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Fair play @paulisthejoker made my cheeks hurt laughing in Blackpool. Fucking legend.
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1. “We didn’t cheat.”
2. “And if we cheated, it wasn’t that bad.”
3. “And if it was, cheating didn’t make much difference.”
4. “And if it did, everyone else was cheating.”
5. “And if they weren’t cheating, the rules were unfair anyway.”
6. “And even if we cheated, you only care because we beat you.”
7. “And if we beat you, we beat you on the field.”
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Curiouser and curiouser
As @DamianHastie points out, in 2015 the US depts of Commerce, State + Transport launched an inquiry into whether Etihad were receiving govt subsidies
Etihad statement to commission was:
"The assertion that the Abu Dhabi government paid for Etihad's sponsorship of English Premier League football club Manchester City is … false. In 2011, Etihad and Manchester City entered into a 10-year sponsorship agreement, which included naming rights for Manchester City's stadium. Etihad funded this sponsorship from its own liquidity’
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He was involved in efforts to bolster Khalifa Haftar in the Libyan Civil War, build an alliance with Sudanese ruler and war criminal Omar al-Bashir, and secretly provide arms transfers to Sudanese General Mohamed Hamdan whose forces have engaged in massacres, mass rapes and genocide.
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This newspaper clipping is from 7th of June 1906.
“Manchester City Found Out.”
City had been secretly funnelling money through directors' accounts to make illegal payments, circumvent financial rules and gain a sporting advantage. The FA found they had “for years systematically broken the rules... by very unscrupulous means.” The Guardian
120 years later, Manchester City are engulfed in another historic financial scandal.
Different century.
Different owners.
Different rules.
Manchester City Found Out. Again.
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As Pep Guardiola’s legacy at Manchester City faces increasing scrutiny, so too could his achievements at Barcelona. Uefa has received a new batch of documents relating to €8.4m allegedly paid by the Catalan club to former vice-president of Spain’s referees’ committee during the manager's time at the Nou Camp.
@SamJDean with the news ⤵️
telegraph.co.uk/football/202…
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The panel referred to Manchester City suddenly owing £20m at the end of the 2012-13 season, which corresponds, according to those familiar with the case, to a payout owed to then-manager Roberto Mancini and his staff, who had been sacked at the end of the season following the FA Cup final defeat by Wigan Athletic.
Had the money been paid immediately, City would have been “£9.9m ‘short’ of complying with UEFA FFP for that season”, the panel said.
The tribunal reported that “in a matter of days, a number of modified sponsor agreements were generated… to increase recorded fees, pay bonuses for events that had already taken place, and to pay for a U.S. tour”, thereby plugging the shortfall. City also asked sponsors to pay out bonuses for the FA Cup final as if they had won the match — rather than being defeated by the minnows thanks to Ben Watson’s injury-time header — according to people with knowledge of proceedings.
The Premier League also raised the example of Sergio Aguero’s late, final-day winner against Queens Park Rangers in 2012, which secured City’s first Premier League title. That goal unlocked a number of bonuses within the squad which, if it had not been for the club’s operation of their disguised funding scheme, would have seen City exceed PSR for that season.
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They are screwed.
The FA has indicated that it will issue its own charges against Manchester City once the Premier League process has been concluded | ✍️ @Lawton_Times thetimes.com/sport/football/…
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From Etihad Airways 60-page submission to John Kerry, US Department Secretary of State, Antony Foxx, US Department of Transportation Secretary and Penny Pritzker, US Department of Commerce Secretary on May 31, 2015
#MCFC’s key defence in its appeal over the Premier League guilty verdict was denied by its own title sponsor Etihad Airways in an extensive submission to the US government in 2015
With @SamWallaceTel
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telegraph.co.uk/football/202…
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If you can’t argue the facts, argue the law…
City argued at CAS that all the sponsorship money came from the sponsors rather than the government to then come back and argue years later that it was actually government money given to the sponsors…
So what’s changed? The key difference is that the PL had access to more evidence than UEFA because City were forced, after several court cases, to hand it all over.
That’s why senior people at Etihad were happy to testify at CAS when their names on the leaked emails were redacted, but seemingly were less interested in doing so in front of the IC who had all the evidence presented to them to counter it from the PL.
This is why the verdict so clearly states that they believed that this defence was created after the fact to try and defend the charges, and legal professionals in these circumstances don’t make factual statements unless they have the evidence to back it up.
All this information is publicly available, and the fact that they’re trotting this failed strategy out again should highlight how much trouble they’re in.
At this point it’s all about image and ego.
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‘None of Manchester Life’s homes are affordable, and the developer does not pay any subsidies for local amenities, known as section 106 payments.
‘Rivals say the partnership has created an uneven playing field for developing the lucrative east Manchester corridor next to the Etihad. “This is a sweetheart deal between the council and Abu Dhabi,” said one. “They get the land without any fair competition process, they can build apartment blocks, and when the blocks start earning millions the council gets no rental income. They don’t even have to make section 106 payments, like lots of other developers. The whole thing stinks.”
‘Manchester Life was launched with a promise “to rebalance the relationship between landlord and tenant to one of equals”. Just a year after the opening of a rental apartment block in Smiths Yard, residents received section 21 eviction notices. These allow landlords to evict tenants without giving a reason, even if the rent has been paid on time and the property kept in good condition.’
thetimes.com/business/articl…
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Manchester City face calls for a criminal investigation into their financial conduct after being found guilty of more than 100 breaches of Premier League rules between 2009 and 2018.
Lord Cruddas, a Conservative party peer whose CMC Markets company is Everton’s front-of-shirt sponsor, suggested that this should become a criminal matter.
“If accounts have been falsified and auditors have been misled, then it is potentially a criminal matter. The auditors will call in the police, directors are personally libel [sic] for any fraud of a UK company, even if it is foreign owned.”
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/football/202…
