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

[stony]

Does this mean we can celebrate yet?

No ideas

I've booked a slot at the wacky warehouse just in case.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

This is fucking brilliant. It's over. They are going to allow "investment" and that's all we need.

I honestly think that much of this was cooked up in those meetings during that week where the announcement of our fine was delayed and delayed and delayed. I reckon Khaldoon and Soriano have ultimately played hardball here and pulled it off.

Even some of the language used by both parties at the time suggested that. UEFA made bizarre comments like "FFP has been a success", Khaldoon was bullish.

It can only be one of three things I can see pal...

1) Khaldoon's call for a ten-year monitoring period which will allow investors to prove their long-term commitments, and an addressing of clubs in severe debt.

2) Investment which is not a loan, which has to be converted to equity.

3) A sum equal to the window spend that is then held in Escrow by Uefa to ensure the club can sustain itself over an agreed period.

Yeah, I'd make you right. Win/win/win for Sheikh Mansour. The cost being the £19m fine we actually paid and a year or two's "hump". The payoff being a clear run for MCFC to do what they want. If that's the deal done then we've kept UEFA (and of course our sponsors) onside by allowing them a little leeway.

UEFA bit off more than they could chew taking on the Oil Barons. Platini's had to juggle like mad here I sense. i honestly could smell this in the air that week we got fined.

 

[oakiecokie]

I wish it was! Or at least Bale and Pogba anyway.
Why are we 'only' going for the likes of Firmino & De Bruyne if FFP is no longer an issue?

Who says we are ?? The media ?? Enough said.The cockwombles of the earth.

Especially those MUEN c**ts.

Oi !! Leave my brother SB out of this. ;)

 

[mancity dan]

Who says we are ?? The media ?? Enough said.The cockwombles of the earth.

Especially those MUEN c**ts.

Oi !! Leave my brother SB out of this. ;)

SB is the only good journalist there.

Robson on the other hand is a twunt.

 

[fbloke]

This might not go down well here but I for one congratulate Platini.

I've said this previously on other FFP threads and I dont think people got it TBH.

Platini is a VERY sharp operator and one who has negotiated a path through the treacherous waters of European football politics to get to the very top. Once he got there he saw for himself the power of the G14 (as was) and I think he saw that they needed to have their wings clipped.

He gave them FFP, allowed them to formulate it, rubber stamp it and consistently made it clear who had asked for it, even naming names.

He then gives several interviews (including the famous Samuel one) which were so extraordinary as to hole the FFP ship
below the water.

He then continued to allow the world to know that it was the old elite who wanted this.

When they changed their minds he again made it crystal clear why FFP had to change.

Platini has played a blinder.

I've said it before and I stand by it - Platini was the enemy within for FFP and h let the 'big' clubs neuter themselves.

Bravo!

 

[Didsbury Dave]

This might not go down well here but I for one congratulate Platini.

I've said this previously on other FFP threads and I dont think people got it TBH.

Platini is a VERY sharp operator and one who has negotiated a path through the treacherous waters of European football politics to get to the very top. Once he got there he saw for himself the power of the G14 (as was) and I think he saw that they needed to have their wings clipped.

He gave them FFP, allowed them to formulate it, rubber stamp it and consistently made it clear who had asked for it, even naming names.

He then gives several interviews (including the famous Samuel one) which were so extraordinary as to hole the FFP ship
below the water.

He then continued to allow the world to know that it was the old elite who wanted this.

When they changed their minds he again made it crystal clear why FFP had to change.

Platini has played a blinder.

I've said it before and I stand by it - Platini was the enemy within for FFP and h let the 'big' clubs neuter themselves.

Bravo!

Haha. Nice theory, FBloke. Maybe the truth will out one day. Hope you are well mate.

 

[City Raider]

Re: City & FFP (continued)

This might not go down well here but I for one congratulate Platini.

I've said this previously on other FFP threads and I dont think people got it TBH.

Platini is a VERY sharp operator and one who has negotiated a path through the treacherous waters of European football politics to get to the very top. Once he got there he saw for himself the power of the G14 (as was) and I think he saw that they needed to have their wings clipped.

He gave them FFP, allowed them to formulate it, rubber stamp it and consistently made it clear who had asked for it, even naming names.

He then gives several interviews (including the famous Samuel one) which were so extraordinary as to hole the FFP ship
below the water.

He then continued to allow the world to know that it was the old elite who wanted this.

When they changed their minds he again made it crystal clear why FFP had to change.

Platini has played a blinder.

I've said it before and I stand by it - Platini was the enemy within for FFP and h let the 'big' clubs neuter themselves.

Bravo!

very machiavellian! can't see it though, he's not that good an actor is he? oscar for samuel interview if so

 

[fbloke]

This might not go down well here but I for one congratulate Platini.

I've said this previously on other FFP threads and I dont think people got it TBH.

Platini is a VERY sharp operator and one who has negotiated a path through the treacherous waters of European football politics to get to the very top. Once he got there he saw for himself the power of the G14 (as was) and I think he saw that they needed to have their wings clipped.

He gave them FFP, allowed them to formulate it, rubber stamp it and consistently made it clear who had asked for it, even naming names.

He then gives several interviews (including the famous Samuel one) which were so extraordinary as to hole the FFP ship
below the water.

He then continued to allow the world to know that it was the old elite who wanted this.

When they changed their minds he again made it crystal clear why FFP had to change.

Platini has played a blinder.

I've said it before and I stand by it - Platini was the enemy within for FFP and h let the 'big' clubs neuter themselves.

Bravo!

Haha. Nice theory, FBloke. Maybe the truth will out one day. Hope you are well mate.

You KNOW it makes sense. He has, in one super cool move, taken the power away from the clubs. Beautiful, simply beautiful.

 

[tonea2003]

This might not go down well here but I for one congratulate Platini.

I've said this previously on other FFP threads and I dont think people got it TBH.

Platini is a VERY sharp operator and one who has negotiated a path through the treacherous waters of European football politics to get to the very top. Once he got there he saw for himself the power of the G14 (as was) and I think he saw that they needed to have their wings clipped.

He gave them FFP, allowed them to formulate it, rubber stamp it and consistently made it clear who had asked for it, even naming names.

He then gives several interviews (including the famous Samuel one) which were so extraordinary as to hole the FFP ship
below the water.

He then continued to allow the world to know that it was the old elite who wanted this.

When they changed their minds he again made it crystal clear why FFP had to change.

Platini has played a blinder.

I've said it before and I stand by it - Platini was the enemy within for FFP and h let the 'big' clubs neuter themselves.

Bravo!

Haha. Nice theory, FBloke. Maybe the truth will out one day. Hope you are well mate.

You KNOW it makes sense. He has, in one super cool move, taken the power away from the clubs. Beautiful, simply beautiful.

including ours?

 

[Petrovs left peg]

This might not go down well here but I for one congratulate Platini.

I've said this previously on other FFP threads and I dont think people got it TBH.

Platini is a VERY sharp operator and one who has negotiated a path through the treacherous waters of European football politics to get to the very top. Once he got there he saw for himself the power of the G14 (as was) and I think he saw that they needed to have their wings clipped.

He gave them FFP, allowed them to formulate it, rubber stamp it and consistently made it clear who had asked for it, even naming names.

He then gives several interviews (including the famous Samuel one) which were so extraordinary as to hole the FFP ship
below the water.

He then continued to allow the world to know that it was the old elite who wanted this.

When they changed their minds he again made it crystal clear why FFP had to change.

Platini has played a blinder.

I've said it before and I stand by it - Platini was the enemy within for FFP and h let the 'big' clubs neuter themselves.

Bravo!

Like your theory, but I'm not buying it.
Platini is a twat of the highest order and thick as fuck. He is interested in lining his own pockets, just like Blatter.
He got lucky that the Italian clubs have changed their tunes and that City chose to "take a pinch".
He'll come out of it looking good but I think you give him far too much credit when he deserves none at all..