They are making it easy for PL to go all in if that team lose this case. Taking away trophies, throwing them out to local league. 100 years transfer ban and so on. I wonder if that team have really thought about this.
City and Financial Doping | Charged by PL with numerous FFP breaches | Hearing begins 16th September 2024
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Yeah, it's great news really. Suggests they are not confident at all about what is coming. Additionally it's more visibility about what they are, what they really stand for and how dangerous state / mega rich ownership is. The fact that (some) toon fans are also throwing their cap in the ring with them makes it even better. Complete hypocrisy and self interest, and the tears if it all comes tumbling down, as is becoming more inevitable, will be so much more delicious as a result.
Am I right in saying that they are ultimately complaining because rules are in place to try to regulate clubs’ spending?
Yes. Its bad for all the little clubs who otherwise would have limitless funds to pump in were it not for us big boys having said they can't. It's all for the greater good. It's not possible to dominate with such unfair rules in place, as they have proven by being so spectacularly successful over the last 10 years whilst complying totally.. oh.
Largely. They also say that a few clubs have a cartel like hold on the premier league, and they don't like it. It stinks..stinks like bisk. They see Barcelona, Madrid doing what the feck they want, and god damn it, they want some of that sweet sweet financial corruption pie.
Just wait till they demand that games are played in the Middle East and that both teams and stadiums should be representative of ownership. Will be great.
feck me, just read the whole article. It’s unbelievable really.
Some major points
- Essentially accusing some Pl clubs of Racism against Arab led clubs
- United spent what they wanted in the 90's
- The rules are anti competitive
Like surely they cannot possibly win this case.
Some major points
- Essentially accusing some Pl clubs of Racism against Arab led clubs
- United spent what they wanted in the 90's
- The rules are anti competitive
Like surely they cannot possibly win this case.
This reminds me of the time when I worked for a sporting company (I wont name names - but they have 3 stripes) and - there was this guy who was selling knock-off shirts so we sued him - and his reply was to sue us back - claiming we had taken away his way of making a living. Needless to say - he did not win
I wonder will the utter ugliness of this finally wipe the shit eating sycophantic grin off Gary Linekar and all his cronies faces? Years upon years of appeasement and covering their eyes while doing exactly what city owners would want them to.
Hmmmm....so they are suing the EPL for not letting them cheat enough?
They signed up to the same T's and C's as everyone else.
Now because they got caught cooking the books, they are questioning the rules??
It doesn't work like that in a democracy. And they will never understand that. Money doesn't change the rules, and nobody will stand for it. They will be shunned at every door.
If they want, they can clear off out of this league, out of this country, and most clubs will happily wave them off.
Good riddance to a blight on our game.
They signed up to the same T's and C's as everyone else.
Now because they got caught cooking the books, they are questioning the rules??
It doesn't work like that in a democracy. And they will never understand that. Money doesn't change the rules, and nobody will stand for it. They will be shunned at every door.
If they want, they can clear off out of this league, out of this country, and most clubs will happily wave them off.
Good riddance to a blight on our game.
Once again for those in the back, United were the highest spenders in a singe PL season in the 90s.
When you look through all the “city just want to cheat” stuff and consider what they’re saying, they do have a point - as hard as it is to accept
Also if anyone associated with the UAE is reading this, I’ll post more shit like this across various platforms for a very reasonable price
Also if anyone associated with the UAE is reading this, I’ll post more shit like this across various platforms for a very reasonable price
To be fair, Man Citys homophobic, human rights abusing owners dont know anything about democracies. And their fans who have been clapping like braindead seals and bleating on here for years like braindead sheep dont care.
I fecking detest them!
“We’ll spend less on the local needy communities”
FECK OFF you gutter sh!te
“We’ll spend less on the local needy communities”
FECK OFF you gutter sh!te
Quality control
As a ginger myself I'd advise him not, we don't cope well in the sun!
The thing about this is even though they have immense resources and can hire any Lawyer, there's only so far that can take you... if you're caught red handed you're caught red handed.
How so?
If City start charging their fans more they will boycott the games.
These two ‘arguments’ have been making my eyes go squiffy, courtesy of a couple of geniuses on bluemoon…
”The social media morons are misreading this as City wanting to have an unfair financial advantage, when in fact, we don’t want be unfairly penalised. This is what the fools don’t get, why should we roll over and allow four clubs to be in cahoots with football’s governing bodies to restrict reasonable sponsorship that would be allowed at other clubs? They’re trying to tie weights to our feet and this is most likely linked to the ‘115’ as if we receive a footballing punishment, they want to make it as hard as possible for us ever to rise to the same position of power. It’s clear and orchestrated and all of it is linked in my eyes.
Corrupt to the core, bring on the independent regulator.”
And this
”I have been having fun on twitter with this argument
If our sponsorship deals have been inflated, then haven't they done well out of them. They have sponsored a team that has won the treble, achieved 100 points, won 4 PL TITLES in a row and done the domestic treble, signed marketable superstars and are a global brand. For sponsors that is a win win scenario. They get to associate themselves with success.
Other teams sponsors will have put lots of money into sponsorship deals and seen the team they have sponsored finish mid table with a leaky roof, a crap manager whilst being millions in debt. These sponsors associate themselves with mediocrity and decay.”
”The social media morons are misreading this as City wanting to have an unfair financial advantage, when in fact, we don’t want be unfairly penalised. This is what the fools don’t get, why should we roll over and allow four clubs to be in cahoots with football’s governing bodies to restrict reasonable sponsorship that would be allowed at other clubs? They’re trying to tie weights to our feet and this is most likely linked to the ‘115’ as if we receive a footballing punishment, they want to make it as hard as possible for us ever to rise to the same position of power. It’s clear and orchestrated and all of it is linked in my eyes.
Corrupt to the core, bring on the independent regulator.”
And this
”I have been having fun on twitter with this argument
If our sponsorship deals have been inflated, then haven't they done well out of them. They have sponsored a team that has won the treble, achieved 100 points, won 4 PL TITLES in a row and done the domestic treble, signed marketable superstars and are a global brand. For sponsors that is a win win scenario. They get to associate themselves with success.
Other teams sponsors will have put lots of money into sponsorship deals and seen the team they have sponsored finish mid table with a leaky roof, a crap manager whilst being millions in debt. These sponsors associate themselves with mediocrity and decay.”
They can spend whatever they want to be fair, thats up to them.
But if it's my house, my rules, go elsewhere
Yeah who could have foreseen allowing nefarious middle eastern nation states, with questionable morals and human rigths records to buy Premier League clubs would have ever lead to any bother?
At this stage I have to wonder what Abu Dhabi even want out of owning City anymore. They've put Abu Dhabi on the map a lot more than it was, they've successfully dominated English football, signed the world's top coach and won a Treble. Sure they did a lot of cheating to achieve all this, but what else can they get from owning City form here on out other than a shit load of negative PR.
Not really, there’s rules with what you can do with your house as well.
Its not illegal, even CAS said it wasnt
Camels. Cats. Any other animals you want to bring up?
I fecking detest them!
“We’ll spend less on the local needy communities”
FECK OFF you gutter sh!te
This is basically them admitting the whole thing is black hole for money.
Fundamentally, democracy is the rule/dictatorship of the majority over the minority. "Tyranny" is just a cynical way to put it, especially by City's side, and has been a term in use since the 1700s by political theorists.
its time that the Premier league clubs stand up and simply boycott their matches with Shitty, simply dont turn up to play them. If they can all agree to do this together that would be the biggest fck u to that scum club
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This is what I don't get. They say they haven't broken any rules. So let's believe them. In the space of what, little over a decade / 15 years, they went from near relegation candidates, to dominating English football winning 6 from 7 leagues, with multiple domestic cups along the way.
A perfect example that with rich owners, but more importantly a great strategy, you can grow organically within the rules, and become successful within the rules, to the point you dominate the game. So what the problem here, they should actually be held up as a perfect case study here, so why are they so up in arms now.....yeah something isn't quite adding up here like!
The real irony here is their ownership hasn’t understood that if they did the latter - they’d be unbelievably popular even though they’d have won much less. Likely still would have won loads anyway given how bad many of the bigger teams have been for long periods.
Absolute monarchy owned sports washing project having a hard time understanding the concept of a democratic vote“City are also arguing the league’s democratic system of requiring at least 14 clubs, or two-thirds of those who vote, to implement rule changes should be abolished to guard against decisions being made by 'the tyranny of the majority'."
How ironic to argue against tyranny of any kind but especially against the pesky majority
It’s good they’ve finally revealed their true face. The facade is over now.
Lovely club and owners. Game is death, I will probably give few more years (2-3) and check out for good.
Joined today. Cute.
15 minutes after Times piece lands. Coincidentally….
And already backing City while pretending to be a Chelsea fan.
“Quick, sign up to Redcafe. See what they’re saying”
farage fighting the establishment, city fighting the premier league. it’s nice to see the common man standing up and fighting for what’s right.
Any more gems from the joined 15 minutes after the news broke “Chelsea fan”?
...........what the feck?
Could this possibly be another stalling tactic? Sueing the PL to push their lawyers into dealing with this issue and causing them to delay the hearing for the 115 charges.
Kind of like those mega corps who batter people with endless litigation to avoid being sued/prosecuted for dumping chemicals into the drinking water
Kind of like those mega corps who batter people with endless litigation to avoid being sued/prosecuted for dumping chemicals into the drinking water
And the fact they are using the fact the cartels rules make it no competitive, at a time when THEY have been the most dominant side ever.
Imagine what it would be like if there was no restrictions for them?