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

[moomba]

It's been 2 years.

He stopped spouting off. The threat served its purpose.

 

[oakiecokie]

I can’t believe people with an ulterior motive would ever post on here.

Now you mention it ... ;)

 

[andyhinch]

He stopped spouting off. The threat served its purpose.

I’d still like to see where Dominoes Pizza (sorry, that’s his name in my head) has seen the document.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Exactly this. How can clubs millions of pounds in debt keep on spending? I thought that was the very thing FFP was supposed to stop.

No. We were the very thing it was supposed to stop.

 

[Stoned Rose]

If Power dancing is anything like this you can keep it and the tune.

1:21 to 1:31 absolute liberties.

 

[paulchapo]

No. We were the very thing it was supposed to stop.

Oh I know the real reason it was created, just pointing out the total hypocrisy of it.

 

[decmancity]

Think people are deluded if they think city are going to spunk millions trying to bring down FFP. Think we could take our case to CAS but certainly don’t see us taking it further. And let’a not forget CAS is independent from UEFA.

I think you are deluded if you don't realise the people who own our great football club put a very high price on their reputation. Khaldoon no doubt had to broker the deal the first time we paid a settlement with the top bosses, if you think whatever it is that ADUG is will sit on their hands again if this continues then you are very much mistaken. The media are not only dragging one of the big investments through the mud but are also looking to sling it at individuals and with the power and money they have why would you let that happen for too long?

Abu Dhabi is not here for a bit of play time, they want to dominate, crush the opposition and all that stands in their way. You dont start something like CFG if you just want a few trophies.

I am a bit in love with the man but Khaldoon is boss and if anyone had any doubts about just how connected he is then give this a watch,

 

[waspish]

We should as a club keep coming out and telling everyone we have been a self sufficient club for 3 and half seasons and the owner hasn't put a penny in on purchases since! while other clubs a 100 of millions in debt! Seems the narrative is still our owner is still pumping in all the money for all our signings still.

 

[Stoned Rose]

I think you are deluded if you don't realise the people who own our great football club put a very high price on their reputation. Khaldoon no doubt had to broker the deal the first time we paid a settlement with the top bosses, if you think whatever it is that ADUG is will sit on their hands again if this continues then you are very much mistaken. The media are not only dragging one of the big investments through the mud but are also looking to sling it at individuals and with the power and money they have why would you let that happen for too long?

Abu Dhabi is not here for a bit of play time, they want to dominate, crush the opposition and all that stands in their way. You dont start something like CFG if you just want a few trophies.

I am a bit in love with the man but Khaldoon is boss and if anyone had any doubts about just how connected he is then give this a watch,

That kid is so Jewish he makes my foreskin circumcise itself.

I fucking love him.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

That what say to myself every day


Little impact financially but the damage to the reputation of the club was immense. We are supposed to have a top PR team and top legal brains working for the club but it still seems anybody on radio, TV, online or in the press can say just about anything about the club and our owners with absolute impunity. When does the fight back start, silence one TV channel, radio station , or reporter but what are the club seen to do put out a strongly worded statement. All this shit about we don't know what goes on behind the scenes doesn't wash because if we don't know then nobody else does, which just continues to make it open season for anybody to drag the clubs name though the gutter. In a week when we have achieved a first ever domestic treble we have a reporter asking Pep if he is taking bungs, the very least the club should of done was to make it public knowledge that this prick would not be welcome at the Etihad again. Would anybody be surprised at Peps next press conference if Harris was there asking the same question again, I know I wouldn't. I have stopped buying newspapers, listening to certain radio stations, stay off most social media, even watch the matches with the commentary turned off, should it really be like this.

Sometimes I feel that the only way to beat them off the field is to become the same as them and play extremely dirty. This doesn’t sit well though, and if we have to resort to paying off journalists or saturating social media with any shite about other clubs whether true or not, then I’m not sure I’d really be into football anymore.

It’s just the way the modern world is going. Football was always tribal, but it was tribalism about your football club.
The tribalism is still there but do any of us really want to follow a corporate tribe.
What I mean is, what all this shit in the last ten years have shown us, is the extent to which football has turned into a multi-billion pound industry. An industry that will use all the dirty tricks in the book to protect its interests.
It is more and more about the battles and war that is going on in a political sphere and really....
Does an ordinary football fan who loves the club he grew up with really want to be part of that.

No doubt the Dippers have bought into it. They blindly follow the tribe and are prepared to go along with anything in its name.

I’m still of the opinion that I’d like to see us tear it all down from the outside, but I really don’t think that’s possible.
To beat this propaganda shit unfortunately t think we’ll have to have worse morals than them.