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

[andyhinch]

So as soon as Barca lose a player and Real Madrid can't afford their next shiny new toy it's not fair and someone isn't playing by the rules.

Fuck em!!!

Well they're not the type of clubs that would influence their domestic league to benefit themselves ;-)
#moralhighground

 

[Manchester_lalala]

I take it back:

£90m for bale
£80m for Ronaldo
£60m for kaka
£50m for zidane

Our highest transfer fee is de bruyne at £57m, they're a bunch of hypocritical wankers.

 

[MCFC1993]

Haha bitter bastards. I guess the state financing of Real Madrid for most of their existence has been perfectly above board?

Spanish League knows it could be in trouble soon. Griezmann will leave next summer, Ronaldo and Messi aren't getting any younger, Messi hasn't signed a new contract and City & PSG are now viable destinations for top top players. Losing their assets, so now they're kicking and screaming like little kids.

 

[Ric]

It's more than a bit rich for La Liga to complain about "state aid distorting competition". Don't think we have anything to fear over any Abu Dhabi sponsorships though. The Etihad deal is well below market value now anyway.

 

[Wanchope n me Dickov]

BBC saying "psg and city have both spent hundreds of millions this summer"

our bet spend far less than psg and the rags

snide reporting. glad I don't pay for a tv licence these days. sunk to the depths of the SUN newspaper.

 

[SiMCFC]

Anyone who seriously thinks this is the doing of La Liga or the Spanish FA need to look at the bigger picture as the whingers are much closer to home, would look pretty shit if our own FA were asking UEFA to investigate wouldn't it, but i'm quite positive that is where the complaint will be from, Gill is a poisonous bastard and won't mind others fighting for him when they have the backing of teams like Arsenal, Rags, Liverpool, Spurs etc to push for the same.

 

[ninjamonkey]

If La Liga were a football forum they'd be having the biggest meltdown in history right now. First they throw their toys out of the pram because PSG paid the buyout clause on a star player and now they're just firing shots at anybody, we didn't even purchase anybody from their league other than Danilo for what is pennies in comparison to what some of players teams from la Liga have brought in. Our record is £54 for KDB, Madrid have smashed that multiple times over the years, Barcelona too who have just spent comfortably more than double that for a kid that scored just 6 goals last season. I'm almost embarrassed for them at this stage and i don't think they're finished with their little meltdown yet either.

 

[HelloCity]

A lot of the comments to the stories on Twitter about this are actually laughing at La Liga rather than City.

Interesting turn around.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

It's more than a bit rich for La Liga to complain about "state aid distorting competition". Don't think we have anything to fear over any Abu Dhabi sponsorships though. The Etihad deal is well below market value now anyway.

• We've been financially self-sufficient for 3 years.
• The Etihad deal is now well under market value. If we changed to, say, Nissan, we'd get double what we now get from Etihad.
• Our summer dealings effectively balanced out from an FFP point of view. Wages & amortisation of players going out at least matched that of the players coming in and may even have been slightly more, meaning we're up on the summer.

 

[The slaughtered lamb]

I trust we'll be defended to the hilt by the FA/premier league and our media...