City & FFP | 2020/21 Accounts released | Revenues of £569.8m, £2.4m profit (p 2395)

[Anonymous]

About 18 hours too late 'holic ;)

Whoops!

Soz beef (as my young lad would say) :))

 

[waspish]

Re: City & FFP (updated)

Can I ask, if UEFA attempted to exclude us from next season's Champions League, does that mean we could blow any amount we want this summer?

Only asking because of the posts insisting Liverpool can't be assessed because not in Europe last season?

it would seem so if the Liverpool analogy is correct

in fact, why not do a scum and finish in seventh, get no European football and blow half a billion on a new team

Well if it is, we should gladly accept a break for 12 months and spend £500m on updating the team for the next five years

£200m on Messi would be a nice starting point.

Well that can't happen either because Gill and his cronies intruded FFP into the premiership!

 

[Chippy_boy]

Terrible, terrible news re FFP from today's Torygraph:

Manchester City have been left reeling after learning that struggling's David Moyes will be installed as manager at the Etihad next season.
The savage sanction-rap shows that Uefa mean business on Financial Fair Play, and will not stand idly by as teams flaunt the proud amateur status of professional football.

“It is simply unfair that some get to buy success thanks to obscene amounts of money, often emanating from ethically dubious sources,” said a Uefa official as he licked great dollops of caviar off a Rolex given to him by a Qatari well-wisher.
“All this money they’re spending is being funnelled away from the true heartland of the game: brown envelopes for hard-working delegates. Something has to be done.”

That something, it appears, is hobbling City with their neighbours’ beleaguered Scottish manager.

“Fair competition is absolutely vital for our sport,” said a Fifa statement. “For instance, anyone from any country can attempt to bribe a Fifa delegate in order to get on board the World Cup gravy train. Big country, small country, country which is just a desert with no interest in football whatsoever, it’s a level playing field."

The news was described as “a shock” to City, who had initially attempted to outfox meddling Europrats with a brilliant scheme of sponsoring themselves. Against the odds, Uefa brainboxes managed to foil this cunning plan.

“We did have an inkling that the Sheikh giving us ten gazillion quid out of thin air might attract attention," admitted a Manchester City executive. “So we did this scheme where Martín Demichelis would do a sponsored moustache-growing contest and every time he cocked it up the Sheikh would donate a million quid.

“Demichelis kept shaving it off by mistake, getting confused and growing a beard instead, having his toilet parts waxed, setting his face on fire and so on.
"The Sheikh eventually forked over about three-and-half billion for Demichelis’s facial hair foolishness, and we thought we were sorted.
“But apparently Mr Platini says that’s not within the rules.”

David Moyes’s Sky Blue Very Unhappy Army, as they will be known, can count themselves unlucky because previous sanctions for breaching FFP have ranged from “basically sod all” to “absolutely sod all”.

Chelsea, also under threat, were initially ordered to make Arsène Wenger their new manager, on the grounds that he never spends any money at all.
However, the West Londoners successfully argued on appeal that the purchase of Fernando Torres for £50 million was “evidence of good faith that they are trying to keep football competitive.”

Mate, where did you get that from? Don't tell me you wrote it yourself, or I will have to kill you ;-)

That is quite the funniest thing I have read on the forum in many a long year. Had me in stitches!

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

Does that same notion of fair market value apply to sponsorship deals? Adidas were paying a reported £13mil a year to Liverpool up until the 11/12 season , when they decided not to renew because:



They finished 8th in the league that year, but then announced a £25mil a year, 6 year deal with Warrior Sports. Comparatively, United who finished second and had won the league the previous year were getting £23mil a year from Nike.

Surely that Warrior deal could be deemed above fair market value?

Not really no as Liverpool are still one of the most marketable teams in the world they probably sell 3x as many shirts as us worldwide
Addidas are hardly going to say much else than that on there behalf

Certainly more than us, but compared to United? Looking at this post: http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012...and-real-madrid-top-global-shirt-sale-charts/, examining average shirt sales over a 5 year period from 07/08-11/12, they sold 810,000 compared to United's 1.4 million. And in the season 11/12 alone, they are estimated at having sold between 500-700,000 shirts compared to United's estimate of over 1.5 million. So in that season Liverpool actually were selling below their previous 5 year average, and they got a new shirt sponsorship deal that was almost double the previous deal?

Or is it a case of United having a drastically undervalued deal with Nike?

Well if you believe what you read in the papers (Arf!!) then the rags deal was stupid on there part for signing such a long contract as there deal is abut to demolish everything. I would say are deal is undervalued now in all fairness

 

[stony]

Have we been banned yet ?

 

[M18CTID]

it would seem so if the Liverpool analogy is correct

in fact, why not do a scum and finish in seventh, get no European football and blow half a billion on a new team

Well if it is, we should gladly accept a break for 12 months and spend £500m on updating the team for the next five years

£200m on Messi would be a nice starting point.

Well that can't happen either because Gill and his cronies intruded FFP into the premiership!

Just give Messi an extra-long contract, say 200 years, and amortise his fee based on that.

 

[aguero93:20]

Terrible, terrible news re FFP from today's Torygraph:

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Mate, where did you get that from? Don't tell me you wrote it yourself, or I will have to kill you ;-)

That is quite the funniest thing I have read on the forum in many a long year. Had me in stitches!

Unbelievably, he got it from the Torygraph.

 

[fbloke]

I hope we get kicked out of the CL as i'm sick and bloody tired of that music now.

 

[aguero93:20]

I hope we get kicked out of the CL as i'm sick and bloody tired of that music now.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qqd6T_A9LY[/youtube]
This one? Yeah, me too.

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

I hope we get kicked out of the CL as i'm sick and bloody tired of that music now.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qqd6T_A9LY[/youtube]
This one? Yeah, me too.

They should use this one now
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNfYYEfc7tw[/youtube]