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

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rather than a boycott and playing on the lawyers post earlier. the great incentive against this is the idea of fan fair play using their own term. If you are looking for mid size hatch back look to an A3 or Astra rather than a focus. When you buy it send your receipt to Ford stating their support of corruption as the reason. Same when buying a TV etc buy a samsung or other equilivant. Remember non of the uefa sponsors are unique and very big but all have equal rivals.

Dont just avoid the sponsors, when you purchase a rival product take 30 secs to actually inform them of how you made the choice. Bear in mind uefa sponsorship is best on best guess figures no company can really substantiate what value it has. However a few thousand notifications of people going else with a defined reason of objection to their marketing will. Take Sony they get approx 1500 customer care queries a week. Imagine them getting 10000 queires of people saying i bought a TV from XXXX or an xbox over the ps 4 because you are supporting a corrupt organisation.

Nissan getting a 1000 emails saying i was going to by a micra but look a brought a panda because you are supporting a bunch of XXXX

etc

UEFA needs sponsorship the best way for fans to hurt them is through sponsorship and let the board members discern the tangible to the totally untangible association to uefa brings

 

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Let's stop buying beer at CL games.

Errr, wait a minute, you can't anyway.

Another f***ing stupid rule, for UEFA's invite only competition.

 

[TrueBlue1705]

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Can't wait for FFP to go tits up and see UEFA in deep sh*t ...

 

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MEN.

City fans urged to challenge FFP by top lawyer

May 19, 2014 22:30
By Stuart Brennan

And Belgian lawyer Jean-Louis Dupont says the UEFA ruling would be thrown out in a law court and believes the Blues fans should fight their punishment.

Manchester City should fight their FFP punishment in the courts, according to a top lawyer.

Belgian lawyer Jean-Louis Dupont has urged City fans – and supporters of other clubs hit by the penalties - to join the action he is pursuing through the European courts on behalf of an Italian football agent.

Dupont is the man who turned the world of football upside down by winning a case on behalf of footballer Jean-Marc Bosman to allow players to move on free transfers at the end of their contracts.

City have been hit with a £49million fine, and are subject to a wage and transfer cap and a restriction to a 21-man squad for next season’s Champions League.

Dupont says the Uefa rules miss their target: “FFP sounds good,,” he said. “Who wouldn’t support good governance and fairness of the game? But when you scratch the surface, the break-even rule is no more than a prohibition to invest.

“Uefa prohibits the owner of a club to spend his own money in the club, at least to buy players, in order to make it grow and to challenge the established top dogs.

“Today, with this rule, Roman Abramovich could not build his Chelsea project and turn it into one of Europe’s top clubs.

“In other words, the rule ossifies the market structure. The few top European clubs will remain the same forever -- there will be no new kid in town.”

Dupont also argues that the squad restrictions they have placed on City and other clubs contravene European labour laws.

“The whole Uefa home grown player system violates EU law,” he said.

“This rule violates free movement of workers and harms free competition without solid justification.

“In other words, if any club or player challenges this rule tomorrow in court, the judge -- based on EU law -- will have no choice but to declare this Uefa rule null and void.”

Dupont said fans, and sponsors, could join his action and block the rules: “They could even ask the Brussels judge to stay the execution of the Uefa FFP regulation -- and of the sanctions based on it - until he renders his judgment on the merits.

Just emailed Mr Dupont to him to ask how we do this and the process. Got a reply when I mailed him last year so will keep you updated. I am happy to do some leg work on this one. If we can get it going and give Uefa and Gill a bloody nose it would be fun.

 

[DiscoSteve]

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46,000 members - each bungs a tenner in, that's a £460,000 pound fighting fund - or about 12 days work for Yaya ... :-(

 

[hello]

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MEN.

City fans urged to challenge FFP by top lawyer

May 19, 2014 22:30
By Stuart Brennan

And Belgian lawyer Jean-Louis Dupont says the UEFA ruling would be thrown out in a law court and believes the Blues fans should fight their punishment.

Manchester City should fight their FFP punishment in the courts, according to a top lawyer.

Belgian lawyer Jean-Louis Dupont has urged City fans – and supporters of other clubs hit by the penalties - to join the action he is pursuing through the European courts on behalf of an Italian football agent.

Dupont is the man who turned the world of football upside down by winning a case on behalf of footballer Jean-Marc Bosman to allow players to move on free transfers at the end of their contracts.

City have been hit with a £49million fine, and are subject to a wage and transfer cap and a restriction to a 21-man squad for next season’s Champions League.

Dupont says the Uefa rules miss their target: “FFP sounds good,,” he said. “Who wouldn’t support good governance and fairness of the game? But when you scratch the surface, the break-even rule is no more than a prohibition to invest.

“Uefa prohibits the owner of a club to spend his own money in the club, at least to buy players, in order to make it grow and to challenge the established top dogs.

“Today, with this rule, Roman Abramovich could not build his Chelsea project and turn it into one of Europe’s top clubs.

“In other words, the rule ossifies the market structure. The few top European clubs will remain the same forever -- there will be no new kid in town.”

Dupont also argues that the squad restrictions they have placed on City and other clubs contravene European labour laws.

“The whole Uefa home grown player system violates EU law,” he said.

“This rule violates free movement of workers and harms free competition without solid justification.

“In other words, if any club or player challenges this rule tomorrow in court, the judge -- based on EU law -- will have no choice but to declare this Uefa rule null and void.”

Dupont said fans, and sponsors, could join his action and block the rules: “They could even ask the Brussels judge to stay the execution of the Uefa FFP regulation -- and of the sanctions based on it - until he renders his judgment on the merits.

Just emailed Mr Dupont to him to ask how we do this and the process. Got a reply when I mailed him last year so will keep you updated. I am happy to do some leg work on this one. If we can get it going and give Uefa and Gill a bloody nose it would be fun.

If you do something in this regard make sure to get in touch with villa forums\supporters and west ham, they to seeing they are ones who it really fucks over. Any kind of protest from one club will be disgarded before its even read.

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

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MEN.

Just emailed Mr Dupont to him to ask how we do this and the process. Got a reply when I mailed him last year so will keep you updated. I am happy to do some leg work on this one. If we can get it going and give Uefa and Gill a bloody nose it would be fun.

If you do something in this regard make sure to get in touch with villa forums\supporters and west ham, they to seeing they are ones who it really fucks over. Any kind of protest from one club will be disgarded before its even read.

Time for an ESA (European Supporters Alliance), if this happened under the banner of City fans I reckon 1) the club will try and quash it and 2) we'll be turned on by the media et al.

 

[CityStu]

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The club wouldn't have agreed to sanctions if they didn't feel the irritation they caused exceeded the annoyance of having to take UEFA to court. As much as it's not ideal, they'll have it in hand.

 

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Just emailed Mr Dupont to him to ask how we do this and the process. Got a reply when I mailed him last year so will keep you updated. I am happy to do some leg work on this one. If we can get it going and give Uefa and Gill a bloody nose it would be fun.

If you do something in this regard make sure to get in touch with villa forums\supporters and west ham, they to seeing they are ones who it really fucks over. Any kind of protest from one club will be disgarded before its even read.

Time for an ESA (European Supporters Alliance), if this happened under the banner of City fans I reckon 1) the club will try and quash it and 2) we'll be turned on by the media et al.

1) You think the club haven`t spoken to DuPont (not ITK just guessing) . Maybe he has been briefed or encourage to make this statement.. Its possible
2) So what we are treated like shite in the media any how. (CITY FANS TAKE UEFA TO COURT) . So long as its clear why who gives a toss what the media say

 

[TrueBlue1705]

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46,000 members - each bungs a tenner in, that's a £460,000 pound fighting fund - or about 12 days work for Yaya ... :-(

Yes do it!!!