PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[BringBackSwales]

Just pointing out that the Mayor of Manchester is Councillor Yasmine Dar. Andy Burnham is the Mayor of Greater Manchester.

That makes sense, so he’s a Greater **** than I thought he was

 

[supercity88]

Bit selfish that!

What about my kids, they don't want the ride to end and eventually they will have their own kids being brought up on tales of this incredible period?

Plenty of us feel we have suffered for their future and has probably cost us many more years of life.

I mentioned before, the interview I saw with @twosips on Talksport and did feel a similar thing. He talked about not really caring - take everything away from us, we know what we saw and we'll still be here if we're relegated. But I'm sure he had his reasons for commenting in that manner - probably just sick and tired of it (and the questions were fucking stupid so this is not a pop at him at all).

But we all do care really, or this thread would be a few pages long with people checking in for updates. This defines the period of success for the club. We've had moments I never dreamed of. I remember watching the odd CL game as a kid on ITV and I didn't ever even think about City being in it. A league cup or FA Cup I dreamed of - a trip to Wembley for a final. That was all I hoped for, and all I needed. If it's all been through financial irregularities and the records are wiped then yes, we'll have had those memories still but it would be fucking awful. They'd never be genuine achievements in the eyes of the sport, and that means something to me even if others might not care.

I want this buried and I want us to continue dominating.

 

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

Not sure if anyone has already posted this.
Khaldoon on a panel at the Global Investment Summit talking about Abu Dhabi investment in the UK.

Jeremy Hunt introduces the panel at about 2.18. Link in the bottom tweet.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Doesn't stop the many wankers in the media!

Infact, every **** with a hole in there face has city down as cheats. So….

Agreed, but nothing will stop them, so my policy is trying to ignore as much of it as possible as it’s just noise.

 

[M18CTID]

It did not get played.

Poor show that

 

[halfcenturyup]

“Boring bastard”

That could see me in court ;)

Yes, sorry. I will try to be more interesting.

You really have it in for me today :)

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Sportswashing is definitely a strange one to throw at Abu Dhabi.

I’m all for highlighting issues like abuse of workers or lack of journalistic freedom or poor human rights but very few people seemed to care about human rights in Abu Dhabi or UAE’s involvement in Yemen until City started winning. There is a general acceptance of the UAE as a western ally in an uncertain Middle East. Dubai is advertised extensively, emirates sponsor arsenal and the FA Cup. That doesn’t seem to be a problem. Nor was Sheikh Mansour’s investment in Barclays. Human rights weren’t an issue then. They are now though.

No one accuses F1, or particularly Ferrari, fans of being apologists for Abu Dhabi. Or golf, cricket, or fans of any of these other sporting events. https://yallaabudhabi.ae/sports-leisure/best-sporting-events-in-abu-dhabi-2023/

No one accuses Arsenal fans of being supportive of a repressive regime when they wear shirts with Emirates on the front and Rwanda on the sleeve. No one accuses Qatar of sportswashing over their ownership of BeIn Sports

It's just us (and now Newcastle fans) who are the only ones seemingly making excuses for the states we're associated with via our ownership. It's rank hypocrisy.

 

[splinter]

Not sure if anyone has already posted this.
Khaldoon on a panel at the Global Investment Summit talking about Abu Dhabi investment in the UK.

Jeremy Hunt introduces the panel at about 2.18. Link in the bottom tweet.

We're in safe hands..bring it on ya bent bastards

 

[Ric]

Not sure if anyone has already posted this.
Khaldoon on a panel at the Global Investment Summit talking about Abu Dhabi investment in the UK.

Jeremy Hunt introduces the panel at about 2.18. Link in the bottom tweet.

I notice Hunt mistakenly calls Khaldoon "the owner of Manchester City Football Club", tsk.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I notice Hunt mistakenly calls Khaldoon "the owner of Manchester City Football Club", tsk.

Easy thing to get wrong. He's owned Manchester United for quite a few years now.

 

[mcfcphil]

I notice Hunt mistakenly calls Khaldoon "the owner of Manchester City Football Club", tsk.

It’s good that City are so intrinsically linked to Abu Dhabi investment in the UK. You can’t mention Khaldoon without also mentioning City.

Even Jeremy Hunt will be able to join the dots on how serious the fallout of the premier league charges could be.

 

[Chappie]

Yeah but to paraphrase Simon Pearce in the leaked emails when this situation reared its head after Mancini was fired “I’m not sure how much influence we have there any more”

No one accuses F1, or particularly Ferrari, fans of being apologists for Abu Dhabi. Or golf, cricket, or fans of any of these other sporting events. https://yallaabudhabi.ae/sports-leisure/best-sporting-events-in-abu-dhabi-2023/

No one accuses Arsenal fans of being supportive of a repressive regime when they wear shirts with Emirates on the front and Rwanda on the sleeve. No one accuses Qatar of sportswashing over their ownership of BeIn Sports

It's just us (and now Newcastle fans) who are the only ones seemingly making excuses for the states we're associated with via our ownership. It's rank hypocrisy.

None of those sports have 3 history clubs whose nose has been put out of joint by Manchester City Football Club.
We can't beat them,so we will smear them.

 

[I'm no cynic but...]

Most armchairs are rags hence it probably wouldn’t be in his interest to publicly support our position. He could though decide to support our position because that would be the right thing to do in spite of probably costing him votes. Dr Martin Luther King ‘it’s never the wrong time to do the right thing’.

Most armchair rags live nowhere near Manchester.

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

I'm certain that the panel won't be taking any potential geopolitical consequences into account and I wouldn't want them to either. We are either innocent of the charges after due consideration or we aren't. Why should we get away with something on the basis that our owner wouldn't invest billions in Sizewell if we were punished for example? We as a support base would be outraged if that was the case with a rival club so you have to be consistent.

Obviously I want us to be cleared and for this to finally go away but not on the basis of threats or undue financial pressure. I also think that people are over estimating the influence our owner could bring to bear on the UK government. Yes Abu Dhabi invests in UK projects but the country wouldn't collapse if it didn't.

 

[bluenova]

No one accuses F1, or particularly Ferrari, fans of being apologists for Abu Dhabi. Or golf, cricket, or fans of any of these other sporting events. https://yallaabudhabi.ae/sports-leisure/best-sporting-events-in-abu-dhabi-2023/

No one accuses Arsenal fans of being supportive of a repressive regime when they wear shirts with Emirates on the front and Rwanda on the sleeve. No one accuses Qatar of sportswashing over their ownership of BeIn Sports

It's just us (and now Newcastle fans) who are the only ones seemingly making excuses for the states we're associated with via our ownership. It's rank hypocrisy.

I can see your point, and agree that it's daft to suggest we're all apologists for the UAE, but it's surely easier to make the link where the people clearly support just one team, and that team is owned by an entity linked to a state. Sports where the occasional event is held in a state, or where people are "fans" of individuals etc. are very different.

In other sports it's often the players who are the ones getting grief. The LIV golfers certainly got a shitstorm raining down on them (albeit things have got more complex since), and the players who went to Saudi faced plenty of criticism. Bein and Qatar have also been linked to sportswashing repeatedly in the media, but there isn't really a Bein fanbase to attack.

The other key difference in being fans of a team, rather than individuals, a sport, or a TV station, is of course that you have more obvious rivals. Rivalry between supporters is almost entirely based on hypocrisy. Their players are shit, our are great. They get all the decisions, we get hard done to. Their owners are worse than ours.

 

[Norbert D]

Most armchair rags live nowhere near Manchester.

Statistically you are probably right, what with their twenty trillion fans throughout the known universe, however, there are still plenty in Manchester and Greater Manchester.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Statistically you are probably right, what with their twenty trillion fans throughout the known universe, however, there are still plenty in Manchester and Greater Manchester.

If I'm out shopping or driving when they're playing, it's common to see people with rag shirts on out and about.

 

[Norbert D]

I can see your point, and agree that it's daft to suggest we're all apologists for the UAE, but it's surely easier to make the link where the people clearly support just one team, and that team is owned by an entity linked to a state. Sports where the occasional event is held in a state, or where people are "fans" of individuals etc. are very different.

In other sports it's often the players who are the ones getting grief. The LIV golfers certainly got a shitstorm raining down on them (albeit things have got more complex since), and the players who went to Saudi faced plenty of criticism. Bein and Qatar have also been linked to sportswashing repeatedly in the media, but there isn't really a Bein fanbase to attack.

The other key difference in being fans of a team, rather than individuals, a sport, or a TV station, is of course that you have more obvious rivals. Rivalry between supporters is almost entirely based on hypocrisy. Their players are shit, our are great. They get all the decisions, we get hard done to. Their owners are worse than ours.

Good post. I also think a lot of it is down to snobbery, golf and F1 are deemed upper middle class sports, whereas football fans are still plebs who need controlling, the hypocrisy of it is the same plebs who need controlling and an occasional police baton on the head to keep them in line should also know the ins and outs of complex Middle East geopolitics.

Of course we all know there would be no such hand wringing if one of the favoured clubs got taken over by a Middle East regime.

 

[Ducado]

I'm certain that the panel won't be taking any potential geopolitical consequences into account and I wouldn't want them to either. We are either innocent of the charges after due consideration or we aren't. Why should we get away with something on the basis that our owner wouldn't invest billions in Sizewell if we were punished for example? We as a support base would be outraged if that was the case with a rival club so you have to be consistent.

Obviously I want us to be cleared and for this to finally go away but not on the basis of threats or undue financial pressure. I also think that people are over estimating the influence our owner could bring to bear on the UK government. Yes Abu Dhabi invests in UK projects but the country wouldn't collapse if it didn't.

I get where you are coming from but many things are linked the PL is a massive earner for this country, and seeing it successful is a political and economic priority, that thee is a battle over regulation going on between the government and the PL there can be no doubt

 

[halfcenturyup]

It's just us (and now Newcastle fans) who are the only ones seemingly making excuses for the states we're associated with via our ownership. It's rank hypocrisy.