johnmc said:Lancet Fluke said:At some point we might need to have a bit of an overhaul of the squad. We are fine at the moment but you never know what will happen in a few years time. If at some point things go a bit tits up and we felt we needed to do what say united have done in the last 12 months, would we be able to do it? We might be making a profit now having reigned things in deliberately to comply with their shite rules but would we be making a profit if we went out and 200 million on players?
I dont think any well managed club should need an overhaul at anytime its about adding one or two top players every year plus a couple of squad players every year and hopefully bringing on a youngster or two.
SWP's back said:No. They were changed.The perfect fumble said:SWP's back said:They dropped no bollock. The rules changed AFTER the accounts were filed.
If if that is true and I expect it was probably down to "interpretation" of the rules, rather than being changed, it doesn't matter, in business what matters is outcomes.
No bollocks were dropped as stated.
Well said mate. Some people swan around here like they own the fucking place.SouthStandStander said:If you want to discuss yaya. Then fuck off to the yaya thread. This thread is about Bony!oakiecokie said:Matty said:On the Bony front I'm happy if we sign him from an ability perspective. He's a very good striker, with an eye for goal, and he brings aerial ability, power, and strength, which we lack at present from our strikers (Dzeko SHOULD provide these things, but all too often is surprisingly weak when it comes to the physical battle). My only concern is the who African Cup Of Nations bollocks, every 2 years Bony, just like Yaya, will disappear for 6 weeks or so, right at the heart of the season. Losing 1 key player is difficult, losing 2 will be doubly so. It really does baffle me how UEFA, and it's higher profile clubs, haven't put pressure on FIFA and the African Football Association to address the scheduling of this competition. There's really no need for it to be every 2 years, and the weather angle behind it's mid-season scheduling doesn't really hold water for a continent that straddles the equator like Africa does.
Serious question mate but do you believe that he`ll still be with us in 2017 ??
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Fuck off old timer. Go read the MEN.oakiecokie said:Fuck FFP on this thread !! This is about Bony.Fuck off to the FFP thread if you want to continue your debates.
Cheers. Not just me that it pisses off thengordondaviesmoustache said:Well said mate. Some people swan around here like they own the fucking place.SouthStandStander said:If you want to discuss yaya. Then fuck off to the yaya thread. This thread is about Bony!oakiecokie said:Serious question mate but do you believe that he`ll still be with us in 2017 ??
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"Dropping a bollock" suggests it was something we could have avoided and we didn't, so it was our own fault.The perfect fumble said:SWP's back said:No. They were changed.The perfect fumble said:If if that is true and I expect it was probably down to "interpretation" of the rules, rather than being changed, it doesn't matter, in business what matters is outcomes.
No bollocks were dropped as stated.
It doesn't matter whether the rules were "changed" only the outcome matters. Sheikh Mansour pays top dollar to ensure these things don't happen, they happened, we dropped a bollock.
Not really relevant to Bony but what happened was this:Matty said:SWP's back said:No. They were changed.The perfect fumble said:If if that is true and I expect it was probably down to "interpretation" of the rules, rather than being changed, it doesn't matter, in business what matters is outcomes.
No bollocks were dropped as stated.
Technically (and this was how they got away with it) the rule didn't actually change at all, what changed was the interpretation of the rule, and specifically the guidance on how the rule would be interpreted. City, alongside the rest of the clubs in Europe, were given guidance on how the rules, where ambiguous, would be interpreted. We based our financial reporting upon this UEFA guidance, and then when it came to actually assess our finances UEFA changed the way in which they interpreted the rules, so the guidance we were given was now completely inaccurate. If we'd been willing I'm convinced we could have challenged this legally, and we'd have won, but the time, cost and reputational impact of doing so was deemed to be too great by our owners, somthing UEFA probably banked upon.
Matty said:"Dropping a bollock" suggests it was something we could have avoided and we didn't, so it was our own fault.The perfect fumble said:SWP's back said:No. They were changed.
No bollocks were dropped as stated.
It doesn't matter whether the rules were "changed" only the outcome matters. Sheikh Mansour pays top dollar to ensure these things don't happen, they happened, we dropped a bollock.
Think of it this way, you're asked to go to the shop with a shopping list, one item on which is a shirt. Prior to leaving the house you're told that where the list says "shirt" what is meant is a red shirt, with short sleeves, with a 16 inch neck. You go to the shops, find the right shirtm buy it, and go home. When you arrive, you find that the guidance on the shirt has changed, now the shirt has to be blue, have long sleeves, and a 15 inch neck. Your wife is pissed off and won't cook your tea for the next week, as you got it wrong. Whose fault is this? You did everything you could do, and followed the guidance exactly. Did you "drop a bollock"?
That's a very simplified version of what happened here. The rules stayed the same (buy a shirt), however the guidance before buying the shirt is not the same guidance being used to assess whether the purchase meets the requirements.