Confirmed Signing Jack Grealish

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Tony Hibbert's Wife said:
City and their owners are accused of inflating the value of contracts beneficial to Man City that were not negotiated or agreed on an arms length basis. They're accused of purposefully doing that to avoid PSR breaches and give them an advantage over other teams due to the artifice that is their global income. This is specifically prohibited by PSR. The stated reason for PSR is to avoid clubs being completely reliant on their owners for income that would place a club at solvency risk should the owner withdraw their support, so the accusations against City go right to the heart of the underlying PSR policy.

Chelsea selling hotels, and now Chelsea and Everton selling their women's teams, to Group Companies, isn't a direct contravention of PSR. It's certainly a beach of the spirit of the PSR rules, and could be a slippery slope if it doesn't end with non-men's team assets, but there's no rule against it. The members of the Premier League voted against a clarification of the rules that would have prevented these actions. Chelsea also circumvented the rules by offering very long contracts. For what it's worth, I agree this is cheating - both Chelsea and Everton - but it's clearly not a breach of the PSR rules.

Man United managed to avoid PSR breach by having a substantial portion of their losses set outside of the PSR remit. For reasons that are utterly opaque the club paid for Jim Ratcliffe's fees of tens of millions of pounds for Ratcliffe's acquisition of a minority shareholding in the club. It's extremely unusual for the target to pay an acquirer's fees, if not unheard of. That raises questions that nobody seems intersted in asking, not least whether it was done to hide other losses that would have meant Man United breached PSR. I think Man United likely cheated and have breached PSR both in terms of the spirit and word of the PSR rules.
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Your drinking the koolaid and regurgitating what you read in the press. My point isnt IF Man City, or Everton or Forest broke EPL rules, they probably did...my point is the rules are designed to keep the big clubs fat and happy and to ensure that thrir positions at the top of the food chain never changes, even iif someone with bigger resources wants to challenge them. If you are ok with that, walk on. I personally am not. That is all:)
 

Maine road Man said:
Seems like Everton and Spurts are reluctant to fully pay his wages. If so walk away. Grealish was told end of last season to find another club. If he can't through greedily holding out for the loan club to fully pay his wages I'd bring him back and having him training with our academy and watching games from the stands.
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"For enforcing the legally binding obligations into which we freely entered on an arm's length basis we've decided to be mean to you" would be such a classy move.
 
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Well, if it is such a slam dunk case, they really should just release the findings and move on, dont you think? Im not saying Citeh is innocent, Im saying the framework that the clubs work under is inherently corrupt and designed to favor the established few. And as for quoting Uefa as if they are some bastion of righteousness, well I will put them right up there with Fifa and a Trump appointed judge🙂
Ultimately though Im not trying to pick fights with anybody over the legality of Man Citeh's spending. I would like to see a spending cap across the board to create a " level playing field" in the EPL and give hope to the other 14 or 15 teams that play in it, thats all. Buying into the current system just leads to summers like this: big boys get bigger, jumpstarts like Newcastlecand Villa get put back in their place and we get treated with either scorn, derision or the occasional pat on the head.
 

brittcop1 said:
Well, if it is such a slam dunk case, they really should just release the findings and move on, dont you think? Im not saying Citeh is innocent, Im saying the framework that the clubs work under is inherently corrupt and designed to favor the established few. And as for quoting Uefa as if they are some bastion of righteousness, well I will put them right up there with Fifa and a Trump appointed judge🙂
Ultimately though Im not trying to pick fights with anybody over the legality of Man Citeh's spending. I would like to see a spending cap across the board to create a " level playing field" in the EPL and give hope to the other 14 or 15 teams that play in it, thats all. Buying into the current system just leads to summers like this: big boys get bigger, jumpstarts like Newcastlecand Villa get put back in their place and we get treated with either scorn, derision or the occasional pat on the head.
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If you research the subject you'll see exactly how they've cheated and how they've used legal loopholes to escape justice. It's really a simple case as the evidence is out there for anyone wanting to find out. I agree with you about the select few wanting no competition from 'smaller' clubs but that doesn't mean I should turn a blind eye to financial doping. Football at the top end is finished anyway as in the near future they'll get their wish and have their own league (its near enough that way anyway with the bloated Champions League and the ridiculous World Club Cup) And yes you are right football is totally corrupt so I won't be pardoning the most corrupt of them all Man City
 
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Marcus Kendall said:
If you research the subject you'll see exactly how they've cheated and how they've used legal loopholes to escape justice. It's really a simple case as the evidence is out there for anyone wanting to find out. I agree with you about the select few wanting no competition from 'smaller' clubs but that doesn't mean I should turn a blind eye to financial doping. Football at the top end is finished anyway as in the near future they'll get their wish and have their own league (its near enough that way anyway with the bloated Champions League and the ridiculous World Club Cup) And yes you are right football is totally corrupt so I won't be pardoning the most corrupt of them all Man City
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We are not a million miles away...punishing Man Citeh but leaving and reinforcing the current system helps no one but the Liverpools and Uniteds of this world. I want the system exposed and changed and if it takes Citeh's lawyers to do it, sobeit. On a school kid level, i took personal enjoyment watching first United and then Liverpool fans cry and moan everytime Citeh beat them to a title, as an Everton fan, how could you not???
 

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