PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Silva2021 said:
No, Pep as is quite often the case played it right.

The time to speak it when we have been cleared and until then respect the process.

As Pep says and then we speak, until then give the press nothing but the fans a wink!
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I get that but asking the question puts it back on them, their intentions & motivation of the question. Then after exposing it he can “& then we speak” with a knowing wink.
 
cheekybids said:
I get that but asking the question puts it back on them, their intentions & motivation of the question. Then after exposing it he can “& then we speak” with a knowing wink.
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I respectfully disagree (although PR is all opinions and how you think it will play out, so not uncommon for people to have different views and no-one knows who was right as not all scenarios play out).

They are looking for another headline and anything Pep said would be twisted and used against him.

The best time to strike at the time of strength and our strongest time will be after a not guilty verdict.

Also until then we probably want it off the back page as much as we can.

I expect this has already been agreed and I wouldn’t be fully surprised if City’s press officer was the recipient of the wink after Pep answered it in the way discussed.
 
cheekybids said:
I get that but asking the question puts it back on them, their intentions & motivation of the question. Then after exposing it he can “& then we speak” with a knowing wink.
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There's no answer Pep could give that would work in our favour. If he fired questions back and put them on the spot, it would become a headline about "rattled Pep feels strain of PL charges". They'd never focus on his answers in a good way and the journalists would simply argue it is in the interests of football in this country to know his position. They'd never reveal it's because negative City news sells papers or gets clicks.

Much better to stay tight lipped and ignore the questions. He came out swinging when they were announced and the team came out swinging too. He said he would stay and be more motivated if we were relegated. He has also said a number of teams want us relegated.

Football is tribal. We will forever be guilty in the eyes of our enemies. If we lose and aren't relegated or aren't stripped of titles it won't be enough. If we win and are cleared it will be because we had better lawyers. The majority aren't bothered by facts so there's no reason for Pep to comment. We cooked the books, auditors didn't notice and still to this day we are inflating our revenue because we have an empty stadium every week.
 
supercity88 said:
There's no answer Pep could give that would work in our favour. If he fired questions back and put them on the spot, it would become a headline about "rattled Pep feels strain of PL charges". They'd never focus on his answers in a good way and the journalists would simply argue it is in the interests of football in this country to know his position. They'd never reveal it's because negative City news sells papers or gets clicks.

Much better to stay tight lipped and ignore the questions. He came out swinging when they were announced and the team came out swinging too. He said he would stay and be more motivated if we were relegated. He has also said a number of teams want us relegated.

Football is tribal. We will forever be guilty in the eyes of our enemies. If we lose and aren't relegated or aren't stripped of titles it won't be enough. If we win and are cleared it will be because we had better lawyers. The majority aren't bothered by facts so there's no reason for Pep to comment. We cooked the books, auditors didn't notice and still to this day we are inflating our revenue because we have an empty stadium every week.
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He wouldn’t have given an answer….

The reporter even asked “do you think their jealous?”

Pep said “no”

& all I’m advocating is & I’ve seen it done many times & a question is an incredibly powerful tool.

So it goes…..

Reporter “Do you think there jealous”
Pep “no, but what do you think?”
 
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Kinkys Left Foot said:
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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The gov have started a re-look at the definition of islamaphobia. The answer should include slagging off City for no real reason.
 
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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Yes,good post. As you imply, if it were a sports washing exercise the actions of the club and of AbuDhabi would be quite different. As for state ownership, remember the good sheik stated at the very outset that it was his personal investment and that the state would not provide any finance.
 
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