Oil Money in Football | New City expose

[OldSchoolManc]

So, still not a dickie bird on Sky Sports about the City stuff.
Meanwhile, the main headline on there is FA to appeal the Jose Mourinho not guilty verdict, for comments made to the camera, silently and in another language...

 

[RedNed77]

Well this is what I'm wondering.
They probably receive 'gifts'..... no way the media does that meekly without something in it for them. I can't believe it's only because City serve good food or whatever as that would make the journalists look pathetic. Got to be receiving something substantial for all their arse licking imho.
I hope they remember the Bribery Act is in place...

Haha, good one. Has this ever been used against anybody? Half of parliament would be up before the beak if this was actually applied.

 

[DanClancy]

City have generated over 1.2 billion in commercial revenue in the last 7 years. Based on some of the accusations we're hearing I'll put an estimate that over £800m of that comes direct from the owners if not more. They wouldn't have won anything without that money.

 

[b20times]

I think this thread is slowly drifting away. Shame really.

 

[Inter Yer Nan]

What punishment would actually stop them though? Juventus's punishment was pretty big, but it only put them on 'pause' for a few years. They are back and have won the last 7 titles.

It voids their titles which disqualifies them from the agenda driven "best team ever" pieces and also it's City, not Juventus. They are the English equivalent of Cagliari and their "fan base" consists mostly of fans who didn't pay them attention pre-takeover or even 2012. If they are forced to go down for two seasons and then not have an all-star squad immediately (maybe they'd be five years away) most the fans would feck off and it would be much harder trying to get back on top when you are competing with multiple super rich clubs which Juventus as a super club with a huge legit fan base didn't have to contend with.

 

[beedoubleyou]

I made a comment along the lines of "This story really doesn't matter, why aren't you covering Manchester City?" on The Guardians 10th Rooney article. Deleted.

 

[Dr. StrangeHate]

So no mainstream pickup of this. No serious calls for investigation by premier league clubs after the initial half-hearted call. No comments by the FA. No word from sky or BBC.
Just imagine if United had just even tried to cook the books for £1 million. It would have been front pages news for months. Heck any Mourinho comment is front page news.

 

[Vadim]

So no mainstream pickup of this. No serious calls for investigation by Premier League clubs after the initial half-hearted call. No comments by the FA. No word from sky or BBC.
Just imagine if United had just even tried to cook the books for £1 million. It would have been front pages news for months. Heck any Mourinho comment is front page news.

Because we’re a far bigger club and bigger news than City will ever be. I don’t want that to ever change.

 

[Dr. StrangeHate]

Because we’re a far bigger club and bigger news than City will ever be. I don’t want that to ever change.

I think it is more to do with corruption and threats from Abu Dhabi than anything. Corruption by championship clubs gets more coverage. Barely any word from other premier League clubs is strange though. Surely every club can't be corrupt, simply because a lot of them are audited independently. May be they are just waiting for more information.

 

[RedDevilRoshi]

So no mainstream pickup of this. No serious calls for investigation by Premier League clubs after the initial half-hearted call. No comments by the FA. No word from sky or BBC.
Just imagine if United had just even tried to cook the books for £1 million. It would have been front pages news for months. Heck any Mourinho comment is front page news.

Was just going to post something similar. Don’t know if this is all fake news or not but let’s see how things unfold over time.

 

[Random Task]

Wonder what the whistleblowers plan to release in the way of incriminating evidence next. More bribery allegations? more corruption within UEFA? Human-trafficking?

The suspense is killing me.

 

[Giggsyking]

So, still not a dickie bird on Sky Sports about the City stuff.
Meanwhile, the main headline on there is FA to appeal the Jose Mourinho not guilty verdict, for comments made to the camera, silently and in another language...

not only this, the other big news is the City fans are upset and raging because the FA appointed Anthony Taylor referee for the derby and he is a Man utd supporter.

Typical putting pressure from the crocked media on the referee before the match.

 

[SuperiorXI]

Disgraceful response from the media... should hang their heads in fecking shame. Not that any reasonable person listened to much of what they had to say anyway... it is now abundantly clear they are biased to feck.

 

[Handsome Devil]

Mailonline have made a token mention of latest report in their sports section. City fans are squirming in the comments section, in total denial, blaming everyone from United to Bayern and even the DM itself, branding it a United rag (oh the irony.) Cries of fake news too!
Their bitterness has never diminished!

Warning: Take care entering the comments section of any Mailonline comments section. Think of your mental wellbeing, don't linger too long, and let someone know where you are.

 

[Drawfull]

Mailonline have made a token mention of latest report in their sports section. City fans are squirming in the comments section, in total denial, blaming everyone from United to Bayern and even the DM itself, branding it a United rag (oh the irony.) Cries of fake news too!
Their bitterness has never diminished!

Warning: Take care entering the comments section of any Mailonline comments section. Think of your mental wellbeing, don't linger too long, and let someone know where you are.

Same should be said for the Mail.

 

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[DomesticTadpole]

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Whaaaat???

 

[Ødegaard]

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Needs to put the whiskey away.

 

[DomesticTadpole]

So now they are saying City are philanthropists.

 

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I bet that’s the same pose he had in the meeting with City’s owners....”please Mr Sheikh, can I have another brown envelope? Pretty please?”

 

[RoyH1]

The media is in the pockets of big money too.

If fans really want to signal their fury and discontent about the blatant financial doping from City, they need to stop showing up at the stadium to see them. Or do a walkout from the stadium at a certain minute. The football authorities and the media won't stop it

 

[Jazz]

Haha, good one. Has this ever been used against anybody? Half of parliament would be up before the beak if this was actually applied.

You're right

Will have to do a little research to see if anyone's been caught out...

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Their fans boo the CL theme, after all that UEFA have done for them. The ungrateful creatures.

 

[Jazz]

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That is some unreal shit coming from his mouth. Why don't the other clubs put them under pressure? It's so weird.

 

[bleedred]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...d-have-ignored-warnings-deal-company-accused/

Manchester City alleged to have ignored warnings about deal with company accused of mistreating migrant workers

The BBC had reported in 2009 how poorly Arabtec had treated its employees. Arabtec workers had gone on strike in May 2013, which was said to have resulted “in violence and deportations” and there had also been reports about the dire conditions in Abu Dhabi for migrant workers.


Vicky Kloss, the City director of communications, was said to have sent an email to club executives warning them to avoid a deal. “I think it’s the biggest single risk to [our] reputation we have faced since 2008,” Kloss wrote. “The gap between what we do and what they [Arabtec] do is unbridgeable.”

Referring to Nicholas McGeehan of Human Rights Watch, a vocal critic of City’s owners, Kloss reputedly also wrote a deal with Arabtec “would be like winning the jackpot for him”.

The concerns were overlooked and the decision was taken to sign a regional contract that would be publicised only in Arab states, Russia and Turkey, where there was considered to be less risk of condemnation

Uefa has yet to comment publicly but Tebas, despite claiming “everything is crystal clear now” in relation to the alleged “dirty tricks” of City and PSG, fears the European governing body’s links with broadcaster beIN Sport, who have committed billions of pounds to televise Champions League matches and other competitions, present an obstacle to Uefa acting.

BeIN are owned by the sovereign wealth fund of the Qatari royal family, who also own PSG. City are owned by the ruling family of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. “There’s a conflict of interest,” Tebas told The New York Times

 

[Thiim]

Middle eastern dirty fecking oil money can feck off from football, please.

 

[Jazz]

The BBC surprisingly has a somewhat balanced article on this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46132272

 

[Dr. StrangeHate]

If the leaks can't hold the attention of United fans who are directly affected by this, there is zero chance that UEFA or FA do something about it. Might as well give up on first place now as there is no way any club in the world can go toe to toe with a country with infinite funds.

 

[SqualorVictoria]

Now obviously some of the allegations should be investigated if there is a legal ground to that and shouldn't just be swept under the carpet, but the way Spiegel went through this by spreading through 4 articles, giving less and less 'revelations' about the whole case undermines their activies a bit. Firstly, it's as if it was written by some raging Bayern / United / Liverpool fan on the internet, or at least that's the way it sounds in the English version, maybe the original, German one is better worded. The first paraghraps are weird and yesterday even had a factually incorrect statement, which surely should have been checked, otherwise the reader might be suspicious about the actual exposed leaks. And the way they promoted each piece beforehand like it would blow the whole world up, only to publish some well-known information is amateurish, too.

 

[SER19]

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Blatter part 2. A dodgy scumbag

British sporting press being shown up as everything many accuse them of being. Weak willed, spineless, sycophantic, lazy, amateurs who thrive in a click bait world. Few good ones in broadsheets but rarely grab headlines. Most certainly in the pocket of city or the premier league, protecting both ‘brands’.

La Liga are clearly self interested and often hypocritical but at least they have the balls to call it out. Meanwhile our fa is appealing the outcome of their own initial charge for alleged swearing identified by a foreign lip reader.

 

[Trizy]

Part 4:

http://www.spiegel.de/international...osed-chapter-4-a-global-empire-a-1236622.html

Just skimmed through it. feck all in it like yesterdays Part 3.

 

[Ødegaard]

According to football leaks PSG & City owners have spent 4.5 billion euros on their clubs.
Yet some people want to believe their clubs are clean.

 

[SER19]

Part 4:

http://www.spiegel.de/international...osed-chapter-4-a-global-empire-a-1236622.html

Just skimmed through it. feck all in it like yesterdays Part 3.

No today’s has more teeth. Dealings like the Mancini contract are very dodgy, as are guaranteeing a player x amount of money while is contract says he earns less than that amount.

 

[Offsideagain]

All this is just confirming what was suspected for years. Even that hated CEO that got sacked for abusing a cancer patient hinted that they (City) had access to unlimited wealth. I have posted before about the culture in the Middle East, anyone that has worked or done business there knows about the corruption and the value of the life of the workers i.e. worthless.
‘The Project’ remember that, was to build a team and football empire to dominate the world. Ten years and well over £3bn or more they haven’t managed it. That’s despite Kompany crowing about it for years. I reckon they have replaced us as the most hated team in the PL because of the antics and lies, the cheating and arrogance.

The FA, PL and Media are probably shifting themselves if they report negatively against City. Who knows what goes on at the top level at the cash strapped FA. City taking the Trump way out with the old Fake News mantra which makes them look like him, bigoted.

I wouldn’t be surprised if some ex-players or agents come forward with some takes. Didn’t the President I’d Naples say on SKY a while back that City wanted to but a player but only wanted published figure to be £x and the rest in an account of his choice? it was shown once and not again. I’ll have a search if I get time.

 

[VanGaalEra]

Part 4:

http://www.spiegel.de/international...osed-chapter-4-a-global-empire-a-1236622.html

Just skimmed through it. feck all in it like yesterdays Part 3.

The Mancini contract is a lot of feck! Having him be an adviser to some shit in the UAE and earn more than half his salary through them. What a joke.

 

[EyeInTheSky]

According to football leaks PSG & City owners have spent 4.5 billion euros on their clubs.
Yet some people want to believe their clubs are clean.

Collectively? Hard to tell with so much of it being hidden.

 

[Ødegaard]

Collectively? Hard to tell with so much of it being hidden.

Collectively. yes.

 

[WensleyMU]

The MEN have some garbage propaganda article about how people are missing the point and City have already been punished.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...all-news/man-city-football-leaks-ffp-15387348

 

[DanClancy]

The MEN have some garbage propaganda article about how people are missing the point and City have already been punished.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...all-news/man-city-football-leaks-ffp-15387348

We expected to believe that all those commercial deals are legitimate?

United have twice as many commercial partners than City and have a huge kit deal with Adidas that financially dwarfs City's yet there's little between them in commercial revenue.

United's at £276m with City £232m.

 

[11101]

Hopefully the bit about using other clubs to dodge tax on transfers will attract the attention of someone with some real clout.