PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

moomba said:
Key point here. We made it work.

I'd love a top quality right back, but if the right one isn't available right now or is too expensive it's downright stupidity to just buy anyone.

That's what the likes of the rags have been doing the past 10 years, and far from showing good planning it shows insecurity and a lack of confidence in the excellent players in the squad that have achieved so much.
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We did make it work, but we shouldn’t have to. Yes I agree with the right now comment but that didn’t happen with a left back. We left it 5 or so years and making it work is ok, but a top club shouldn’t do that. We made a false 9 work. On more than one occasion. We still bought Haaland and that was one of the cogs that finally got us over that CL line. Had we got Kane the year before would we have been a better team? Absolutely. We wouldn’t have got Haaland and the rest is history but the point within the example is the next season we addressed it. We didn’t make it work, we didn’t get by, we didn’t shoehorn players in the hope it would keep working. We got our man. Going into a season where relying on an average centre mid to be our right back, or an academy player who is out of his depth will shoot us in the foot. We aren’t the same team who made no left back work; we are defensively fragile and I can’t see us getting over the line without. It’s even worse that we’ve had an extended period to address the problem with knowing walker was gone well in advance. We will be better this year but it won’t be enough.
 
That is so true even if the club was guilty of whatever it is they were charged for why must the fans world wide or even the staff and players suffer for what one person may have done. Its because thry dont care about the millions of fans or the players or the staff. Bunch of neo nazis running our associations.
 
Truesilverblue said:
That is so true even if the club was guilty of whatever it is they were charged for why must the fans world wide or even the staff and players suffer for what one person may have done. Its because thry dont care about the millions of fans or the players or the staff. Bunch of neo nazis running our associations.
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Wow, that's a first!! Fans, players and staff punished for the actions of administrators. I wonder if it's ever happened before.
 
prestonibbo_mcfc said:
It really is a shame that we have to go into another season with this hanging over our heads.
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The fall out and the meltdown for the Premier League and the clubs that pushed them to do this will be well worth the wait. I couldn’t care less, looking forward to be in being concluded however long it takes.
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
The fall out and the meltdown for the Premier League and the clubs that pushed them to do this will be well worth the wait. I couldn’t care less, looking forward to be in being concluded however long it takes.
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Same, the longer it takes, the more convinced I am that it's the Prem trying to save face in some capacity. If the verdict was leaning more towards the Prem than us, how would they not have just come out and announced it?
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
The fall out and the meltdown for the Premier League and the clubs that pushed them to do this will be well worth the wait. I couldn’t care less, looking forward to be in being concluded however long it takes.
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Yet not one scribbler has written a full article or piece on the fallout if an innocent verdict is handed down. It could even signal the end of the PL and usher in a type of new super league, let alone the mancinations over who said and did what. Not one decent piece, nada.
 
Asa's left peg said:
Yet not one scribbler has written a full article or piece on the fallout if an innocent verdict is handed down. It could even signal the end of the PL and usher in a type of new super league, let alone the mancinations over who said and did what. Not one decent piece, nada.
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They’ve completely ignored the APT case that the findings were that the Premier League ran an illegal rule book for 3 years, dragged its feet on requests by City and that they acted in the interests in certain clubs. Also the fact that Arsenal, Brighton, Everton and Liverpool benefited from interest free director loans with amounts far exceeding the Etisalat deal which seems to be causing all the fuss.
 
thegoatsthegoat said:
We did make it work, but we shouldn’t have to. Yes I agree with the right now comment but that didn’t happen with a left back. We left it 5 or so years and making it work is ok, but a top club shouldn’t do that. We made a false 9 work. On more than one occasion. We still bought Haaland and that was one of the cogs that finally got us over that CL line. Had we got Kane the year before would we have been a better team? Absolutely. We wouldn’t have got Haaland and the rest is history but the point within the example is the next season we addressed it. We didn’t make it work, we didn’t get by, we didn’t shoehorn players in the hope it would keep working. We got our man. Going into a season where relying on an average centre mid to be our right back, or an academy player who is out of his depth will shoot us in the foot. We aren’t the same team who made no left back work; we are defensively fragile and I can’t see us getting over the line without. It’s even worse that we’ve had an extended period to address the problem with knowing walker was gone well in advance. We will be better this year but it won’t be enough.
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Forcing the issue and getting a player you don't want or spending too much isn't necessarily a recipe for success.

You make it seem like we can just click our fingers and put together world class players in every position and stay within financial guidelines.

It's just not realistic.
 
Have we heard any news on the recruitment process for the Premier League’s new Chief Executive?

Obviously that’s all we’re waiting for before the announcement is made.

Maybe a former City Matter rep could get on the blower to Khaldoon for a timeline? I’m sure they’re negotiating hard on parking spaces, stationary budgets, Filofaxes, that type of thing.
 
moomba said:
Forcing the issue and getting a player you don't want or spending too much isn't necessarily a recipe for success.

You make it seem like we can just click our fingers and put together world class players in every position and stay within financial guidelines.

It's just not realistic.
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No I don’t; and like many on here you aren’t really reading what I’m saying so it’s a pointless conversation. Whilst I haven’t one said we need to buy a world class player for every position (creating your own argument there) there are many better options than playing a centre mid there. If you think there isn’t then agree to disagree
 
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