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

[@BluePhil8]

Good to see the UK media pick this story up with the same gusto they did with the UEFA leak one day after our title win.

 

[SWP's back]

Thanks for that.

 

[Shaggy]

MCFC will Shut em Up

 

[Metalartin]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48546882

I see the Beeb have us hung drawn and quartered as usual. Biggest bunch of wankers in the UK the BBC.... utter disgrace for a National Broadcaster.

Uefa launched an investigation after German newspaper Der Spiegel published leaked documents alleging City had inflated the value of a multimillion-pound sponsorship deal, misleading European football's governing body.

Is that correct or is it another example of a journo making what he wants to out of it?

The language changed from most journos from "inflated sponsorship" to a charge of misleading UEFA(by not disclosing related income) just before UEFAs leaks started.

The two are not the same. Firstly I thought it was common knowledge City passed the fair market value test on what they were getting years ago... it's not as if they could bung extra income on the balance sheet, there wouldn't need to be an investigation to see that I'd have thought. Secondly Etihad are not a related party to begin with, that's where I thought the misleading charge comes in, if a related party has been paying Etihad(which City say is not the case) then that would break the rules but it's not "inflating the value" the amount that was paid is not the issue but where it came from.

Does anyone know how the fair market value is calculated? Does it have anything to do with what they think a sponsor can afford or is it all to do with what City are worth in the market?

 

[citytilllidie]

You missed the context of his reply to a previous post.

Right

 

[citytilllidie]

I think he was answering a rhetorical question... he wasn’t saying this - he was calling it out as ridiculous.

Right

 

[citytilllidie]

Could be any Tom, Dick or Parry.

We have been told the committee was being lead by the ex-Belgian Prime Minister, (who has been known to come out with the odd porky in the past), but do we know the names of the other 'investigators' on that committee?

Pinkertons doesn't spring to mind!

 

[Manc in London]

Probably went to the right school and Cambridge... and his Daddy knows someone. That’s the usual recruitment policy at the BBC.

Not sure about that. Nowadays, they have a few redbrick graduates too. Thankfully, they have not stopped so low as to employ those who went to polys and ex-polys.

 

[Bluemeanster]

We have been told the committee was being lead by the ex-Belgian Prime Minister, (who has been known to come out with the odd porky in the past), but do we know the names of the other 'investigators' on that committee?

Pinkertons doesn't spring to mind!

Chairman and Chief Investigator
Yves Leterme (Belgium)

Members
Jacobo Beltrán (Spain)
Egon Franck (Germany)
Petros Mavroidis (Greece)
Damien Neven (Belgium)
Richard Parry (England) Former Liverpool CEO and Lifelong Liverpool fan
Konstantin Sonin (Russia)
Yves Wehrli (France)

 

[Shaggy]

Not sure about that. Nowadays, they have a few redbrick graduates too. Thankfully, they have not stopped so low as to employ those who went to polys and ex-polys.

Yes I believe they let in those frightful oiks from Warwick, St Andrews, Durham and god forbid the LSE these days