PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Mate, you are making people on here believe bullshit about secret tapes and suings and mass conspiracy dossiers with that comment.

TThe Premier League don't want to hammer their brand with a punishment or ban or asterixes or any of that. But there is no smart bomb solution for City here apart from winning the case by whatever means necessary.

Haha, that's up to them, bud. No mention of tapes and such on my part.

The mutually assured destruction is simply City will not accept a guilty verdict and will bog it down in every court until we get the outcome we desire.

The Premier League don't want to hammer their brand, but that's what will happen with this pantomime.

 

[meltonblue]

Murdoch has dripped poison into the nations ear for decades. He has damaged us as much as any politician. It’s difficult to conceive how ownership of the Telegraph by one of the emirates could be worse than that. Only my opinion mind.

I agree but no government should have influence over another countries media. The potential vested interest goes to a whole different scale.

 

[meltonblue]

Incidently when was Mancini employed by Al Jazira as a consultant? - I'm fairly sure it was the summer well before he became City manager (just prior to Christmas) with City gaving him the managers job when Hughes kept on making a mess.
My sources in Abu Dhabi (where I worked for 2 years with Etisalat) said our chairman was very impressed with the chats he had with Mancini, about how football team management and coaching should be done, which is why he got the job when Hughes continually failed to deliver.
Whether these chats were through Ferrari F1 or consultancy or both I don't know.
It kind of makes the charge ludicrous - though some will claim it was a way to get him in and push Hughes out.

I doubt it , Mancini only met with Khaldoon and Mansour for the first time two weeks before he was offered the job for us.

 

[BlueAnorak]

I doubt it , Mancini only met with Khaldoon and Mansour for the first time two weeks before he was offered the job for us.

Not quite true.
They met through Ferrari as Abu Dhabi bought a 5% stake in Ferrari in 2005 and sold it to Fiat after the 3rd Abu Dhabi grand prix in 2010. (Possibly the 2nd GP as the sale back to Fiat was in November and the GP date moves around a bit.)
The Farrari paddock was awash with Abu Dhabi movers and shakers as a result and it helped them get support for the Abu Dhabi grand prix. Mancini can regularly be seen in the Ferrari paddock at races so it's inconceivable Mancini never met Sheikh Mansour or Khaldoon.

Fiat buys back Ferrari stake from Mubadala | The National

After five years Mubadala, the investment company of Abu Dhabi, is selling its 5 per cent stake in Ferrari back to Fiat which has exercised its option to buy back the share in the Italian luxury car maker.

www.thenationalnews.com

 

[meltonblue]

Not quite true.
They met through Ferrari as Abu Dhabi bought a 5% stake in Ferrari in 2005 and sold it to Fiat after the 3rd Abu Dhabi grand prix in 2010. (Possibly the 2nd GP as the sale back to Fiat was in November and the GP date moves around a bit.)
The Farrari paddock was awash with Abu Dhabi movers and shakers as a result and it helped them get support for the Abu Dhabi grand prix. Mancini can regularly be seen in the Ferrari paddock at races so it's inconceivable Mancini never met Sheikh Mansour or Khaldoon.

Fiat buys back Ferrari stake from Mubadala | The National

After five years Mubadala, the investment company of Abu Dhabi, is selling its 5 per cent stake in Ferrari back to Fiat which has exercised its option to buy back the share in the Italian luxury car maker.

www.thenationalnews.com

I’m just going off what he said himself about first contact. That may well have just been in a footballing capacity but still makes it very doubtful he had a contract with Al Jazira before he did with us, particularly given the leak of the contract he signed with them too.

 

[Bald fraud]

Incidently when was Mancini employed by Al Jazira as a consultant? - I'm fairly sure it was the summer well before he became City manager (just prior to Christmas) with City gaving him the managers job when Hughes kept on making a mess.
My sources in Abu Dhabi (where I worked for 2 years with Etisalat) said our chairman was very impressed with the chats he had with Mancini, about how football team management and coaching should be done, which is why he got the job when Hughes continually failed to deliver.
Whether these chats were through Ferrari F1 or consultancy or both I don't know.
It kind of makes the charge ludicrous - though some will claim it was a way to get him in and push Hughes out.

I thought he was invited over to watch us play. We were playing shite so he was offered the job at half time by khaldoon. Who then text Hughes to tell him he was sacked and to clear his desk after the game? Well that’s the way the media portrayed it anyway!

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I think what he means is City will fight to the end if they believe they are innocent and will use all available resources to try to protect themselves. After all it’s a multi billion dollar operation with reputations at stake with potentially thousands of employees under them.

Haha, that's up to them, bud. No mention of tapes and such on my part.

The mutually assured destruction is simply City will not accept a guilty verdict and will bog it down in every court until we get the outcome we desire.

The Premier League don't want to hammer their brand, but that's what will happen with this pantomime.

Yes, I’m sure this will be the case. I hope it doesn’t come to that and we prove our innocence of course. It is casting a cloud over everything and it’s not fair on the people responsible for this historic team.

 

[halfcenturyup]

I’m just going off what he said himself about first contact. That may well have just been in a footballing capacity but still makes it very doubtful he had a contract with Al Jazira before he did with us, particularly given the leak of the contract he signed with them too.

The Guardian reported at the time that Mancini and Khaldoon were "acquaintances" and I am pretty sure the chat at the time was that Mansour had been speaking to him about football issues. So I would imagine there was a prior relationship. If that was contracted, who knows?

As for what Mancini has said, that probably suits both parties. With all the noise around the appointment, the last thing that was needed was talk of some sort of plan to remove Hughes?

 

[meltonblue]

The Guardian reported at the time that Mancini and Khaldoon were "acquaintances" and I am pretty sure the chat at the time was that Mansour had been speaking to him about football issues. So I would imagine there was a prior relationship. If that was contracted, who knows?

As for what Mancini has said, that probably suits both parties. With all the noise around the appointment, the last thing that was needed was talk of some sort of plan to remove Hughes?

Yep, we then denied that and then Mansour himself said in a press conference that he’d met Khaldoon for the first time two weeks before he was offered the job, so Garry Cook at the time had to do a bit of backtracking.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

I think your missing the point if your post above is in response to the last few pages of comments on here

Explain