PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[flook]

tbh having watched this BFS hasn't a clue what he's talking about. He thinks the issue over valuation of the stadium sponsoring is a matter of valuing the bricks and mortar

 

[SWP's back]

Has anyone seen the Stephen howson video that he did yesterday about if we get off with these charges??

Fuck no. Why would I?

 

[dadnlad]

Never forget that these “clubs” are actually an old boys network that loans out players, determines transfer fees and that on field competition is just one of the business relationships they have.

While it is clear there is an actual sporting competition at the heart of the PL, it is increasingly becoming a business, born of business relationships between multi-billionaire megalomaniacs used to getting their own way.

Mansour doesn’t eat at their table and, as such, has become the object of their hate and derision, much like a bad remake of the movie “Means Girls.”

It is not lost on many that City have completely changed the way PL clubs do business, not only domestically, but in their global CFG business, and there’s a reason it is being duplicated.

Just as people seem to think Boehly at Chelsea is a fucking idiot for the way he is running that club, so you have to understand he is a high level billionaire who operates sports franchises across the globe. He has CLEARLY studied PSR and FFP, and determined they have found where the holes in the Swiss cheese line up!

When you think of the money spent, and the results to date, it looks mental, but he can afford to play the long game, which is why they’ve vacuumed up the best young talent they can find, locked it in for 5-7 yrs and brought in a young manager who learned at the feet of the best manager in the world.

Boehly isn’t looking to 2025, he’s looking at 2025-2030…much like Khaldoon spoke of the 10 year Project here.

We assume these clubs all hate each other, just as we want City players to hate United and Liverpool players. NEWSFLASH: They don’t, and (with exceptions) never really have!

The football business makes too much money for too many serious people for there to be internecine warfare. However, they don’t want an outsider, especially one who has no need to play inside THEIR tent, to reap the majority of the spoils.

It’s no secret that the PL want the red shirts to have success, because their success drives the overseas TV revenues based on their legacy from the 2000’s, when global cable TV took off. Mansour and Khaldoon have upset that apple cart and have yet to come to their table to play nice. After this nuke attack, one wonders whether they’ve chosen MAD or believe they can get away with a pre-emptive strike and destroy Mansour. My money says they can’t and will only serve to inflict self-harm!

TBD.

you saw they really were all mate when the fourth division used to vote who stayed in and who got dumped
one for the FOC

 

[flook]

Allardyce has always been a rational guy, unfairly maligned due to football style and his accent by the gutter Oxbridge-type press. He practically helped invent modern sports science in this country but history has credited Wenger because "Le Professor" told his players to stop getting pissed the day before a game and he's a "French intellectual" rather than a fat Brummie who played organised football.

he's not bad with brown envelopes either

 

[Damocles]

he's not bad with brown envelopes either

True, but that doesn't make his achievements in the science behind football as any less relevant. He wasn't just one of the first to respect and value the academic side of sports science, he was the first to setup up video analysis, statistics and performance analysis departments at his club too. It was one of his big weapons in finding that extra 5% performance back when everybody thought stats/science was shot and irrelevant to football

 

[Inter Me Nan]

Has anyone seen the Stephen howson video that he did yesterday about if we get off with these charges??

Here's the highlights...

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

It shows people like Daniel Levy up for what he is. No wonder Spurs is one of the most underachieving clubs in the world with someone like him at the helm. He has wasted energy on hating City when he should have focused on his own club. The same applies to JW Henry and FSG. City have taken over in the USA. The backyard of FSG and the Glazers.

It’s not as complicated as that. Those owners you mention wanted to make money out of football and the City model and success has very much frustrated that. They wanted the ‘don’t spend much but have success virtually guaranteed’ model. Win the PL once out twice every 5/6 years, if any upstart threatens that hegemony, take their players and/or take their manager.
Let the PL clubs excluded from the group know that you can happily take their cash away by forming a new league, which is why they can pass any new rule they want.
I think going for a Super League, then openly trying to stop Newcastle and Villa, whilst going after Everton, Forest and Leicester, with the tacit support of the MSM, might have weakened their power base far more than they’ve thought through.
If City are largely exonerated, that groups time as PL kings will be well ands truly over…

 

[wattle]

Absolutely fucking exhausted with this! Can’t get up for any games, wasn’t arsed at the game on Wednesday and given my ticket up for today. I think they’ve finally beaten me. Someone (rag) was doing the usual ‘cheat’ chat last night and I couldn’t be arsed defending us. I’ve done it a thousand times and it’s just boring/monotonous now, especially as the fuckwhits won’t listen to any rational explanation/argument. Probably doesn’t help being autistic, but I’m totally burnt out with it. Just want it over with whatever the outcome.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

With Levy I’m not sure its “hate” as such - just naked self-interest. They’ve an expensive stadium to pay for :)

 

[SWP's back]

Allardyce has always been a rational guy, unfairly maligned due to football style and his accent by the gutter Oxbridge-type press. He practically helped invent modern sports science in this country but history has credited Wenger because "Le Professor" told his players to stop getting pissed the day before a game and he's a "French intellectual" rather than a fat Brummie who played organised football.

Whilst I agree, I remember having a long argument in a friendly way him for about 8 hours (started early on in a round of golf at Doha GC and continued afterwards during beers then back at Andy’s) where he was trying to convince anyone that would listen that football is always 442 in reality and that 433, 451, 4231 etc are just posh ways of saying 442.