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

[blue b4 the moon]

Fucking hell Conn has woken up....where's his article on FCUM?

 

[aguero93:20]

Fucking hell Conn has woken up....where's his article on FCUM?

I'm sure he's getting around to writing it.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I'm sure he's getting around to writing it.

Dare I say 'not in my lifetime' ? ;)

 

[Metalartin]

Any rag with a brain cell would know that Pogba isn't up to what they paid for him. He turns up when its Stoke and the rest of the shite and when they play anybody half decent he goes missing just like last nigh its another game of Where's Wally in terms of his performance. Whether or not Pep could have got him playing I think that we dodged one there.

That's a good point Pep could improve his game but that looks like a mentality issue, I think Pep can work on that too to an extent with the younger players but past a certain age it's much harder to change some just have it and some don't.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/01/31/manchester-city-won-battle-uefa-keep-spending-big/

Wallace is on the Sky hacks show this weekend, along with Cross and Liew of the Independent.

 

[Metalartin]

I've just seen this tweet from the other day, expect rags to recycle it as it makes us look really bad(probably his real objective). So correct me if I'm wrong but are we looking at some sort of league points against transfer balance(in-goings and out-goings) graph since 2008? Isn't that useless for a club who's happy to break even while they rise to the top rather than an owner who milks profits first chance he/she gets? We're not a selling club.

Gareth‏ @Pebs10 Jan 30 > Replying to @jburnmurdoch
How are City still within the financial fair play rules?

John Burn-Murdoch‏Verified account @jburnmurdoch Jan 30
Huge revenues. As is the case with other clubs backed by billionnaires, investors are careful to make sure funds end up in places that can be counted on balance sheet as legit operating revenue, and therefore offset huge outlay on playing/coaching staff when it comes to FFP.

He claims no bias but even if the "since 2008" angle wasn't enough this explanation gives him away for me, is having the highest broadcasting income not a good enough reason(knock on effect) that our revenue from sponsors and elsewhere is growing? Instead he makes vague claims that he cannot begin to back up like it's nothing.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

so adjusted for magical inflation, we've somehow spent 1.5bn Euros in 10 years, whilst the rags, who've just committed to spending £180m on one player without a transfer fee, and spent £323m just on Pogba, Lukaku, Di Maria, Martial and Mata, somehow spend less than a billion. Lolz.

 

[Metalartin]

so adjusted for magical inflation, we've somehow spent 1.5bn Euros in 10 years, whilst the rags, who've just committed to spending £180m on one player without a transfer fee, and spent £323m just on Pogba, Lukaku, Di Maria, Martial and Mata, somehow spend less than a billion. Lolz.

Won't stop them recycling it even if they don't understand it, you know what the rags are like.

What makes me laugh is all these fans of clubs moaning about prices of players while City are yet to break the £60m mark on a single transfer as Pep rightly pointed out yet it's our fault Utd spent £100m+ overall on Pogba, £90m with add-ons on Lukaku and Liverpool spent £75m on a CB? I also have a sneaking suspicion Arsenal tried as hard as they could to keep Aubameyang's fee down near Laporte's release clause for fear of not having room to talk anymore.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I think it would look a bit different if it was the last 6 or 7 years (Utd won in 2009 with 90 pts, and City only got 50 that season).
Does he provide an indication of how the inflation has been applied?

 

[Metalartin]

I think it would look a bit different if it was the last 6 or 7 years (Utd won in 2009 with 90 pts, and City only got 50 that season).
Does he provide an indication of how the inflation has been applied?

Exactly, if it's not aimed at City as he claims, then why since 2008? A more telling comparison would be the first 5 years since 2008 vs the last 5 years as the first 5 were the trickiest(catching up) and the last 5 shows how far we've come. He's not really interested in where we are heading though.

He does explain the inflation yes:

Inflation calculated from annual changes in total revenues of 20 richest clubs per Deloitte Money League. Why? It tracks rise in fees very well, but is less volatile / sensitive to outliers like Neymar