Uggh I just watched that Simon Jordan rant video, it's this bit that gets me:
"With the most money spent" No, that's United Simon, keep up. It wasn't that, that annoyed me though, it was what came next.
He's clearly triggered by the "within the rules" comment and goes a brighter shade of pink, struggling to get his words out fast enough. He's literally turning scouser, he kisses their arses that much lol.
He basically tried to discredit CAS on an the basis of an unrelated matter. "Yeah this Russian guy was proved to be taking PEDs and they let him off. So yeah, everything CAS says is rubbish now". How pathetic is that, just because he got proved wrong(can't even remember what he was saying before the verdict tbh).
So he thinks UEFA's own internal CFCB know more than the CAS about the law and what accounts for proof. I thought CAS was the organisation that was actually independent and essentially a real court, that specialises in sports, not the CFCB. Someone should really phone him up and nail him for some of this. Ask him, where does he seriously think the European Supreme Court's views would have aligned more with, CAS' or UEFA's views on the case presented against City? Then laugh over him while he's trying to answer you. Like he does, to try and break peoples train of thought, the obnoxious little berk.
City breached it once but so did Liverpool in the same year, remind him of that. Wasn't City's only the case because UEFA changed the exemption from both years during that period to just applicable to 2011/12?
Which made a difference of £52m or so in City's accounts.
Had City have known that before it was too late, they might have spent less that summer. Or maybe use the rule that Liverpool did. If you spend the same amount on infrastructure, that can be deducted from the losses in the same period. Except Sheikh Mansour would have actually spent the money on infrastructure and have something to show for it. Liverpool got to take £50m off their losses for a Stanley park that didn't get built... No questions asked though, no press campaign for more scrutiny.
I shouldn't let prats like Jordan wind me up but he's got everyone(except City fans) fooled that he knows what he's talking about. I'm not even an expert and I know more than him.