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

[mancboy]

A public service reminder that Tariq regards himself as qualified to pontificate on matters of law, finance and accounting as they affect football when his past tweets have shown more than once that he doesn't even understand what a balance sheet is. Like Stoke, he's a fucking joke.

I think that ethos applies to literally all football journalists, the ego that they have to think themselves qualified to comment on complex legal and financial issues when they barely understand what end of the pen to use is mindblowing.

 

[Dribble]

Disagree, the media are just trying to create a story where one doesn't exist. She wants a competitive PL which is what we have, she's seems to be saying that financial rules are needed which is something that City actual agree on despite the media (once again) trying to imply we want a free for all.

I think you've bought into the medias narrative there, although you're not alone by the looks.

I disagree. She mentions financial controls to keep the PL competitive, but where was her concern when ManUre & Chelsea spent over a decade divvying up PL titles between them?

If anything, she's inadvertently spilled the beans. Wasn't FFP & PSR meant to control rising debt in football to stop another Portsmouth from happening? Where is her concern over debt?

Nah, her concern is stopping other clubs from investing in their squads, so the Hammers don't get left behind & become relegation threatened. This is Brady wanting to drag everyone down to her level, rather than investing so WHU improve to a level where they can compete for the PL title & CL places. This is the dream for all fans of PL teams, not just annual PL survival.

Think about what she's actually saying. It's not fair if clubs like City have ambitions & put their owners money where their ambitions lie, run their clubs professionally & reap the rewards. How dare City leave WHU behind!

No wonder most Hammers fans can't stand her. Just imagine if she took over from Khaldoon & her plan for City going forward was Gollum as manager & PL survival every season? That's the level she wants everyone in the PL to be at so it's "fair".

 

[mancboy]

I think if he had to publish the recipe for making cheese on toast he'd get it wrong.

woah woah woah, lets not be hasty, there is many ways to make cheese on toast, what cheese, what bread, butter or no butter, do you mix cheeses, worcestershire or none, pan fry or under the grill, this is a far more complex argument than a simple apt transaction ;)

 

[Dribble]

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I'll forever love Bobby Manc for this reason alone. The Pisscan shit himself! :-)

 

[sir baconface]

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I really think he should have shown more respect to a knight of the realm….

….One of my all-time favourite City moments.

 

[Metalartin]

City are paying more than you have calculated
From a Foi request

The following table details the basic rent paid by MCFC for the most recent financial year, Apr 14 – Mar 15.

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I worked out last year that City have paid around £80m+. From lease payments at various rates for 20 years, totalling around £50m. The Naming rights at around £1m per season from 2011 onwards totalling around £12m. The £6m + Maine Road assets which were sold for £14m by the council, as part as the managing lease deal City wanted.

The council are well in profit for their £33m contribution which ever way you calculate it.

Sport England were never likely expecting to get their money back. Which is majority lottery funded. There was an event taking place in Manchester and they were in charge of making it as best as it could be. They didn't want a smaller temporary stadium that would have cost £60+ to do, with no lasting legacy. Neither did the council. City stepped in and it suited everyone how it worked out. Especially the council.

 

[BlueAnorak]

City are paying more than you have calculated
From a Foi request

The following table details the basic rent paid by MCFC for the most recent financial year, Apr 14 – Mar 15.

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Well, we'll pay for the whole of the Commonwealth games within 20 years if that's the case!

 

[blue b4 the moon]

What are Chelsea up to? In some ways you have to admire Chelsea…they do stuff that we can’t understand and yet somehow it seems to work.

Maybe they're going to vote with us to have soft loans interest bearing but only from the vote date....get it in under the wire and all that?

 

[Manc in London]

This is why I'm always dubious when people say the lawyers/judges on these tribunals can be trusted to come to the correct decision because there have a reputation for probity and competence to uphold. It was clearly stated that the target was the "gulf state" owners - not hinted at or implied - they used the actual words. But they still accepted the pathetic excuse that it was just an example. I doubt you'd get away with that in your school home work.

I suspect we would need to show evidence it was a pattern of behaviour rather than what may have been an isolated incident.

 

[halfcenturyup]

No fan of Panja but that's a bit of a cheap shot bearing in mind @slbsn himself was saying the judgment was a score draw or a slight City win until recently.

Have to own up when you get something wrong. I do it all the time :)