City launch legal action against the Premier League | City win APT case (pg901)

[MaineRoadMemories]

The bit i can't fathom is related to Roman Abramovich.
When he bought Chelsea they had more money than you would ever spend on football.
He could spend literally whatever he wanted.
And to be fair, he did.
As i remember it, the media, by and large, loved the Chelsea story.
Football didn't bring in rules to target Chelsea (as far as i'm aware).
Football didn't end.
So why is City's wealth being treated so differently to Chelsea's wealth.

City aren't going to spend ridiculous amounts.
We don't. Just look at the net spend table over the last 10 years.
Pretty sure Newcastle won't either (a splurge to get their act together sure but so what).

ps. For any lurking Chelsea fans, I have no problem at all with the Chelsea money story.

There were plenty of are Chelsea ruining football stories back in the early 2000s, especially when they won the league. But it was never a concerted campaign like the one we have been put under.

The reason... Mourinho was box office for the press and generated huge engagement numbers.
But the real reason was that the Champions League places were extended from 3 to 4 so everyone had a seat at the table.

The owners of Arsenal, United and Liverpool only care about that Champions League pot of gold and try everything possible (off the pitch) to avoid missing out.

 

[moomba]

Delaney says:

" There is simply exasperation at the manner that the club have gone against the very idea of the Premier League. Rivals are furious that City’s owners bought into the competition in the knowledge of what it was, aware of the rules"

Didn't the rules change after the takeover?

 

[Lord Blue]

Rhetorical question?

yeah, i could have as easily said.
So it feels intrinsically wrong that City's wealth is being treated so differently to Chelsea's.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Amongst some of the more stupid comments. But in no way all of them.

It seems that he has an endless supply

 

[M18CTID]

When it was only 1 club that were threatening the "elite" clubs it was welcomed as a fairy story, still 4 CL places to scrap for, so the likes of Arsenal and Tottenham still had a chance of jumping on the gravy train, so the 4 became 5 , City turned up fucked up the chances for the likes of Arsenal and Spurs chances of regular CL football.
Newcastle have just fucked up their chances even further, but what has been shown is its all down to good club management , you only have to look at those complete fuckwits over in trafford that money doesn't mean everything , City are a self sustained club , which the stupid cunts who constantly slag the club off for cant see.

United fans used to always brag that they only spent what they earnt - a complete lie of course if you look at their figures from 1989 when they embarked on what was, at the time, an unprecedented spending spree - yet they’ve just posted a £100m plus loss in their latest set of accounts, whereas we’re now posting profits year after year, and winning shit loads of trophies to boot.

Relatively speaking, considering the revenues at their disposal, they’re literally the worst run club on the planet.

 

[Kippaxpete]

This is precisely why I had and always will have a problem with the taking the knee campaign following George Floyd’s death. It’s the rank hypocrisy. Not just of The Premier League but in many organisations. I grew up in Oldham. I’ve seen all aspects of racism. Most people, white, black whatever are racist to some degree. I say that because I’m sure most of us wouldn’t be happy if Irish Travellers pitched up opposite your house. It’s called being honest.

Manchester City’s fan base is mostly made up of people from deprived areas of the North West that are multi cultural and these protein stains have zero right to lecture any of us on racism. I can’t recall names unfortunately but a few black players refused to take the knee because they could see the nonsense for what it was too.

Anyway, this will probably end up triggering idiots so I’ll delete it soon.

Wilfried Saha was the first PL player not to 'take the knee' around three years ago, preferring, as he put it, to 'stand tall'. Whatever view you have on Saha, I felt at the time that he deserved real credit for refusing to be influenced by the widespread groupthink that sought to dictate how all players should behave. Apologies for deviating from the thread topic.

 

[flb]

Also, it’s possible that some of these other clubs who have been gullible enough to keep supporting the red shirt cartel clubs (and Spurs) might be having a re-think on their position.

The **** Levy is a real snake in the grass, it probably annoys the **** that the phrase "red cartel" is becoming more prevalent and his jumped up fucking outfit doesn't get a mention, interesting wasn't it how Pep made a point of mentioning his name in that infamous interview when he named our detractors.
Spurs are behind this as much as anyone, lurking in the background.

 

[mike1923]

Delaney says:

" There is simply exasperation at the manner that the club have gone against the very idea of the Premier League. Rivals are furious that City’s owners bought into the competition in the knowledge of what it was, aware of the rules"

But Miguel top tier football in England is controlled by the Premier League, if City wanted to participate, what choice did they have but to agree the Cartel rules? Which were then changed "by the majority' to be deliberately stacked against them.

Delaney continues;

"City are instead the first to take a case of this nature, and decide that they don’t need the rules to apply to them."

No Miguel, we have taken the case to prove that the rules as being applied against us were unlawful, unfair and unreasonable. And we proved that, irrefutably. A word you'll hopefully hear again very soon with regard to the 115 BS.

Bit like saying if you were born in America during slavery you knew what you were signing up for and had no right to question whether it was right to keep people as slaves

 

[Lord Blue]

There were plenty of are Chelsea ruining football stories back in the early 2000s, especially when they won the league. But it was never a concerted campaign like the one we have been put under.

The reason... Mourinho was box office for the press and generated huge engagement numbers.
But the real reason was that the Champions League places were extended from 3 to 4 so everyone had a seat at the table.

The owners of Arsenal, United and Liverpool only care about that Champions League pot of gold and try everything possible (off the pitch) to avoid missing out.

Yes there were plenty of ruining football stories, but equally, as you say, there were plenty of positive stories. As you'd expect.

Surely Pep is box office too.

 

[flb]

United fans used to always brag that they only spent what they earnt - a complete lie of course if you look at their figures from 1989 when they embarked on what was, at the time, an unprecedented spending spree - yet they’ve just posted a £100m plus loss in their latest set of accounts, whereas we’re now posting profits year after year, and winning shit loads of trophies to boot.

Relatively speaking, considering the revenues at their disposal, they’re literally the worst run club on the planet.

That's what happens mate when you have a sense of entitlement like the whole sorry outfit has. If they don't get CL football again come the end of the season its going to be very interesting how they jump.