PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[chesterbells]

I have had the same. Its only the rags and dippers that have a problem with us

And arsenal?

 

[Winchester]

The only Spurs fan who spoke to me just mouthed "Ya fackin' norfern mankey caaant".

Was that Sir Alan Sugar?

 

[bluwes]

I don't think the Guardian journalist expected this reply from Ceferin.

This brings us to state-run clubs. Some would say we have sleepwalked into this issue: that European football wasn’t ready for their influence and stranglehold. Does it worry you that this has escalated during your tenure?

I’m not worried about state-owned clubs as long as they respect the rules. I’m more worried about hedge fund-owned clubs. With hedge funds, you never know exactly who is behind them. It’s very hard to know because they are, many times, managing money for investors. Where I see a big difference, and maybe this is a bit simplistic, is that state-owned clubs want to win. Whether it’s also for name-washing or not, I don’t enter into this. But they want to win. With purely financial funds it’s important to get money and winning is not the main goal. For state-owned clubs, the goal is not to take money out, so I think those clubs should be more sustainable. With the others, it’s very hard to know who is behind it. It can also be a hedge fund where a state is behind it. But I prefer that it’s clear ownership. And the rules are clear: if they don’t respect them, they get punished.

That was a remarkable admission and totally goes with what we have been saying on here for years

 

[bluwes]

Was that Sir Alan Sugar?

Excuse me, it’s Lord Sugar I’ll have you know

 

[cheekybids]

Ceferin made the comments on purpose. There is absolutely no doubt about that. Ceferin could have easily said no comment or told the reporter not to ask him about Manchester City and FFP. He is a lawyer after all. But he decided to make the most of the opportunity afforded to him by the DT reporter, knowing his comments about City and FFP would be printed.

Doing this after Khaldoon and City held out an olive branch to Ceferin and UEFA, thinking Ceferin and UEFA had moved on and it was over.

Ceferin by his actions has shown it will never be over for him and UEFA after their humiliation at CAS.

Comments made towards Man City by Uefa chief Aleksander Ceferin were ‘staggeringly unprofessional’ and indicative of a ‘megalomaniac’.

That is the view of finance expert Kieran Maguire, who spoke exclusively to Football Insider about Ceferin’s comments about City’s financial breaches.

Maguire believes Ceferin’s comments effectively accused City of being guilty before their independent hearing has even begun.

Man City: Kieran Maguire labels Ceferin a 'narcissistic megalomaniac'

Football Insider has been told by Kieran Maguire that Aleksander Ceferin's comments towards Man City were 'staggeringly unprofessional'.

www.footballinsider247.com

Everyone talks about Ceferin being a lawyer but he’s actually a politician…… a self serving politician who will curry favour & headlines whenever he thinks it serves his purpose.

 

[Winchester]

Excuse me, it’s Lord Sugar I’ll have you know

Pedantic Blue

 

[cheekybids]

Slightly less inflammatory/more conciliatory language from Ceferin here in his latest interview?

‘It was like I became Kim Jong-un’: Aleksander Ceferin on Uefa, Super Leagues and Saudi cash

Exclusive: the combative Uefa president talks about his controversial plans that prompted Boban’s exit, Super League threats and football in a time of war

www.theguardian.com

He refused to answer a few questions which shows he’d was happy to throw City under a bus a few days ago.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Lord Alan Sugar takes sweeteners I heard.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

I've done the first of a series of pieces on my blog about the first group of charges, which are seemingly all connected to the Etihad & Etisalat sponsorships.

Manchester City’s PL charges explained – Part 1

Accounts, sponsorships and related parties

open.substack.com

Good stuff PB. Inviting you to speculate, any particular reason you can think of why the Abu Dhabi Executive Council decided to subsidise Etihad’s contribution to our coffers, rather than just sponsor us themselves? Presentation?

 

[dickie davies]

Good stuff PB. Inviting you to speculate, any particular reason you can think of why the Abu Dhabi Executive Council decided to subsidise Etihad’s contribution to our coffers, rather than just sponsor us themselves? Presentation?

Etihad didn't have the money, but as they are state owned the Abu Dhabi government was subsidising Etihad's losses
It was all revealed in a court case in the US