Recent content by meltonblue

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    TV Series

    Keep with it. I was the same with 3 body problem, I’m now five episodes in and loving it.
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    Vat on Independent school fees?

    Sam Freedman’s always a good read on this topic. https://www.newstatesman.com/thestaggers/2022/11/daily-mail-private-schools-education-class-labour This one’s really good but behind a paywall - https://samf.substack.com/p/the-politics-of-envy
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    PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

    Not quite. I’m saying if you have city director able to negotiate a contract on behalf of another entity including financial arrangements and that entity also has the same owner, and subsequently transactions happened between those entities, it’d be a tough sell to say that they aren’t related...
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    PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

    I think that’s pretty much what we will say :)
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    PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

    Nothing, like I said I only really think this one is an issue. I think the club will have a valid defence, the reason I think this one is potentially an issue is because they haven’t said what their defence is and I haven’t seen anything put forward that would work.
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    PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

    Not in itself, no, I never said it did. It does if decision making at one entity is influenced by the other though and it can if there’s negotiation done by one on behalf of the other, that’s what would be hard to argue.
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    PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

    It is if you couple those points together. If you have the same principle owner of both and a director of one entity with the ability to negotiate contracts on behalf of the other, I’d argue that’d be a tough sell to say they aren’t related parties.
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    PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

    I’d argue it is if one entity is negotiating contracts on the others behalf though and there were transactions between the two on that contract.
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    PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

    Yeah I agree. Like I said even if they do pull us up on it and we don’t have a valid defence it really should be just a slap on the wrists. I do think it’s only small fry what the PL potentially actually has on us though.
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    PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

    That’s exactly the potential issue though as your scenario is all within the same group. If Al Jazira was part of the CFG and his contract was negotiated by them on behalf of City and Al Jazira then that would have been fine (as long as the City side of it wasn’t deliberately undervalued).
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    PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

    If we were negotiating the contract on behalf of Al Jazira with him and there were transactions or agreements between the two it’d be pretty hard to argue they shouldn’t have been considered a related party. I think the main argument the PL will have and we’ll have to justify is the...
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    PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

    Only what’s out there in terms of the Der Spiegel leak. The only question I’ve got on the Fordham one is why wasn’t it part of Uefa’s case against us
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    PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

    I’ve no idea if it was low or not tbh, I don’t know what the wage for managers was like back then. It was definitely loaded with bonuses though. Ultimately, the motive doesn’t really matter, not to the PL, in terms of it being a valid excuse at least. If we say we did it for Mancinis tax...
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    PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

    I dont, I think that and the Fordham one are our two main problems as they’re the only two for which there’s no defence already out there, so we’re hypothesising. I just disagree with who discussed or negotiated what isn’t important, I think that’s the main crux of the whole issue.
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    PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

    Yes. I meant that more as in the renumeration. If we were paying Mancini an acceptable amount at the time just from us, then unless we were also paying Al Jaziras wage to him too, I’d argue there’s nothing wrong with it, it’s got sod all to do with the PL.

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