PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[oakiecokie]

Other way round. De Vries reports to Soriano.

Thanks Colin.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

I’m not mad at them at all. The opposite in fact. You can’t tell me due to past success that the top brass hasn’t taken their eye off the ball when it comes to city.

People get complacent all the time no what what sector they work in.

The group that includeds Khaldoon, Soriano, Txiki, Pep and anyone else decided this squad was good enough to win the league again and obtain top 4.

Clearly they have gotten this one wrong. Last season we barely got over the line. Form towards the end nosedived with a cup loss to the rags.

This is not an attack but a fact the decisions made have been wrong.

As fans we make decisions on emotions and I would say nearly everyone of us were delighted with the squad going into the season. However, we are fans and only see glimpses of what is going on.

Those who do make the decision made a hash this time around. We got to comfortable, too much patting ourselves on the back and didn’t do what was needed last summer.

The club is run fantastic in some aspects. Recruitment has been poor now for a few seasons. Collectively they have all failed to keep us top.

I feel the Summer after the treble was where the real bad decisions were made.

Last Summer I could see why we kept our powder dry, we should have kept one of THB or Doyle in hindsight though the long term injuries to Rodri, Bobb, Kevin and the complete drop off from Phil and Bernardo couldn't have been predicted in fairness.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Despite what I wrote earlier about setting budgets, I don't think you can blame Khaldoon for the "squad collapse". Nor Soriano for that matter, and I don't even like him that much. Mansour and the board seem to have decided not too invest too much for a couple of seasons and to generate income from the academy (and the fans, of course). I have no idea why that would be but I am pretty sure it would have been for sound business reasons.

The fact that it has gone tits up for a while couldn't really have been foreseen despite what anyone says. There were some risks, yes, but the pressure put on a small squad in the last two months has been almost beyond belief.

Glass half full again :)

We have had one of the best recruitment records of any club for a decade but, probably for a variety of reasons, we have made some mistakes in the last 18 months. Some people are paid very well to make critical decisons on whether or not to sell some of our promising young players. We have had a very bad run in this area of the club but I am sure we will put this right going forward. The injuries came at the worst possible time for us.

 

[wolviedinho]

We have had one of the best recruitment records of any club for a decade but, probably for a variety of reasons, we have made some mistakes in the last 18 months. Some people are paid very well to make critical decisons on whether or not to sell some of our promising young players. We have had a very bad run in this area of the club but I am sure we will put this right going forward. The injuries came at the worst possible time for us.

The club has been crowing about how it’s run and rightly so. Winning everything, while maintaining a healthy bottom line is absolutely fantastic. Khaldoon has every right to shout from the rooftops and did on a few occasions.

He did say something about other clubs failures and blaming city not so long ago.

Think it’s ok now to say we have failed to rebuild the squad. Apparently we plan in depth reports on players and forward plan 3/5 years in the future so why are we now scrambling around looking players and then when we do find them baulk at the fee?

Something dosent add up. We either plan or we lack a plan. It can’t be both. Recently it feels like we hobble along and react instead of being pro active.

Having a world class club off the pitch but not on it is spurs job and Arsenal to some extent hell even the rags can claim that title.

Unfortunately football matches are won on the pitch and that comes down to recruitment. For some bizzare reason we are missing out on top talent and that is where the failure starts and ends.

Why don’t we buy Top tier talent anymore?
I understand timing is everything and can forgive the palmers of this world leaving. It is what it is but I want to know why we are basement shopping all the time now?

I still maintain collectively as a group they have failed. The line is thin and on this occasion we are in the wrong side of it.

 

[Gone for a Burton]

I’m not mad at them at all. The opposite in fact. You can’t tell me due to past success that the top brass hasn’t taken their eye off the ball when it comes to city.

People get complacent all the time no what what sector they work in.

The group that includeds Khaldoon, Soriano, Txiki, Pep and anyone else decided this squad was good enough to win the league again and obtain top 4.

Clearly they have gotten this one wrong. Last season we barely got over the line. Form towards the end nosedived with a cup loss to the rags.

This is not an attack but a fact the decisions made have been wrong.

As fans we make decisions on emotions and I would say nearly everyone of us were delighted with the squad going into the season. However, we are fans and only see glimpses of what is going on.

Those who do make the decision made a hash this time around. We got to comfortable, too much patting ourselves on the back and didn’t do what was needed last summer.

The club is run fantastic in some aspects. Recruitment has been poor now for a few seasons. Collectively they have all failed to keep us top.

The players 'rot' started with the piss up before the cup final....complacency in plain and costly sight.

Then the Euro's finally exhausted players who'd played 4/5 seasons of intense 'cup finals' without proper r & r.

At the start of the season they were physically & mentally exhausted and when the first wobbly domino fell (Rodders) the rest fell one by one through unprecedented injury or illness.

The rest is now known as we enter a period of re fit, re build & re fresh which should encompass the entire football dept.

Our era of supremacy is paused, no stone must be unturned, no decision shirked, and no position unchallenged if we are to be a force again.

New DoF.
New Players.
New Stand.
New...........

REFIT...REBUILD...REFRESH....
EVERYWHERE !!

 

[Gone for a Burton]

The club has been crowing about how it’s run and rightly so. Winning everything, while maintaining a healthy bottom line is absolutely fantastic. Khaldoon has every right to shout from the rooftops and did on a few occasions.

He did say something about other clubs failures and blaming city not so long ago.

Think it’s ok now to say we have failed to rebuild the squad. Apparently we plan in depth reports on players and forward plan 3/5 years in the future so why are we now scrambling around looking players and then when we do find them baulk at the fee?

Something dosent add up. We either plan or we lack a plan. It can’t be both. Recently it feels like we hobble along and react instead of being pro active.

Having a world class club off the pitch but not on it is spurs job and Arsenal to some extent hell even the rags can claim that title.

Unfortunately football matches are won on the pitch and that comes down to recruitment. For some bizzare reasons we are missing out on top talent and that is where the failure starts and ends.

Why don’t we buy Top tier talent anymore?
I understand timing is everything and can forgive the palmers of this world leaving. It is what it is but I want to know why we are basement shopping all the time now?

I still maintain collectively as a group they have failed. The line is thin and on this occasion we are in the wrong side of it.

115 politics ??

 

[wolviedinho]

The players 'rot' started with the piss up before the cup final....complacency in plain and costly sight.

Then the Euro's finally exhausted players who'd played 4/5 seasons of intense 'cup finals' without proper r & r.

At the start of the season they were physically & mentally exhausted and when the first wobbly domino fell (Rodders) the rest fell one by one through unprecedented injury or illness.

The rest is now known as we enter a period of re fit, re build & re fresh which should encompass the entire football dept.

Our era of supremacy is paused, no stone must be unturned, no decision shirked, and no position unchallenged if we are to be a force again.

New DoF.
New Players.
New Stand.
New...........

REFIT...REBUILD...REFRESH....
EVERYWHERE !!

Which is exciting also to go again.

I am intrigued as to how we are going to negotiate the charges and build a world class squad again.

Hate us losing but apart of me is reinvigorated with what’s next?

All have done a magnificent job but we must now put all that aside and go again.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

The club has been crowing about how it’s run and rightly so. Winning everything, while maintaining a healthy bottom line is absolutely fantastic. Khaldoon has every right to shout from the rooftops and did on a few occasions.

He did say something about other clubs failures and blaming city not so long ago.

Think it’s ok now to say we have failed to rebuild the squad. Apparently we plan in depth reports on players and forward plan 3/5 years in the future so why are we now scrambling around looking players and then when we do find them baulk at the fee?

Something dosent add up. We either plan or we lack a plan. It can’t be both. Recently it feels like we hobble along and react instead of being pro active.

Having a world class club off the pitch but not on it is spurs job and Arsenal to some extent hell even the rags can claim that title.

Unfortunately football matches are won on the pitch and that comes down to recruitment. For some bizzare reasons we are missing out on top talent and that is where the failure starts and ends.

Why don’t we buy Top tier talent anymore?
I understand timing is everything and can forgive the palmers of this world leaving. It is what it is but I want to know why we are basement shopping all the time now?

I still maintain collectively as a group they have failed. The line is thin and on this occasion we are in the wrong side of it.

I don't believe for one second that we have slumped because of players' fears over the 115 case but I think it is possible that some of our senior execs have just been exhausted by the relentless legal battle they have been involved in for years. It must have been a distraction at board level and maybe we took our eye off the ball.

 

[wolviedinho]

115 politics ??

Lol

I will shut up now.

No one wants that discussion
-:)

 

[wolviedinho]

I don't believe for one second that we have slumped because of players' fears over the 115 case but I think it is possible that some of our senior execs have just been exhausted by the relentless legal battle they have been involved in for years. It must have been a distraction at board level and maybe we took our eye off the ball.

They are only human. 115 impacts everything we do in some way.

I don’t believe it has anything to do with the team apart from the optics that we are not this moneybag state machine that we are accused of being.

It’s looks better to say we are net champions and stay within budget and not distort the market by stockpiling players.

Empires rise and fall…

Essentially means buying right and smart compared to our opponents. Even with pep we can’t get players over the line.