catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
I have posted this yesterday and quoted it a couple of times since
Billionaires do not become billionaires without bending and testing the rules and the law to the limit
Usmanov and moshiri know what they are doing
As someone else said City's owners became rich by being born and in A state where they made the rules and only obeyed what they wanted to obey
Moshiri and Usmanov made their money themselves by knowing the rules
As @MarcelsGoat is wont to say
The game is the game and the game stays the same
aS @roydo SAYS ,it is all in the dots.
The first dot was planted when Usmanov GAVE FOR FREE Moshiri 15% of Arsenal and then bought it back for cash
No one seen that dot or any of the other dots either
From my reading of it, in quite base terms is City were extraordinarily reckless (especially early on) and Moshiri has been extra ordinarily careful and professional.
It's actually quite hard to get "caught out" and it's amazing City have managed to be. From the outside it just looks as if they had no intention to even attempt to play the rules. Had they have formed different companies in the UAE, even with Monsour as a big shareholder, they could have given them sponsorship and would have likely got away with it. They seem to have fallen down by lying, and by having him putting money in as an individual.
If you compare that to Usmanov, the is no formal links to the club. Anything that suggests otherwise, from a legal standpoint is pure conjecture. Legal courts aren't interested in conjecture, they are interested in what can be proved beyond reasonable doubt.
It also looks as if Moshiri ok's everything with the PL before announcing it. This is a marked change of tone to City, who seem to have had a FU approach, where they didn't cooperate and seemed to antagonise when questioned about anything. You'll be amazed how far a phone call to the PL/FA before clearing something goes. Just pandering their ego's a bit. I'd hazard a guess, that no sponsorship will be announced without prior clearance.
We were told by the know it alls that the last sponsorship would be blown up. Well here we are a couple of months later, and surprise surprise there is no case to answer.