PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

cheekybids said:
He doesn’t have to tell anyone he’s nailed them & even when the cunts been nailed they’ll be thinking where did that come from…..

Have a look back over the last 15 years & you may see the pattern.
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Upon being cleared, i'm envisaging a scene like the end of the Godfather... Mansour, Kaldoon etc. in an office, whilst the Rags, Liverpool, Arsenel, Spurs etc. are raided
 
cheekybids said:
I never got my head around the Tevez affair.

West Ham loaned him from Agent… illegal

We bought him from Agent…. Legal

So what the fuck did the Rags do?
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Officially, West Ham ‘bought’ Tevez and Mascherano from Joorabchian for £0, but would have to pay £25m to obtain the right to sell Tevez on.

United loaned him from West Ham.

All in all it became a total farce that the Pl had to fudge together as everyone was fucked once the original transfer was approved.
 
Bodicoteblue said:
You get the feeling that some of them are still stuck on ‘the sheik will get bored and walk away’ idea, and if they accuse him and his club of all sorts of dodgy things (well, you know what these foreign types are like)then that will speed his departure and all their problems will simply go away with him.
A massive misjudgement and miscalculation which they have landed themselves with due to their total failure to understand how men like SM and Khaldoon operate.
Its not the first time fear and loathing has led to irrational decisions being made.
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I definitely think when the charges were announced there was a feeling that Pep might walk away, but they got that one badly wrong too !
 
johnnytapia said:
It’d barely make a difference. People around the world would still tune in. IMHO
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I'm sure La Liga thought the same at one point...
This is hubris on the Premier League's part... and a lot of fans too! They think the PL brand is United and Liverpool... look at Scudamore's comments, but the strength of the PL is the quality of the rest of the league. That's why leagues like La Liga and the Bundesliga are not as popular - because, despite all the stars on show (Spain particularly back in the day) nobody will have much interest when they know the same team's will win every season.
Enforce the FFP and punish us and Chelsea then the PL will be won by either United, Liverpool or Arsenal every year... which, as we know, is what they really want out of all this!
 
Iassel said:
Similarly, we all want to believe that the PL just threw this all out to stop the leaked imminent announcement of an Independent Regulator, and are just continuing the process and committing tens of millions of £££ in legal fees as a cheeky punt to appease the American owners but it doesn’t pass a ‘balance of probabilities’ smell test.
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This is one thing I could never get my head around. The White Paper was largely about (inter alia) improving the owners tests, preventing clubs being liquidated, protecting community assets and improving the game for the spectators and fans.

How are we supposed to believe the PL is showing it can self-regulate by imposing sporting sanctions in terms of deducted points, and allowing other clubs to claim compensation, which will very possibly lead to liquidation and a further points deduction and the very outcome the White Paper wants to avoid?

All they are doing is showing that they can be tough applying FFP even if their sanctions are detrimental to the club, the community asset and the spectators and fans.

I don't get that argument. It's like a Willie Donachie own goal ..... In fact, it's like the PL are doing the best they can to cause outrage in the football world, showing they can't regulate the game properly, and giving certain clubs the reason to consider a different league. Oh, hang on a minute .....

On your other points, I don't really care about Mancini (well I do, I loved the guy when he was here, but you know what I mean), it's immaterial. Etisalat was explained in the CAS decision pretty comprehensively - I don't see any significant issue there. The image rights weren't time barred, iirc, they just didn't charge the club for anything to do with it.
 
What is to stop clubs having another vote on Prem FFP?

I understand why Utd,Liverpool,Arsenal and to extent Chelsea voted in favour but why did any of the lesser clubs??

Crazy the likes of WHU,Everton and Newcastle voted in favour of FFP, chances of sustained success without a rich owner..practically zero

A rich investor would also have been more likely to invest in the smaller Prem clubs with no financial constraints in place.....The owners that voted for FFP devalued their clubs in the process

Use Blackburn as an example, would Jack Walker have even bothered trying if FFP was in place?
 
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