UEFA Ask City Football Group to Divest its ownership of Girona

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Meh.

Does it affect my pension?

No?

Couldn't give a shit.

You would have done if we’d finished a place below Girona..

 

[Kinkys Left Foot]

There was no such stipulation for Red Bull Salzburg when they qualified for the CL alongside Leipzig was there? What's the difference. If I was the CFG that's what I'd be asking. If there was then fair enough.

 

[Lavinda Past]

You would have done if we’d finished a place below Girona..

I wouldn't give a shit if we never played in European competition again. But that's just my opinion.
I can't see how anyone can genuinely enjoy a competition that's weighted purely to benefit / protect the interests of certain clubs... i.e.'the product'.

 

[cptaidan88]

I thought we already owned less than the limit of Girona

We own slightly less than 50% which is generally the number considered to equate to a controlling interest.

A figure of 30% is quoted in that article as the maximum UEFA allow although not sure where that has come from, and don't think this applied to Red Bull.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

I wouldn't give a shit if we never played in European competition again. But that's just my opinion.
I can't see how anyone can genuinely enjoy a competition that's weighted purely to benefit / protect the interests of certain clubs... i.e.'the product'.

Entirely your prerogative obviously and I’m often ambivalent to it.
However, I do realise that, without it, we’d have a much poorer team and far less chance of being on the brink of creating yet another slice of history that is likely to never be repeated.

 

[Northblue]

Not a huge amount of detail but from a talksport article:

Austrian drinks company Red Bull owned both teams up until this investigation when they were forced to make changes due to UEFA rules.

Salzburg chose to remove members of staff that were allegedly linked to Red Bull and their cooperation deal with Leipzig was ended with the sponsorship scaled back.

Once all of these changes were made, UEFA then accepted that there was ‘insufficient evidence’ that the clubs had a shared ownership and they were both allowed to compete in Europe.

 

[kaz7]

When are the cunts going to leave us alone , just fuck off playing with us

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Eric Garcia will go back to Barca so the squad will be decimated and we cannot loan them anyone.

What has Eric Garcia got to do with us?

 

[why me? Blue Manchester]

116 incoming

 

[Centurions]

What has Eric Garcia got to do with us?

With City? Nothing. I think their point was Girona are going to be fucked if we can't help them with loans next season. I wonder if Barcelona and Madrid have been stirring?