Football Leaks/Der Spiegel articles

[Jacko1956]

Just to add to this, I'm not sure whether Aabar are or are not considered as a related party. Due to the fact that we paid them, to pay us, it could be argued they are a related party.

Notwithstanding that, part one of these "Leaks" showed a table, which was taken from our financial report for that season, and clearly showed a subsidy to Abu Dhabi based sponsors, which included Aabar, and whoever else from AD was sponsoring us. We did this to the tune of £150m total.

I'm not here to offer my opinion on that, it is what it is, but the fact we declared it, and the fact that UEFA at the time IIRC adjusted at least one of our sponsorship deals to represent "Fair Market Value" shows that this was dealt with, by UEFA. This action was more than likely one contributory factor to why we failed FFP that season.

The point is, there is absolutely nothing new about that at all, apart from maybe the name of one of the sponsors implicated.
There is nothing wrong with party related sponsorship at all so long as it's declared and represents fair value. We declared it, UEFA adjusted the figures, and we moved on, with a "pinch".

Parts 1-3 so far have done nothing other than re-hash old news, but with a very clear, one sided narrative. Maybe apart from the odd snippet about Aabar being named specifically, and the alleged human rights issue with Arabtec.

Nothing at all to worry about, and by Friday this will all be yesterdays news, and probably nothing at all more!

Excellent post, no dout this is an organised atempt to disrupt our continuing rise to the top of world football, almost certainly Bayern are fueling this journo as it's them who continually return to FFP and our clubs dealings. Think UEFA will have to be very careful if they reopen any investigations as a very cost legal battle could be forthcoming with City and PSG's financial might likely to be brought against them.

 

[cookster]

He signed a 2 year extension back in May to run to season ending 2020/21.

Thats one on the hook ;)

 

[Chi-town blues]

Just watched the Shaktar press conference... I thought people were calling a reporter Ladyman for a joke but that is his actual name?

But the big difference is “s” missing obviously he’s not a Lady’s man but a grown up version of a lady boy .

 

[Fame Monster]

Not much in Ep 3 that isn't utter fucking shitely written standard practice within football.

However,

This is poor by Ferran and Khaldoon and indefensible.

Can’t say I’m an expert in Arabtec employment practices but (from what I’ve heard) this is the only thing that would bother me too. On FFP though, we should be applauded for not complying with or allegedly cheating an immoral, protectionist, elitist rule that stops fairs competition.

 

[BobKowalski]

Main takeaway so far is that we are one of a hell of a smooth running operation and quite happy to use ‘soft power’.

 

[City Man]

I feel let down by that third leak.

Also are all these going to be about shit we got up too or are they going to eventually move onto another target?

The ticket office is up next.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

A bit unfair on Hoffenheim that!

To be honest, I'm more concerned about this European Super League idea - if it was just to replace the CL then I can live with that, but if it meant leaving our own domestic league then that would be totally unacceptable. It would be a good idea to convey this in a display at some point.

The super league stuff is old news. It was what the clubs used to get UEFA to change the CL, so that there were four clubs for the top ranked countries and prize money related to ‘historical success’ instead of current performance. It did the job it was supposed to do by ensuring 30% of the money for the CL will be distributed on a 10 year co-efficient rankings table, regardless of performance and before a ball is kicked. Suffice to say Utd get €10M more than City just for being in it. Munich get €12M more with Barca and Madrid getting €13M and €14M more respectively.

 

[chemicalboy99]

To be fair, a lot of the comments on that thread aren't taking this seriously at all and are actually quite funny:







And my personal fave:

Hahahaha

They've done the impossible.

They've actually managed to outrawk those insane folks over at rawk.

 

[Chi-town blues]

Titanic?

 

[squirtyflower]

The ticket office is up next.

Hahaha ha
They can’t print anything worse than what’s in the thread on here