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

[Silva Citizen]

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ITS SORTED !!!!!!

MANCHESTER City have offered two players to UEFA as office administrators, in payment for their £49m fine.

Footballers Fernandinho and Jesus Navas, who would be given lifelong photocopying duties at UEFA’s headquarters in Switzerland, are thought to oppose the move which would damage their international careers.
The pair would join Edinson Cavani of Paris Saint Germain, who was also handed over to UEFA to clear a fine and is currently working as a car park attendant.
Football blogger Joseph Turner said: “Football clubs increasingly see their players as cash assets and find them useful in settling urgent bills.
“David Moyes’s severance settlement actually includes Rafael da Silva, and David Healy is still held by the Inland Revenue in Scotland in lieu of unpaid tax.
“Though following Hernan Crespo’s landmark lawsuit against Chelsea, players can no longer be bisected to pay two separate debts. I believe he’s still negotiating to get his legs back from Lazio.”
The practice is even beginning to be used in the lower leagues, with QPR manager Harry Redknapp admitting this week that striker Bobby Zamora was taken away by bailiffs as payment for an unpaid gas bill of £439.
Redknapp said: “To be fair, he was only part payment. We still owe about £200.”

 

[newenglandblue]

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Fair play to Quinn for those comments on Sky

 

[Cobwebcat]

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Great speech from Niall. Summed everything up perfectly.

 

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[chris63]

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... er-3505526

 

[goalmole]

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/manchester-city-deserve-much-better-3505526

Whatever the downside of this FFP, it seems to have bought us a boatload of friends.
Bet Platini didn't reckon on that, did he.

 

[Stoned Rose]

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ITS SORTED !!!!!!

MANCHESTER City have offered two players to UEFA as office administrators, in payment for their £49m fine.

Footballers Fernandinho and Jesus Navas, who would be given lifelong photocopying duties at UEFA’s headquarters in Switzerland, are thought to oppose the move which would damage their international careers.
The pair would join Edinson Cavani of Paris Saint Germain, who was also handed over to UEFA to clear a fine and is currently working as a car park attendant.
Football blogger Joseph Turner said: “Football clubs increasingly see their players as cash assets and find them useful in settling urgent bills.
“David Moyes’s severance settlement actually includes Rafael da Silva, and David Healy is still held by the Inland Revenue in Scotland in lieu of unpaid tax.
“Though following Hernan Crespo’s landmark lawsuit against Chelsea, players can no longer be bisected to pay two separate debts. I believe he’s still negotiating to get his legs back from Lazio.”
The practice is even beginning to be used in the lower leagues, with QPR manager Harry Redknapp admitting this week that striker Bobby Zamora was taken away by bailiffs as payment for an unpaid gas bill of £439.
Redknapp said: “To be fair, he was only part payment. We still owe about £200.”

Zamora :)

 

[EalingBlue2]

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Lets just say what most of us on here believe to be true, clubs colluding to conspire against us regarding ffp, media bias etc. City have said nothing for 6 years, could be for a reason. Maybe, just maybe city have thought the same thing as us and have been gathering evidence for those 6 years should they ever need it. It seems we are making a stance against uefa, the media has changed practically overnight, City can afford the beest investigators in the world.Mmmmmm. Now that would be seismic.

Fwiw. This is my opinion.
Sheikh Mansour and his group have a different agenda to mere fans such as ourselves. The way they have played FFP right from the beginning has been more in a spirit of co operation rather than confrontation. I suspect that the owners rather like the idea of FFP.
If we think about it rationally, what better way for the Sheikh's investment to be protected in perpetuity. The only stumbling block to this strategy would seem to be whether we can get over the drawbridge before it is pulled up.
I think the owners calculated that we would pass FFP in it's initial stages giving our revenue time to catch up. Once that happened then FFP would become irrelevant and MCFC could then consolidate and improve it's hold as one of the richest and most successful clubs going forward.
This is still a valid and viable strategy from a purely business point of view. This setback will be seen merely as a blip, with the strategy only being delayed and not necessarily being derailed. The commercial team will have to work harder than was originally envisaged but once all the revenue streams that are in the pipeline come to fruition then MCFC as a business should be able to progress the project as originally envisaged with having the added benefit of MCFC being inocculated against other rich owners buying other clubs to threaten the investment made by the Sheikh.
This scenario may be anathema to us fans but i have suspected this to be the real strategy of MCFC and i still hold by that view. It is for this reason that i suspect MCFC will not be challenging FFP in the courts anytime soon.

Spot on

 

[jrb]

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On a day when every journo and media outlet has been on our side regarding FFPR, surprise, surprise, Patrick Barclay of the *London Evening Standard*, decides City deserves the punishment.

I've seen him on Sunday Supplement on numerous occasions, and he really is the old skool, Fergie, arse licking ****, that he portrays.

Patrick Barclay: Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour knew the FFP rules so must accept punishment


If you put a 30mph limit on a stretch of road, and augment the clear signage with an intensive publicity campaign and then, having identified a few drivers who insist on blatantly exceeding it with 60mph dashes, sit them down and offer help in curbing the habit, and still they indulge in it, what are you supposed to do next? Abolish any speed limit, at whatever cost to pedestrians and the other road users who asked for it in the first place?

Manchester City’s posture in apparently opposing the heavy fine — estimated at between £39million and £49m — and Champions League squad restrictions imposed for a massive breach of the Financial Fair Play regulations is as ridiculous as some of the spending on players that caused them to exceed UEFA’s limit.

Sheikh Mansour and his advisers have known about FFP since they took over the club from Thaksin Shinawatra in 2008. They knew about it when they bought David Silva and Yaya Toure and didn’t let it prevent them from trying to outbid Manchester United for Robin van Persie in the middle of the FFP assessment period, even though they were already overpaying two other former Arsenal players, Gael Clichy and Samir Nasri.

While you can say what you like about FFP and what it might do for the dream factor in football — not as much harm as some claim but that’s an argument for another time — it exists and it’s constitutional, not a wild idea that UEFA president Michel Platini has been able to impose single-handedly.

It is also designed to encourage building from the roots up and City need no instruction in this, having embraced the principle enshrined in the exemptions for infrastructure and youth development by building an education complex of the highest standard. So they deserve the sort of success that should be confirmed on Sunday. But they cannot be above football’s international law.

 

[birchwoodgingerste]

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On a day when every journo and media outlet has been on our side regarding FFPR, surprise, surprise, Patrick Barclay of the *London Evening Standard*, decides City deserves the punishment.

I've seen him on Sunday Supplement on numerous occasions, and he really is the old skool, Fergie, arse licking ****, that he portrays.

Patrick Barclay: Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour knew the FFP rules so must accept punishment


If you put a 30mph limit on a stretch of road, and augment the clear signage with an intensive publicity campaign and then, having identified a few drivers who insist on blatantly exceeding it with 60mph dashes, sit them down and offer help in curbing the habit, and still they indulge in it, what are you supposed to do next? Abolish any speed limit, at whatever cost to pedestrians and the other road users who asked for it in the first place?

Manchester City’s posture in apparently opposing the heavy fine — estimated at between £39million and £49m — and Champions League squad restrictions imposed for a massive breach of the Financial Fair Play regulations is as ridiculous as some of the spending on players that caused them to exceed UEFA’s limit.

Sheikh Mansour and his advisers have known about FFP since they took over the club from Thaksin Shinawatra in 2008. They knew about it when they bought David Silva and Yaya Toure and didn’t let it prevent them from trying to outbid Manchester United for Robin van Persie in the middle of the FFP assessment period, even though they were already overpaying two other former Arsenal players, Gael Clichy and Samir Nasri.

While you can say what you like about FFP and what it might do for the dream factor in football — not as much harm as some claim but that’s an argument for another time — it exists and it’s constitutional, not a wild idea that UEFA president Michel Platini has been able to impose single-handedly.

It is also designed to encourage building from the roots up and City need no instruction in this, having embraced the principle enshrined in the exemptions for infrastructure and youth development by building an education complex of the highest standard. So they deserve the sort of success that should be confirmed on Sunday. But they cannot be above football’s international law.

Read it before rag loving scum !