Much as I dislike City/PSG's steroid-boosted spending, you're right on this. They never complained before. Wonder what they think about national governments buying clubs' training facilities at grossly inflated prices?
Not sure you can stand that up mate. If Newcastle or Stoke were blowing everyone out of the water financially they'd be getting stick as well.
Really?
With the obligation of playing all their home matches in an empty stadium!
Erm I'm pretty sure a lot of people do. Mike Ashley is one of the most hated person in football.
Yes,I heard that from many different journalists and I think is a reciprocal feeling.I don't think they have talked too much from he left Barcelona
But nobody complains about him sponsoring his own club - apart from that stupid re-naming of the stadium that is - which is the point I was making.
What i meant was i thought it strange that their complaint was city rather than or as well as PSG... i hadn't realised they'd already complained about PSG, so makes sense!
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Oil rich micro states using clubs for political currency is a different order of magnitude altogether.
I'd also add PSG buying Mbappe to the list. Real and Barca united in hatred for the same club. They'll be using all the political power they have to try and force changes.
Rennes don't need money, their owner is properly rich and will always bankroll them.
After just received a fresh deposit from Middle East expect nothing more.
Yeah, let's bring the race into it. Well done. This issue has nothing to do with where PSG/City owners are from but what they do. And it doesn't matter whether top Spanish clubs are hypocrites, we all are when it suits us, the question is whether they are in the right here, and they are.Anybody with a modicum of commonsense can see why La Liga are doing this, and it's all because PSG dared to buy Neymar from Barcelona and they're now acting like a bunch of slapped arses and lobbing accusations around without any supporting evidence. Do you honestly believe that this complaint would've gone in if PSG hadn't bought Neymar? I wouldn't mind but what PSG do is nothing to do with City anyway and it's not like Qatar and Abu Dhabi are best of friends at the moment. Just because both clubs are owned by people from a similar part of the world doesn't mean they're 2 sides of the same coin. Funny how no-one ever complains about Mike Ashley and Peter Coates sponsoring their own clubs - maybe for some, the fact they don't have brown skin and aren't Muslim has something to do with it.
As for the numbers not adding up, how do you work that one out? Have you gone through City's accounts with a fine tooth comb? Perhaps we should get you and that muppet Tebas from La Liga to independently audit City's accounts in future seeing as though you both have so much inside knowledge of our finances
Did Newcastle qualify for EL/CL?
This. It's definitely an issue but nothing compared to what's going on at PSG and City. It doesn't matter what team you support, it's ruining football and you can't hide away from the facts.
Qualified for The Championship a couple of years back.
Does the Emptihad ever sell out apart from the United game?
Ruining football? Behave you tart
If that's how you feel, I hope City continue to ruin football for many years to comeYou obviously didn't see the Everton game the other week mate
The problem is that it's very easy for state-backed clubs to beat FFP, as companies from their country have a vested interest in backing them through huge sponsorship deals.
Oh look, it's the sanctimonious Chelsea fan spouting his usual bollocks.
The Premier League has FFP regs as well mate
Keep burying your head in the sand then.Ruining football? Behave you tart
Agree with all of this, great post.
I did it was hilarious. Must have been cheap bus tickets from Stockport that day.
Been stated before in these threads, but that’s not the case. FFP was never meant to level the playing field among the so-called elite clubs, it was a measure to combat the trend of (usually much smaller) clubs going bankrupt as a result of spending beyond their means.
That story was never verified about City re-negotiating the Etihad deal. As far as I can see, it's still around £40 million per annum for stadium, shirt, and campus sponsorship. If City went into the open market today and re-negotiated that deal then we could easily get more money for it so if anything it's under-valued these days.
Rennes?
That's absolutely true and that should be the sole purpose and argument for investigation. Say, by excluding any sponsorship deals as a valid source of income that been signed for highly inflated rates when doing their FFP calculations is the only way to stop this nonsense IMO.
Hopefully - I'll be able to chalk off a few more grounds if that happens
There's no way you could stop that mate. It's perfectly legal and above-board. That's the problem.
You should pay a visit some time 