Media thread 2022/23

[halfcenturyup]

We be all dead when we see this long game come good

I will make sure I come back just the one time to laugh in all the arseholes' faces.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

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Lol to keep up with our rivals lol....like who ?

Cant think of any rivals that have a better football campus than City.

Wonder why the headline didnt say Abu Dhabi State owned ? Unlike the mail to miss that

It's a lovely narrative that we are 'splurging' to keep pace with of our Premier League rivals.

I mean, just take a look at the industry leaders over at Old Scaffold Anfield errrr Spurs?

 

[TinFoilHat]

I wonder what tonight pre game headlines will be?

 

[Kompany Car]

Yeah this is the research the BBC quotes. Take note of the top 5 teams -

Here's how the BBC summarise it.

" the teams thought to have benefitted most from dual representation in the past few years include Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea. "


Hmm. Someone is missing!

Ah right so its "estimated" and we all know how accurate estimates are... Oh Its City add an extra couple of million on, ah United and Liverpool, cant have them appearing higher, lets knock a few million off. Well its only an estimate, we didn't specify the level of accuracy...blah blah blah.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Anyone else read that in a Pirate accent?

Aye aye.

 

[Centurions]

Ah right so its "estimated" and we all know how accurate estimates are... Oh Its City add an extra couple of million on, ah United and Liverpool, cant have them appearing higher, lets knock a few million off. Well its only an estimate, we didn't specify the level of accuracy...blah blah blah.

"Premier League football clubs may have avoided paying £250m in tax over a three-year period, financial experts have estimated."

"HM Revenue and Customs said it was investigating "a number of clubs".
We do not know which clubs are being investigated"

"The Tax Policy Associates think tank has estimated the practice is potentially worth tens of millions of pounds a year."

"Tax Policy Associates estimates the practice may have saved top players, their agents and their acquiring clubs £81m in 2019, £91m in 2020 and £81m in 2021"

"In 2021, Tax Policy Associates estimates Manchester City saved £10.9m in tax"

"All its estimates are based on the assumption that player and club split the agent fee 50:50"

"In theory, the FA has rules against an agent acting for both the player and the club. But if all parties provide written consent to use dual representation, the practice is technically allowed"


So many ifs, buts and maybes that it's turned the article into a joke.

 

[Bluesbrother]

See the BBC running a story about PL clubs saving 250 million in tax and no surprise names us 1st before Rags, Arsenal and Chelsea then much lower down the artical mentions us 1st again then throws the Dippers in.
They also state Chelsea were the biggest savers but we know what the BBC are like with their bias, why not list in Alphabetical order or Chelsea 1st as biggest savers but they put our name 1st twice.
Wish we would just ban the BBC and refuse to do MOTD interviews

They also showed two stadiums, while the story was running, Ours and Wembley

 

[dario2739]

Yeah this is the research the BBC quotes. Take note of the top 5 teams -

Here's how the BBC summarise it.

" the teams thought to have benefitted most from dual representation in the past few years include Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea. "


Hmm. Someone is missing!

And how much tax have the Rags avoided by being registered in the Cayman Islands?

 

[domalino]

Ah right so its "estimated" and we all know how accurate estimates are... Oh Its City add an extra couple of million on, ah United and Liverpool, cant have them appearing higher, lets knock a few million off. Well its only an estimate, we didn't specify the level of accuracy...blah blah blah.

Dan Niedle the guy who did the research is incredibly thorough and accurate. He’s basing it off the amount of agents fees paid and the amount paid via dual representation, which is public data.

I think the estimate is because you can’t know for certain how what the fair value or agent services are to clubs for each signing.


The reporting is a problem, not the actual research IMO, although IMO it’s an overreaction to a debatable grey area.

 

[Kinkys Left Foot]

I thought tax avoidance was a perfectly legitimate passtime for the rich and famous.
Ask Rishi Sunak and all his mates in Parliament. Who gives a fuck.