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Upton Park, opening day of the 07/08 season.
19 years ago, Nobody gave a fuck about Alfie Haaland (or his son)... Except for City fans.
He's been one of us for a long fucking time.
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All the crying now could have been avoided if the PL had respected the confidentiality of the process. If it’s a mess it’s their mess.
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Its hilarious when they say this because i swear at the time they were saying every Liverpool player was better than ours. Suddenly now we had all the best players in every position when every season our players were snubbed out of the PFA TOTY.
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I wish Citys owners had done this when I was in charge of Doncaster. I could have blamed them for us being shit . Why not ? It's working for most clubs – at Styal, England
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Journalists like James Ducker and the LFC guy Pearce have taken the current verdict from the PLs Tribunal to lure vulnerable red cartel fans for cheap interactions
A whole Ducker reading that document from Etihad Airways and completely unrelating it to the current city appeal for cheap clicks
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#ManCity do not believe a statement made by Etihad Airways to a US investigation in 2015 undermines their defence but strengthens it. The club will argue that Etihad secured funding from the Crown Prince Court for the promotion of Abu Dhabi and once it received that money it became part of the airline’s “liquidity”, and that the government did not pay @ManCity directly on behalf of Etihad.
Etihad statement in 2015: “The assertion that the Abu Dhabi government paid for Etihad’s sponsorship of Manchester City is equally 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. It is not uncommon for airlines to have sponsorships with sports teams and their venues.”
[@martynziegler/@Lawton_Times]
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🔵 Everton’s PSR breach in 2021/22
£19.5m over the PSR limit
Docked 10 points reduced to 6 points on appeal
🔴 Manchester United 2021/22
£149.7m over the PSR limit
- Allowed £35m in exceptional costs for the INEOS/Sir Jim Ratcliffe share sale
- Allowed to claim an exceptional £40m Covid allowance that no other club could claim, which was the exact amount they needed to stay under the £105m PSR loss limit 🤔
Two different sets of rules….
🚨 𝐍𝐄𝐖: Emirati officials have warned the UK government that the severity of ruling on Man City could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale UK commitments, and consider the Premier League’s actions to have an influence on the bilateral state relationship.
UK government officials are equally frustrated by the conduct of UAE counterparts and believe some in the Gulf nation must have been aware of the extent of Man City's wrongdoing, even while insisting there was nothing untoward.
[ via @business ]
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Because as long as a) genuine (City's deemed shams) b) not a related party, how the sponsor receives its funding from is not the counterparties issue. For the same reason it is deemed fine for Emirates to sponsor Arsenal even if government money funds Emirates and fine for Turkish Airlines to sponsor Liverpool using government money.
@slbsn why on earth would be the government paying the bulk of sponsorships instead of the “sponsors” be a valid defense?
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it isn't what @ManCity have done on their accounts why @rioferdy5 or @Carra23 want our owners gone, it is what we do to their teams on the pitch. Just a pair of dishonest cunts acting like jealous kids seeing the spoilt mate on his Mongoose BMX at Christmas, hoping he falls off
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A lot of you are actually genuinely thick.
The Premier League literally said there was no direct evidence Sheikh Mansour knew £830M of his own fucking money was being funnelled into his own club.
But at the same time:
“Man City cheated because the sponsorship money actually came from the owner.”
How do you read both of those things and not even question it? Ffs.