PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[eastmanc]

Boycotting Dominoes! Cardboard overpriced imitation pizza. No hardship.

Overpriced shite. Our takeaways pizza at the bottom of our street is nicer and a quarter of the price and they don't take the piss out of City.

 

[moomba]

The coverage really does smell like that now. The favoured few are being fed lines from the PL or Club Directors so the narrative will become "City were saved by Government interference." It is a very orchestrated campaign against City. This sort of coverage doesn't happen by accident.
I presume the Ziegler story is based on getting no comment (during an election period) on a question like: "Have the Government mentioned City's case to anyone in the UAE Government" This is a classic way to fabricate a fake news story. A bit like the old saying: "When did you stop beating your wife."

it was reported as a discussion between two different arms of the UK government. The usual wet wipes presumed it was a discussion between the UK and UAE authorities.

Ziegler would know this very well, and for me it's a deliberate misrepresentation.

 

[Bellamy's Caddy]

No true blue should ever read the MUEN. It’s utter horseshit.

I stopped reading it regularly years ago, as it had become clickbait nonsense. The actual design and layout of the site is gbh of the eyes, before you even get to the drivel written on it.

I still see the occasional article and can't get over how a local newspaper can be so obviously negative about one of it's main clubs. The Liverpool echo is more partisan than a fanzine in its support of their teams, which isn't a great look, but you would expect the local paper to at least not look to stick the boot in at every opportunity and add further fuel.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

it was reported as a discussion between two different arms of the UK government. The usual wet wipes presumed it was a discussion between the UK and UAE authorities.

Ziegler would know this very well, and for me it's a deliberate misrepresentation.

It is a fabricated story and Ziegler must know what he is doing. He should be ashamed. This sort of click bait fake news damages the Times’s brand.

 

[SilverFox2]

Hope he’s not bluffing.

Good point but his fairly recent financial court victory against I think RM being CEO of the AD construction company shows he can legally prove as well as talk.

 

[mcfcphil]

it was reported as a discussion between two different arms of the UK government. The usual wet wipes presumed it was a discussion between the UK and UAE authorities.

Ziegler would know this very well, and for me it's a deliberate misrepresentation.

Further to that - it would be pretty strange if the UK government didn’t have a conversation with its embassy in a country which was a major investor and one of its major investment groups had been charged with fraud.

 

[wolviedinho]

Think this will keep going until the Euros. Then those PSR clubs start sweating. Then once the team get knocked out the press will blame a single player. Then it's full strength United winning the community shield v our reserves. They'll claim they'll win the league like Arsenal and Liverpool did and then we get to work.

Those PSR clubs need ransacked by City before the red cunts get in.

Fuck em, get some good deals city.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

It is a fabricated story and Ziegler must know what he is doing. He should be ashamed. This sort of click bait fake news damages the Times’s brand.

Only by those who know what his motive is. Sadly it's lapped up because it's telling people what they want to hear, so in their eyes the brand only gets better. Especially when he's backed up by so many other disingenuous journos etc.

 

[bigA]

Liverpool - Sponsored by a bank that funds terrorism, launders money, breaks international sanctions.

Media reaction - Fine and all above board, great that one of our renowned chartered banks is linked to that fine football club.

Arsenal - Sponsored by a country with appalling human rights abuse records with atrocities such as arbitrary and illegal detentions and genocide.

Media reaction - Fine and all above board. Great to see a "developing" country investing in such a renowned football club. The government are returning that investment by offering people who entered our country after fleeing oppression from their country of origin safe haven in such a beautiful country that Rwanda is. And all for free.

Manchester United - A club over £¾ billion in debt, majority owned by a family who have taken out far more money than they have invested into the club. Minority owned by a British multi billionaire who has dodged paying tax to this country by a loophole that allows him to save £4 billion per year.

Media reaction - Nothing wrong here, great to see a British person investing into such a renowned football club who we fawn over no matter what

Manchester City - Bought by wealthy Sheik Mansour, Sponsored by a prestigious renowned Airline, owner has invested millions of pounds in regenerating a very socially and economically deprived area of Manchester transforming it into a thriving, money generating area for the local and national economy.

Media reaction - cheating bastards, state owned and funded by dirty oil money. A pariah to the Premier League, The FA and UEFA. Should be relegated, titles stripped and fined. This club should be wiped from the face of the earth for the good of the game and not be mentioned in the same breath as those other fine upstanding clubs.

 

[Bellamy's Caddy]

Liverpool - Sponsored by a bank that funds terrorism, launders money, breaks international sanctions.

Media reaction - Fine and all above board, great that one of our renowned chartered banks is linked to that fine football club.

Arsenal - Sponsored by a country with appalling human rights abuse records with atrocities such as arbitrary and illegal detentions and genocide.

Media reaction - Fine and all above board. Great to see a "developing" country investing in such a renowned football club. The government are returning that investment by offering people who entered our country after fleeing oppression from their country of origin safe haven in such a beautiful country that Rwanda is. And all for free.

Manchester United - A club over £¾ billion in debt, majority owned by a family who have taken out far more money than they have invested into the club. Minority owned by a British multi billionaire who has dodged paying tax to this country by a loophole that allows him to save £4 billion per year.


Media reaction - Nothing wrong here, great to see a British person investing into such a renowned football club who we fawn over no matter what

Manchester City - bought by wealthy Sheik Mansour, Sponsored by a prestigious renowned Airline, owner has invested millions of pounds in regenerating a very socially and economically deprived area of Manchester transforming it into a thriving, money generating area for the local and national economy.

Media reaction - cheating bastards, state owned and funded by dirty oil money. A pariah to the Premier League, The FA and UEFA. Should be relegated, titles stripped and fined. This club should be wiped from the face of the earth for the good of the game and not be mentioned in the same breath as those other fine upstanding clubs.

My absolute favourite example of the hypocrisy involved, was that bizarre banner at the Emirates a couple of seasons ago. I can't remember the exact wording, but it was having a pop at 'oil money' and referring to their history. A banner, in that stadium, bemoaning Middle Eastern investment, that wasn't a parody... Wow.