Grangemouth Bairn Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Just now, 8MileBU said: Wonder if Pep will stick around?? He’ll be away to Juve. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Venti Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 BAN CITY - The Sun (tomorrow) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musketeer Gripweed Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Will anyone notice? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 51 minutes ago, Grangemouth Bairn said: He’ll be away to Juve. Can't see it, tbh. If he leaves City (which I don't think he will) I reckon it'll be another sabbatical for him from football. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bairney Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 1 hour ago, Grangemouth Bairn said: This will be the first of many teams banned and will lead to the rich clubs breaking away. Break away to where exactly? FIFA and UEFA control the game. Upstarts like City will have to take their punishment. You don't lie and mess about with the game's authorities. City knew the score, but carried on regardless. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grangemouth Bairn Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 5 minutes ago, Dele said: Can't see it, tbh. If he leaves City (which I don't think he will) I reckon it'll be another sabbatical for him from football. I could think of worse things than 12 months in Manhattan as a multi millionaire. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grangemouth Bairn Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 4 minutes ago, bairney said: Break away to where exactly? FIFA and UEFA control the game. Upstarts like City will have to take their punishment. You don't lie and mess about with the game's authorities. City knew the score, but carried on regardless. If all the rich clubs form a corporate conglomerate, they will do whatever the f**k they like. Think like the PDC but on a huge scale. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 That City ban will be overturned by CAS if UEFA don't back down. No danger they'll actually end up banned for two years sadly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bairney Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 21 minutes ago, Grangemouth Bairn said: If all the rich clubs form a corporate conglomerate, they will do whatever the f**k they like. Think like the PDC but on a huge scale. That's a very big "if". Are other well managed, properly and financially well run clubs going to break their necks for City? Don't think so. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musketeer Gripweed Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Hi, I'm a representative of convicted financial cheats, Manchester City. We are interested in forming a new breakaway competition which we need to win to massage the egos of our esteemed owners, Abu Dhabi. Would you like to join us? Aye, I can see that happening. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grangemouth Bairn Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Just now, Musketeer Gripweed said: Hi, I'm a representative of convicted financial cheats, Manchester City. We are interested in forming a new breakaway competition which we need to win to massage the egos of our esteemed owners, Abu Dhabi. Would you like to join us? Aye, I can see that happening. No you are not. You are Rab B. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grangemouth Bairn Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 7 minutes ago, bairney said: That's a very big "if". Are other well managed, properly and financially well run clubs going to break their necks for City? Don't think so. Hopefully you are right. Likelihood is this ban will serve as a warning and will be suspended with a large fine for a City. PSG will be worrying now I’d expect. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy boo Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Wonder if Pep will stick around??Highly unlikely I'd think. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 It's a stupid rule. Basically Man City came along and the likes of Real Madrid got the shits up them, terrified that lots more clubs would challenge their dominance, so created a rule to maintain their cartel. Hope Man City challenge this rule and it gets binned. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 13 minutes ago, Grangemouth Bairn said: PSG will be worrying now I’d expect. I imagine most of the top teams will be. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 If all the rich clubs form a corporate conglomerate, they will do whatever the f**k they like. Think like the PDC but on a huge scale.The historic big and rich club’s want permadiddies like Man City to get hammered though. There’s no common interest here at all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musketeer Gripweed Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 In 2014, the IC determined that City had a deficit of €180m over that two year period, vastly in excess of the €45m permitted, and in May that year agreed a settlement which some at Uefa believed was too lenient. A day before that, the former chair of the IC, Jean-Luc Dehaene, a distinguished former prime minister of Belgium and senior European Union politician, died aged 73, survived by his wife of 49 years and their four children. Spiegel quoted Cliff’s (City's lawyer) reaction to this news in an internal email, referring to the membership of the IC: “1 down, 6 to go.” City are fucked morally as well it would seem. I, for one, am shocked by this revelation. Do you really think they want to appeal this, knowing how corrupt they really are? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grangemouth Bairn Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 2 minutes ago, Musketeer Gripweed said: In 2014, the IC determined that City had a deficit of €180m over that two year period, vastly in excess of the €45m permitted, and in May that year agreed a settlement which some at Uefa believed was too lenient. A day before that, the former chair of the IC, Jean-Luc Dehaene, a distinguished former prime minister of Belgium and senior European Union politician, died aged 73, survived by his wife of 49 years and their four children. Spiegel quoted Cliff’s (City's lawyer) reaction to this news in an internal email, referring to the membership of the IC: “1 down, 6 to go.” City are fucked morally as well it would seem. I, for one, am shocked by this revelation. Do you really think they want to appeal this, knowing how corrupt they really are? You of all people can’t judge another club ‘morally’ mate. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post craigkillie Posted February 14, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 14, 2020 39 minutes ago, Bully Wee Villa said: It's a stupid rule. Basically Man City came along and the likes of Real Madrid got the shits up them, terrified that lots more clubs would challenge their dominance, so created a rule to maintain their cartel. Hope Man City challenge this rule and it gets binned. Requiring football clubs to be self sufficient should be in the interest of everyone. I don't understand why people think any financial fair play rules are a bad thing. The implementations might not always be great, but the idea is sound. Every time a football club goes down the pan because of dodgy owners, folk say "how did the authorities let this happen", but then when the authorities bring in the sort of rules that might stop it, folk are up in arms. 25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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