PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

coolcity said:
Everything's corrupt though isn't it to some degree. Councils spending money on all sorts of vanity schemes when by law they're supposed to do the best for their residents. £15 for a printer cartridge with 10ml of ink, when you can but a litre at trade price for around £1 a litre or less (that's a 15,000% markup). Speed cameras raking in hundreds of millions despite statistical proof that they're not reducing the accident rate by any significant degree, if at all. £1000 for a laptop that cost £50 to make. Where do you want to draw the line?
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Hmm. What you describe in councils is not corrupt. Councils enter into binding purchasing contracts based on the lowest tender. They then have to buy from the supplier at the agreed price. To do otherwise is to break the contract, which makes them liable to be sued.

This is the normal practice across the public sector and has been in place for a long time. The alternative would be not to have a purchasing contract and let individual members of staff buy randomly from whoever. Would the latter work out cheaper across multi-million-pound organisations? Colour me doubtful at best.
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
Yeah same here. All clubs have been playing the game, they're all at it. What I am hoping is that our club, knowing that the footballing world will be after us, have been squeaky clean. And I trust they have, the owner is not a fool, he is aware of our enemies and how they work.

For me, we are probably fighting a major battle around some nuances or technical breeches, (with some major non-achievable stuff where they set the bar too high for a guilty verdict) minor stuff in the world of football... Whilst the rest of the league are selling hotels to themselves or realigning PSR results with the help of the PL, or arranging illegal loans to themselves.
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See for me its not even being about squeaky clean, the issue at hand here is that the pl and the cartel clubs are stuffed to the gills with absolute dinosaurs who are still in the 90s in terms of doing business and cant stand the fact that a progressive club with people who are smarter than them and it rankles every day, the criticism coming from all corners at city is endemic but along with that criticism is a desperate need to be like us, how many clubs now have fan zones, how many clubs started taking womens football seriously after we did, how many clubs are trying to follow the multi club model now, how many clubs are trying to follow our youth model, its hilarious how all these clubs and the pl say we are dodgy, we are this and we are that all while trying to be exactly like us.
 
BrianW said:
Hmm. What you describe in councils is not corrupt. Councils enter into binding purchasing contracts based on the lowest tender. They then have to buy from the supplier at the agreed price. To do otherwise is to break the contract, which makes them liable to be sued.

This is the normal practice across the public sector and has been in place for a long time. The alternative would be not to have a purchasing contract and let individual members of staff buy randomly from whoever. Would the latter work out cheaper across multi-million-pound organisations? Colour me doubtful at best.
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Not sure about that mate, i work for the nhs and we are ripped off left right and centre in that regards, having to buy from approved suppliers at an over inflated price wastes absolute fortunes, lack of choice drives up prices in that respect.
 
mancboy said:
Not sure about that mate, i work for the nhs and we are ripped off left right and centre in that regards, having to buy from approved suppliers at an over inflated price wastes absolute fortunes, lack of choice drives up prices in that respect.
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It's up to the purchasing officer to enter into the best contract overall.

My guess is that someone buying a million ballpoint pens will get a cheaper price per pen than I would. That doesn't mean that every single item in the contract will be cheaper than anywhere else, but overall it ought to be.

If not, the purchasing officer is not doing his/her well-paid job very well.
 
BrianW said:
It's up to the purchasing officer to enter into the best contract overall.

My guess is that someone buying a million ballpoint pens will get a cheaper price per pen than I would. That doesn't mean that every single item in the contract will be cheaper than anywhere else, but overall it ought to be.

If not, the purchasing officer is not doing his/her well-paid job very well.
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I just know the ones here are hopeless and we get overcharged left, right and centre
 
mancboy said:
I just know the ones here are hopeless and we get overcharged left, right and centre
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The real point is the public sector have to put it out to tender

The bids that are sent in determine the price

If no one bids then nothing is bought and around they go

Blame the rules not the people
 
Interesting to see what Khaldoon has to say about this ( if asked) this morning. My guess is he says they know nothing yet and has no idea when they will find out. January 2026 it is then
 
manimanc said:
One crucial bit of dialogue from khaldoon's interview, maybe said differently but the gist of it was..

"Pep trusts the club, the directors and the owners".

That'll do for me.
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But yet over on the ticket protest threads Pep seems to be with the fans and doesn't trust the directors or owners one little bit.
 
blueste41 said:
But yet over on the ticket protest threads Pep seems to be with the fans and doesn't trust the directors or owners one little bit.
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He’s stuck between a rock and a hard place imo. I think he feels for the fans financially but understands and trusts the owners have a difficult line to tread as a business.
 
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mancboy said:
Not sure about that mate, i work for the nhs and we are ripped off left right and centre in that regards, having to buy from approved suppliers at an over inflated price wastes absolute fortunes, lack of choice drives up prices in that respect.
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& why is the procurement Manager always getting taken out ;)
 
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