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

[razman]

City made it official ! Same statement

 

[Father Paul]

Ugh. Claiming racism through making an anti-Semitic allegation hardly helps.

If true almost impossible to prove. The possibility of long standing link between FSG and the NYT is the prime mover I think. Even though the shareholding
was sold it is not unreasonable to argue that close connections still exist between the principals involved i.e. Henry and whoever represents the Sulzberger's.

 

[LevyBee76]

3 guesses what the lead article on the BBC homepage is...

 

[@BluePhil8]

3 guesses what the lead article on the BBC homepage is...

An expose on how they let Jimmy Saville be a pedo?

 

[Oystercatcher28]

The UEFA investigation may be into the past, or present. Either way it doesn't make too much sense.

Some clubs and national FAs have been funded by Bosch, Mercedes, Deutsche Bank and VW. How can they claim the high ground? Although some have battled bitter history and have defeated enemies time and time again.

Top versus Runners-Up Trophy winners on the money front makes me laugh. Throw in them lot over the Manchester border for comparison too. Footballs backer will always have grey and possibly rainbow-shaded areas with colour coded charts of uncertainty. Who are we to judge the rights and wrongs of a sport that creates social evils, media unjust and headlines? It's entertainment like every other industry of 'things people watch to escape real life'. Surely, through talking an debating we'll realise that at the end of the day, you can buy more players, buy more seats, buy more everything to get that margin of fine gains that has been in every sport since the dawn of time. The clean as a whistle UEFA and FIFA know how it goes. They must be careful not to bite the hand that feeds them. Instead of banning, or retrospective action, tidy the bloody rules up and make things more transparent. Then, us, the hard-working paying masses can get on and enjoy the bloody game every Saturday afternoon, I mean, whenever TV dictates.

Kit supplier: Nike, UK£72 million (US$108 million) signed 2013, expires 2019 [£12 million a season] speculation that these numbers may be fabricated
Main sponsor: Etihad Airways, UK£400 million (US$652 million) signed 2011, expires 2021 [£40 million a season] speculation that these numbers may be fabricated
Sleeve sponsor: Nexen Tire, UK£10 million (US$12.9 million) per season, length unreported [£10 million a season] speculation that these numbers may be fabricated
Deals since 2017/18: Turtle Beach, Xylem, PAK Lighting, Marathonbet, AvaTrade, SeatGeek, Nexon, Tinder [loose morales?], Barclays [questionable], Amazon [bye, bye local traders], Gatorade, Khmer Beverages , Mundipharma, Rexona [sure?] and a whole host more. speculation that these numbers may be fabricated

Kit supplier: New Balance (Trump supporter and owned by club owner John Henry's close friend], UK£300 million (US$390 million), signed 2012, expires 2019 [£42.8 million a season* *once a record figure holder in 2012/13]
Main sponsor: Standard Chartered, UK£160 million (US$236.1 million), renewal signed 2018, expires 2023 [£32 million a season]
Sleeve sponsor: Western Union, UK£25 million (US$32.1 million), signed 2017, expires 2022 [£5 million a season]
Major deals since 2017/18: Standard Chartered [squeaky clean with no state backing in the middle east at all and certainly no cartel money in any accounts], Wireless Infrastructure Group, Petro-Canada Lubricants,
Tibet Water (Chinese-owned) actually ended.

Kit supplier: Adidas, UK £750 million (US$$1.3 billion), signed 2016, expires 2026 [£75 million a season]
Main sponsor: General Motors, UK£371 million (US$559 million), signed 2012, expires 2021 [£41 million a season]
Sleeve sponsor: Kohler, UK£20 million (US$27.5 million) per season, length unreported [£20 million a season]
Major deals since start of 2017/18: Chivas, MoPlay, Melitta, Kohler, Belgium FA [an actual country's association], MLILY, PingAn Bank, Cho-A Pharm, Science in Sport, General Sports Authority of Saudi Arabia

Then compare full gates, trophies since the Premier League's inception, a twenty year sponsorship portfolio, global shirts sales, domestic TV coverage and overseas coverage, global marketing, ambition to grow the foreign market, invitations to high-value friendly competitions, added TV sales etc, pioneering eSports etc, TV documentaries... domestic and overseas investment potential.

Another thing is how do these sponsorship deals come about, bidding, tendering, slipping your mate at a good brand some plum deal and probably a spot of tax evasion.

Think about where that club invests, how their profits are used and whether they have passed the FA's due diligence test of new club owners. Perhaps, UEFA could up the ante and set higher standards. FIFA could be involved too. It might affect them. Fit and proper ownership could then be extended to all sponsorship deals - with clubs declaring their fully visible statements to a neutral panel, or one that accounts for UEFA member associations. Tome to end the witch hunts and go on about setting a model example. Because every piece of crap that enters a paper, with "a source said this" and "an un-named official said that" ruins certain fans and gives them a weak and annoying response. Where we you when we were s4!t?

Also, how do fans of Liverpool or ManUre view FFP and how do their club frameworks see the knock on effect? Live every news article, we can all find a source here and there, but it doesn't mean much.

"Sorry John,yes you want to make money,and want us to be an attractive catch for when the people you are slating at citeh and Chavski comes a knocking to buy your investment from you....or would you decline such offers because your such a staunch supporter of FFP?"

Also, this has a source:
'Manchester City FC is fully cooperating in good faith with the CFCB IC's ongoing investigation.

'In doing so the club is reliant on both the CFCB IC's independence and commitment to due process; and on UEFA's commitment of the 7th of March that it '….will make no further comment on the matter while the investigation is ongoing'.

 

[Newman Noggs]

Maybe we leaked it ;)

And on the same theme, if I did Twitter, I'd be inclined to put it out into the Twittersphere that;

"Timing of the leak means that fingers are being pointed at Rick Parry, former Liverpool CEO and member of UEFA's Club Financial Control Body Investigatory Chamber who are responsible for investigating Manchester City. It is known that the New York Times has close links to Liverpool FC having, at one time, been the second largest shareholder."

In fact, we should get it out there.

 

[The slaughtered lamb]

That's stupid. City isn't stupid and they don't want to give information to the guy who wrote the UEFA article.

Makes you wonder whether his leaked comments, a couple of days before the main course, were intended to flush us out. Nice try son.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Can anyone remember what the UEFA statement announcing the investigation said? I'm pretty sure they said they wouldn't be commenting further until the conclusion of the investigation? If so, then surely they're on rocky ground now that some slimy **** has been gobbing off to the media

Cerefin was quoted as saying to Martin Lipton of The Sun at a summit in Dublin, around the time of the published leaks "Concrete case".

Perhaps the club would like to ask Lipton for his notes and recording.

Seemingly before the March 7 review.

 

[Fame Monster]

I wouldn't be surprised if UEFA leaked it to see what City's reaction would be and whether we'd lie down and take it. Now that it's clear we'll be fighting them in the courts (if they ban us), they might make a different decision.

 

[dhruvblue]

The best way to answer this is signing a player for big akouam