PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[foggy1974]

I agree with your point that some City fans (and I include myself) tend to get irritated / go on the defensive - it's quite hard not to :-(
However I disagree with your view on C***ferin - he's still inferring our guilt (twice) - firstly, maintaining that charging us was the right thing to do - at the time, perhaps, but not after CAS cleared us - that's unnecessarily throwing fuel on the fire - and, secondly, by saying 'some cases you lose that you should've won', implying that CAS got it wrong. The problem is, he's only accountable to the very people that want us taken down a peg or three - he's acting unprofessionally. I know we won't do it, but I'd love us to file a defamation claim against him, Tebas and anyone else who's stated / implied we're guilty. We need a Michael Corleone moment at the end of the first Godfather film!

With ESL rearing it's head again, I wonder if this is to appease Tebas & old members of G14

 

[Jacko1956]

It’s just that we share the same auditors as far as I know (BDO)

"I don't want to speak about the case in England." (But I've been asked to by Gill and co)

Makes no sense him coming out now as if City are guilty then all has to do.is wait for a guilty verdict and say told you so ! Sounds more like he's got wind of City being cleared and is trying to suggest they were right to press charges with the evidence they had at the time !

 

[FLManc]

Hated in Europe!

Hated in the premier league!

Super league don’t look so bad right about now.

Really?
Alongside the Spanish twats, German twats, Italian twats and, the biggest twats of them all....
arsenal, trafford, redscouse, levy's.
Don't think we need to join anything new with those fuckers.

 

[ancoats]

That's not the point.

United won a treble when they had around twice the revenue of their nearest competitors in the PL.

City won a treble, and have dominated the Premier League with revenues that were approximately the same as Liverpool, and for much of the time, less than United.

To suggest one is a greater sporting achievement because the financial rules weren't as strict, would be ridiculous.

City won, where Everton or Villa didn't, because they had a lot more money. They beat Liverpool, United and Chelsea because they used similar resources to build a much better team.

You're missing the whole major point, How did we get to that stage in the first place, Nobody questioned United because there was no claim of cheating FFP back then, City are having to answer the questions because of the claim being made by the EPL,

The claims are from 2008 to 2016 I think, So yes they can not touch us on how Manchester City are now running today. But they can claim the foundations were built by cheating and make everybody believe we would not be the same club today if we did not inflate our sponsorships

 

[bluenova]

Not sure if this has been reported. It's from an Athletic article about an internal United staff zoom call. Suggests they're either confident we'll be cleared, or that Berrada is some kind of Ralph Wiggum type that was oblivious to the world around him.

"And staff on the call took the opportunity to ask Stewart about the period in Berrada’s history relating to the City charges, as well as the corruption charges against Barcelona — another of his former clubs — relating to payments made by the Catalan club to a former Spanish referee chief. Both Manchester City and Barcelona deny any wrongdoing.

Stewart assured staff that United had performed the requisite due diligence, but did not go into any great detail, other than to say United are confident in the integrity and quality of their hire."

 

[Metalartin]

Just on the subject of City fans being easy to manipulate. I don't think the reactions some people are having is surprising at all. It would be worse if Liverpool or United fans had to put up with the same every week. It's almost like they are attempting to subject City fans to the press equivalent of Chinese Water Torture(the one with the constant drip on the forehead).

They literally write headlines to bait City fans these days:

The latest one from talkSport earlier today courtesy of Simon Jordan:

'Simon Jordan Issues Stern WARNING To Manchester City Fans Amidst 115 FFP Charges! '

I'm sure that's crossing some sort of line, with how they've directly addressed the fanbase there. It's even more blatant than usual. Perhaps part of the reason, is Simon's getting his own back, after City fans tore him to shreds, over the Stefan interview. He's petty like that.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

Not sure it's a nothing story

No, it's a c*nt's trick. Aimed squarely at small minded c*nts.

 

[Chi-town blues]

That's not the point.

United won a treble when they had around twice the revenue of their nearest competitors in the PL.

City won a treble, and have dominated the Premier League with revenues that were approximately the same as Liverpool, and for much of the time, less than United.

To suggest one is a greater sporting achievement because the financial rules weren't as strict, would be ridiculous.

City won, where Everton or Villa didn't, because they had a lot more money. They beat Liverpool, United and Chelsea because they used similar resources to build a much better team.

I find this stripping away titles and this argument funny . So let say the discrepancy is in question here is 40-50 million , If that amount was all it took to gain advantage to win title , shouldn’t the threshold to win title exceed over 1b plus ? Exhibit one- rags.

 

[bluenova]

You're missing the whole major point, How did we get to that stage in the first place, Nobody questioned United because there was no claim of cheating FFP back then, City are having to answer the questions because of the claim being made by the EPL,

The claims are from 2008 to 2016 I think, So yes they can not touch us on how Manchester City are now running today. But they can claim the foundations were built by cheating and make everybody believe we would not be the same club today if we did not inflate our sponsorships

Again - that wasn't the point I was making.

What I'm saying is that the rules around FFP don't affect what those players do on the pitch, and any breach of those rules didn't give City a financial advantage over the teams we were challenging.

Pep didn't have the financial advantage that United had, yet he managed to absolutely dominate the other big clubs.

Where the money came from may matter for FFP/PL rules, but it doesn't make what Pep's City have achieved any less impressive.

 

[xgorton]

That twat Jordan on talkshite earlier with White and Danny Murphy said all the people he talks to say we have a case to answer,coont.