FFP: City amongst 19 clubs on UEFA "watchlist"

[KS55]

I’ve not heard that. Seems they bunged us a million quid and we moved on.

Both the PL and the FA said nothing to see here, move on. One of them, I forget which, said the case was too old to bother with. Odd then that the PL are investigating Mancini‘s contract almost a decade after he left.

 

[richards30]

They are estimates but

£90m in matchday revenue they didnt have (covid year)
£270m in broadcast revenue (they made FA, League and CL final) so basically achieved the maximum you can achieve there or almost the maximum if they won the CL

and their commercial income is up £20m in comparison to the year before.

Ive said it a few times on twitter, here etc that Liverpool will have the highest commercial revenue eventually. They grew 88% in a 6 year accounting period.

For example their kit deal is bigger than ours but expires in 2025 a full 5 years before our does. It wouldn't be a surprise if they get an even bigger kit deal then and theyll match our commercial revenue by 2025 and overtake us in revenue.

The only way Liverpool do not match us by about 2025/2026 would be if they fail to make CL in any of the next 3 seasons. Commercial partners tend to dip or be putoff when teams are not maintaining success.

fair enough, hopefully we can find a huge kit sponsor and even bigger deals from sponsors to keep us ahead of them? The signing of Erling will have propelled us even further into the foreign fan market as well as even on the Isle Of Man the amount of City/Haaland shirts in this tiny place is huge!

 

[Rochdale Blue]

Massive mistake on our part accepting it

Does that make any difference where possible criminal offences have taken place?

 

[Academica]

It’s only natural that your rivals want you punished if you’ve done wrong.

For whatever reason, City swept the scouse hacking under the table. That was our choice.

The hateful 8 wanted us banned before any wrong doing was proved.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

The hateful 8 wanted us banned before any wrong doing was proved.

I want them banned tool :-)

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

City didn't cooperate with them because we were sick and tired of being accused by them of breaking FFP all the time. We didn't trust UEFA with good reason after what had happened in the past, especially after providing us with assurances that we would meet FFP in 2014, only for them to change their own rules at the last moment to make sure we failed. That is why we didn't cooperate and took the case to CAS. We also didn't trust them with our evidence because UEFA were leaking all their evidence to the press.

It was worse than that. During the UEFA probe our confidential financial information was being leaked to the media and to our commercial rivals (LFC and MUFC). That's why we stopped co-operating and said we would go straignt to CAS. There is no point engaging with another party acting in bad faith. CAS seemed to agree with us because they massively reduced the original UEFA sanction for "non co-operation."

 

[eastmanc]

It was worse than that. During the UEFA probe our confidential financial information was being leaked to the media and to our commercial rivals (LFC and MUFC). That's why we stopped co-operating and said we would go straignt to CAS. There is no point engaging with another party acting in bad faith. CAS seemed to agree with us because they massively reduced the original UEFA sanction for "non co-operation."

I didn't know that, it's worse than I thought .

 

[Shirley]

I thought, should I say I read somewhere, that Liverpool were going to be investigated for the hacking of our system. Still waiting for that and not holding my breath.

It’s that time of the year again…..


Martyn Ziegler, Chief Sports Reporter|Matt Dickinson, Chief Sports Writer

September 21 2019, 12:01am, The Times

Liverpool paid a £1 million settlement to Manchester City after their Premier League rivals made a complaint that their scouting system had been hacked into.
The confidential settlement took place in September 2013 after it was reported that City had employed computer-espionage experts to see if the system had been spied on.
The scandal would appear to be the biggest incident of alleged misbehaviour by one top-flight club to another in the Premier League’s history.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I didn't know that, it's worse than I thought .

As Khaldoon said: "It was organised and clear." He is someone who chooses his words carefully.

 

[eastmanc]

As Khaldoon said: "It was organised and clear." He is someone who chooses his words carefully.

I forgot he said that but that shows the lack of trust.