Football Leaks/Der Spiegel articles

Shaelumstash said:
After reading these 3 "articles" that are based on millions of emails sent over ten years, is it just me who thinks there's less dirt than was expected?

We failed FFP in 2014, everyone knew that already.

We tried to get muddle through with some creative accounting with image rights, we got caught out and failed anyway. We all knew that already too.

We were in discussions with Pep Guardiola and he agreed to come months before the end of his Bayern contract. Everyone already knew that.

So what's new that has come out in these articles? Where's the smoking gun?

The only thing that's even possibly new information is that there is an email saying that "His Highness" will give funds to Etihad if there is any shortfall in their sponsorship agreement with City.

The press seem to have run with "His Highness" being Sheikh Mansour, so it's an immoral way of inserting funds in to the club. But those who have worked in Abu Dhabi have said that SM would never be referred to a "His Highness" and that culturally, they are quite particular about that.

"His Highness" is more likely to be the Crown Prince. Now, if Etihad is a state airline, essentially owned by the Crown Prince, if they have financial obligations (such as sponsorships) that they are unable to meet, then surely it's fairly standard practice that their owner (Abu Dhabi / the Crown Prince) would inject funds to ensure those financial obligations can be met?

There really is no more dirt, no more substance than that. If a journalist was allowed unfiltered access to 10 years of emails at any company in the world, I'm sure they could find their fair share of dirt. They've found very little, if anything, on City that wasn't already in the public domain. It's actually fairly reassuring, if anything.
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Just as I see it.

The sensationalism would be justified if we’d passed we didn’t. We failed and negotiated a deal.
 
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Had a read through the 3rd article and really just seems to have more digs at Abu Dhabi than anything else, as well as us getting an agreement with Pep whilst he was at Bayern, isn't that how most people sort out new jobs, whilst they are still employed?
 
Neville Kneville said:
They'd probably take the trophy off us & then share it amongst the clubs with the 'most history'.
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I know this relates to UEFA and not the PL, but how do you think people would laugh if the only way Liverpool ever won the PL was when the team who beat them were stripped of their title.
 
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