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Rivals ganging up to ban City: Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal may test Champions League ruling on Financial Fair Play

Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool could use UEFA small print to challenge Manchester City’s right to play in the Champions League next season.

The rules now effectively set up a scenario where rivals can claim City have cheated their way to passing UEFA’s ‘Financial Fair Play’ (FFP) test.

It is understood lawyers for a host of ‘major clubs’ are aware of these potential rights to make appeals — thanks to recently amended Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations — and are monitoring the situation closely.

On Saturday night Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, who faces City on Monday in the game of the season so far, accused some unnamed clubs of ‘dodgy FFP’.

He said: ‘There are clubs that are following exactly the project of Financial Fair Play and there are other clubs doing it in a dodgy way. For me, that is very clear. I don’t say the clubs — that is not my job.’

When asked specifically about City, and a potential UEFA investigation, he added: ‘It’s for Mr Platini and other people to analyse it, it’s not for me… I’m waiting for that.’

FFP rules compel clubs to limit losses for the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons combined to £37million, with a ban from European competitions the severest theoretical punishment. City last week announced losses for 2012-13 of £51.6m, meaning they have lost £149.5m over two years.

They can perhaps ‘exempt’ as much as £110m of those losses to meet FFP requirements. But they face accusations their losses are artificially low after earning cash from ‘intellectual property’ sales to related companies. UEFA sources have confirmed this will be investigated to see if it is ‘real’ income.

Amended small print in the 2014 UEFA FFP rulebook, just published, includes two key changes; one allowing clubs to ‘plea bargain’ punishments for overspending, and another that allows other clubs to challenge those plea bargains if they feel the outcomes negatively affect them.

Liverpool are one of the clubs not in a position to compete with City's financial muscle
Arsenal could be another team to benefit if City are to face a form of punishment

Title rivals: Arsenal could be another team to benefit if City are to face a form of punishment
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Re: "City face Euro Expulsion"

It's a shame it's in a decent paper as it's more difficult just to call 'bollox'.
 
Re: "City face Euro Expulsion"

We are under their skin. Blitzkrieg the fuckers.
 
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Prestwich_Blue said:
The rags PR machine is getting a bit desperate. Anything to take the pressure off wee Davey.
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Possibly Mourinho whispers to press after the pre-match press conference?

Doesn't look like there's much in it - just speculation designed to unsettle City
 
Re: "City face Euro Expulsion"

Laughable really and just the snide sort of reaction I would expect from those clubs.
 
Re: "City face Euro Expulsion"

Clearly all the papers had lots of headlines and research done for how we'll fail FFP, but then we posted such excellent figures that they've been forced to just try and lever it anyway. They're clearly gutted that we'll be fine and that we aren't going anywhere
 
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It's pretty annoying when all this FFP is pointed in only one direction! I feel the shit will hit the pan if we get banned from the champions league!!

PSG owner had it right we will keep spending the other top teams have had 20+ years of it!!
 
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Prestwich_Blue said:
The rags PR machine is getting a bit desperate. Anything to take the pressure off wee Davey.
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Ding.

FFP regulations are perfectly clear and have been through the review stage where everybody had their chance to challenge them.

There is on potential challenge to be made; that £20m of income from related parties is above fair value. We could lose a couple of million off of our total.

That's it.

Despite what David Conn completely incorrect writes, and it angers me that an ex-lawyer can be so wrong on such an important detail because he wants it to be correct, the Etihad deal cannot be challenged as a related party transaction as none of the definitions for what related parties mean in the UEFA document fit the relationship between City and Etihad.
 
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sam-caddick said:
Funny how this comes out just before we play Chelsea!
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That was my thought. Mourinho feeding the press a line.
 
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Well if they decide to walk the line with City/PSG its going to end up in the EU court of justice, and that will be it for FFPR.
 
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And in a heartbeat utds EIGHT defeat In a piss poor season is brushed under the carpet...
Where the headline should scream "billy smart cocks it up again for the champions" we find a little square amongst the bullshit saying utd get beat again.....
 
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Marvin said:
Prestwich_Blue said:
The rags PR machine is getting a bit desperate. Anything to take the pressure off wee Davey.
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Possibly Mourinho whispers to press after the pre-match press conference?

Doesn't look like there's much in it - just speculation designed to unsettle City
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If it's Herbert it's the rags, believe me. He also collaborates with Nick Harris quite a lot.
 
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From the Daily Mail.........

On Saturday night Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, who faces City on Monday in the game of the season so far, accused some unnamed clubs of ‘dodgy FFP’.

He said: ‘There are clubs that are following exactly the project of Financial Fair Play and there are other clubs doing it in a dodgy way. For me, that is very clear. I don’t say the clubs — that is not my job.’

When asked specifically about City, and a potential UEFA investigation, he added: ‘It’s for Mr Platini and other people to analyse it, it’s not for me… I’m waiting for that.’

Read more: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2550222/Rivals-ganging-ban-City-Liverpool-Chelsea-Arsenal-test-Champions-League-ruling-Financial-Fair-Play.html#ixzz2s7E7TAEZ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... z2s7E7TAEZ</a>
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Re: "City face Euro Expulsion"

So Uefa are going to ban the most exciting team in Europe from their competition? That's not going to devalue the product, is it?
 
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