surprised the fat Gooner doesn’t, but I am surprised about the other three.
 
Has masters put out a statement defending the English champions?



Tebas is a nothing more than a racist pig who hates the cash cow that is the English league. Trying to use city as some sort of Trojan horse take it down.

The media tho! What an absolute disgrace to journalism. The word should not apply to those jumped up cretins.

The fans will be right behind the club as always. Afterall it is the one constantly abused while the masses laugh. It will be another clubs turn soon enough and I will have no sympathy left.

Attack away, it’s only when they are quiet should we be worried. This is nothing but mass hysteria.

Little city eh? -:)

The balls on this club to deceive the world and not give too fucks -:)
 
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Has there ever been any other club that has been targeted again and again with these type of allegations that play in red shirts?
 
citymad said:
Shame on these ex City players for not standing up for us. Not surprised the fat Gooner doesn’t, but I am surprised about the other three.
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They are football pundits. There's getting angry and and there's winning an argument on a territory they are not comfortable with. You have to be calm and skilled and probably trained by profession to do it. I have had loads of arguments with football fans about this, and I never win. I say you don't know the evidence, and they say you don't either. Everyone is out to protect their own club, and if a billionaire owned club is facing an investigation, then take them down. It's my club 1-0 City.
 
Marvin. said:
If I wasn't a City fan, I would look at City and assume its a state controlled entity. The ownership is opaque. We have privately registered shareholders, but the club is run by state officials. However, the UAE state doesn't seem to me to promote MCFC internally or externally and the profile of City is lower there than it is here. I live in the UK but I have been to Abu Dhabi in a Champions League week and for a year I used to go to conferences online hosted by an American Uni in Abu Dhabi. The Emirati academics and students had no interest in MCFC, and they are really proud of their state as it is only 50 years old. I think a few English journalists should go there and then they would realise that sportswashing might me a good idea on paper but in practise it isn't happening with City. When City won the Champions League, we didn't have any UAE fanfare that I noticed. It was all quite rightly about Pep and his team. We never even see Sheikh Mansour. This isn't a club promoting the UAE. In fact when I go to City, I see Natalie Pike on the pitch promoting City in the Community, Gay Pride and diversity, not matters that the UAE is associated with but we should judge a football ownership on what they do . Good old Nat. I used to sit behind her in R block, North Stand at Maine Rd, and then in 216 in the South stand. She is a big City fan. It's not an act.
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I agree with you that the state-owned situation is a little blurry. From a strictly legal and accounting view the club clearly isn't state-owned, but I accept that business relationships in that part of the world are different (like most things) to those in the "west" and that the substance of the relationship may be more complicated than the legal form.

But I disagree that the club is run by state officials. The club is run by Soriano and his team. Your "state officials" are non-executive directors fulfilling their roles as such on behalf of the shareholders (plural) in accordance with the Companies Acts.

The rest of your post was spot on, though.
 
Marvin. said:
If I wasn't a City fan, I would look at City and assume its a state controlled entity. The ownership is opaque. We have privately registered shareholders, but the club is run by state officials. However, the UAE state doesn't seem to me to promote MCFC internally or externally and the profile of City is lower there than it is here. I live in the UK but I have been to Abu Dhabi in a Champions League week and for a year I used to go to conferences online hosted by an American Uni in Abu Dhabi. The Emirati academics and students had no interest in MCFC, and they are really proud of their state as it is only 50 years old. I think a few English journalists should go there and then they would realise that sportswashing might me a good idea on paper but in practise it isn't happening with City. When City won the Champions League, we didn't have any UAE fanfare that I noticed. It was all quite rightly about Pep and his team. We never even see Sheikh Mansour. This isn't a club promoting the UAE. In fact when I go to City, I see Natalie Pike on the pitch promoting City in the Community, Gay Pride and diversity, not matters that the UAE is associated with but we should judge a football ownership on what they do . Good old Nat. I used to sit behind her in R block, North Stand at Maine Rd, and then in 216 in the South stand. She is a big City fan. It's not an act.
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I never heard the Queen and Queen Mother's racehorses referred to as state-owned, nor those of Middle Eastern royalty. Neither have I ever heard Monaco referred to as state owned.
 
Marvin. said:
They are football pundits. There's getting angry and and there's winning an argument on a territory they are not comfortable with. You have to be calm and skilled and probably trained by profession to do it. I have had loads of arguments with football fans about this, and I never win. I say you don't know the evidence, and they say you don't either. Everyone is out to protect their own club, and if a billionaire owned club is facing an investigation, then take them down. It's my club 1-0 City.
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They are hired hands and hence they will do nothing to go against the narrative, when they do (Summerbee) they are quickly removed and lose their jobs.

Footballers/ ex footballer pundits are in my experience greedy bastards that will do and say anything for $$$$$$$$$$$
 
27th Feb must be City haters day or theres something blowing in the wind.

Started with Steve Parish and his thinly veiled critiscism of potential regulatory oversight, but its not the PL's fault apparently, its litigious clubs that are to blame. Then the fascist, Spanish, jealous, racist pig, schnozzer Harris, the disturbed, vitriolic obsessive and his straw man creating, nodding dog cohorts, then Lieu and Wallace, all had their two penneth today, all given half an hour each prime media time coverage to slag us off, the fucking muppets.

I really hope the club go after some of these fucktards if they step one inch over the line when we're cleared of these fraud charges.

That today was clearly orchestrated to fill the media with anti-city propaganda. I'm unsure if there was some integral reason for it that I'm not aware of but I won't accept that it was coincidence.
 
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Not really the place for this, other than to say the PL are making so many strategic mistakes it can't seriously be trying to show it can regulate itself, can it?

Btw, the PFA should be funded by contributions from the players, not by the PL. That much seems obvious.
 
halfcenturyup said:

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Not really the place for this, other than to say the PL are making so many strategic mistakes it can't seriously be trying to show it can regulate itself, can it?

Btw, the PFA should be funded by contributions from the players, not by the PL. That much seems obvious.
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I think it’s good for the PFA to be funded by the lucrative TV deals that way it supports those players in & out of the game. A lot of the players that need support & retraining maybe out of the game by the time they need it. If it relied on subs you’d basically have ex players turned down for no longer subscribing.
 
Pablo ZZZ Peroni said:
Here is a Forbes article that is still up.
I've only skimmed it but needs one of the accounting experts for explainer. Presumably all legal - it's what big companies do?

www.forbes.com

Has Manchester City Offloaded $100M Of Expenses To New York City FC And Melbourne City FC?

In November, Man City announced a 3rd straight year of profit. However, Manchester City is one part of the City Football Group and the financial statements for the latter have just been released. The report begs the question - is City's profit down to offloading expenses to the likes of NYCFC?
www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
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City account every year for expenses paid by CFG, who send us a bill. It affects profit and sustainability rules. Nothing to see here.
 
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