Khaldoon Al Mubarak - A Class Act

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Tevez was available for a couple of weeks after the BM match, so no one can complain he was still being paid.
However since he's gone AWOL, we haven't paid him have we?.
He's been fined six weeks money and some kind of wage agreement has been reached along the lines of...

Kia - "My client still expects to be paid his basic salary whilst he's playing golf in Argentina"
City - "If Mr Tevez refuses to train and make himself available for selection, he can boil his bum. We aint paying him a bean"

What do Tevez's advisors mean when they say a wage agreement has been made? It really could be the scenario above
Add the six million in bonuses City have refused to pay him, which must have been budgeted for, and we're quids in, to the fact of we can accept a £20m transfer fee as long as Tevez agrees not to pursue any outstanding monies he believes are owed
If he truly isn't motivated by cash, this is an easy and simple resolution to the issue

You raise a very valid issue here, one that goes to the heart of the revelations.

If a wage agreement has been reached between the two parties, then why did Tevez appeal against it?

And why does he still have until Jan 30th (convenient uh!) to go before Premier League appeal?

If there was an agreement to waive/fine Tevez, then there would have been no need for City to reconvene an appeal panel on Dec 21st to uphold it.

All is not what is seems and both sides are being flexible with the truth.

Probably gave him the findings of his original appeal on jan 2nd after consideration and the Christmas break. 28 days to appeal is the norm from there.
Don,t really see the flexibility in the city statement.

Truth is possibly somewhere in the middle. But the original appeal was at the start of December?

It was upheld on the 21st - the 28 day window appeal doesn't apply in any of those timelines.

 

[LongsightM13]

Khaldoun is just like Harvey Keitel's character Mr Wolf from Pulp Fiction.
Remember in the summer when he jetted in to cut through the delays and bullshit to close the Aguero deal?
He is the man who can.
Kia the pimp is a mere toenail scraping in comparison

 

[WyongBlue]

Khaldoun is just like Harvey Keitel's character Mr Wolf from Pulp Fiction.
Remember in the summer when he jetted in to cut through the delays and bullshit to close the Aguero deal?
He is the man who can.
Kia the pimp is a mere toenail scraping in comparison

Yes I do like that comparison of Kia...........

 

[mcnab-sees-red]

You raise a very valid issue here, one that goes to the heart of the revelations.

If a wage agreement has been reached between the two parties, then why did Tevez appeal against it?

And why does he still have until Jan 30th (convenient uh!) to go before Premier League appeal?

If there was an agreement to waive/fine Tevez, then there would have been no need for City to reconvene an appeal panel on Dec 21st to uphold it.

All is not what is seems and both sides are being flexible with the truth.

Probably gave him the findings of his original appeal on jan 2nd after consideration and the Christmas break. 28 days to appeal is the norm from there.
Don,t really see the flexibility in the city statement.

Truth is possibly somewhere in the middle. But the original appeal was at the start of December?

It was upheld on the 21st - the 28 day window appeal doesn't apply in any of those timelines.

Up to 28days to appeal. they can appeal after one if they want. It just looks like we are following employment law to me. However you are correct,none of us really know. We will soon though. Roll on next week.

 

[mike channon´s windmill]

I see Inter have now ruled themselves out of the running. And with AC Milan skint and the player turning down PSG, that pretty much leaves Tevez nowhere to go. Whilst that may be a satisfying state of affairs given his behaviour, personally I'd rather have had him gone and I hope that turning down Inter's initial £21m bid doesn't come back to bite us in the arse. Courts and judges are unpredictable beasts and even were we to win, I wouldn't put it past Joorabchian to stir up a shit storm. Redknapp's in Court this week regarding the receipt of "bonuses" and I only hope that in our desperation to get Tevez to sign on the dotted line originally we didn't make any similarly "inventive" payments, cos the City hating press would love nothing better than for us to be deducted points or given a transfer embargo

I said at the time we should have snapped their hands off

This is the only criticism I could level at the club. We took PSG too seriously as a runner as there was never a cat in hells chance of him going there.The attempt to turn it into a bidding war failed. We would now hold all the aces had we accepted the bid. We still have the twat by the bollox but we have left him a little wriggle room. Still say well done Khaldoon. It´s now a matter of principle and our owners have behaved impeccably with honour and integrity (certainly in comparison with other club´s). They take exception to deceit - and so they should

 

[The Pink Panther]

Probably gave him the findings of his original appeal on jan 2nd after consideration and the Christmas break. 28 days to appeal is the norm from there.
Don,t really see the flexibility in the city statement.

Truth is possibly somewhere in the middle. But the original appeal was at the start of December?

It was upheld on the 21st - the 28 day window appeal doesn't apply in any of those timelines.

Up to 28days to appeal. they can appeal after one if they want. It just looks like we are following employment law to me. However you are correct,none of us really know. We will soon though. Roll on next week.

Or is it like the Suarez racist thing, 28 days after the full findings are officially received

 

[CityTwang]

Re: Tevez - Khaldoon tells it as it is!

Never thought I'd have a favourite paragraph but is the most eloquent, professional and classy two fingered salute I've read in ages;

"As things stand, Milan isn't an option for Tevez. Mr [Adriano] Galliani [the Milan vice-president] and his advisers have developed a misplaced sense of confidence. If they want to be a consideration in this transfer window they would do better to stop congratulating one another and begin to look at how they would meet our terms."

Khaldoon al Mubarak I salute you !!!!!!

***doffs cap***

It is brilliant; it’s the best "put down" line I have heard in ages. Legend Khaldoon.

 

[Stretford Born Blue]

Quality that, bugger us about as a player and you don't get paid, bugger us about as an agent and you don't get a deal........

 

[Anonymous]

I see Inter have now ruled themselves out of the running. And with AC Milan skint and the player turning down PSG, that pretty much leaves Tevez nowhere to go. Whilst that may be a satisfying state of affairs given his behaviour, personally I'd rather have had him gone and I hope that turning down Inter's initial £21m bid doesn't come back to bite us in the arse. Courts and judges are unpredictable beasts and even were we to win, I wouldn't put it past Joorabchian to stir up a shit storm. Redknapp's in Court this week regarding the receipt of "bonuses" and I only hope that in our desperation to get Tevez to sign on the dotted line originally we didn't make any similarly "inventive" payments, cos the City hating press would love nothing better than for us to be deducted points or given a transfer embargo

I said at the time we should have snapped their hands off

This is the only criticism I could level at the club. We took PSG too seriously as a runner as there was never a cat in hells chance of him going there.The attempt to turn it into a bidding war failed. We would now hold all the aces had we accepted the bid. We still have the twat by the bollox but we have left him a little wriggle room. Still say well done Khaldoon. It´s now a matter of principle and our owners have behaved impeccably with honour and integrity (certainly in comparison with other club´s). They take exception to deceit - and so they should

Don't agree; City accept PSG offer, Tevez fails to agree terms. I think we have played it perfectly to be honest.

 

[edgecroft]

Its my understanding after reading all of the articles and watching this clip
<a class="postlink" href="http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11679/7453204/Tevez-happy-to-waive-wages" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www1.skysports.com/football/news ... aive-wages</a>
that Tevez hasn't been paid since he left for Argentina, which he has agreed to, AND he has been fined 6 weeks wages on top of that, which he is disputing.

I don't think it means the fine is to claw back wages already paid.

He hasn't been receiving any wages.

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"They [the papers] are running a story based on a briefing given by Manchester City, that Carlos has lost £9.3milion in lost wages and bonuses which is a lot money," Kia Joorabchian's advisor Paul McCarthy told Sky Sports News.

"When Carlos went back to Argentina in November, he and the club came to agreement that he waived his wages - because he was not at Manchester, Carrington, so he waived his wages.

"And the situation is now that - quite frankly from Carlos' point of view - it is never about the money, it is not an economic situation with Carlos; if it had been he would have sat down with City about extending his contract which was on the table at one stage, but that is obviously not the case now and we wait and see what happens over the transfer window."
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Tevez has played this horribly wrong.

Khaldoon Al Mubarak is a genius.