PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

asahartford1 said:
That star reporter is Rags fan who is born , bred on the South Coast.
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Surprise surprise,was rambling on about VAR ,but couldn't resist whinging on about how "uncomfortable "it is for City .
Can't imagine Koolhand being made uncomfortable by anyone, let alone those other chairmen numpties.
 
wolviedinho said:
Thought this was already explained by @Prestwich_Blue ?

Desperate stuff rehashed again.
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I thought the whole point was that this so called Mr X had authority to release money from the state-owned firms Etihad and Etislat. as opposed to Sheikh Mansour putting his own money in. So this information (which is old) helps our case. Am I missing something?
 
slbsn said:
FYI
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For anybody who wants to read it:


The whole article is stretching in every aspect to try and make it a story: uncomfortable this, uncomfortable that, IFR may ban state ownership, blah blah. Not sure what the point of the article was.

Which raises the questions: who has leaked the unredacted UEFA report, and why now? My guess is Tebas, because he is a ****.

And this other **** can't spell judgment.
 
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bobbyowenquiff said:
I thought the whole point was that this called Mr X had authority to release money from the state-owned firms Etihad and Etislat. as opposed to Sheikh Mansour putting his own money in. So this information (which is old) helps our case. Am I missing something?
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The story put forward at CAS by the club was that Mohammed was some sort of broker who provided the money to the club (through ADUG) whilst Etisalat themselves couldn't pay.

The Athletic seems to be suggesting he wasn't a real broker, but instead worked for MBZ. Although, why that makes the slightest difference in the accounting sense, I have no idea. Possibly, someone wants to push the state-funded narrative again?
 
halfcenturyup said:
For anybody who wants to read it:


The whole article is stretching in every aspect to try and make it a story: uncomfortable this, uncomfortable that. Not sure what the point of the article was.

Which raises the questions: who has leaked the unredacted UEFA report, and why now? My guess is Tebas, because he is a ****.

And this other **** can't spell judgment
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Everybody has written about it. The Times have had it, Delaney wrote about it too. The Athletic. The YouTube guys etc. It’s been out there for literally years. Very odd story.

Also references Mohamed Al Mazrouei - this guy was Chairman of Etihad Aviation and on the CFG board too. Hardly hidden!

"Another even more senior figure at the CPC was also on Manchester City’s board then too, a position he held for over a decade, raising uncomfortable questions not just about the source of the funding for the sponsorship payments, but also as to whether the payments were known about within the highest seats of power in the UAE."

I genuinely wonder if I missing something in the piece. The timing is very odd too.
 
Not much coming out of the PL meeting unfortunately. I thought we’d have got a couple of snippets by now
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
I thought the whole point was that this so called Mr X had authority to release money from the state-owned firms Etihad and Etislat. as opposed to Sheikh Mansour putting his own money in. So this information (which is old) helps our case. Am I missing something?
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Nope. It’s been clear for a long time that the mystery man was a broker called Jaber and that the money was not sponsorship from Mansour. End of. No story.
 
I'm glad I'm not the only one who is confused by that Athletic piece.

I read it and picked up the tone that something revelatory was being revealed and spent the whole time being like "I know all this, it didn't feel like a bombshell when it first came out".

Am I missing something? What's going on?
 
halfcenturyup said:
Not that I can see. We know how the Etisalat deal was accounted for in the two years in question. Who arranged the financing doesn't really matter as far as I can see.
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Confirms my feeling that the vast majority of people who "know we are guilty" think we are accused of having rich people in UAE with connections to one another sponsor the club.
 
slbsn said:
Everybody has written about it. The Times have had it, Delaney wrote about it too. The Athletic. The YouTube guys etc. It’s been out there for literally years. Very odd story.

Also references Mohamed Al Mazrouei - this guy was Chairman of Etihad Aviation and on the CFG board too. Hardly hidden!

"Another even more senior figure at the CPC was also on Manchester City’s board then too, a position he held for over a decade, raising uncomfortable questions not just about the source of the funding for the sponsorship payments, but also as to whether the payments were known about within the highest seats of power in the UAE."

I genuinely wonder if I missing something in the piece. The timing is very odd too.
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There is a lot of waffle, that's for sure.

We know where the NYT normally gets its exclusives from, but I wonder on this occasion. There doesn't seem to be anything to gain for Liverpool or United in publishing this "story" now.

Anyway, bedtime here. I'll see if you have come up with anything else in the morning ....
 
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