Financial Fair Play/Financial Report (merged)

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

Re: Financial Fair Play will not affect us.

That is an extraordinary performance by Platini - can you imagine an MP, Company Director, head of an NGO, Union, public body, trade association, anything, not having answers to so many questions, being so flippant, getting so many things wrong, acting like he doesn't care? in any other industry it would be the end of your career. But it's football, it's UEFA. Our governments give them dispensation to be above the law, and UEFA maintain that by threats to throw us out of National and Club tournaments, ban others who play with us. They are a mob.

One of the most ludicrous aspects of Platini's 'defence' of FFP is his repeated squawking (in this and other interviews) of: "But they want this! The clubs want this!"

It's just bizzare: Why wouldn't the highest earning clubs allow some minor controls over their spending, in return for a locked-in guarantee of revenue & power indefinitely?

"I've got to ask Ruminegge" - It's just laughable. Just hope the European courts see this racketeering for what it is, and obliterate it.

hear, hear!!

 

[Delboy352]

Re: Financial Fair Play will not affect us.

So they will never let us in the cozy club of the G14 even when we are the biggest club in the world?

There is no G14 any more. There is now the "European Club Association" of which we are a member...

 

[waspish]

Re: Financial Fair Play will not affect us.

So they will never let us in the cozy club of the G14 even when we are the biggest club in the world?

There is no G14 any more. There is now the "European Club Association" of which we are a member...

Ok cheers

 

[ped]

Re: Financial Fair Play will not affect us.

the cartel 14 have not gone anywhere,we all know who has driven ffp.

 

[Pam]

Re: Financial Fair Play will not affect us.

This won't be happening. The law courts will be having this. And watch us spend big this summer.

 

[laserblue]

Re: Financial Fair Play will not affect us.

This won't be happening. The law courts will be having this. And watch us spend big this summer.

I wish and hope you're right Pam. Not only to restore natural justice to European club football but also to show up Platini and his puppet masters for the liars and hypocrites they are.

 

[Pam]

Re: Financial Fair Play will not affect us.

This won't be happening. The law courts will be having this. And watch us spend big this summer.

I wish and hope you're right Pam. Not only to restore natural justice to European club football but also to show up Platini and his puppet masters for the liars and hypocrites they are.

Its in the bag. Any lawyer worth their salt could drive a coach and horses through it.

 

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

Re: Financial Fair Play will not affect us.

Just got back from a week's hols in Tenerife, where barren wanted to talk about"el City" and a man with an enormous parrot on his shoulder told me he was from Malaga, that Pellegrini is a great coach, Would bring Isco and make City the best team in the world! City were in the US investing in New York City FCC, Germans were lecturing us on how everyone should do things their way and Platini was showing that he still works at 16rpm while the Sheikh is at the forefront of the computer age. I thought back to 2007... We'd just sacked a manager, Stuart Pearce, and we would not have been worried about FFPR had they existed because we'd never have qualified for the CL...Now we've sacked a manager but are rebuilding half of Manchester, setting up NYCFC as part of City in the community, talking about similar ventures in Shanghai and South America while world class players are signing contract extensions and/or queuing up to join! Is this our City? You bet! And we're not concerned about FFPR because part of the City project is that everyone wins. Decent housing and amenities, and jobs in a part of town which was a contaminated post industrial wasteland, Queens going the same way, sponsors queuing to spread the good news while Platini and his pygmies sit there trying to ram their fingers into the chasm in the wall of privilege as the Sheikh says quietly, but insistently, "Football our way really is part of the good life - for everyone." Platini and the cartel haven't got a chance!

 

[Rammyblues]

Re: Financial Fair Play will not affect us.

Wonderful post.

 

[mancitymick]

Re: Financial Fair Play will not affect us.

This won't be happening. The law courts will be having this. And watch us spend big this summer.

I fully agree. Under EU law it is a restriction of trade