UEFA FFP investigation - CAS decision to be announced Monday, 13th July 9.30am BST

[M18CTID]

I think that is right, we are buying success whereas they were simply maintaining position.

And that position was 11th in the first division when they embarked on the biggest spending spree in the history of English football in 1989!

 

[Newman Noggs]

I’ll be done with football if we are punished unfairly. It stinks of corruption.

That is exactly what this "orchestrated" campaign wants. It just makes me even more determined to see us through this and gloat at their pain as it becomes apparent that, even if they win the odd skirmish, we'll win the war in the end.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

October 1980 Garry Birtles £1,250,000
October 1981 Bryan Robson £1,500,000
June 1988 Mark Hughes £1,800,000
August 1989 Gary Pallister £2,300,000
July 1993 Roy Keane £3,750,000
January 1995 Andy Cole £7,000,000
July 1998 Jaap Stam £10,750,000
August 1998 Dwight Yorke £12,600,000
June 2001 Ruud van Nistelrooy £19,000,000
July 2001 Juan Sebastián Verón £28,100,000
July 2002 Rio Ferdinand £29,300,000
September 2008 Dimitar Berbatov £30,750,000
January 2014 Juan Mata £37,100,000
August 2014 Ángel Di María £59,700,000
August 2016 Paul Pogba £89,300,000

Even Michael Carrick cost £18.5m in 2004! The bold denotes a record transfer fee paid.

Some of these twenty-year-old signings were way beyond ANYONE else's means back then and that is where United fans want it to stay, hence FFP, implemented by their friends on the Uefa panel and designed to protect the historical upper echelons of the game.

Anyone who suggests to me that United are not the biggest historical spenders in the football league, and continue to be so, is talking out of their backside.

And you missed out £30m on Rooney just as another token big-money gesture.

They also attempted to break the then record for Shearer at £15m and only the pull of playing for his hometown club prevented it.

FFS they even tried to set new benchmarks for Marcelo Salas, David Hirst and Ronaldinho.

For Liverpool, see records broken for Dalglish, Collymore and Carroll.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

The only real power lies with HMRC, and we are more than squeaky.

The same can't be said for others if the mud needs to stick.

Rangers will testify to that.

The tax man couldn't give a fuck about football, history or traditions.

They always get theirs.

 

[Henkeman]

The only real power lies with HMRC, and we are more than squeaky.

The same can't be said for others if the mud needs to stick.

Rangers will testify to that.

The tax man couldn't give a fuck about football, history or traditions.

They always get theirs.

I've always enjoyed the confusion on people's faces when they talk about City inflating income and you ask "wait, you mean City are volunteering to pay extra Corporation tax?".

 

[oldius]

And you missed out £30m on Rooney just as another token big-money gesture.

They also attempted to break the then record for Shearer at £15m and only the pull of playing for his hometown club prevented it.

FFS they even tried to set new benchmarks for Marcelo Salas, David Hirst and Ronaldinho.

For Liverpool, see records broken for Dalglish, Collymore and Carroll.

Oh, I know. The players shown are only those that broke their record at the time. There are many, many more.

 

[M18CTID]

The only real power lies with HMRC, and we are more than squeaky.

The same can't be said for others if the mud needs to stick.

Rangers will testify to that.

The tax man couldn't give a fuck about football, history or traditions.

They always get theirs.

Thanks. Just nicked that and posted it to a bindipper on Twitter

 

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

Just when you couldn't hate the dippers even more

From the Times

Liverpool convinced they lost out on income because of City
Liverpool want to see Manchester City punished for alleged breaches of Financial Fair Play rules — and the desire has been magnified by their belief that City’s ability to artificially inflate the value of their sponsorship income has enabled them to undercut other Premier League clubs to secure commercial deals.

Liverpool are convinced that they have lost out on several commercial opportunities because City accepted a lower offer from the same companies, an indulgence it has been suggested they can afford because of their access to Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth. Uefa is investigating allegations that City disguised investment by the club’s owner, Sheikh Mansour, by representing it as sponsorship from the country’s airline, Etihad. An internal email between City executives obtained by German magazine Der Spiegel regarding a £67.5 million sponsorship for the 2015-16 season states that “£8 million should be funded directly by Etihad and £59.5 million by ADUG”, which is Mansour’s own City holding company. City have denied any wrongdoing and insist the documents have been taken out of context.

There is so much wrong with that is hilarious. PMSL.

It has found it's way on to RAWK this morning and the first response:

That's interesting as it is the type of anti competitive behaviour that could lead to a Competition and Markets Authority investigation, as well as the football related probes.

Remind me, now did the authorities bring down Capone?

 

[Rochdale Blue]

And you missed out £30m on Rooney just as another token big-money gesture.

They also attempted to break the then record for Shearer at £15m and only the pull of playing for his hometown club prevented it.

FFS they even tried to set new benchmarks for Marcelo Salas, David Hirst and Ronaldinho.

For Liverpool, see records broken for Dalglish, Collymore and Carroll.

I've heard Shearer himself state in a podcast that United never approached him with an offer.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

The only real power lies with HMRC, and we are more than squeaky.

The same can't be said for others if the mud needs to stick.

Rangers will testify to that.

The tax man couldn't give a fuck about football, history or traditions.

They always get theirs.

Hence the Cayman Islands account perhaps ?