PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Sky Blue Thinking]

We should absolutely hammer the media for their part in it. Hire a production company to do a documentary in the same style the anti-City one was done, that would be very apt. Funding could be done via go a fund me, by City fans. That would mean more than if the club paid for it(though there's nothing stopping Khaldoon donating ;) ). Get them to do full run down on what was written about the club, how unsubstantiated the claims were(what was missing to make the claims they made), the one sidedness of it, the ferocity of it compared to other examples. Such as Liverpool falling outside the break even limit 2014, the Stanley Park book cooking, the hacking scandal. The United FFP breach(it's like that never happened already). The betting 'shell companies' that sponsored United and Arsenal etc. Even the Chelsea scandal, the press/sky/bbc/talksport don't give a shit in comparison. Also, what was written about the fans. Followed by a compilation of attacks on City fans and employees that took place since their relentless hate-mongering campaign began in 2019(could start sooner but we don't need to go full Liverpool with it).

They will no doubt claim we are being sensational with it(which would be ironic given their profession), that they can't be held responsible for other people's actions. Which we would be in a sense(some of their own medicine is exactly what they deserve, to make them see the errors of their ways, hopefully). However, they know damn well who their target audience is and how easily the knuckle draggers can be persuaded into certain lines of thought(they make a living off it). Such as City are villains and City fans have been weaponised by the state Abu Dhabi. Some of these idiots clearly do think it's anything goes because of the way the club and it's fanbase has been portrayed for so long. Unprovoked verbal abuse and taunts even on non matchdays seems quite common if you're wearing a City shirt in some quarters. It seems more silly to think this anti-city media campaign had 'nothing at all' to do with some of the attacks that have taken place since they took it into overdrive in 2019. From what I remember, they've all come after City wins, across multiple competitions(FA cup, CL, PL), against City fans of mutliple age groups. Not even kids(Villa) or the ederly(Club Brugge?) are off limits to them it seems.

We could bring Roger Cook out of retirement to buttonhole journalists and media types 'I'd like to talk to you about your reporting of MCFC'

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I'm past explaining this shit to opposition fans. They couldn't care less about the details anyway.

As far as they're concerned, believing our success is down to us being FFP cheats, allows them to sleep at night.

Facing the fact that 'Likkle Citeh' have been the dominant UK team for the last 10 years is too much for them to bear.

They can't take it, so it's better to live under the FFP cheats delusion, than face the fact we've got the best manager in the history of football, the best owner, & the best management team too.

To quantify this, I'm yet to happen across ONE opposition fan who even knows what the 115 charges are, let alone what our defence is, or the state of our finances!

They STILL believe Sheikh Mansour gives us £1bn per season for transfers, because we've got no fans, hence why our ground is always empty, meaning we barely earn a bean in legal revenue.

Fuck the brain dead gimps. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠⊙⁠_⁠ʖ⁠⊙⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

City have to be cheating. I've finally come to that conclusion.
After all, if Liverpool have the best keeper in the world, best back up keeper, best full back (even though he doesn't play as a full back) best central defender, best midfield and best striker in the world, with the best coach running the club on a shoe string budget, playing in the best stadium with the best set of fans with the best anthem, who put on the best parades..... surely you'd have to be cheating to be better than them?

 

[Gary James]

Which newspaper is this from?

Newcastle Journal

 

[pauls]

We just about crossed the drawbridge before the portculis was raised & slammed shut, so I suppose what was the Sky 4 has now become the big 5, plus Spuds who've done fuck all to be included aside from regular top 6 finishes, hence 5 becoming 6 to accommodate them.

We told the sporting world that FFP would enshrine the European elite, & create a glass ceiling just as intended, & they ignored us.

But here's an uncomfortable question the Sky 4 always choke on. If Sheikh Mansour had secured his original target Arseholes, & City were broke & continued to flirt with relegation every season, would FFP had seen the light of day?

Anyone recall the strong rumours 12-13 years ago that Qatar were looking to buy ManUre & the Under pressure Glazers were considering it? If that deal would've gone through, would anyone be calling the Rags an oil money club, & would FFP seen the light of day?

What about the Chavs? Abramovich made his dough from Russian oil, but who recalls them ever being called an oil money club?

It seems oil involvement in football only becomes an issue if the commodity is owned by brown people & is being spent on clubs outside the European elite. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠⊙⁠_⁠ʖ⁠⊙⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I would like to know the names of the people who created the FFP concept. Then subsequently their affiliation and potential vested interest. This would definitively prove what was the motive.

 

[Gary James]

I've updated the buying success feature to include another cutting on Everton. This one is from the Liverpool Daily Post basically congratulating Everton on their 'buying success' approach:

Buying Success?

In recent years it has become fashionable to claim that football is all about money these days and that certain clubs have ‘bought success’. Well, that may or may not be true but what i…

gjfootballarchive.com

 

[waspish]

The whole of the football world, knew exactly what this was for.

Although it wasn’t us, but PSG that completely destabilised the market, overinflated prices, and destroyed the idea of contracts with the Neymar transfer.

We took more than a decade post takeover to splash the first 100 million transfer, and even then, most of our own transfers are within 40-80. We are spending more on infrastructure now, and have done, than we have ever spent on players, and managers.

But it’s the stupidity of pointing the on field success and cross referencing it with the world play “bought trophies“, that never fails to amaze me.

FFP is their creation, and it got to an abomination stage where the SuperLeague was required to continue to remain sustainable for most clubs. Of everyone in the SL chat, we were the best in terms of cash and debt. We still are.

I have no doubt we’ll win the spout with the PL, but i cannot see a victory without blood-shed on both sides.

Although another certainty of mine is, that within the next two years, FFP will draw so much blood from the cartel, it will be dismantled.

It's called PSR(Profitability Sustainability Rules) and clubs knowing now that you can be docked points now just a fine, it will be taken more seriously! So Reckon in 3/5 years time everything will of calmed down...

 

[M18CTID]

We could bring Roger Cook out of retirement to buttonhole journalists and media types 'I'd like to talk to you about your reporting of MCFC'

I think the last time I saw Roger Cook on TV, he was getting into a spot of bother with the Triads in Manchester!

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

I think the last time I saw Roger Cook on TV, he was getting into a spot of bother with the Triads in Manchester!

He did have a habit of upsetting some naughty people.

 

[I'm Blue]

Didn't they vote FOR it?

They also put their name on a certain letter.
Different owners maybe but my fucks given are still zero.

 

[Dribble]

I would like to know the names of the people who created the FFP concept. Then subsequently their affiliation and potential vested interest. This would definitively prove what was the motive.

David Gill c/o Old Toilet.

UEFA's sustainability & debt plan which had been going round in circles since 2002 & getting nowhere, was very quickly rehashed into FFP within 12 months of Sheikh Mansour's ownership, to stop City.

Apparently we complained about Gill's conflict of interest which fell on deaf ears, as he laughed that City were nowhere near being a rival to ManUre.

They shit themselves over Berbatov, went mad over Tevez, Ferguson called us noisy neighbours & claimed we'd never finish above the Rags in his lifetime, & here we are nearly 15 years later. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯