Re: "City face Euro Expulsion"
I have been posting some news re this on another fans forum as whilst I get increasingly optimistic about our ability to pass FFPR (after this first test) - I still think that fans are largely too over-confident and underestimate the level to which 'FFPR' has been mobilised specifically to stymie CITY and a couple of other clubs.
Just look to the role of David Gill now at UEFA - he simply walks unchallenged into the job of being responsible for implementing FFPR and the issue of licenses to clubs to play in UEFA competitions. (I have not read all the way through this thread so apols if this Gill aspect as already been raised):
The article below is lifted from a nakedly pro-scum source but I think demonstrates the level of mobilisation and continued risk:
"So David Gill has the power to implement the Financial Fair Play rules on behalf of UEFA. Is this a conflict of interest for an existing Manchester United board member?
David Gill has been appointed chair of UEFA's licensing committee. Gill's role is to monitor the implementation of UEFA's new Financial Fair Play rules. This, if it already hasn't, will trigger a European wide debate on how a current Manchester United board member can have such power, power that is a clear conflict of interest - especially if Gill performs the role as the game needs it to be.
Manchester United were, and still are, one of the clubs to advocate a limit on spending. United were supported by the majority of Premier League and continental clubs. One of the challenges for Gill in this role is that there is access to the accounts of domestic and European rivals.
Clubs like Chelsea and Manchester City will be concerned about Gill’s new position, however the fact remains that whoever is in this role will have to hit clubs hard that do not comply with the FFP rules if these rules are to work. Equally to suggest that there is any doubt over the fact that teams such as Chelsea, Manchester City, Paris St. Germain, Monaco and even Bayern Munich are not breaking these rules would be absurd. Barcelona and Real Madird are also on thin ice.
The FFP rules are designed to ensure that clubs grow organically, not via shortcuts financed by the absurdly rich that appear to have little knowledge of how to run a football club; case in point Roman Abromovich who has just appointed his tenth manager since 2004.
The reality is that the accusations of a conflict of interest will increase exponentially as Gill's effectiveness in his new role increases. In truth whether an active Board member or not, Gill's heart will remain with United, and even if Gill resigns from the Board he would still have contact. The fact is Manchester United are an extremely well run club that balances a large leveraged debt and success on the field with a commercial department that keeps the club within FFP rules.
This makes Gill the perfect candidate.<br /><br />-- Sun Feb 02, 2014 6:04 am --<br /><br />Just been doing some more reading re the recent changes to FFPR that allow for a club 'directly affected' to challenge the punishment of a club deemed to have not complied - i.e. possibly preventing UEFA offering CITY some leniency.
Makes me think that we have a real need for the scum not to make 5th and for Arse to definitely be in Top 3. I do not know the Spurs and red and blue Scouse financial positions off the top of my head but it feel that the money they have spent in recent years might mean that they would not comply either (sale of Bale might of course change that - but I think that the money was reinvested - although amortization rules mean they could still be OK).
So I think that we need the scum outside the top 5 to prevent us being vulnerable to a challenge from them - the tribunal being overseen by agent Gill.
Makes me suspicious that these changes have just come in??
