PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

bigA said:
And those scouse bastards accuse us of sportswashing. Better being a sportwashing club than one that advertises a terrorist funding, money laundering, sanctions breaking bank on their shirts.
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Why is this not on all media news loops.

The werlds greatest football club,formerly bankrolled by a 1950s gambling company and supported by the werlds greatest supporters, sponsored by the werlds greatest terrorist supporting American Bank.

Shirley the public should be able to share this news.

Ps....praps this is the real reason that the highly principled Klopp jumped ship ??
 
Gingers Dad said:
Commentator said during the Tottenham match that City were able to bring a world class keeper off the bench.
Probably nailed on that the same commentator couldn't have named Stefan Ortega or his club 2 years ago.
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He's probably unaware that City picked up Ortega on a free transfer from Arminia Bielefeld after they'd been relegated from the Bundesliga. Who knew world class keepers could be picked up for nothing from crap teams?
 
Prophet of Doom said:
Apologies if this had already been commented on but couldnt see it anywhere - but I see Bajkowski has written a snide piece in the MEN quoting Dr Dan Plumley and a guilty verdict is due next year that will shock football.

Bajkowski is on the City beat, at the press conferences etc yet still writes this type of crap. Plumley seems to get wheeled out whenever they are looking for snide comments of City from a financial perspective.
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That's classic. Dr Dan Plumley the great football finance expert in an interview with instantcasinos.com (yes, really) said this:

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I can see three things wrong with just that one paragraph. First, there are no rumours of penalties, there are possible penalties at the panel's discretion. Secondly, the number of allegations has no bearing at all on how serious they are or not. Thirdly, "significant penalties" if "any of" the allegations are proven. Really.

What is it about Sheffield Hallam that vomits up so many football finance experts, all of a sudden?
 

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halfcenturyup said:
That's classic. Dr Dan Plumley the great football finance expert in an interview with instantcasinos.com (yes, really) said this:

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I can see three things wrong with just that one paragraph. First, there are no rumours of penalties, there are possible penalties at the panel's discretion. Secondly, the number of allegations has no bearing at all on how serious they are or not. Thirdly, "significant penalties" if "any of" the allegations are proven. Really.

What is it about Sheffield Hallam that vomits up so many football finance experts, all of a sudden?
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halfcenturyup said:
That's classic. Dr Dan Plumley the great football finance expert in an interview with instantcasinos.com (yes, really) said this:

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I can see three things wrong with just that one paragraph. First, there are no rumours of penalties, there are possible penalties at the panel's discretion. Secondly, the number of allegations has no bearing at all on how serious they are or not. Thirdly, "significant penalties" if "any of" the allegations are proven. Really.

What is it about Sheffield Hallam that vomits up so many football finance experts, all of a sudden?
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Unconscious bias perhaps, they all want to impress the top dog so believe everything the boss says without trying to think for themselves.

Belief perseverance and the backfire effect is in plain sight every single day.
 
mancboy said:
i cant honestly say that i ever saw it referred to as dirty gas money, if they were slaughtered it was because RA had links with putin and they made it a political issue which is understandable, but they could make the same issues with any of the american owners and their ties to politicians which never ever happens.
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Chris in London said:
This is just wrong.

The clamour to find us guilty is led by the media, but that's not because they hate winners. It's because a clamour to find us guilty generates significantly more revenue than would a clamour to find us innocent.

The media are in it for themselves - for the money.

This works in a number of ways. Self evidently, there is much more engagement in anything that says 'City are guilty' than in the opposite. This is because fans of the most popular teams all want us to be guilty, therefore will engage more actively with anything that reflects that. Every single media outlet with any serious presence has explored the 'City are Guilty' story from numerous angles, and they have all gone down very well with a lot of people who get to read the stories they want to read.

Of course, it is not just a question of what gets clicks. The stories that are planted and leaked, they are done by individuals with their own agenda. What might be in it for the journalists writing this stuff up? Access? Further leaks? Off-the-record briefings? There is a long history of journalism being a two-way-street - you scratch my back etc.

The important point is that this is not some particular quirk of the British people. There are vested interests at work. That is why there is such a clamour to find City guilty.
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I would definitely agree with all that. My point was more fluffy and general.

While the media are driving the agenda to make money isn’t in doubt, I was pointing out that our rival fans wouldn’t care if we were wrongly found guilty…they want us gone by whatever means because we are monopolising trophies.
 
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Keepingthefaithsince1976 said:
Not sure if the correct thread but I hope Liverpool fans read this before passing judgement on City and our owners, sponsors and our financial arrangements.


www.bbc.co.uk

Standard Chartered: UK bank accused of helping to fund terrorists

Standard Chartered carried out billions of dollars of transactions for terrorist funders, US court papers claim.
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I particularly liked the line “escaped sanctions after Camerons government intervened in 2012”.
 
halfcenturyup said:
How dare you bring Hillsborough into this. End of discussion.
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But, but, but that doesn’t actually refer to …. oh fuck it, it wasn’t their fault, it definitely means more and I’ll just go and beat myself senseless with a rolled up Sun newspaper as penance for even thinking about disrespecting the greatest football club in the world!
 
I was out with a few mates over the weekend, one a utd fan, another a Bury fan, and another a Bolton fan, in reality three utd fans. After a bit of leg pulling over the FA cup they got onto the 115, no matter where you go there is always someone calling City, such is the coverage by the media, they gave it their best shot at all the punishments. So i left them a question, i allowed them any media outlet, Ask Jeeves, Micheal Fish Mystic Meg, Marjorie Proops, ask Alexa, Wikipedia or the MEN, the question was simple, what happens if City are innocent, and how does it affect your club?
After an hour i asked for an answer, none could give one. It is time we all stopped talking guilt, and asked what happens if City are innocent.
 
Prophet of Doom said:
Apologies if this had already been commented on but couldnt see it anywhere - but I see Bajkowski has written a snide piece in the MEN quoting Dr Dan Plumley and a guilty verdict is due next year that will shock football.

Bajkowski is on the City beat, at the press conferences etc yet still writes this type of crap. Plumley seems to get wheeled out whenever they are looking for snide comments of City from a financial perspective.
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Given what’s happened to regional newspapers over the past decade, I think that the concept of having a local beat reporter has probably lost a lot of meaning, and this likely reflects in the shit they churn out now.

If you’re making a living out of your website, and the local sales of the paper have collapsed, then that must influence how you pitch your coverage and who it’s aimed at. Particularly for a club with a global presence like ours. They just want traffic on the website regardless of where it comes from and they’re presumably less concerned with offending the locals.

The club should treat the MEN as just another paper with a very low circulation and take away their privileges regarding press conferences and so on. And when the MEN complains about it, as they inevitably would, then the club only needs to present them with the sort of nonsense produced in this article.
 
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