PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Legal Alien]

I think there was a post yesterday pointing out that of all people, Liverpool fans more than any should be wary of believing the headlines in the press before all the facts are known. Also, that proper justice takes time. To that extent the comparison with Hillsborough is apt - innocent until proven guilty etc.

Exactly.
It's very ironic that a fanbase that despise and banned a certain newspaper for printing alleged lies because of that, believe everything they read and hear in the media about us. YCMIU!

 

[Cobwebcat]

Not a huge surprise that the vote passed - I can't think what benefit anyone outside the European spots would have to not reduce the effect of the extra income.

Villa look like they'll make 4th (I do hope they do), so they would naturally not want to hamstring themselves.

14 votes to pass it though if no-one abstained - so one of the 'big 6' voted for the idea.

Spurs at a guess

 

[JASR]

The fallout will be that we are cleared and innocent of all ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN CHARGES you gormless bitter rag ****

Take that back ... I'm not a... rag

 

[meltonblue]

Spurs at a guess

Spurs, Liverpool and Arsenal all voted for it.

 

[bluenova]

What the fuck have Luton towns commercial and tv revenues got to do with what we can afford to spend? Completely unrelated, and yet another pathetic attempt to derail us.

Also it means we can’t compete against actual bankrupt cunts like Barcelona. Fucking EPL madness

They have financial controls in La Liga. Barcelona's limit is something like £170m. They obviously spend more, so they're under strict rules about what happens to any extra money they raise, which is why they're going for free transfers, and have been asking players to take pay cuts.

Real Madrid have a limit well over £600m, so they're probably the only club in the World that we'd be unable to compete with under these rules.

It's obvious why City opposed though - our income has jumped a lot over the last couple of seasons, and we're right up against this limit now, so would be stuck with money we can't spend.

 

[Blue warrior]

What post was that?

Prestige car repairs basically said they heard from a good source that the charges have already been dropped mate.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Spurs at a guess

It's the only one that makes much sense, isn't it?

Any of them would benefit from limiting spending of those with higher income, but would also limit themselves in so doing.

The devil will be in the detail of how it's calculated.

 

[Cobwebcat]

Spurs, Liverpool and Arsenal all voted for it.

Surprised at the latter two.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Spurs, Liverpool and Arsenal all voted for it.

I hadn't seen that - I'd seen Ziegler mention some who voted against it, but nothing about who had voted for.

 

[Skrastins]

so 500mil on everything - transfer fee, wage and agent fee’s per season or ever?