Especially when we play in the biggest viewed League in world football....an advertisers or sponsors dreamkennycar said:This stuck out in the guardian article:
Well that's not bloody fair. How have they deemed that a backdated PSG sponsorship with no logo on the shirt is way over twice as valuable as Etihads sponsorship of us?Abu Dhabi-owned City have a £40m-a-year deal with Etihad Airways, while Qatar-owned PSG have a backdated deal with the Qatar Tourist Authority worth up to €200m (£165m) a year.
The French newspaper L'Equipe has reported that Uefa has ruled the QTA deal should be valued at only half that sum.
It depends, are the cops outside the door with sniffer dogs? If so then it wasn't wasted.Goo said:Level with me guys... Have my pants just been shat for no reason?
moz said:What happens if we lose in court?
SJT said:What about RPF - 'Regional population fair-play'? or OTC - 'Overpriced ticket costs' - what a load of Bollocks!
bitter men who can't stand City taking over as a football super-power.
United Liverpool and Arsenal - will benefit from this bollocks.
blueinsa said:Matty said:blueinsa said:Fucking too right it is.
Still thin UEFA know what they are doing here and that we will get it thrown out of court and they can then go to the rags etc and say we tried blah blah blah.
Im just not even remotely worried by this.
But if this gets thrown out in the courts then that's FFP dead, a complete non entity. I can't see UEFA being happy with that. I really don't understand what UEFA are doing here, they must have known that City weren't going to accept a punishment of this magnitude. That opens it up to the "panel" who no doubt will be UEFA lackys who will just rubber stamp the original punishment, and then CAS. UEFA have a terrible record at CAS and lose far more often than they win.
I can only assume this is shear arrogance from UEFA, they seem to be the only ones who actually believe their regulations would stand up to any form of professional critique.
Im of the opinion that UEFA couldn't give a flying fuck if its the end of FFPR.
What started as a noble and right thing got piggybacked by the greedy usual few for there own ends and its now turned into something that anyone with half a brain knows is unworkable.
I'm confused. It was reported as being a £350 million deal, why has everybody suddenly elevated it to £400 million?Matty said:Prestwich_Blue said:He's claiming the Etihad deal is the problem when it's far more likely the sale of IP rights that is causing the issue.adrianr said:An easy guess. I bet he doesn't have a clue.
I just don't see how legally the Etihad deal can have anything to do with this. Even if I accept (which I don't based upon the measures they have to apply) that the Etihad deal actually IS a related party one, the value of said deal is quite clearly comparable with other deals out there already. £400m over 10 years, for shirt, stadium and campus rights. Remind me how much United are getting from Chrysler for just the shirts again? Of from DHL this season for their fucking training kit for christs sake!
Any attempt by UEFA to deem the Etihad deal a related party one, and then to reduce the value of it, would be laughed out of any court in about 3 seconds.
It simply has to be the Intellectual Property items, and more likely the third party one as opposed to the MYCFC/MCWFC one.
Matty said:blueinsa said:inbetween said:@OliverKayTimes · 2h
About to get very ugly between #MCFC and Uefa re FFP. City so far rejecting proposed €60m fine (over 3 yrs) & reduction of Champs Lge squad
Fucking too right it is.
Still thin UEFA know what they are doing here and that we will get it thrown out of court and they can then go to the rags etc and say we tried blah blah blah.
Im just not even remotely worried by this.
But if this gets thrown out in the courts then that's FFP dead, a complete non entity. I can't see UEFA being happy with that. I really don't understand what UEFA are doing here, they must have known that City weren't going to accept a punishment of this magnitude. That opens it up to the "panel" who no doubt will be UEFA lackys who will just rubber stamp the original punishment, and then CAS. UEFA have a terrible record at CAS and lose far more often than they win.
I can only assume this is shear arrogance from UEFA, they seem to be the only ones who actually believe their regulations would stand up to any form of professional critique.
inbetween said:@OliverKayTimes · 2h
About to get very ugly between #MCFC and Uefa re FFP. City so far rejecting proposed €60m fine (over 3 yrs) & reduction of Champs Lge squad