PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Champions again in 2012]

They were bullied into it probably.

I'm not convinced Mike Ashley has ever been bullied in his business career

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

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Personally I think that's not the best way to frame it from Stefan. I think it's completely excessive to deduct 10 points from Everton and I would expect it will be mitigated on appeal. But even if it isn't, they failed the PL's FFP. That's binary; you either pass, if your aggregate losses over a 3-year period are £105m or less, or if they're £106m or more, you fail.

Even if City were to be found to have breached all 115 instances, that still doesn't mean we'd have failed FFP, certainly not given the likely amounts involved. And there's very little that goes past 2015 it would seem, certainly only up to 2018 at the latest.

I reckon there's no more than £20m a year involved in the disputed payments. Thats not anywhere near deserving of relegation.

 

[Big mals fedora]

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Yeh. I could ‘potentially’ get off with kylie Minougue if I ever got to meet her.

 

[1961_vintage]

The 115 charges didn't workout too well for the red shirts who presumably convinced Mr Masters to proceed.

Not only. I think the North London lot were heavily involved too.

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

Yes.

But you'd need a bit more context about what he has been saying.

Cheers mate. Pretty grim prediction by our fellow Blue.

I remember Stefan did a piece with one of our biggest haters, Nick Harris, a year or two back. Harris is the epitome of grim.

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

Personally I think that's not the best way to frame it from Stefan. I think it's completely excessive to deduct 10 points from Everton and I would expect it will be mitigated on appeal. But even if it isn't, they failed the PL's FFP. That's binary; you either pass, if your aggregate losses over a 3-year period are £105m or less, or if they're £106m or more, you fail.

Even if City were to be found to have breached all 115 instances, that still doesn't mean we'd have failed FFP, certainly not given the likely amounts involved. And there's very little that goes past 2015 it would seem, certainly only up to 2018 at the latest.

I reckon there's no more than £20m a year involved in the disputed payments. Thats not anywhere near deserving of relegation.

Being Devils Advocate here but you could say that if we are found guilty then our offence(s) are far more serious as it would be a case of our owner illegally feeding investment into the club. Not only would it be against PL regs but also false accounting.

You'd hope that it doesn't come down to a substantive guilty verdict but if it did then the sky's the limit in terms of potential punishments based on today. Everton overspent, it was in the audited accounts and now they have been punished severely.

 

[BamberBridgeBlue]

Everton deducted 10 points = Manchester City playing Boreham Wood. Who knew?

 

[city saint]

Here's a way to combat the unrelenting media vitriol.....buy the fuckers up!!

The Telegraph reporting that the Barclay family who controlled it for decades until Lloyds seized control due to unpaid loans have made a bid to take back control by paying the full 1.2 billion owed. That money is coming from a media investment fund called Redbird IMI, of which Sheikh Mansour is a major investor. Hope he insists Ducker and Wallace get the chop :)

ah but it wont be sports washing if they keep their jobs

 

[MCFC_ Phil]

Bring on the relegation I say. We'll have more fun than we did under Keegan

 

[Stoned Rose]

Fool's Mate is the fastest checkmate possible. In order for Fool's mate to be performed, White must move their g-pawn up two squares and their f-pawn up one or two squares in the first two consecutive moves.

City are long gone.

G-Pawn sounds like a guest rapper on a 50 Cent b-side.