PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Chris in London]

I was just thinking of knocking up a list of all the significant soft signals that we have won the day...

Removal of 115 from Ongoing Cornerns section in the last FY accounts.

The positive indicators re the Etihad 10 year renewal £1bn++, ie its been approved in full, plus the FAB and Hotel deals

£1bn 10 year deal with PUMA

Haaland 10 year contract

Winter transfer window spend £180m

Summer transfer window spend £130m

Unimpeded £300m+ development of the North Stand

Manchester City board member hints at positive outcome for club's 115 charges

Cityzens are accused of serious financial voilation charges by Premier League

sporticos.com

Any more ...

City’s legal team seen smiling

 

[Master-Lotus]

Since the clickbaiters and "reaction video" people became part of the larger football media, it all just became white noise for me. Just do not care in the slightest. And the "oil money" comments are implicitly racially motivated which I dont think gets talked about enough.

Exactly. What's wrong with oil money aka selling your own oil from your own country? It's a legitimate business that almost all countries in the world depend on.

 

[cheekybids]

Exactly. What's wrong with oil money aka selling your own oil from your own country? It's a legitimate business that almost all countries in the world depend on.

It’s about belittling the nation as if without the oil they’d be nothing. It’s out of the same copy book that they talk about City. No history without oil, luck & not really deserved.

Yet who’s leader shouts drill, baby drill!

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Exactly. What's wrong with oil money aka selling your own oil from your own country? It's a legitimate business that almost all countries in the world depend on.

Their natural resources have enabled the UAE to have the fourth largest sovereign wealth fund on the planet. This has enabled them to diversify into other methods of growing their economy. The living standards they have are much higher than what you would get in the U.K.

Compare and contrast to this country where we are flat broke on public finances. We have crumbling infrastructure and public services due to years of lack of investment. To solve this country’s problems wee’d love it if we suddenly found a massive oil field hidden under Cheetham Hill.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Their natural resources have enabled the UAE to have the fourth largest sovereign wealth fund on the planet. This has enabled them to diversify into other methods of growing their economy. The living standards they have are much higher than what you would get in the U.K.

Compare and contrast to this country where we are flat broke on public finances. We have crumbling infrastructure and public services due to years of lack of investment. To solve this country’s problems wee’d love it if we suddenly found a massive oil field hidden under Cheetham Hill.

We did have oil remember. Loads of it. Norway managed to amass a huge oil wealth fund as did UAE. What do we have…..

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

We did have oil remember. Loads of it. Norway managed to amass a huge oil wealth fund as did UAE. What do we have…..

HS2 which will only go to Birmingham?

 

[johnnytapia]

Their natural resources have enabled the UAE to have the fourth largest sovereign wealth fund on the planet. This has enabled them to diversify into other methods of growing their economy. The living standards they have are much higher than what you would get in the U.K.

Compare and contrast to this country where we are flat broke on public finances. We have crumbling infrastructure and public services due to years of lack of investment. To solve this country’s problems wee’d love it if we suddenly found a massive oil field hidden under Cheetham Hill.

It’d be snide oil.

 

[Rory Bluelow]

Their natural resources have enabled the UAE to have the fourth largest sovereign wealth fund on the planet. This has enabled them to diversify into other methods of growing their economy. The living standards they have are much higher than what you would get in the U.K.

Compare and contrast to this country where we are flat broke on public finances. We have crumbling infrastructure and public services due to years of lack of investment. To solve this country’s problems wee’d love it if we suddenly found a massive oil field hidden under Cheetham Hill.

The net zero nut jobs wouldn’t let us extract it !

 

[Chris in London]

We did have oil remember. Loads of it. Norway managed to amass a huge oil wealth fund as did UAE. What do we have…..

we had a government selling us snake oil for years...

 

[Eoiyflem]

I was just thinking of knocking up a list of all the significant soft signals that we have won the day...

Removal of 115 from Ongoing Cornerns section in the last FY accounts.

The positive indicators re the Etihad 10 year renewal £1bn++, ie its been approved in full, plus the FAB and Hotel deals

£1bn 10 year deal with PUMA

Haaland 10 year contract

Winter transfer window spend £180m

Summer transfer window spend £130m

Unimpeded £300m+ development of the North Stand

Manchester City board member hints at positive outcome for club's 115 charges

Cityzens are accused of serious financial voilation charges by Premier League

sporticos.com

Any more ...

We're doomed

 

[cheekybids]

The net zero nut jobs wouldn’t let us extract it !

Every utility had been siphoned away years before net zero had been even thought of.

 

[SilverFox2]

Every utility had been siphoned away years before net zero had been even thought of.

Oh for yesteryear when we got our resources by colonising parts of the rest of the world, laughingly called it Commonwealth then like you said, spent that as well.

 

[tallest floodlights]

We did have oil remember. Loads of it. Norway managed to amass a huge oil wealth fund as did UAE. What do we have…..

We unfortunately had thatcher

 

[cheekybids]

Oh for yesteryear when we got our resources by colonising parts of the rest of the world, laughingly called it Commonwealth then like you said, spent that as well.

I was thinking more about the North Sea Oil & Morecambe gas field.

 

[give it to gordon]

The deal was agreed then they asked for an additional payment, which I'm assuming they wanted under the table. We refused but Chelsea coughed up.

I was always suspicious about under the table payments underpinning some of their more eyebrow-raising transfers.

Update: I posted this 5 years ago: https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/liverpool-thread-2020-21.347331/page-87#post-13063884

Side show Bob was another stranger transfer, did one season at i think psg then sold back to Chelsea the following season

 

[jamielowndes]

Exactly. What's wrong with oil money aka selling your own oil from your own country? It's a legitimate business that almost all countries in the world depend on.

For me it's more "Why is this the one thing that gets singled out?". And the answer is kind of obvious unfortunately.

 

[Tarzan Pancake]

I was thinking more about the North Sea Oil & Morecambe gas field.

We are also world leaders in extracting it, but net zero means we can't, for now.....

 

[dublinblue12]

No shortage of chips at half time. Yet.

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[Brendan110_0]

For me it's more "Why is this the one thing that gets singled out?". And the answer is kind of obvious unfortunately.

I wonder how Ratcliffe made his billions? Worked at BP, ESSO, Coultards, then joined a private equity firm (worst scum on earth), then formed a joint enterprise INEOS specialising in goods made from OIL. Nearly every bank/financial institution speculates in the oil/steel/gold/wood/food markets - I too am unsure why oil is the bad guy here.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Depends who the “source” is.

A “longstanding city source” could be the old Doris who sells the pin badges in Mary D’s.

I think United increasingly tried to distance themselves from the poisonous briefings especially after Ratcliffe came in. Ferguson has always been pure poison off the field but these days has little influence. I heard a few years back that the biggest drivers were LFC, Arsenal, and Spurs. Certainly Parry is not a friend of City. So perhaps Ladyman has a genuine source.