PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

So why do they still generate more money from the Premier League than us, Their games are shown live every week and still the most talked about club on Skysports, The Glazers will not give a fuck about winning the title when they are still earning more than the rest from the league,

It's all about past glories and so-called history that is what they are trying to protect, They don't want Manchester City to end up with a better history and records than them in the next 20 years. Manchester City are building a legacy that going to be 2nd to none

City have generated more income from the Premier League than United in recent years. See the link below for 22/23.
We had more live matches than them (combined SKY,TNT, Amazon) and alos won a bit more for finishing as Champions

Premier League central payments to clubs 2022/23

www.premierleague.com

 

[BeerIsTheBest]

It means anything older than six years from February 2023 is time limited unless fraud or concealment are involved. So it's good.

I’ve always believed that another material point Which May be highly relevant is that there are statutory requirements on retention of records like tax. I’ve worked for many businesses who have diligently removed records each year at trigger points. Some of the earliest charges will require production of evidence which simply and quite legitimately may no longer exist.

 

[Maly]

You should try it. Maybe on a temporary basis. A change is as good as a rest. Seeing as you're in East Manchester, you're not that far from Leeds. You could support them while they are winning and gain promotion. Then, you can come back to City next year, totally refreshed, when the charges are done with and City have all new players. That will be just in time for when Leeds start getting hammered again, in the Premier League.

I started as a Liverpool fan, then a United fan, then Chelsea & then City since about 2010

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Not interested in football then, just glory by association.

 

[M18CTID]

They have 25% share in city too.

Which often gets overlooked. Not all American owners of football clubs follow the same business model. Randy Lerner put a fair chunk of his own money into Villa - before it all went pear-shaped - in order to try and get them top 4 initially and then build on that. The American/Canadian owners of Wrexham have also invested a lot of money to try and get them up the divisions. These examples are markedly different from the strategy of the American owners of United, Liverpool, and Arsenal, although it has to be said that there’s been a lot of loosening of the purse strings at Arsenal in recent seasons.

 

[M18CTID]

AC Milan were also heavily involved in changing the rules from focusing on debt to what we've got now. Platini mentioned it on the interview with Martin Samuels, Platini said Berlusconi came to him and said something along the lines of he'd already put enough money in to AC Milan to make them succesful and that he didn't want to put any more in but if more people invested in other clubs the way he had with AC Milan this would create more competition for them and he'd have to continue to invest.

I remember that interview. Pretty sure Inter’s owner said something similar too

 

[Donmcfc]

It's a classic political strategy mate, I mean Roman historians talking about the Second Triumvirate wrote about it.

It is about drawing lines. You have to draw the lines of moral acceptability so that you are inside of them but your opponents are outside of them, no matter how squiggly those lines are they will be justifiable with the right rhetoric. It's simple really, you investigate human rights abuses of owners but not minority owners. Or full owners but not sponsors. Or owners and major sponsors but not minority sponsors. It's a sort of moral gerrymandering and they all engage in it, arguably its the basis of all political science itself.

Is the Second Triumvirate now called The Championship?

 

[Damocles]

Is the Second Triumvirate now called The Championship?

Arguably the second did more damage to the Republic so its more like the EurRomanpean Super League

 

[kaz7]

Well, this narrative that a 'red cartel'/'PL cabal' assembled in an under ground bunker, and created FFPR to stop Arab owners, could not be further from the truth. The Glazers, Gillet & Hicks, Kroenke & Lerner did not want anyone snooping around in their financials, especially after saddling those clubs with huge debts from LBO's and asset stripping for their own financial gain. And Arsenal had just spent 1 billion on a new stadium. Abramovic was definitely not in favour of financial regulation, either.

FFPR came from France and Germany. It was not created here. The only reason why it was adopted so wholeheartedly by the PL, was to stop their prized assets from being bought out by American businessmen and hedge funds trying to make a quick buck. They feared that if enough American owners could get a strangle hold over the league, then the possibility of a European Super league would be unstoppable. And it almost did happen. FFPR was the only thing that they could use to put them off. They also tried to get a law passed that LBO's had to be approved by the minister for sport.

Sorry but it was proved in the other case and this that the red shirts plus spurs got together and tried to change the rules to hamper us and to some extent newcastle , even giving evidence against us , in favour of the prem . They also lobbied CAS to punish us , it is proven the cabal is real

 

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

Congrats @slbsn

Stefan's battle with Nick Harris was the most listened to episode in 2024 on the excellent Unofficial Partner podcast (a very popular Business of Sport pod). It gets very feisty about half way through. Brilliant stuff :)

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