Prestwich_Blue
Well-Known Member
In the Der Spiegel articles they talked about us having to make up a shortfall on 2013 due to the cost of sacking Mancini & his coaches. At that time we were still under the impression that we could scrape in under the rules in Annex XI covering certain wages paid in 2012. So we asked if we could bring forward payments due from the AD sponsors and we did.I didn't hear that to be fair. Not sure how he would know that unless he's been tipped off. I know we're all second guessing here but there's never been an inking that it's about back-dated payments, plus didn't PSG back-date that huge sponsorship deal of theirs when they first announced it?
UEFA then changed their rules about how that should be calculated and we couldn't use that provision anymore. Had we known that at the time then we wouldn't have needed to do that.