Ronnie the Rep
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Well he's got some pull already. He's organised me two VIP tickets for the home match gainst the scum :-)
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FantasyIreland
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Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano's court summons cancelled. #MCFC #FCB
Manchester City's newly appointed chief executive Ferran Soriano has been informed that he will not be required to defend a case in a Barcelona court. Soriano, the former president of Spanair, was one of 10 senior executives of the bankrupt airline summoned to defend a charge of misappropriating professional insurance at the end of this month.
On Saturday the Catalan received official confirmation that the summons had been rescinded. It is understood that the charge against the other Spanair executives is also to be dropped this week.
The case concerned a lawsuit filed by 300 Spanair pilots claiming that monies deducted from their salaries and earmarked for professional liability insurance were not paid as contractually promised between July and December 2011. In total €258,837 was alleged to have been misappropriated.
Spanair ceased operations in January this year after investors withdrew support from the struggling airline. Soriano, 45, has been its president since April 2009, after resigning a position as FC Barcelona's financial vice-president after a vote of no confidence in the board. During his six years on Barca's board he was credited with more than doubling the club's turnover to €308million and converting heavy losses to profit.
Soriano has been asked to deliver a comparable improvement in City's turnover following his September 1 installation as chief executive (Read more at The National › ). A replacement for the calamity-prone Garry Cook, Soriano's arrival at the club was postponed for nine months because he refused to walk out on Spanair's financial travails.
City's Abu Dhabi owners are understood to have been impressed by Soriano's commitment to Spanair during that period, reinforcing their resolve to hire him. Other club executives speak highly of his work during his first weeks at the club.
Manchester City's newly appointed chief executive Ferran Soriano has been informed that he will not be required to defend a case in a Barcelona court. Soriano, the former president of Spanair, was one of 10 senior executives of the bankrupt airline summoned to defend a charge of misappropriating professional insurance at the end of this month.
On Saturday the Catalan received official confirmation that the summons had been rescinded. It is understood that the charge against the other Spanair executives is also to be dropped this week.
The case concerned a lawsuit filed by 300 Spanair pilots claiming that monies deducted from their salaries and earmarked for professional liability insurance were not paid as contractually promised between July and December 2011. In total €258,837 was alleged to have been misappropriated.
Spanair ceased operations in January this year after investors withdrew support from the struggling airline. Soriano, 45, has been its president since April 2009, after resigning a position as FC Barcelona's financial vice-president after a vote of no confidence in the board. During his six years on Barca's board he was credited with more than doubling the club's turnover to €308million and converting heavy losses to profit.
Soriano has been asked to deliver a comparable improvement in City's turnover following his September 1 installation as chief executive (Read more at The National › ). A replacement for the calamity-prone Garry Cook, Soriano's arrival at the club was postponed for nine months because he refused to walk out on Spanair's financial travails.
City's Abu Dhabi owners are understood to have been impressed by Soriano's commitment to Spanair during that period, reinforcing their resolve to hire him. Other club executives speak highly of his work during his first weeks at the club.