City and Financial Doping | Charged by PL with numerous FFP breaches | Hearing begins 16th September 2024

But on a serious note, the more scrutiny this gets in high profile media source the better.

This sheepish situation of charges being made, but absolutely no timescale on pursuing them / finding them guilty with punishments is absolutely ludicrous.
 
Here's the revelation for those who aren't watching:


This isn't brand new info: this came from a UEFA CFCB report from 2020 that was never published. In short, one person made two £15m payments that was supposed to come from a sponsor. This will be factored into the PL investigation, so we'll see what happens with that.
 
I really want to watch this :)

The report has been obtained by the makers of a YouTube film about City’s finances. It comes only three weeks after City celebrated clinching the Treble by winning the Champions League for the first time in the club’s history.
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A reminder that the charges are 2008 - 2018, so wouldn't affect the last few years ridiculously.

You've got David Dein, ex Arsenal saying he's not even sure it's the "smoking gun" it appears to be, the charges have to be proven, and that there's no chance they'll have any titles removed.
Thanks Dein!
 
Nothing new, Piers just interested in if Arsenal will get the league title off City by the PL. Like mentioned above he didn't give a toss when Liverpool were a cnut's hair off City numerous times. :rolleyes:

I've stopped watching.
 
Bit of a nothing program so far, but the key is these charges are a decade long up to 2018. So the last 5 years don't count.
Even though they've obviously been the end game of what all those charges did.
 
Sandikan said:
Bit of a nothing program so far, but the key is these charges are a decade long up to 2018. So the last 5 years don't count.
Even though they've obviously been the end game of what all those charges did.
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They don't count in the current charges list. That's not to say there's no suspicion of anything after that date.
They will have had to draw a line somewhere in order to proceed.
 
Sebalto said:
Was talking to an Oldham fan today who claimed that the very implementation of FFP was "cheating" as it was ushered in by the big 6 to protect their hegemony. Laughable.
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Well that’s kinda of a valid argument tbf. It’s a very broken system.

City would have still been possible working within the rules. But it would have taken 20 instead of 10 years.

FFP needs an overhaul. Huge punishments for City and PSG would facilitate it. As it is, clubs are being taught that flouting the rules has zero consequence so they’ll be watered down.

City are now in a position that they’ll support tighter constraints in the next five years, despite riding roughshod over them for a decade.

When football became business and balance sheet it fecked the sport.
 
Flying high said:
They don't count in the current charges list. That's not to say there's no suspicion of anything after that date.
They will have had to draw a line somewhere in order to proceed.
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Yep, you can’t decide to not comply with ffp rules (whatever it is in England) and not get done for it
 
Fitchett said:
City getting in another excuse to justify their lack of supporters, even though they claim they have loads.

Community Shield: Late Sunday kick-off 'will lead to empty seats' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65949454
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Another time I’ll support City begrudgingly.

This country’s rail network is on its knees and expensive even when it works.

The Community Shield should be held at Villa Park anytime there’s a North-South divide. London is rich. The north is not. Arsenal fans paying a tenner in travel costs to attend and Northern fans paying £100-200 is disgusting.

City should not need fans in London, or wealthy fans in Manchester to sell their tickets. It’s gross.
 
Fitchett said:
City getting in another excuse to justify their lack of supporters, even though they claim they have loads.

Community Shield: Late Sunday kick-off 'will lead to empty seats' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65949454
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What has helped City escape scrutiny so well until now is their work with the local community and how they treat the media.

It's been exceptionally clever as you'll never hear any commentator pointing out empty seats and for years there was a constant almost City written line about "traffic problems" around the ground.
Traffic problems that didn't see the ground fill up later. Every week bar playing us.
 
It’s telling that this is the 115th page of this thread. Would be great if City gets a crushing blow before the end of this page.

115
 
The Manchester 115ers. A wank stain on football.

Everything they have achieved has been done without any romance, story or glamour…nothing…just hard cash.
 
There isn't a single redeeming quality about Manchester City as a football club or a business.

People need to stop calling them a brilliant footballing side as well. It helps give the impression that it's fine to cheat if you are good.
 
Keegan turning off comments to that Tweet show he's a spineless mouthpiece
 
Bearded One said:
It’s telling that this is the 115th page of this thread. Would be great if City gets a crushing blow before the end of this page.

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You think they're going to get their punishment by tomorrow morning at latest :lol:

It'll take years.
 
Why does CAS have such a short statute of limitations?
 
City picking 2/3 of the CAS and it only goes to 2018 apparently due to zero cooperation from City since the UEFA investigation.
 
Berbaclass said:
The documentary released today suggests that City picked 2/3 CAS adjudicators.
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Each side should pick one. Then you pick an impartial third. So it’s almost always 2-1.

The issue is the 3rd was McDougall and no one seems to be able to explain how he (having headed his firms Mena office and had Etisalat and others as clients) was deemed impartial.
 
tomaldinho1 said:
Each side should pick one. Then you pick an impartial third. So it’s almost always 2-1.

The issue is the 3rd was McDougall and no one seems to be able to explain how he (having headed his firms Mena office and had Etisalat and others as clients) was deemed impartial.
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It's just blatant.
 
Sandikan said:
What has helped City escape scrutiny so well until now is their work with the local community and how they treat the media.

It's been exceptionally clever as you'll never hear any commentator pointing out empty seats and for years there was a constant almost City written line about "traffic problems" around the ground.
Traffic problems that didn't see the ground fill up later. Every week bar playing us.
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I’ll add another one to your points. We have a thread here asking “Does City leave you cold?” Part of the problem is that it does. Supporters of each club tend to think rather City than any of our rivals. Instead of all other club supporters being united in a strong and vocal fight against City’s cheating, we opt for our own ulterior motives and end up with lukewarm protests that aren’t worthy of reporting. The media absolutely would swing the hammer if heavy and hard protests existed.
 
"It has not been easy for me. I started off in Manchester. My broker gave me a small loan of 30 million dollars."
 
:lol: So the whole UEFA case was just a theatre act to make UEFA look like they were doing their job and also give a sneaky way out for City to avoid punishments.
 
Amarsdd said:
:lol: So the whole UEFA case was just a theatre act to make UEFA look like they were doing their job and also give a sneaky way out for City to avoid punishments.
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This was the best UEFA could do. City gave them 2 options. Take the brown envelopes or face my team of best lawyers in the world. Either way City win.
 
Yakuza_devils said:
Khaldoon can laugh all he wants now. Hopefully karma will catch up with him soon.

Records British revenues my ass. I will never believe that City revenues can be more than Man Utd, RM, Barca, BM treble or not.
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The money in the game for winning things now is more than ever, and the global reach of social media is now bigger than ever. That drives more money into the game than we’ve ever seen. It’s how all of these crazy transfer fees are being funded. Money doesn’t know about “history & traditional in the 90s & 00s”.

We’ll see when the results come out next year, but you could cut a big chunk of the commercial revenue (if you wish), and it’ll still be right up there in terms of total revenue. United benefited from being the top team when the PL & Sky TV money landed, and created a financial gap with the rest of the league. This is just history repeating itself in the age of social media.

AsI write this, I read City have agreed a deal with OKX to be the sleeve sponsor for 3 years for £55M+ … not bad (and backs up my point.. sleeve sponsors didn’t really exist when you were last winning things regularly).
 
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