PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

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Can someone photoshop this and put Swales' head over Khaldoon's?

Can you imagine PJS sat there saying "Leave sorting out the war in Ukraine to me, Mr President. I've sent Ian Niven over there with the authority to offer Putin & Zelensky a very nice radiogram each, on very advantageous weekly terms if they stop fighting".
 
Damocles said:
What is a peck? Is it a unit of measurement? A container of some sort?
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Chatgpt is your friend

A peck is a unit of dry volume measurement, primarily used in agriculture. In the U.S. and U.K., a peck equals 8 dry quarts or 1/4 of a bushel.


So, when Peter Piper "picked a peck of pickled peppers," it means he gathered about 8 quarts (or roughly 9 liters) of pickled peppers. However, since pickled peppers are usually prepared rather than picked, the phrase is more of a tongue-twister than a literal statement!
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
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Can someone photoshop this and put Swales' head over Khaldoon's?

Can you imagine PJS sat there saying "Leave sorting out the war in Ukraine to me, Mr President. I've sent Ian Niven over there with the authority to offer Putin & Zelensky a very nice radiogram each, on very advantageous weekly terms if they stop fighting".
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His attendance figures were about as reliable as any statistics coming out of the Kremlin.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Can someone photoshop this and put Swales' head over Khaldoon's?

Can you imagine PJS sat there saying "Leave sorting out the war in Ukraine to me, Mr President. I've sent Ian Niven over there with the authority to offer Putin & Zelensky a very nice radiogram each, on very advantageous weekly terms".
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To be fair, didn't Russian cosmonauts get a tv as a thankyou for their service? A tradition that's still going, as we saw with the pics of local party officials presenting meat grinders to the families of dead Russian soldiers.

Maybe Mr Swales missed his true calling in the 1970s. He could have thawed the cold war a lot quicker with a container full of the latest Rediffusions.
 
bluenova said:
Maybe Mr Swales missed his true calling in the 1970s. He could have thawed the cold war a lot quicker with a container full of the latest Rediffusions.
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The Deyna purchase involved (iirc) tractors and word processors as part of the deal because there was little or no currency exchange between the UK and Poland at the time. Might be wrong on the items but there were definitely goods that were weighed in as part of the transaction. It was essentially a player transfer conducted via barter!
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
The Deyna purchase involved (iirc) tractors and word processors as part of the deal because there was little or no currency exchange between the UK and Poland at the time. Might be wrong on the items but there were definitely goods that were weighed in as part of the transaction. It was essentially a player transfer conducted via barter!
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It was photocopiers too
 
Very funny last line from Sefan’s substack article…

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Al Mubarak sat opposite Trump and Vance is a stark reminder that the 115 allegations involve a senior executive who is sat at the very top table on the global stage. It would take some craft for the Independent Commission to make serious findings of wrong doing against City that somehow did not involve the club’s Chairman since 2008. Al Mubarak, who celebrates his 50th birthday this year (like me, as Jim White exclusively broke on Talksport), is CEO of Mubadala, one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds (AUM over $300bn). He also holds senior positions within the Government of Abu Dhabi, including as a member of the Executive Council since 2006, a member of the Supreme Council for Financial and Economic Affairs, and as the founding chairman of the Executive Affairs Authority. He has much to lose if he really risked it all to sign Roque Santa Cruz in 2009.
 
bluenova said:
To be fair, didn't Russian cosmonauts get a tv as a thankyou for their service? A tradition that's still going, as we saw with the pics of local party officials presenting meat grinders to the families of dead Russian soldiers.

Maybe Mr Swales missed his true calling in the 1970s. He could have thawed the cold war a lot quicker with a container full of the latest Rediffusions.
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Kazimierz Deyna deal to sign for City, until a train arrived bearing photocopying machines and medical instruments, which were part of the “transfer fee” I think Brother was a club sponsor and they sorted out the photocopying machines
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Deyna, a lieutenant in the Polish army, played for the army club Legia Warsaw, for whom he had scored almost 200 goals in nearly 500 games, so City had to enter into a series of complex negotiations with the Polish FA, the Polish government and the Polish army. There was no problem with the translations, however, because City already had one Pole at the club: George Bergier was the head of match-day catering.

The Polish army had to agree to demobilise Deyna, and the Polish FA delayed transferring his registration forms until a train arrived bearing photocopying machines and medical instruments, which were part of the “transfer fee”. The deal cost City around £100,000, comprising machinery, tools and some cash in US dollars, which the Poles used to send their athletes abroad to prepare for the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
 
Champions again in 2012 said:
Chatgpt is your friend

A peck is a unit of dry volume measurement, primarily used in agriculture. In the U.S. and U.K., a peck equals 8 dry quarts or 1/4 of a bushel.


So, when Peter Piper "picked a peck of pickled peppers," it means he gathered about 8 quarts (or roughly 9 liters) of pickled peppers. However, since pickled peppers are usually prepared rather than picked, the phrase is more of a tongue-twister than a literal statement!
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Unless he was in a shop, choosing from a selection of pecks of pickled peppers, or other items.
 
Cobwebcat said:
Very funny last line from Sefan’s substack article…

stefanborson.substack.com

TWIB: This Week in Bizball

What happens to Newcastle when the hangover wears off, Abu Dhabi's global importance and why Leeds are the new Fulham
stefanborson.substack.com stefanborson.substack.com

Al Mubarak sat opposite Trump and Vance is a stark reminder that the 115 allegations involve a senior executive who is sat at the very top table on the global stage. It would take some craft for the Independent Commission to make serious findings of wrong doing against City that somehow did not involve the club’s Chairman since 2008. Al Mubarak, who celebrates his 50th birthday this year (like me, as Jim White exclusively broke on Talksport), is CEO of Mubadala, one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds (AUM over $300bn). He also holds senior positions within the Government of Abu Dhabi, including as a member of the Executive Council since 2006, a member of the Supreme Council for Financial and Economic Affairs, and as the founding chairman of the Executive Affairs Authority. He has much to lose if he really risked it all to sign Roque Santa Cruz in 2009.
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It was a terrible signing tbf!
 
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