PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

FogBlueInSanFran said:
I don’t know shit about British law, but if there’s an in, my hope is a revenge suit has to do with restraint of trade — proof FFP was designed specifically to prevent other football clubs from competing.
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Absolutely, City need to challenge the restriction of trade. Every big club now is a business.
 
The perfect fumble said:
I'm speculating here, but if Khaldoon has a fault it is that he thinks that with his education, his connections, his power and his wealth, he's considered no differently than his western contemporaries.

Sadly that's not the case.
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It was because of an interview I saw of Khaldoon that I joined bluemoon. I'd never heard of it before...then again I wasn't much of a forum guy. Well Manchester evening news City section a bit.
He seemed pretty humble and normal to me. If I was him I wouldn't give 2 hoots what his western, eastern, northern or southern contempories consider about him. At a guess they're too busy trying to take top spot. He's doing just fine keeping Pep, Sheik Mansour, Cheeky & Ferran Soriano happy and content in the workplace.
On another note I'd love to know what he's thinking about all this charges stuff. Hopefully he's not at all worried and 'has got this'
 
The perfect fumble said:
That's how it was.

The rules were changed after we submitted and we took the pinch, because we were assured it was just enough red meat to keep the wolves from the door, but it was a lie, the wolves have been at us ever since.

City cannot win this as we've already lost, global football is global brand and our brand is in the toilet. We might win this case some ways down the line, but what will we have lost in the meantime?

As I've said, the process is the punishment.
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Did you know our revenues were higher than Real Madrid and now we have Haaland?

Our brand is going to be just fine!
 
The perfect fumble said:
That's how it was.

The rules were changed after we submitted and we took the pinch, because we were assured it was just enough red meat to keep the wolves from the door, but it was a lie, the wolves have been at us ever since.

City cannot win this as we've already lost, global football is global brand and our brand is in the toilet. We might win this case some ways down the line, but what will we have lost in the meantime?

As I've said, the process is the punishment.
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Sadly I agree with you. If you're a top player will you seriously want to come to us ? It's like we will now be known forever as the cheats. We are tarnished.

If we win this case I sincerely hope City sue the PL big time over our reputation being badly tarnished, so badly leading to all sorts of problems in the future.
 
Blue_Lightsaber said:
Liverpool got banned from Europe for 5 years!

How's their brand now?
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It's like comparing two different things though. Liverpool have a massive worldwide following, even here in Oz they're huge. We have mainly local fans. Also the media love the victims, they hate us. It's very different.
 
Imagine Google trying to impose investment sanctions on Facebook, or twitter. What if BP tried it with shell oil. Or natwest telling barclays to stop trying to be more successful than them. Or nasa getting tetchy with space x because they are the new kid on the launch pad. It beggars belief that the premier league, Uefa, Fifa, fa whoever tried to instill this nonsense on a recently wealthy owned football club. That they did it so blatantly after the investment and not in the previous 130 years may be a point worth noting also.
 
Bill Walker said:
Sadly I agree with you. If you're a top player will you seriously want to come to us ? It's like we will now be known forever as the cheats. We are tarnished.

If we win this case I sincerely hope City sue the PL big time over our reputation being badly tarnished, so badly leading to all sorts of problems in the future.
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Interesting opinion. City were going to do a refresh in 2021 but it was pushed back.. could it be due to the charges earlier??

And the summer we need a massive refresh, these charges appear again to sow doubt amongst transfer targets?
 
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