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

[spacecadet]

Re: "City face Euro Expulsion"

Thought God's own posted the second highest income in England, maybe wrong?

 

[Blue Haze]

Re:

Keith, can you explain to
Me why it contravenes EU law?

It is constructively a salary cap, which is banned under EU law. One of the EU's goals is to facilitate the free flow of capital; restricting that can run afoul of EU regulations.

 

[Cobwebcat]

Re: "City face Euro Expulsion"

The pressure on UEFA is going to be huge now whatever happens.....it's of their own making

Either us or our rivals are not going to be happy.

We will have to get used to this until it either blows over or DuPont wins his case against FFP which I think he might.

It's all politics.

 

[Damocles]

Re:

Keith, can you explain to
Me why it contravenes EU law?

Restriction of trade?

It doesn't matter anyway, there's absolutely no way in hell that UEFA would kick us out of the Champions League. They're petrified already of people mutinying and starting a rival competition which is why everybody will flap and flap and flap and eventually do nothing.

Think how quickly John Henry's tune will change if we announced a rival European competition to which Liverpool are invited and the prize money was £200m

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Re:

Keith, can you explain to
Me why it contravenes EU law?

In short, because it restricts competition. I believe that legal opinion given to our owners supports this.

 

[Forzacitizens]

Re: "City face Euro Expulsion"

Keith, can you explain to
Me why it contravenes EU law?

It is constructively a salary cap, which is banned under EU law. One of the EU's goals is to facilitate the free flow of capital; restricting that can run afoul of EU regulations.

Thanks mate but I wouldn't trust the eu courts

 

[jay laruja]

Re: "City face Euro Expulsion"

I hate how teams do underhanded crap just because they can't beat a team in the pitch. The reasons to give mou's team a proper mauling just keeps piling up.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Re: Re:

Keith, can you explain to
Me why it contravenes EU law?

Restriction of trade?

It doesn't matter anyway, there's absolutely no way in hell that UEFA would kick us out of the Champions League. They're petrified already of people mutinying and starting a rival competition which is why everybody will flap and flap and flap and eventually do nothing.

Think how quickly John Henry's tune will change if we announced a rival European competition to which Liverpool are invited and the prize money was £200m

Spot on. UEFA are well aware we could destroy the CL in an instant.

 

[S04]

Re: "City face Euro Expulsion"

Just bollox unless Uefa comes up with a "market value estimate" on those IP-rights..

 

[bluemonkey71]

Re: "City face Euro Expulsion"

Those 3 teams can get fucked. I know more about it than Ayre for starters and I'm a fuckwitt.