I’m aware of this but they can’t take tax payments for wages and salaries paid in the UAE now can they?
City and Financial Doping | Charged by PL with 130 FFP breaches | Hearing begins 16th Sep 2024 | Concluded 9th Dec 2024 - Awaiting outcome
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Yep they've been pretty spotless so far, otherwise they might have racked up 116 charges. Not a mere 115.
I know this isn't how it works, but I'd love to see them bring in some witnesses for their defence. Maybe a cardboard cut out of the stock image business woman who is CEO of one of their biggest sponsors, or Pep with a sock puppet wearing a stethoscope.
As if I couldn’t hate these cnuts any more than I do.
I'm not 100% on the tax laws, however I think you are liable for UK tax if you are domiciled in the UK and being paid by a UK company.
My son works for a Swedish firm but pays UK income tax.
isnt this an admittance of guilt then? seems they've put a bigger crosshair on their back now.
Why don't all the other teams in the league just refuse to take part until City are dealt with and in a way which is equal to what Everton/Forest got for their charges?
My guess is a lot of other teams including ourselves bend rules and if we point the finger at City.....They could then say, "Well look what you've been doing i.e A, B and C"
Which nobodye wants.
My guess is a lot of other teams including ourselves bend rules and if we point the finger at City.....They could then say, "Well look what you've been doing i.e A, B and C"
Which nobodye wants.
But they know that has zero significance on a world level.
The only people who watch Saudi games from other countries are either Ronaldo fans or Ronaldo haters trying to downplay his career.
It's definitely a deflection tactic.
Like a criminal being hauled into the cop shop and trying to claim the cops assaulted him on way.
City going for the Trump approach
"crooked league, we're totally innocent, it's rigged"
"crooked league, we're totally innocent, it's rigged"
Watched the 99 doc on prime and he doesnt seem liked by Yokey either. Who seemed the most intelligent, chill dude. I got the impression he thought Neville was not well liked just from his body language
Interesting to see the pasting they are getting on other fan forums. And not just Arsenal and RAWK …. Except Newcastle
That’s not how the Middle East works as no income tax is paid on any wages/salary paid into that country. It would be very difficult to ask Mancini to pay 50% Uk income tax on 4 days work in their country where he was paid 5 million dirhams.
One, he would be paid into an account set up specifically for this reason and two, I doubt if the amount paid is even known to UK HMRC, it’s not as if Mancini and others would not have Middle East or European Bank Accounts (Swiss/Monaco) for this very reason.
If the tide turns then Sky will quickly turn and be the moral vanguard for football. They'll have Neville in a cape on the steps of Wembley giving a speech.
I imagine the media can't say much if its an active legal case.
But any fawning over that scumbag club by pundits or commentators needs to stop.
It's about money. Make some sort of stand and refuse to play and sponsors and the league will hold money back.
Money needed to pay players who would still need paying etc.
Make no bones about it, other clubs will think the same as wedo about City but they're probably told not to comment in the same way we are on forums about live cases.
Yep if such a erm morally strong character like Yorkie thinks he's a wrongun he must be.
Nonsense. Neville won’t give his speech until a few minutes after the verdict
Leicester were cheating when they won and when they were promoted 1st time, same as last seasons promotion in fact.
When will this case be over?They're so fecked aren't theygonna be a glorious extra celebration this summer when they're relegated down two leagues.
Matt Lawton says he’s pretty sure we are on the side of the majority.
Good to know we are probably on the good guys side.
Good to know we are probably on the good guys side.
Are there any of those petitions going on that have to be heard by parliament if they reach a certain number?
If there was one banning state ownership I’m pretty sure it would get hundreds of thousands at least
If there was one banning state ownership I’m pretty sure it would get hundreds of thousands at least
This feels like a Hail Mary by City. I'm genuinely starting to think they're f*cked, they know they're f*cked, and they're flinging sh*t at the wall in a desperate attempt to see if anything sticks.
Starting to fantasize about them being expelled from the league. Is that a possible scenario? Just get fecking rid of these serial cheaters?
That wasn't my point. The only reason it "works" in Norway is because we have agreements with a vast amount of countries in regards to sharing information about Norwegian customers, hiding cash in banks isn't as easy as it used to be. The same concept won't work in the case we are debating ref City players and state owners.
Just the old 'Deny&Subvert' routine.
5 points deduction, slap on the wrist, promise to try to do better and they will move on
Ban them, destroy the stadium and send Aguero to jail please
Can the various PL teams combine together to use their legal/financial resources? Do city need to be convicted first before the clubs could try a class action suit?
Yes but as we’ve said City seem to have wanted to cheat regardless. I think it would work though, or at least deter more cheating, and also be quite interesting for fans if this happened.
I appreciate that. I’m just not sure why they would want to?
What is the incentive for a typical owner to destroy the market in the manner City or PSG have done?
Most regular businesses, even billion dollar ones, are accountable to their shareholders. They still exist to make a profit and want to see value for their investments.
With Blackburn and Chelsea, we saw wealthy owners pump large amounts of money in to gain success - but neither broke the market to the extent it is broken now. Both had limits to their wealth.
Oil states have close to unlimited wealth, coupled with their own infrastructure through which to spend it unsupervised.
Is this pretty much akin to Lance Armstrong suing the UCI for their prohibitive rules on PEDs?
I'll give you a bonus point if you can spot the connection to those clubs.. apart from Everton, those fools are just pissed at the league.
How would it work?
But the answer to “how do we stop City cheating?”, can’t be “bring in another rule that makes it tougher than everyone else but makes zero difference to City”. Surely you can see that?
The fact there will always be a way around it is precisely the reason so many of us were adamant states shouldn’t be allowed to own clubs in the first place.
They let them in - it’s been proven that we were right and they cheated. Now it’s time to kick them out and if that can’t be done legally, it’s time to disband the league and start again without them.