PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[I'm Blue]

Hahahaha....Leicester have just announced they are taking legal action against the Premier league and the EFL.

The whole thing is a farce and surely must collapse sooner or later.

I hope they are using legal aid and not employing expensive lawyers.

 

[Joe Donachie]

Being owned by Swales must be a close approximation.

I did a ground tour of Maine road the last year we were there, my dad took me and my brother at the time when we were in are teenage years, when we got to the trophy cabinet all the other dads were kicking off. There was no replica of the 68 leauge title and there was no FA Cup replica, no leauge cup replica or cup winners cup replica, I actually felt sorry for the young man taking us on the tour as there was a few disgruntled customers.Anyway he eventually explained that Peter swales wife took the replica trophies with her after the bad fall out with the club, he said the last he heard is they were put in a security vault in altrincham somewhere. She took them out of spite and claimed they were swales property.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I'm not arguing for PSR, but I thought the argument for not uprating with inflation was that they didn't want clubs losing money.

The £105m isn't a figure that they've decided is a fair level to lose/invest in a club, it was there to give some flexibility when the rules were introduced. Ten years on, clubs have had plenty of time to make sure their finances are compliant.

But the £105 million, by any measure, is plainly anachronistic

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I did a ground tour of Maine road the last year we were there, my dad took me and my brother at the time when we were in are teenage years, when we got to the trophy cabinet all the other dads were kicking off. There was no replica of the 68 leauge title and there was no FA Cup replica, no leauge cup replica or cup winners cup replica, I actually felt sorry for the young man taking us on the tour as there was a few disgruntled customers.Anyway he eventually explained that Peter swales wife took the replica trophies with her after the bad fall out with the club, he said the last he heard is they were put in a security vault in altrincham somewhere. She took them out of spite and claimed they were swales property.

Probably sat In his front room stuffed with all the cash the **** skimmed off the gate money.

 

[bluenova]

But the £105 million, by any measure, is plainly anachronistic

If the idea is for clubs not to make losses, then a figure that is relatively generous when the rules are brought in, but is gradually reduced over time due to inflation, is perfectly logical.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

If the idea is for clubs not to make losses, then a figure that is relatively generous when the rules are brought in, but is gradually reduced over time due to inflation, is perfectly logical.

The idea plainly isn’t for clubs not to make losses, or losses wouldn’t be manifestly allowable.

 

[asgoodasitgets]

The two aren’t mutually exclusive and in my estimation he is unquestionably useless.

Firstly, he was picked after others were appointed and subsequently inexplicably resiled from taking the role. That is very telling imo, given the profile and responsibility attached to the job. Being offered a such a job then walking away is highly unusual. For it to happen more than once, truly exceptional. This demonstrates that he wasn’t objectively the ‘best’ candidate and also that he was likely prepared to operate in a way the others weren’t - but that doesn’t stop him being useless,

Secondly, he has spectacularly miscalculated with regards to these charges against City and has placed the PL in a wholly unnecessary and invidious position. This demonstrates extremely poor judgement and lack of vision, both loudly proclaiming his uselessness.

Thirdly is the wider way the financial rules are currently playing out within the most successful sporting brand in human history, on his watch. He is presiding over a farce in relation to financial restrictions within the most commercially successful sporting product on the planet. That is actually absurd and further underlines his uselessness.

Fourthly, I’ve seen and heard him talk. A conspicuously unimpressive and uncharacteristic man. Not someone who I think it remotely suited to a role that is palpably considerably above his talents.

In short, he is a useless ****.

Your first five paragraphs , whilst illuminating , well put and extremely interesting , are actually superfluous.
Your final five words were all that was needed .

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Your first five paragraphs , whilst illuminating , well put and extremely interesting , are actually superfluous.
Your final five words were all that was needed .

Yeah, well that’s how I roll…

 

[Joe Donachie]

If you want to sound less silly you need to stop using an exclaimation mark after every single sentence.

Although the above post amused me because the only sentence you didn't use one (the last one) was the only one that actually merited one.

Oh no your one of them Cheshire flat caps in the Colin bell stand.

 

[bluenova]

The idea plainly isn’t for clubs not to make losses, or losses wouldn’t be manifestly allowable.

But the idea isn't to encourage losses - it's to accept that they may occur, but to try and minimise them.

It makes sense for it to be higher when the rules are introduced, as clubs will have contracts with players, outstanding transfer fees etc.

Increasing the amounts involved would suggest that losses are fine.

To put the £213m that Kieran Maguire mentions in context; while it's not enough to help any club compete with the top Premier League clubs, it's still a significant amount to lose. There are only twenty football clubs in the World with yearly revenues higher than that figure.