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PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules
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Chris in London
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Just for even more clarity my comment referencing @BM was simply intended to be an acknowledgement of where he worked not a reflection on/reaction to anything he posted in this thread or said elsewhere.Just for clarity so there’s nobody in the thread who gets the wrong end of the stick, my previous post here isn’t intended to suggest anyone knows the outcome.
This isn’t a story being worked on by 5 Live sport. This is being worked on by news teams that work across all 5 Live programmes and it’s all about what we’ll hear on air after the verdict is published. Shows will need guests, whether City are found guilty or not guilty is largely irrelevant at this stage. It’s about, on the day, who is available to give reaction to the verdict.
And, while I’m here and browsing the thread… I obviously do the podcast with Sam Lee. His point about City’s confidence seems to have been warped after a game of ‘Telephone’.
He basically said that the podcast that City’s confidence isn’t a PR stunt, but is genuine because it’s not coming from the press office. In fact, the press office aren’t commenting (and won’t comment), but it’s coming from sources at the club who he talks to, who have no reason to “make it look like the club is confident” (so to speak) because they’re not informing a story, they're just confident because they’re confident the case went well. It’s no guarantee of any outcome, just the background to the mood at City.
I had a mother that did that, but unfortunately she was redder than redHe lived in Manchester for 30 years and watched City one week and United the next. I do think he’s a bit more red than a blue.
Stoned Rose
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Fat and wank?I don't think he is that good at being careful. Remember last year when he dropped his press contact in it by saying he had been given a confidential PL document by someone in the press a couple of days after Ziegler's exclusive :)
I still have him down as a FAW.
halfcenturyup
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Fat and wank?
That too.
dublinblue12
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Look at it this way, after it's all over we will be the only team in league actually proven not be cheating
jimharri
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Serves you right for engaging with him. There's no use knocking if there's no one in the house.I got into a convo on the bluesky abomination with deloony and it was like having a talk with fog, he's such a weird fucker he made me look normal.
I’m calling bullshit on that.Kieran McGuire in the latest Price of Football podcast has said he’s ’seen documents that aren’t in the public domain that shows City inflated its sponsorship revenue’.
So there’s documentation that shows we’re guilty but it’s not in the public domain.
Why not?
If that were true every man and his dog would’ve have seen it considering how the media have gone after us from day one.
We keep hearing about these so called documents but not one person has leaked these, not one.
I’m also calling bullshit cos McGuire talks out of his arse most of the time and is one of the worst ‘experts’ I’ve heard.
"I'm not mad and have a certificate to prove it"Look at it this way, after it's all over we will be the only team in league actually proven not be cheating
Master-Lotus
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Why do some of you guys care so much what others could be saying after we are cleared? We are cleared, end of. You can cry about it until the end of time. At least that's my stance.
Prestwich_Blue
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Join the club. He's fucking hard work.I got into a convo on the bluesky abomination with deloony and it was like having a talk with fog, he's such a weird fucker he made me look normal.
If they exist and have any cogency, they would surely have been presented by the PL as part of their case. We don’t know whether they were or not.Of course he has, the man is a shameless self publicist, does nobody else find it coincidental that whenever they need a football finance 'expert' they ALWAYS call him, he cant be the only football finance expert but i bet a pound to a penny that hes the only one willing to toe the party line and say what the people who pay him need him to say, if any of those documents existed and i very much doubt that they do, id love to see how they are worded and in what context they are shown.
The medias football finance 'expert' has seen documents purported to have been generated by world class businessmen showing illegality and then missed by world leading audit experts, seems likely that doesnt it.
Also worth mentioning that McGuire is no lawyer, so how does he know what they prove? Sounds like the emails all over again.
The deep state is everywhere.Don't have much time but to cut a long story short this whole issue is a setup rivals maybe not the actual clubs themselves but their backers, sponsors and powerful secret forces who are trying to bring the club down. Masters who is driving the anti- City agenda is obviously their chief corrupt lackey.
The words ‘relating to this’ refer to inflated sponsorship.He didn't mention sponsorships. And shareholder loans will have immaterial impact on Brighton (only a small amount of shareholder loan is interest free and they have loads of capacity)
He is a self appointed expert on football finance that never demonstrates any deep understanding of his subject. He is lightweight.I’m calling bullshit on that.
So there’s documentation that shows we’re guilty but it’s not in the public domain.
Why not?
If that were true every man and his dog would’ve have seen it considering how the media have gone after us from day one.
We keep hearing about these so called documents but not one person has leaked these, not one.
I’m also calling bullshit cos McGuire talks out of his arse most of the time and is one of the worst ‘experts’ I’ve heard.
Has he ever written a serious piece on how football finance could be improved?
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Never get into an argument with an idiot as they'll bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.Join the club. He's fucking hard work.
I watched him on a podcast about a year ago and since then I’ve never taken his word on anything.He is a self appointed expert on football finance that never demonstrates any deep understanding of his subject. He is lightweight.
He got so much wrong on the podcast, simple stuff and it wasn’t just about City.
To quote Jim Royale ‘expert my arse’
foggy1974
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“Anyway, Manchester City, what have they done? Apart from being the Enron of football?
Well, this is the accusation which has come from Tebas that Manchester City have artificially inflated their revenues by disguising money from the owners. I have seen some very, very detailed documents which are not in the public domain relating to this, and that's quite intriguing content. I can't go into any details about it.
It's not appropriate to do so, and also it would take up a few hours. But certainly there is a body of opinion still within European football about Manchester City. Tebas feels that they successfully defended their position on appeal at CAS, on a technicality.”
From The Price of Football: Championship clubs vote to tweak PSR rules, Women’s Super League considers scrapping relegation, 6 Mar 2025
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How as Keiran Maguire seen it, if it's not in the public domain
He was heavily involved in the White Paper written for the Football Regulator Bill. He’s spoken at Select Committees in Parliament.He is a self appointed expert on football finance that never demonstrates any deep understanding of his subject. He is lightweight.
Has he ever written a serious piece on how football finance could be improved?
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