PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Elbow beards]

Never heard of him either.

Made a very good film about him

 

[paulchapo]

I really can’t see it mattering one bit to anything. Pep makes a big play of the whole back room team being part of the success and it’s just an extension of that. A few clowns around a serious environment is a good thing and if the players like him then everyone’s a winner.

I know. As I keep.on repeating myself. Pep sees no harm in it, he appeared popular with the players but at times you saw more of him than the team. Something must have happened as why would you leave a job like that, which is probably well paid too.

 

[Mcfc1.9.8.0]

I know. As I keep.on repeating myself. Pep sees no harm in it, he appeared popular with the players but at times you saw more of him than the team. Something must have happened as why would you leave a job like that, which is probably well paid too.

He’s young and has a young family I presume so the job he’d have would mean spending a lot of time away from his family and pretty unsociable hours.

Having said that I’d more believe he was told leave or be sacked

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I know. As I keep.on repeating myself. Pep sees no harm in it, he appeared popular with the players but at times you saw more of him than the team. Something must have happened as why would you leave a job like that, which is probably well paid too.

I agree something weird may have happened. Unless his family got fed up of him working weekends I suppose. It feels a bit the same with the grounds man. These are not jobs that grow on trees. Anyway, not relevant to the thread so sorry everyone.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Not the case, look at any club and usually the kit man is the one that helps build up the camaraderie between the players and the back room staff, who they have to work with on a daily basis, same as Chappie did before him

Name a couple mate?

 

[Stoned Rose]

Made a very good film about him
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Van der Beek’s gone downhill.

 

[paulchapo]

Vic Akers at Arsenal was a well-known kit man, who won numerous trophies as manager of Arsenal Ladies before taking on the kit man role. He got the OBE after he stepped down. Jimmy Martin at Everton was another legendary figure. But those are the only ones I could name.

Bizarre. I guess occasionally a long serving backroom staff member in any company gets an honour, like a tea lady for forty years. I expect to see Brandon on Britain's got talent soon.

 

[cheekybids]

I'm sure I'm not the only person feeling quietly confident, but also with a nagging doubt that there might be something lurking in the background.

For reassurance I watched one of Stefan's interviews on Talksport following the Leicester loophole.
He was asked if City could find any similar loopholes and he immediately asserted that City had been charged for something surrounding the Mancini contract that technically wasn't even the rule at that precise moment in time

Naturally he was interrupted by the sneering Jordan but if that's true, then alongside the wording of the Leicester loophole, and also the errors in the original publication of the PL allegations (grass too long etc) then that's already three errors that we're aware of, and the strong possibility that there might be more.

We still face a potential smoking gun, but surely someone would have heard something by now,. especially with Omar Berruda switching to the rags.

In fact the only thing that really concerns me is City's PR which for some reason, they deem to be unimportant.and maybe not even necessary
Khaldoon has been offered 2-3 opportunities to speak directly, but on each occasion has opted for a soft interview with Chris Bailey
I appreciate that he couldn't speak directly about the hearing, but he could have been more bullish about the CAS verdict and the subsequent revisionism from the usual suspects.
Instead he hid behind "I'll speak strongly after the verdict" which frankly, I fear will be too late, regardless of the outcome.

That's why I remain convinced that City will be exonerated of the serious charges, but it will be reported as though we got away with it.

That’s not a loophole they changed the rule years later.

 

[cheekybids]

For me this is not funny but stupid. I would like to know more about the charges from the specialists like Maguire or slbsn, not from all these twats who know nothing. Find proves, we will talk. After two years from 115 they are rewriting the same stories non stop.

KMIAC!

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

That’s not a loophole they changed the rule years later.

Can you stop derailing the kit man thread please.