6 + 2 Point Deductions

They believed that last time didn’t they.

If “Everton” in this instance means Farhad Moshiri, then I fully expect us to have breached again.
Thing is, saying they're confident they won't breach doesn't say what they'll need to do between now and June 30 to achieve that, it just says they believe they'll do it. It's not the same as saying that as things stand we won't breach.

Possibly the rumours of a deal being close to selling DCL are true, or something's on the table for Onana, and as a result there's confidence we won't breach.

I'd be very surprised though if we'd avoid breaching without a significant sale.
 
They have to say all the right things for getting investment, new owners, sponsors etc in.

Theyre not going to say they're expecting another fine.
 
Haven't seen a breakdown of city's charges before, and don't recall it on here.

Found on twitter, so pinch of salt required.

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Haven't seen a breakdown of city's charges before, and don't recall it on here.

Found on twitter, so pinch of salt required.

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Fascinating case. Ficticious sponsorship. False salary claims. does that bring in HMRC? The CAS thing aswell almost seems like an admission of guilt.
I mean the 115 charges is dragging it out but i'd presume they only have to be found guilty on one or two say from 2017/18 and they would be stripped of the title.
I think a few palms are going to be greased here but interesting to see how it unfolds.
 
Even Man City’s charges are (on the whole) a load of codswallop.
Notwithstanding any HMRC irregularities, them being the new rich kids on the block is absolutely no different from when Man U could drop £30m on Ferdinand or Chelsea could put £25m on Drogba (or what’re the fee was back then)
‘*Financial doping’ has always been a feature of top flight football, these rules don’t prevent it so much as lock out anyone not in the club when they were set up.
Football has always found an equilibrium. City or any club will only field a certain number of players over a season, and that for me is where the limits should be applied, both to first team and youth set ups.
*lets not kid ourselves the rules are about profit and sustainability. The fact our points deduction cost us £12m nailed that coffin shut.
 
City charges are far from codswallop. They financially doped on a scale that has given them the opportunity to field two teams of superstars in any given match. And now have an advantage to other teams that is unachievable to match without similar levels of financial doping.

When the Premier League adopted the PSR rules in 2013/14 season. Teams instead of buying players and the owners carrying the debts like Abramovic and Jack Walker before him, they now had to use income to support transfers.

City saw this and devised third parties with the guise of being sponsorship deals to make payments to the club with their operational expenditure and transfer budgets in mind, to make the club look like it was making profits.

So in the years before psr being introduced 2011, 2012, and 2013 City made huge losses of £197m, 97m, £52m respectively and suddenly when psr came in effect turnover rose 25% and they only made a small loss of £20m.

The following seasons further significant revenue gains and City became profitable.

Revenues in Millions £
2012 - 231.0
2013 - £271.0
2014 - 346.5
2015 - 351.7
2016 - 391.7
2017 - 473.3
2018 - 500.46
2019 - 535.1




They also while increasing revenue City hid some costs such as payments to Mancini and Pellegrini and players like Tevez outside of the clubs accounts. Again to reflect healthy financial statements.

What Man City have done is kind of what Moshiri and Usmanov wanted to do at Everton with USM. This shows what happens when a club is using third party funding to mask profitability or at least lower levels of losses and imagine if City owners pulled the plug during those early years then City would have certainly been in financial ruins.

The additional charges for not co-operating, I imagine won't get much punishment, but shows to most folks that they want to shove all the dirty dealing they've done under the rug and hope the Premier league simply gives up.

Even Man City’s charges are (on the whole) a load of codswallop.
Notwithstanding any HMRC irregularities, them being the new rich kids on the block is absolutely no different from when Man U could drop £30m on Ferdinand or Chelsea could put £25m on Drogba (or what’re the fee was back then)
‘*Financial doping’ has always been a feature of top flight football, these rules don’t prevent it so much as lock out anyone not in the club when they were set up.
Football has always found an equilibrium. City or any club will only field a certain number of players over a season, and that for me is where the limits should be applied, both to first team and youth set ups.
*lets not kid ourselves the rules are about profit and sustainability. The fact our points deduction cost us £12m nailed that coffin shut.
 

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