PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[bell_mcfc]

Im based in Winchester and have been to 2 different pubs the last two evenings. Both nights I’m sat on a table next to groups slagging City off. Charges, overated, bought it all. I’m just sat here smiling listening to this rubbish.

They act like they don’t care but it’s all they can talk about.

 

[halfcenturyup]

As I said on here maybe 6 months ago, there were always going to be changes as Utd have a new owner who wants to spend, the Saudis at Newcastle want to spend,
Boehly wants to spend, Liverpool will inevitably get new owners shortly who will want to spend.

It’s been my position all along that the notion of ‘red shirts who hate city’ is out of date. Boehly and Radcliffe are actively seeking a close alignment with City now who have become the pinnacle to aim at.

It’s also important to acknowledge that Soriano would have a month long erection at the thought of New York City playing Los Angeles United, Liverpool Texans and Chicago Blues.

None of that is anything to do with my point .....

 

[blue for life]

Im based in Winchester and have been to 2 different pubs the last two evenings. Both nights I’m sat on a table next to groups slagging City off. Charges, overated, bought it all. I’m just sat here smiling listening to this rubbish.

They act like they don’t care but it’s all they can talk about.

I don’t think I could help myself in that situation!

 

[halfcenturyup]

The tax is what makes it sustainable. It's punishing enough that you can't keep paying it forever (so you have to either reduce spedning or increase growth in the medium to long term), but you can still make calculated decisions to invest and see the profits of that later. The tax brackets go up the more successive eyars you're in breach, and there's a hard cap after which you can't sign new players.


To put this in perspective, the LA Clippers are paying $155m to the other 29 NBA teams this season in taxes to allow them to spend ~$200m on wages instead of the allowed $150m.

But the Miami Heat who are only exceding their cap by a bit ($8m) are only paying $13m.

I will have a think about all that after I have stopped laughing at United. My first thought is that it may be useful in the closed-shop world of US sports, but less useful here.

I suspect the chosen "headlined" solution of a "luxury tax" in the article probably has more to do with the source of the article, rather than any finalised proposal. It also talks about "anchors" and other possibilities, after all.

 

[KS55]

Er..how can players be reassigned? Surely a translation of the US draft system, but here in the UK we have freedom of contract and tight employment laws. You cant just “reassign” players.
I call Liverpool inspired bollocks.

 

[jrb]

Billionaire Joe Lewis, whose family trust owns Tottenham Hotspur football club, was fined $5m (£4m) Thursday, but will avoid prison after pleading guilty to insider trading.

This is the story of how his plan to enrich his lovers, friends, and employees unravelled.

Joe Lewis: How one of Britain's richest people broke insider trading laws

The 87-year-old - whose family trust owns Tottenham Hotspur - gave secret stock tips to his girlfriend and employees.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

I'm sorry? you think a headline like

Man City stars reassigned after FFP ‘expulsion’: Foden to Chelsea as CB gets ‘dream’ Liverpool move​

doesn't suggest an anti-city policy?

I'm confused, how could any city player get a move to Liverpool when they already have the bestest players in the world in every position bought for pennies?

 

[cheekybids]

Media literacy on here is awful. We frequently see people mistake a journalist reporting a quote as the journalist saying the quote, as well as blaming news outlets for the accuracy of their user comments FFS.

I read F365 most days because it’s a good aggregator. Sometimes they try a bit hard to be funny, but they’ve got nothing against the club unless your standard is that everyone less committed to City than Pete the badge is part of a campaign against the club.

Then again, there is literally not a single news outlet in the sport that hasn’t been deemed to be part of the rag dipper media conspiracy so I don’t know why I even bother pointing out when someone talks that bollocks for the 8,000th time.

It’s intended by the media organisation to portray that way. How many interviews do they have with a polar opposite viewpoint.

 

[mancboy]

It’s intended by the media organisation to portray that way. How many interviews do they have with a polar opposite viewpoint.

The problem with the media for me is quite simply that they have forgotten that their opinion is not news, the event that happened is news and their spin on it is secondary.

 

[Kippax77]

Im based in Winchester and have been to 2 different pubs the last two evenings. Both nights I’m sat on a table next to groups slagging City off. Charges, overated, bought it all. I’m just sat here smiling listening to this rubbish.

They act like they don’t care but it’s all they can talk about.

The media only exists because of lemmings