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

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

Re: City & FFP (continued)

FFP is to keep the elite clubs in the elite competitions and hopefully more clubs will see this.

We have a fantastic owner who as redeveloped a part of MCR which was run down by a lack of funding from the Government.

We have created a youth academy which is the best in the UK if not Europe and we are being punished.

Only in football

 

[bluemoon32]

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Paul McCarthy sticking up bigtime for City re the title run in and FFP on SSN paper review...

am sniffing a media turn in our favour recently and gobsmacked! What's going on or is it a battle with Platini they want....

The UK media detest Platini, this is their chance to crucify him and they'll back us in order to get to him.
They don't really give a shit about our club as long as they can use us as ammunition against Platini and UEFA.

 

[welsh_andy]

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we have to challenge, accepting it will mean saying twas a fair cop, bollocks to them, i rather someone stand up to these fuckers, all those included should file a class action on restriction of trade, because at end of the day they are restricting those affected trade

 

[yeah whatever !!]

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am sniffing a media turn in our favour recently and gobsmacked! What's going on or is it a battle with Platini they want....

I think the media are finally realising that this FFP farce is big news..

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He even said that the glaziers are the ones who should be investigated...

Mansour puts into City..The Glazers take out from United.

Damn right they should be investigated fella..

No, nothing like it. They just hate the French more than they hate us.

Theres that. :)

 

[sir baconface]

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The UK media detest Platini, this is their chance to crucify him and they'll back us in order to get to him.
They don't really give a shit about our club as long as they can use us as ammunition against Platini and UEFA.

Conflict often brings strange bedfellows together.

 

[avoidconfusion]

Re: City & FFP (continued)

So the £50m fine, or whatever the fine will be, does not count against our "next" FFP evaluation in a year's time, does it?
Can someone confirm this please?

 

[bluesoup]

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Impressed with Oliver Holt's article today about FFP, City and the academy. All stuff we say on here that usually gets little coverage.

 

[Oystercatcher28]

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Platini gives: http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/50238/Platini-endorses-Ronaldo-pursuit

Platinia takes: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-Platini-has-talked-himself-into-trouble.html

Platini hates: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/michel-platinis-shown-he-is-racist-and-fa-378287

Did he have a bad holiday in Butlins? http://www.naturalhattrick.com/2009/02/07/five-reasons-why-platini-hates-english-football/

Even the drunk had a go at him: http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/new...UEFA-for-being-anti-English-article32197.html

 

[sir baconface]

Re: City & FFP (continued)

So the £50m fine, or whatever the fine will be, does not count against our "next" FFP evaluation in a year's time, does it?
Can someone confirm this please?

Differing interpretations have appeared in the thread and in associated press articles. So we don't know for sure.

 

[Dubai Blue]

Re: City & FFP (continued)

IF the punishment is true, then UEFA have left City with no possible option but to go down the legal route. I don't care how rich Sheikh Mansour is; £50m is a huge amount of money and he isn't in the habit of just blindly chucking that sort of cash around to appease a bunch of corrupt, lying bastards in Switzerland.

We were repeatedly assured that as long as we were moving in the right direction towards compliance then there wouldn't be any major issue. People like Sheikh Mansour don't appreciate being blatantly misled like that and I'm certain he will challenge this.

FFP so clearly contravenes EU law that I'm amazed UEFA have been so aggressive in their stance. The whole concept relies on the 'offending' clubs jumping on board with it, because once it is challenged in the courts the whole thing will unravel.

I'm sure City would have accepted a £10m fine now with £40m suspended against compliance within 2 years as that would be a sensible approach to the issue. But £50m is all stick and no carrot, and it leaves City with very little choice but to take this to the top and blow it wide open.