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

[BringBackSwales]

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im hoping for a statement from MCFC ttoday

Personally I am not - as we know City do not do soundbites, City do not do leaks and City do not fuck about - at the moment City's lawyers will be in negotiations with uefa, and I would imagine playing hardball about what we have done, and what we are going to do. I am happy with the way that City deal with these things

 

[Pam]

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They're creaming themselves on Rag Caf, for some reason.

 

[uweuweuwe]

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How corrupt is this game we love become. Fined because we dont make enough money yet teams get away with not paying tax, in billions of debt etc.

We should tell uefa we could make more money if we didnt have to reduce capacity to fit in bigger advertising boards, or able to sell drinks that arent part of the uefa family.

 

[Fernd_06]

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It's quite funny that a lot of you seem to be missing the bigger picture here. UEFA Champions League is an invite only competition, so you could refuse to pay the fine or boycott the Champions League if you really wanted, but you really think it'll hurt UEFA?

They'll simply invite the next available team into the Champions League and life would move on. You're not important enough to derail the Champions League through boycotting, it would still remain the most prestigious club level competition available and you'd just be the ones missing out - which again, would simply hurt you financially through lack of sponsorships.

For those of you calling it "pocket change", wow, it shows just how ridiculous your views on money in football have become from your sugar daddies looking after you. £50 million is an incredible fine. Money even your club wouldn't want to lose.

Again, City would probably refuse to pay or challenge in a court of law, however I think the fear of no Champions League is a much scarier idea.

Laws apply, whether it is invitation only or not.

FA will put ban on participating for any English team in CL in such case. We are the biggest fidh in league now and FA will have to agree to what we want!

It's hard to argue in a court of law against rulings for an invite only competition. Essentially, City may escape having the fine but UEFA could easily retaliate by withdrawing future invitations. UEFA control the Champions League, not City.

 

[inbetween]

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It's an admission of liability when he's done absolutely nothing wrong so yeah, he might be.

Agreed. But I still don't think he'd be that arsed

Obviously he is or we wouldn't be arguing, I'm sure UEFA would be happy for us just to pay a bigger fine.

He's a mult-billionaire in his own right for a reason. I've met a few well off folk in my time who's wealth is something our Sheikh would find down his sofa but they are all as tight as a butchers arse. There is no way we will just accept this.

 

[Shirley]

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It's quite funny that a lot of you seem to be missing the bigger picture here. UEFA Champions League is an invite only competition, so you could refuse to pay the fine or boycott the Champions League if you really wanted, but you really think it'll hurt UEFA?

They'll simply invite the next available team into the Champions League and life would move on. You're not important enough to derail the Champions League through boycotting, it would still remain the most prestigious club level competition available and you'd just be the ones missing out - which again, would simply hurt you financially through lack of sponsorships.

For those of you calling it "pocket change", wow, it shows just how ridiculous your views on money in football have become from your sugar daddies looking after you. £50 million is an incredible fine. Money even your club wouldn't want to lose.

Again, City would probably refuse to pay or challenge in a court of law, however I think the fear of no Champions League is a much scarier idea.

£50 million, pocket change to the Glazer family.

 

[dario2739]

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Out of interest who exactly are the people who made this decision? Is it a UEFA panel that included Gill for example?
If so I think we can hardly call it an impartial decision, when the parties involved have a vested interest in other teams that would benefit from our sanctions!

 

[IanBishopsHaircut]

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im hoping for a statement from MCFC ttoday

Personally I am not - as we know City do not do soundbites, City do not do leaks and City do not fuck about - at the moment City's lawyers will be in negotiations with uefa, and I would imagine playing hardball about what we have done, and what we are going to do. I am happy with the way that City deal with these things

Agreed..we should continue as always..give the press nothing to grab onto

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

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It's quite funny that a lot of you seem to be missing the bigger picture here. UEFA Champions League is an invite only competition, so you could refuse to pay the fine or boycott the Champions League if you really wanted, but you really think it'll hurt UEFA?

They'll simply invite the next available team into the Champions League and life would move on. You're not important enough to derail the Champions League through boycotting, it would still remain the most prestigious club level competition available and you'd just be the ones missing out - which again, would simply hurt you financially through lack of sponsorships.

For those of you calling it "pocket change", wow, it shows just how ridiculous your views on money in football have become from your sugar daddies looking after you. £50 million is an incredible fine. Money even your club wouldn't want to lose.

Again, City would probably refuse to pay or challenge in a court of law, however I think the fear of no Champions League is a much scarier idea.

£50 million, pocket change to the Glazer family.

As long as it's someone else's pocket.

 

[aguero93:20]

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Matt Cutler ‏@mattycutler · 11m
Some Man City/PSG points of appeal: (1) FFP contravenes EU competition law; (2) sanctions are disproportionate to the offence; ...

Matt Cutler ‏@mattycutler · 10m
... (3) how can UEFA calculate the fair market price of a sponsorship deal? (re: Man City/Etihad and PSG/Qatar Tourism Authority)

Legality of FFP coming right into the Public Domain across a lot of channels this morning, PSG and MCFC gearing up for a challenge?