PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[OrigamiNinja]

The MP was just the "rent-a-quote." I suspect he hasn't even seen the story as his comments were very general. Dein was great describing it as "something and nothing" and stressing three times that City were "innocent till proven guilty." It was powerful stuff from a former Arsenal Director.
Oakeshott was also great and very dismissive of the whole concept of "sportswashing" pointing out that 40 per cent of the UK arms industry depended on Saudi and the country itself was diversifying its economic activity into new areas, including sport. I honestly think this false "sportswashing" myth is dying out. It is obvious that Sheikh Mansour and the Saudis are in sport to make money knowing full well that it will also do no harm for their image and it is nothing to do with "human rights."

“Sportswashing” is IMO a load of shite. The people who complain about it (the media) are the main ones who push the narrative that it exists. Here’s a thought…if you don’t like these regimes using sport to clean their image…stop fucking promoting it in your papers. Using us as an example, if they hadn’t been calling us “Oil Club City”, “Abu Dhabi FC” or “State-owned” for the past decade, nobody would give a toss who we were owned by. People like Harris, Delaney etc have built a career off City and our owners apparent sportswashing. Mansour isn’t benefitting from this, they are. Sportswashing is news not because these guys have a high moral compass. It’s news because it makes them money. What heroes they are.

 

[Blu3m00n91]

I’m so fucking bored and drained of reading this nonsense I can’t bring myself to care about it anymore. It’ll take years anyway. What’ll be will be

 

[jrb]

Mike Keegan and the Daily United shit stirring again.

Link added this time.

10 years old!

According to a 2020 UEFA report obtained by the makers of a YouTube film, the Treble winners took two £15m payments from an Abu Dhabi-based individual in 2012 and 2013, sums that should have come from a club sponsor.

UEFA's financial control body concluded that the payments, meant to have arrived from UAE-owned telecoms firm Etisalat, were actually 'disguised equity funding'. It alleged the money actually came from City's Abu Dhabi-based owners, which was a breach of their rules.

Manchester City 'were paid £30m by a mystery figure from the UAE'

MIKE KEEGAN: According to a 2020 UEFA report, City took two £15m payments from an Abu Dhabi-based individual in 2012 and 2013, sums that should have come from a club sponsor.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

It is strange. I don't know why the Times would want to be associated with such a weak and poorly-sourced story. I can only assume that Matt Lawton is stupid or has questionable motives. You do wonder about the quality control on the Times Sportsdesk. It wouldn't take long to find the earlier story on Google. Perhaps it was just incompetence.

Or why they wouldn’t put Martin Samuel up, chief football correspondent of The Times. Maybe because he’d mKe Lawton look like the prick he is and that might make for a difficult staff room……

 

[manimanc]

Piers morgan looks like an overweight giraffe who suddenly woke up one morning and thought fuck it, i'm done eating leaves off trees, I'm going to put a suit on and become a proper obnoxious little ****.

 

[John Wayne]

That was our defence to it. It didn’t get adjudicated upon though.

Interesting that UEFA didn't even present transactional evidence to contradict MCFC, ADUG, E&Y, or Etisalat. Moreover, they didn't even allege anything improper about the source of Etisalat's funding.

This really doesn't get off the ground at all. Good luck to the PL trying to attack Etisalat's operational activity.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Whilst I don’t think there’s much to learn from the GPC, his disdain for the media and his reaction to certain sections of it is certainly one area we could take lessons from him in…

 

[pudge]

What's going on so, what's this craic about £30m something or other

 

[LongsightM13]

Who makes a fucking film then keep their identities secret, apart from nonces?

The irony of a film accusing City of using a mysterious hidden investor, made by mysterious hidden producers, is too glorious and hilarious for words
McGeehan’s involvement pretty much rules out Qatar and points to Americans and the WhatsApp group

 

[Cobwebcat]

Investors must come to the UK now and think it’s being run by Monty Python.

I look at that show and feel so sorry for Khaldoon having to deal with this level of incompetence which, by the way, some will believe is true.

What has happened to this country? I know the World is a crazy place with social media but we must be near the top of the tree when it comes to stupidity now. It’s like we are actively trying to ruin ourselves.