PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Elbow beards]

Why hasn't Curly Watts come out and used his platform to call them out????
No leadership from Curly once again, good ol' Boris would have stood up for us, salt of the earth man of the people that he is.

He's under a gagging order by Reg Holdsworth.

 

[cheekybids]

The bastard.

“Boring bastard”

That could see me in court ;)

 

[Ducado]

I’ve seen some threads drift off topic, but this one has been swept away, large chunks of it need to go in off topic, so angry blokes can shout at each other in peace

The only thing worth reading is the opinion of people that actually have an understanding of the situation

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I’m not bothered by the outcome I’ve seen City stuff all the teams and I can die a happy man because we have the best players the best football and the best manager and players to have played for City

Bit selfish that!

What about my kids, they don't want the ride to end and eventually they will have their own kids being brought up on tales of this incredible period?

Plenty of us feel we have suffered for their future and has probably cost us many more years of life.

 

[pavelsrnicek]

From our "friends" at RTE today - apologies if already posted:

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2023/1127/1418668-manchester-city-fans-sportswashing/

Well I guess BM is famous now: we are linked in this article. Apparently for this "study", they wanted to see how the average City fan was able to justify our stance about our (brilliant) ownership. Warning, there are links to Delooney and David Conn in here also.

Sportswashing is definitely a strange one to throw at Abu Dhabi. If anything Sheikh Mansour’s investment in City has drawn attention to human rights issues in the UAE. Let's face it, you can understand why Russia and Saudi Arabia try to normalise themselves in world affairs by hosting events. They are for different reasons brutal regimes. They probably should be pariah nations but money talks.

If it wasn’t for City most punters would see Abu Dhabi as the duller more serious big brother of Dubai. Dubai has managed to host a number of events as a neutral venue for some sports or a safe place for others (Afghani cricketers). It is primarily a Middle East business and tourist spot, bit gaudy for me, but until recently no one has been particularly concerned with human rights there. It’s pretty safe, friendly to western ideals and very modern and as a result the average construction worker wasn’t really give much thought until recently.

I’m all for highlighting issues like abuse of workers or lack of journalistic freedom or poor human rights but very few people seemed to care about human rights in Abu Dhabi or UAE’s involvement in Yemen until City started winning. There is a general acceptance of the UAE as a western ally in an uncertain Middle East. Dubai is advertised extensively, emirates sponsor arsenal and the FA Cup. That doesn’t seem to be a problem. Nor was Sheikh Mansour’s investment in Barclays. Human rights weren’t an issue then. They are now though.

Equally it has become an established fact, despite the truth, that City are a state owned club. In fact one of the studies cited in the thesis referred to by RTE was by our old friend Nicholas McGeechan who decided City were state owned as Khaldoon is running the club. That was enough for him.

I would be far more comfortable with the bona fides of those denigrating the club, and now the supporters, if our rivals were given the same level of scrutiny. Newcastle obviously will be but outside that? Dodgy investment funds, dodgy betting sites, dodgy owners in general. All mostly, a few determined journalists aside, ignored.

The focus has been on us and lately Newcastle, though I resent the lumping both together. UAE and Saudi are completely different cases in terms of human rights and Newcastle are far more clearly state owned. Throwing us both in the same lot suits our detractors and has a smell of something more sinister.

At the weekend there was a protest about Ahmed Mansoor around City which, without City’s Abu Dhabi connection, wouldn’t have had the same profile. Sheikh Mansour’s ownership far from sportswashing UAE’s reputation puts it in the spotlight. His connection to City shines a light of certain matters that would ordinarily be unseen.

I wish, though, that those decrying UAE over human rights and other issues did so for moral and ethical purposes rather than partisan sporting reasons. Journalists like Ronay can bask in Russian hospitality while castigating our Emirati owner. Football has often had dubious morals, it would be better if standards were applied equally.

 

[cheekybids]

Whilst it’s what we want, it kind of makes the point that it’s irrelevant.

He spoke up on Covid and got us put in tier 3!

Lol now you make that point…..

 

[moomba]

Bit selfish that!

What about my kids, they don't want the ride to end and eventually they will have their own kids being brought up on tales of this incredible period?

Plenty of us feel we have suffered for their future and has probably cost us many more years of life.

Character building.

And I think regardless of the outcome, this won't stop us. Just a temporary setback if it doesn't go our way.

 

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

Nick Buckley

Thankfully for all of us this has absolutely no chance of actually happening.

 

[jimharri]

Let's try to keep the politics out of the discussion, please.

 

[citizen_maine]

I’ve seen some threads drift off topic, but this one has been swept away, large chunks of it need to go in off topic, so angry blokes can shout at each other in peace

The only thing worth reading is the opinion of people that actually have an understanding of the situation

Why are you posting then?


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