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

[decmancity]

I don't have an issue with the question, its the timing that annoyed me. I think I read somewhere that since the first announcement of the allegations and all the leaked emails Pep has been in 91 press conferences. Is Harris just slow and hes only got round to reading the one about Mancini or is it him just being a weasel and waiting to bring it up. Embarrassing really and another nail in the coffin for proper journalism.

 

[crazyadi]

The regulation in question limits investment from owner to a certain amount (as I understand it, the allowable losses level).

Funnelling extra money through an inflated sponsorship through another company owned by the club owner could be a fairly obvious way of getting round the regulation.

What company is it that the city owner also owns??

 

[moh]

The sponsorship isn't inflated and there is no accusation from Uefa that it is.
They don't like the fact a stolen email insinuates that Etihad didn't pay all of it - which surprisingly isn't against the rules anyway. Its just they feel we should have told them although what its got to do with them I'm not sure. It keeps being referred to as backdoor funding by the owner although City are adamant we have broken no rules. Make of it what you will as a massive City fan with 7 posts in 2 years.
Oh and its got fuck all to do with the Premier League as FFP for the league came in years after Uefa introduced it. By then our commercial income was out of site of fucking FFP.
Usually on here if it walks like a duck, behaves like a duck & quacks like a duck you can bet your bottom dollar his first name is Donald.

Only this

Etihad are a state owned airline

Just like all of these

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_government-owned_airlines

Most, if not all, of those take up advertising or sponsorship of some form or another - if they didn't they couldn't compete with other airlines to get passenger numbers and stay in business

If all the governments in that list give all those airlines money to support their business and some of them chose to spend it on appearing on football team's shirt and stadium then what business is it of anybody else.

The only test that could be applied is "was the amount paid commensurate with what was received and in line with similar deals"

UEFA answered that with a yes

the rest is bullshit

Oh and as for the "negotiating arms deals" accusation that got levelled at our owner yesterday as another flagrant abuse of principle and moral right - even if it is true - who did they negotiate with and who did they subsequently buy them off?

The UK

 

[blueparrot]

Funnelling extra money through an inflated sponsorship through another company owned by the club owner could be a fairly obvious way of getting round the regulation

No one says it's inflated though. It's been allowed already as fair value so even if it was related parties it wouldn't matter.

 

[nmc]

Thinking about what Knob Harris asked Pep I wonder how many journalists have asked every Arsenal manager whether or not they received bungs like George Graham. Bear in mind he was actually found guilty of this offence.

Or that £50k that sat in United’s safe for months on end !

 

[GaudinoMotors]

We should only deal with impeccably owned airlines like Turkish Airlines and Aeroflot.

 

[bluemoon4ever]

what i cant figure is that if this was a 'criminal' case brought by the police, then the case would be thrown out of court as the 'evidence' was obtained illegally (hacked). So how can UEFA bring charges to us by the same means? We all know UEFA are corrupt, but to flaunt the law is just illegal ... isnt it?

 

[moh]

Imagine if there was a company email "found" that showed a conversation about how all the seatbelts in Etihad planes needed replacing as they didn't work at all and Etihad needed £40m to fund this.

If Sheik Mansour didn't give them the £40m would he suddenly be a paragon of virtue?

Or is state backing of some business operations acceptable where deemed by UK journalists and football fans?

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I don't think Etihad want anyone knowing their business, it's certainly not UEFA's business.

It could well be that highly sensitive information concerning how the state airline is currently struggling, is not something any corporation wishes to share with their competitors.

This stand-off is far bigger than City v UEFA.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

No hint of irony from certain 'writers' who were more than happy to accept accreditation for Wembley and the automatic, guilt-by-association, hospitality, which comes from Emirates Airlines sponsoring said historic competition...

Each, who had the Emirates moniker proudly adorned around their chicken-shit necks...

I'm just glad they could leave their conscience at the Bobby Moore statue.