PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[moomba]

I think salary caps would be next to impossible to bring in. You'd have to factor in things like tax, cost of housing, cost of living etc for it to be fair.

But the main clubs that want to bring in salary caps, don't want a fair system. They want a system where they can spend what they want, and the perceived smaller clubs can't.

We'd now benefit from a salary cap, it would stop clubs that don't earn as much as us from competing. But it would be a shit thing to bring in, unless it was a proper competitive fair cap.

 

[KS55]

Heritage= G14 member.

 

[manimanc]

'Heritage clubs'. I've heard it all now.

Is heritage club ye olde English for absolute bottle jobs?

 

[nmc]

Why are Arsenal a "heritage club" and the likes of City arent? In what decade does a club become a heritage club?

You have to bribe your way into the top flight a la Arsenal or be found guilty of match fixing a la The Rags or Liverpool. Look close enough and the establishment are grubbier than the rest of us….

 

[flb]

You have to bribe your way into the top flight a la Arsenal or be found guilty of match fixing a la The Rags or Liverpool. Look close enough and the establishment are grubbier than the rest of us….

I'm fully aware mate, obviously these jumped up shites of these "Heritage" clubs aren't!

 

[nmc]

And here is the crux of the matter.

A handful of clubs engineered the game to suit themselves and believe nobody else should have the right to challenge them.

The so called Sky Four - who thought they could have CL qualification every year, unchallenged and the other 16 teams would happily sit back, hand over their best players when requested and happily make up the numbers…. Then we came along. Didn’t Big Nose Thompson once say City have stolen Liverpool‘s Champions League place!

 

[nmc]

Associated? That's a can of worms they don't want to open... pretty much every team will be guilty of 'associated' sponsorships... United only got Chevrolet as a sponsor because of their American owners... Leicester and King Power... and god help Wrexham if they get to the PL - ALL their current sponsors are 'associated'!

Let's face it – at all levels of Football, clubs have 'associated' sponsors... If I had a company successful enough to be able to afford to sponsor a PL club, I'd pick City obviously... likewise, company's from Abu Dhabi will want to sponsor City because of the links to their country... Saudi company's will do the same with Newcastle etc.

Quite - won’t Nike be associated sponsors for Liverpool and Chelsea.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I think thats the issue rival fans have. The Football played on the pitch seems to be downstream from who your owners are. People havent gotten bullish on Newcastle all of a sudden because they have a young Messi in their youth system.

That guy in the photo (not Charles), is the most influential football figure in English football for 30 years, even bigger than Ferguson. He has basically torn up the landscape of the English football landscape.

The counter argument is that the heritage clubs get overturned and it allows clubs like City and Newcastle who historically found it hard to get/stay at the upper end of the table. However in doing so you become the very thing you complain about, by becoming a modern super club with infinite wealth to maintain high standards.

I think a European salary cap needs should be introduced across all major leagues. The best players can earn their money from image rights rather than salary from clubs. Or move toward a Bundesliga model with majority fan ownership of clubs.

You make a fair point on salaries but there is nothing to stop the heritage/cartel clubs from running their businesses properly. United have spent more money than City but run their club's infrastructure into the ground; Liverpool FC have won one title in more than 30 years (you can't blame City for that); your own club has made disastrous recruitment decisions for years and had no succession plan to replace Wenger.
City are not and have never been owned by a state and don't have "infinite wealth." Sheikh Mansour bought City for £210m and the club is now valued by Forbes at more than £4bn. He has made at least £500m profit on other investments in Manchester itself (that doesn't even include the new music arena) and more than £1bn profit from his investment in Barclays Bank. The press coverage about City is full of distortions and lies.

 

[nmc]

Why are Arsenal a "heritage club" and the likes of City arent? In what decade does a club become a heritage club?

Spuds see themselves as a heritage club, although you need heritage to remember the last time they won the last of their two league titles…..

 

[nijinsky]

Apparantly the red cartel clubs are furious that the inflated charges haven't been Kangaroos into court quickly enough.
Independent Paywall Article: https://archive.ph/TOrB8

Whàt a stream of incoherent coffey level shite all to just bubble, 'its not fair' mummy.