And you know this how?
He was already on a contract over there and City were not paying it. Ergo, he was being paid by someone else AND getting his wages at City.
“People” say this was an FFP dodge to funnel more money into his pockets, and the EFFECT may well have been that, but LEGALLY and EFFECT are two wholly separate and distinct things…even if one grants the premise that Mancini was getting the money BECAUSE he was at City!
Far too many people talking bollocks in the deep end of the pool without their water wings on.
To date, it’s all legalistic conjecture. We’ll see where it falls once all the appeals are completed and if City have to take some medicine in the final analysis, then that’s what they’ll have to do.
BUT, let’s make no mistake, FFP has NOTHING to do with sustainability and EVERYTHING to do with protection of certain clubs.
If anyone thinks Everton’s £19M violation is a big thing, they should look at the debts some clubs carry and who is responsible for paying it off!!
That £19M MIGHT lead to Administration if the 777 investment doesn’t happen. Thst creates a 19 point deduction, relegation, puts the new stadium at even greater risk and only serves to ruin one of the most historic clubs in English football! FOR WHAT???
Meanwhile, across town, Liverpool write off £MILLIONS on a pipe dream of a new stadium that was a scribble on a piece of paper! Them being allowed to write thst off barely squeezed them across the FFP goal line, so nothing to see there, right?!
Or MUFC, who for years have been carrying hundreds of millions in debt that only needs the interest payment to be made to be in compliance, which a debt-free MCFC is under constant threat of being made a pariah of European football???
It’s nonsensical and FFP is a complete misnomer!
