The only way to get around Platini's anti-City stance

[bluemoon32]

The premier league have already said they will fight this to the bitter end.

You think Real live within their means they are paying £1 million a week in wages to Trannie and Kaka and constantly need bailing out by the spanish kings bank. They have already said they dont agree with these proposals not surpisingly.

Valencia just got a £300 million bail out by the local council as they were near bankruptcy.

There is no point worrying about this, it wont work, despite what people might think its against EU laws (and yes UEFA are not a law to themselves they have to get these things rattified by EU)

Liverpool and Rags are up to their eye balls in debt so are Chelsea, Arsenal, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Real Madrid etc.

They might try and make it so the rules dont effect these sides at the moment but only a handful of teams actually make money eveyone knows this is really an attempt to attack and damage the PL as it has become so powerful and popular in the game with its inward investment.

"An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us"

Thats why this wont work at the end of the day - from a british point of view anyway. There is a real chance one of the current top 4 could drop out of the places in the next 3 seasons when this happens they will squeal like pigs you can be sure.

The plan as it has been explained is based around turnover so debts are irrelevant.

By 2012 this could act in City's favour.

No way in hell will we be a self financing club by 2012

 

[sylar]

it wont happen because as people have already said 'ITS AGAINST THE EU LAW'
cant belive this CHEESE EATING, SURRENDER MONKEY is still in charge of uefa. he has as much class as sep blatter.

a few months ago it was teams with loads of debt who wont get in cl. ffs this bloke just likes the sound of his own voice.

if all goes to plan we will have won it by 2012 and the tv people will demand that we are in the cl or else they will kick off big time. rememer all the fuss about lfc not being in it the year after they won it coz they didnt qualifiy.

its all bluster and bullshit just to give his team a chance of reaching the quater finals. WANKER

 

[chesterguy]

The plan as it has been explained is based around turnover so debts are irrelevant.

By 2012 this could act in City's favour.

No way in hell will we be a self financing club by 2012

We would if we charged our sponsor £200m per year

 

[blueinsa]

Guys let the idiot spout off as much as he wants, the facts are this.

If he succeedes in bringing this in, which he wont by the way, we will already be one of the most powerful clubs in the world and we will not be excluded from anything!

Sleep safe and sound boys, we have no need to worry at all.

 

[Marvin]

City are follwing Chelsea's path, but we have a better academy, and a bigger supporter base.

I don't think Chelsea are that far off breaking even.

 

[bluemoon32]

Platini really makes me laugh though, he was the highest paid player on the planet purely because of rich owners ( the Fiat owners) at Juventus , so it ws ok whilst he was getting millions but not ok now.........fucking hypocritical twat.

 

[SingBlue]

That would be the Fiat that was routinely going bankrupt throughout the 80s and always getting bailed out by tax payers and yet he never missed a single fat pay cheque.

he's a hypocritical prick

 

[Dobsy87]

Erm . . . he said you can still get a bank loan. So Sheikh M will just get a bank to give us a huge loan, which will be very confident that we can pay it back any time. If Liverpool and the rags are allowed to be £700 million in debt, then I'm not worried in the slightest.

 

[sam221985]

All the income raised from TV, gate receipts, sponsorship and prize money. Money that comes from sponsorship from anthing connected with our owners doesn't count.

Yet to be decided

Not really relevant it's all turnover.. the club charge what it likes.

As above.

So Etihad is not owned by ADUG therefore its sponsorship can count The fact it is run by another member of the family is just a coincidence

Well! M. Platini it needs deciding

Yes it is relevant as pointed out by another poster

As above

Exactly ADUG doesn't own Etihad, just because Etihad is the flag-carrier of the UAE (which doesn't necessarily mean it's state-owned anyway) doesn't mean anything because ADUG is just a private equity firm - it is nothing to do with the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi or the Abu Dhabi government (that myth was dispelled not long after the takeover) - so our sponsorship with Etihad is perfectly legitimate.

It may have come about because of the sheik's connections but it's a massive leap from that to saying that it's effectively a payment from the sheik, lol - after all most business deals, including sponsorships in this case, come about because of 'connections'.

Isn't it £100m a year from the sponsorship deal with Eithad? And isn't our wage bill £100m a year? And isn't our wage bill our biggest single form of expenditure? - So basically that means our biggest form of expenditure (if the £100m sponsorship figure is to be beleived) is already covered by a legitimate, 'naturally generated' source of income!

edit: I know transfer fees right now are a bigger form of expenditure but we already know that this summer's transfer spending is a one-off.

 

[bluemoon32]

Erm . . . he said you can still get a bank loan. So Sheikh M will just get a bank to give us a huge loan, which will be very confident that we can pay it back any time. If Liverpool and the rags are allowed to be £700 million in debt, then I'm not worried in the slightest.

We should get a Billion pound loan over.........a Billion years.
With interest it'll be about £1.50 a year