PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Tolmie scores]

I still dont understand why the 'lower' clubs in the pl voted for FFP. They were voting to stop themselves from ever being top dog. It's bizarre that they voted that way. They signed themselves to just being mid table with no ambition to improve.

I think its because you can't have 20 multi billionaires all winning! The race is just unsustainable. When i was a kid and Liverpool were buying their success..Ray Kennedy best young prospect from Arsenal, Souness, Dalglish best Celtic striker..not cheap then etc... we couldnt really compete.. when we went all out we had a shit recruitment strategy anyway..Steve Daley! Nearly 1.4m from memory

 

[mattcity5]

I still dont understand why the 'lower' clubs in the pl voted for FFP. They were voting to stop themselves from ever being top dog. It's bizarre that they voted that way. They signed themselves to just being mid table with no ambition to improve.

Being a lower Prem club gets you a lot more money than being a Championship club. They will have been wanting to make it harder for themselves to be overtaken. Self-preservation I guess.

I also wonder if some owners may have been swayed in their vote by promises or agreements made by other owners. I'm sure the American owners will have been working the crowd and politicking, while I'm not sure we had the friends and influence at that time.

 

[cheekybids]

Being a lower Prem club gets you a lot more money than being a Championship club. They will have been wanting to make it harder for themselves to be overtaken. Self-preservation I guess.

I also wonder if some owners may have been swayed in their vote by promises or agreements made by other owners. I'm sure the American owners will have been working the crowd and politicking, while I'm not sure we had the friends and influence at that time.

Obviously the red cunts will have lobbied & put the fear of god whilst giving them promises of riches.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Best? He was akin to watching a Krankies' tribute!

That's how bad it is.

 

[Oldham Exile]

I think its because you can't have 20 multi billionaires all winning! The race is just unsustainable. When i was a kid and Liverpool were buying their success..Ray Kennedy best young prospect from Arsenal, Souness, Dalglish best Celtic striker..not cheap then etc... we couldnt really compete.. when we went all out we had a shit recruitment strategy anyway..Steve Daley! Nearly 1.4m from memory

I've spent decades trying forget that - thanks!!

 

[KS55]

Just received from fellow blue anyone else listen to it ?
Listening to Cheesamans last night ,Forever Blue, he had a guest Mike McClean,
He said he has inside knowledge than City's barristers have a recording whereby the Premier league board members quoted " We cannot have Man City winning the league for a forth time on the trot"
He quotes the Premier League board are totally corrupt !!

That tale has been around for some time. I doubt whether it is true. Barristers would not tell an outsider even if it was.

 

[M18CTID]

I still dont understand why the 'lower' clubs in the pl voted for FFP. They were voting to stop themselves from ever being top dog. It's bizarre that they voted that way. They signed themselves to just being mid table with no ambition to improve.

There's another angle to that. It gave the owners of those clubs at the time an excuse not to spend big money on players. They were thinking of themselves and the here and now, and not about the future when other owners had bought them out who may have had more ambition than them.

With Reading bizarrely abstaining, just one more vote the other way would have been enough for it not to be brought in. A Kenwright-led Everton voted for it and now Everton find themselves with a 10 point deduction for breaching the very same rules that their former chairman voted in favour of.

 

[Blue Mist]

Dear Mr Burnham,
I accept you are a season ticket holder at Everton and are upset about the way your club has been treated. However, let me remind you, in case you have forgotten, what geographical area you are in charge of. Manchester City F.C. is in Manchester, the name is a big clue. The owners have put millions into your City and changed a chemical waste land into a vibrant area and yet they are, to use local terminology, getting the shit kicked out of them by the Premier League. Is it at all possible that for once you could represent people and businesses in Manchester. Just once isn't a lot to ask and then you can go back to moaning about how badly your own club is being fucked over.

Yours Blue Mist.

P.S. Why didn't you run for the Mayor of Liverpool job because you do fuck all for us.

 

[supercity88]

There's another angle to that. It gave the owners of those clubs at the time an excuse not to spend big money on players. They were thinking of themselves and the here and now, and not about the future when other owners had bought them out who may have had more ambition than them.

With Reading bizarrely abstaining, just one more vote the other way would have been enough for it not to be brought in. A Kenwright-led Everton voted for it and now Everton find themselves with a 10 point deduction for breaching the very same rules that their former chairman voted in favour of.

If you were an owner of a club settled into the PL you'd have voted for it on the basis it would help ensure new money didn't bring rivals in that could lead you to have to spend more to compete. You could also ensure you didn't have to spend too much money from your own pocket on new players and give fans the "FFP doesn't allow us" excuse. Owners like consistent profits coming in, and FFP was great to keep the established clubs in the league and stifle others.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Looks like the gvmt will approach AD on investment on Sizewell C and reports that the Redbird (AD) purchase of the Torygraph will definitely be resisted seem a bit wide of the mark. Reads to me like old school Tories agitating as they might lose their unhealthy alliance with a mainstream paper.

Leave here without comment other than to state the obvious that the UK is desperate for new and overseas investment. Make your own connections and conclusions. I believe that it remains relevant to this thread.

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