PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

LeonardoDaVnci said:
Have you ever read the bull shit in the MSM that goes just a tad deeper than "115 charges for cheating?" They are completely and utterly clueless, eg are we state owned or state funded by the UAE or state owned or state funded by Abu Dhabi or are we owned by HHSM, or are we owned by ADUG, or by the City Football Group.Or are we just state backed by the UAE or just state backed by Abu Dhabi, is there a difference ? So when Etihad Airways sponsorsed MCFC in 2011, did the funds utlimately flow from HHSM or from Abu Dhabi or from the UAE or from ADUG. Or did the funds flow from a bloke called Mr Jabber ? or was it from Etisalat? Does anyone know exactly how those funds ended up in the MCFC business account at Barclays. This issue is of grave importance to the PL, the FA, and UEFA. It's also in the national interest. It's really vital that we know how that money ended up in that Barclays account. The whole nation is absolutely desperate to know. Was it disguised owner equity funding by HHSM, or was it disguised state funding by the UAE or was it Abu Dhabi ? or was it Jabber. Never before in the history of Western Civ has so much shite been written about what amounts to a handful of bank transactions from a Middle Eastern airline to a football club in East Manchester.
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This is where the latest bullshit originates from. It's pure, utter unadulterated hatred & bitter bile.

They fuckin hate us!

"No other football club in the world spends as much money on players as Manchester City. The CIES Football Observatory added up the transfer fees paid by the "Cityzens" over the last 10 years and arrived at a total of 1.7 billion euros."

"The team’s financial resources seem unlimited. After all, it is owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the Abu Dhabi ruling family."

"But the proximity of the English club to the authoritarian nation of United Arab Emirates is a political issue."

"The Clubs leadership employs some of the best-known and most expensive lawyers in Britain in the attempt to ward off accusations made against the team’s business practices and to slow down investigations into rules violations."

https://www.spiegel.de/internationa...-state-a-2ad5b586-1d82-4a21-8065-f3c081cd91a4
 
Dribble said:
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This is where the latest bullshit originates from. It's pure, utter unadulterated hatred & bitter bile.

They fuckin hate us!

"No other football club in the world spends as much money on players as Manchester City. The CIES Football Observatory added up the transfer fees paid by the "Cityzens" over the last 10 years and arrived at a total of 1.7 billion euros."

"The team’s financial resources seem unlimited. After all, it is owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the Abu Dhabi ruling family."

"But the proximity of the English club to the authoritarian nation of United Arab Emirates is a political issue."

"The Clubs leadership employs some of the best-known and most expensive lawyers in Britain in the attempt to ward off accusations made against the team’s business practices and to slow down investigations into rules violations."

https://www.spiegel.de/internationa...-state-a-2ad5b586-1d82-4a21-8065-f3c081cd91a4
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When HHSM bought MCFC, the purchase was completed with 100% approval from the PL, the FA and the UKGOV.

So wtf does this even mean...

"But the proximity of the English club to the authoritarian nation of United Arab Emirates is a political issue."

Its probably coded language for City are better than Bayern now, and we are so pissed off about it we will say literally anything to go back to the good old days.
 
LeonardoDaVnci said:
Its probably coded language for City are better than Bayern now, and we are so pissed off about it we will say literally anything to go back to the good old days.
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Ah Bayern. Who at one time were getting the highest commercial income in the world at something like 55% of their income (for most other teams it was like a third). And who were some of their sponsors? Allianz, Audi and Adidas, all of which had a stake in the club. But apparently they don't count as related parties, and no-one had a problem with a club that doesn't get anything like the coverage of the Premier League or La Liga having the highest commercial income, because they're not owned by Arabs.

ETA: They still had the highest commercial income of any club in 2022/23.
 
Dribble said:
I've read both accounts of either ADUG or the Abu Dhabi Central Marketing Fund (or something like that) who made the payments, either directly or through Jaber Mohammed to Manchester City, hence why I was asking for clarification, as one is the majority owner of CFG & the other is a state owned concern.

Again I read the repayments were made by Etisalat to either ADUG, the Abu Dhabi Central Marketing Fund (whatever they're called), or Jaber Mohammed. I also found accounts saying Etihad made repayments to one or the other companies, but other reports not confirming if a repayment was ever made.

@Prestwich_Blue has done a brilliant job of unpicking all of this, so at least we all better understand who paid what to whom, when & why.

If (as it seems) all of this has already been litigated, it beggars belief that the PL have exhumed this 2014 corpse & are trying to breathe life into it AGAIN...
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The funding of the sponsorships wasn't looked at in 2014. That was only looked at in 2019 after the der Spiegel leaks.
 
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