Topic: Man City - cheating bastards rumbled

[rebel23]

horrific article by andy dunn in the mirror, obviously a abu dhabi fan.

I've just got back from a cafe and they had the Mirror there so I read their coverage. 

Was the article about the lawyers getting rich etc? I thought that was odd.  John Cross had a better article saying this was always going to happen.

I also had to laugh at the hype they were giving the Manc striker Ighalo, full big spread on him.  Madness.

[Slightly Less Mediocre Baron Bennekov]

Seems Manchester City took Brexit too literally... 

[ScouserAtHeart]

Get caught cheating on Valentine's Day. Everton Man City that

[Floydy]

Has anybody heard from Noel?  has he come out from under his rock yet?

[Billy The Kid]

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the Arabs decided to cut their losses with City and launder their blood money elsewhere

Seeing this lot descend back down the table and into a relegation dog fight with a Steve Bruce type manager would be karma at its absolute best

I hate United more, but if I was given the choice of watching one of them get relegated, I think I'd take more joy in seeing it happen to these c*nts

[Iska]

A contrarian perspective here: Anyone else thinking the timing of this announcement is evidence that clubs like Real Madrid have UEFA/FIFA wrapped around their fingers?

That’s not contrarian, that’s a conspiracy theory.

Just a quick point for those who think that FFP is 'Tory'. Whilst one of the side effects is that is makes it harder for smaller clubs to overspend in a bit to 'catch-up', it does not simply keep the status quo.

There are a whole bunch of exclusions where you can make losses - you can spend on things like infrastructure and deduct those losses from the figure that UEFA bases compliance on. Man City have spend tons on things like their (rented) stadium, training ground etc. I believe we avoided non-compliance because our losses were mostly infrastructure.

There is nothing to stop a rich owner buying a small club (Everton), buying a big fuck off stadium then using that new revenue to bankroll signings. Leicester's owners are wealthy and have done similar. Tottenham have muscled in by grow organically so it can be done.

Of course, doing it this way takes time to build, which is not what these crybabies want to do.

Good post.  I hate that ‘tory’ line of argument about non-Political things.  Like barriers to entry are a uniquely Tory thing anyway.  Any trades unionist should know the value of a closed shop.

The way I always saw ffp was it was about stopping other clubs Leeds’ing themselves by trying to keep up with the unkeepupwithable.  Sure it won’t do anything about Bayern or Man Utd being at the top of the financial tree, but you simply couldn’t ever get a consensus against the big boys spending their own money.

[Alan574]

Most UK newspapers supported Nazi appeasement in the 1930s.
Their support of corrupt regimes is not without precedent.

Daily Mail thought Hitler was the best thing since sliced bread.

[#RedDawn2020]

Just a quick point for those who think that FFP is 'Tory'. Whilst one of the side effects is that is makes it harder for smaller clubs to overspend in a bit to 'catch-up', it does not simply keep the status quo.

There are a whole bunch of exclusions where you can make losses - you can spend on things like infrastructure and deduct those losses from the figure that UEFA bases compliance on. Man City have spend tons on things like their (rented) stadium, training ground etc. I believe we avoided non-compliance because our losses were mostly infrastructure.

There is nothing to stop a rich owner buying a small club (Everton), buying a big fuck off stadium then using that new revenue to bankroll signings. Leicester's owners are wealthy and have done similar. Tottenham have muscled in by grow organically so it can be done.

Of course, doing it this way takes time to build, which is not what these crybabies want to do.

That is a very good point. Counters their argument of an investor not being allowed to invest into their club which isn’t true. It’s just that buying (mostly shite) players for outrageous sums for years on years that’s catching up with them and the fake income required to do so.

Say what you will about Red Bull where the asset is also mostly a PR exercise, but they are building from the ground up and have a stringent strategy and recruitment policy. Inevitably, at least RB Leipzig will be big enough to stop having to sell their players each season.

Nobody would begrudge City their successes if they at least tried to keep up the appearance of doing it the hard way. You know, instead of signing Robinho on the last day of the transfer window.

[BlackandWhitePaul]

Has anybody heard from Noel?  has he come out from under his rock yet?

There are many things that I would like to say to you, but I don't know how   

[Floydy]

They haven't conquered Europe
Theyre never gonna start
From Dhabi up to Didsbury
Watch them fall apart
Shaun Goater & Uwe Rosler
Georgei Kinkladze
They're a bunch of cheaters
that come from Abu Dhabi
Allez Allez Allez

P.s I really hate all these mock allez allez chants, but after watching their players celebrate with their anti scouse version I simply couldn't resist this.

[Billy The Kid]

Has anybody heard from Noel?  has he come out from under his rock yet?

No doubt he'll have a pop at UEFA, the shameless Brexit-wanting little has-been

[cdav]

City have commercial revenues of supposedly £225m- will these sham deals be revalued now to a market value under FFP?

I've not yet seen an answer anywhere on this

[Lush is the best medicine...]

Because FFP wasn’t a thing then so they were slightly limited in how they could be punished.

and that was about paying off a large debt from memory

[Nitramdorf]

Can anyone confirm if the cheating they are currently being banned for is only up to 2016? Think I read that somewhere earlier.
If so, surely their cheating since then has gone into new realms of creative accounting.

[Floydy]

There are many things that I would like to say to you, but I don't know how   

You can SPEND all your lifetime
to spread ya wings in the sunshine

Prob wrong lyrics as I don't even like/listen to Noasis

[sinnermichael]

They're even covering up the true identity of their players now. This has gone too far.

[Samie]

Our mate Gaz. 

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

City have commercial revenues of supposedly £225m- will these sham deals be revalued now to a market value under FFP?

I've not yet seen an answer anywhere on this

If they aren't, then UEFA will ban them again once this ban is over. Unless they think of a more clever way to hide where the funds actually come from, that is.

[rebel23]

There's loads of City teenagers on twitter.  As soon as you say anything negative about their shitty club they descend on you like locusts. They managed to get 'Heysel' trending this morning but now its gone.

edit: #Heysel still there just not in the main column..

[Floydy]

any phone in's I can tune into with this lot cry arsing?

[Robotforaday]

Has anybody on Blue Moon noticed that Der Spiegel is a German publication

…and Liverpool have a GERMAN manager?

Abu Dhabi need to get their legal team onto that, pronto.

[Ghost Town]

Hmm it's not like City fans to stamp their feet

[FiSh77]

Has anybody heard from Noel?  has he come out from under his rock yet?

He's still scratching around in the same old hole

[TepidT2O]

A contrarian perspective here: Anyone else thinking the timing of this announcement is evidence that clubs like Real Madrid have UEFA/FIFA wrapped around their fingers?

Don't get me wrong: I think it's hilarious what has happened to City; it couldn't have happened to a more deserving team (deserving of the 'Cheat' tag). But something about the timing of the release makes me think UEFA are doing Real Madrid a favour. Getting the best performance out of your players (which they would need to beat Madrid) becomes that much harder with a shitstorm scandal all over the press. The real cheats are behind the scenes, in the boardrooms, etc., but it's the players and Pep who have to be the face of the club most of the time.

City will definitely lose that tie now.

No.

There’s a great misunderstanding about the purpose of FFP.

It was to stop the outrageous wage inflation that was occurring 10 or so years ago.  It was to try to stop clubs haemorrhaging cash in losses and going bust.

And it’s worked (by and large). Clubs across Europe are now financially much more healthy because uefa have forced them to be.

This was never about Manchester City or PSG. It was about the health of football.

 

[Qston]

City have commercial revenues of supposedly £225m- will these sham deals be revalued now to a market value under FFP?

I've not yet seen an answer anywhere on this

This is what I am wondering. Will these deals now be recalculated at market value ? They would have a massive problem if they are. No CL income and reduced sponsorship. They would be losing upwards of what, £100m per season ?

[markedasred]

City have commercial revenues of supposedly £225m- will these sham deals be revalued now to a market value under FFP?

I've not yet seen an answer anywhere on this

There are far more questions than answers. the fight for 4th just became the fight for 5th, as whoever comes 5th gets champs league football next season now. In the dictionary under "can of worms" it now says "See Man City"

[rebel23]

This guy on twitter is a QC/sports lawyer. He is saying the players and staff can argue that their terms have fundamentally altered and leave for free 

https://twitter.com/JohnMehrzadLaw/status/1228638217064341505

That would be too funny.

[Clint Eastwood]

I just love how they’ve had this VAR/tainted title agenda all season, and now the world has just discovered that their titles over the last decade have all been tainted.

So much for their decade of dominance, Guardiola will leave and they’ll be reluctant to spend much in the transfer market now.

[Floydy]

This guy on twitter is a QC/sports lawyer. He is saying the players and staff can argue that their terms have fundamentally altered and leave for free  :lma
https://twitter.com/JohnMehrzadLaw/status/1228638217064341505

That would be too funny.

Aidy Ward and Razza will be all over this like a rash

[Medellin]

City probably looking at hiring a few different types of influencers right now.

[Skeeve]

No matter what happens, they are all forever complicit in the biggest cheating the game has seen.

Are you forgetting all the stuff a while back in the italian league, given the amount of clubs involved that was clearly bigger, so city aren't even the biggest when it comes to cheating either.

[Iska]

This guy on twitter is a QC/sports lawyer. He is saying the players and staff can argue that their terms have fundamentally altered and leave for free 

https://twitter.com/JohnMehrzadLaw/status/1228638217064341505

That would be too funny.

There’s probably a no-CL clause already in their contracts, if their agents were on the ball.  Though it doesn’t seem to have been in Pogba’s.

[Fromola]

There's loads of City teenagers on twitter.  As soon as you say anything negative about their shitty club they descend on you like locusts. They managed to get 'Heysel' trending this morning but now its gone.

edit: #Heysel still there just not in the main column..

And they call us victims

[Medellin]

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Fixed.

[Floydy]

Are you forgetting all the stuff a while back in the italian league, given the amount of clubs involved that was clearly bigger, so city aren't even the biggest when it comes to cheating either.

TINY CHEATERS MC?

[rob1966]

Just a quick point for those who think that FFP is 'Tory'. Whilst one of the side effects is that is makes it harder for smaller clubs to overspend in a bit to 'catch-up', it does not simply keep the status quo.

There are a whole bunch of exclusions where you can make losses - you can spend on things like infrastructure and deduct those losses from the figure that UEFA bases compliance on. Man City have spend tons on things like their (rented) stadium, training ground etc. I believe we avoided non-compliance because our losses were mostly infrastructure.

There is nothing to stop a rich owner buying a small club (Everton), buying a big fuck off stadium then using that new revenue to bankroll signings. Leicester's owners are wealthy and have done similar. Tottenham have muscled in by grow organically so it can be done.

Of course, doing it this way takes time to build, which is not what these crybabies want to do.

Good post.

Anyone who moans about FFP needs to look at how Abu Dhabi almost repeated what Qatar has done to ligue 1. Anyone like Newcastle or Everton who thinks a sugar daddy would buy them is dreaming. Abu Dhabi bought City on the name Manchester, they jumped on the back of the other lots fame. Without FFP, the likes of Abu Dhabi would just take the piss, 40 man squads of 100 million pound players on huge salaries

[ToneLa]

I've had time to not only learn of Manchester City's ban, but reflect on it thoughtfully and sit down to
 compose my deepest thoughts on the matter:


Aaaaahhahahahhahahahhha the cheating fuckin melts hahahahahah aaaaaaaahhahahaha!

[thejbs]

The argument that City are a financial healthy and well run club is daft. When you have these inflated sponsorship deals but neither the fans or actual finances to back it up, it makes the club a bit precarious. Should AD get bored with their plaything and sell it on, it would take incredible owners to keep the charade going. If they fail to get revenue fairly and organically, they could be in financial bother. That’s what FFP is getting at here. City aren’t spending beyond the owner’s means, but they are absolutely spending beyond the club’s means.

[elsewhere]

https://twitter.com/BWWings/status/1228391037678297094

Buffalo Wild Wings
@BWWings
THAT’S how you punish a team that cheats.

[Skeeve]

I have to sort of wonder if Abu Dhabi have been utterly stupid or stupendously arrogant.

We all know they are at the Emptyhad to try to cleanse their appalling image and reputation as a regime. They are clearly sensitive over how they are perceived. They buy a non-descript football club in the shadows of three bigger clubs within the North West area and look to make a good name for themselves. Now all that makes good sense up to now.

The problem is, instead of gradually improving the facilities, the management and the team whilst living within the club's means they, instead, make the club look like the drug dealer with no legitimate means of support who is living in a detached house with a pool, drives a Lamborghini and puts two fingers up to homeless people as he drives past. I mean why bring so much unnecessary attention on to yourself? OK, you get away with it for a while, but at some point questions get asked. Awkward questions, and when the answers don't stack up, well it all comes crashing down.

Have they acted out of absolute stupidity, arrogance, or both?
They came in looking to enhance their reputation but, instead, all they have done is taint it even further. To top it off, if they lie and cheat their way through a dirty legal battle they'll look yet worse still. They'll expose themselves as the dirty, disgusting bullies they really are.

The crazy thing is that if they had focused on building city up steadily, it would have taken them longer, but they would have got a lot more credit for it in the long run.

They could have thrown the money at the stadium, training grounds, regenerating the areas around them etc and that would have all been seen as positives and at the same time they could have steadily increased the spending on the squad rather than going mental in that area from the start and by doing that it would have been more of a feel-good plucky underdog eventually triumphing kind of feel to their sportwashing and made it even easier for the media to overlook who was backing city in that process.