SEE YOU! A brand spanking new modern fitba thread 2020/21

Craven Cottage is a beautiful ground, that redevelopment looks kinda shite to me, but might look nice from the Thames, who knows.

 

Ye’re obsessed, laddie!

 

Would be fucking amazing if they got taken over by them and had to change the ground name to that.

 

MASSIVE BREAKING NEWS

City just got BANNED from CL for two years.

David Conn broke the story over at the Guardian.

 

Manchester City banned from Champions League for two seasons over FFP

Manchester City have been banned from the Champions League for the next two seasons by Uefa and fined €30m (£25m) after they were found to have seriously misled European football’s governing body and broken financial fair play rules.

The severity of the ban from both of Uefa’s elite club competitions, and the scale of the fine, reflects how seriously Uefa’s FFP compliance bodies consider the club to have breached the rules and code of conduct.

City were found guilty by Uefa’s Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) of having falsely inflated their sponsorship revenues, when they made submissions for the FFP compliance process. The guilty finding follows an investigation sparked by the publication of “leaked” emails and documents by the German magazine Der Spiegel in November 2018.

The “leaked” emails and documents appeared to show that City’s owner, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the Abu Dhabi ruling family, was mostly funding the huge, £67.5m annual sponsorship of the City shirt, stadium and academy by his country’s airline, Etihad. One of the leaked emails suggested that only £8m of that sponsorship in 2015-16 was funded directly by Etihad, and the rest was coming from Mansour’s own company vehicle for the ownership of City, the Abu Dhabi United Group.

FFP, introduced in 2011 with the aim of encouraging football clubs across Europe not to overspend on players’ wages, restricts the amount club owners can put in to cover losses. Sponsorships boost revenues and therefore the amount that clubs have to spend under FFP, so the perception that Mansour himself was in fact funding the Etihad deal led to the serious allegation that City had deceived Uefa’s CFCB, which is responsible for ensuring compliance with FFP.

City have vehemently denied wrongdoing throughout, and denounced the Spiegel coverage as based on “leaked or stolen” materials taken out of context. Spiegel anonymised their source as “John”, who was quoted saying that he had not hacked computers to obtain the emails. Shortly after their publication, he was identified as a Portuguese national, Rui Pinto, who has now been charged in Portugal with 147 criminal offences, including hacking and other cybercrimes, which he denies. The charges relate only to Portuguese football clubs and other organisations, not to the “leaks” of City’s or Uefa’s emails.

When City were charged last May, the club vehemently denied any wrongdoing, saying that they had been subjected to a “hostile” process which ignored “a comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence”. City are considered certain to appeal against Uefa’s verdict to the court of arbitration for sport.

More to follow

 

Fucking love it

 

Who would have imagined................that an Arab Sheikh was paying for everything and not Joe Jobsworth in Manchester? Amazing! I had no idea!!!

 

Of course all depends on how crooked the arbitration process is

 

PSG next plz

 

City will appeal, of course. But I think there has to be a line drawn somewhere. Hard to see them attracting any key players or keeping key players if their ban is upheld.

 

Ah thought Ye hated the Guardian?

Ah've goat mixed feelings aboot the Man City thing. Ah ken they're fiercely unpopular roond these parts, but whit's so bad aboot an Arab sugar daddy? Ah pray tae the West fer one fer Rangers.

SEE ALLAHOO Akbar!

 

I hear Stevie G is saying yoor boys ain't got it. He's demanding a League Winning mentality. Of course he won so many as a player..........

 

I threw in the Guardian so people would see it was a mainstream source and not "Goal.com" or "Give Me Football" or associated warm up acts like Metro or Yahoo.

 

I am confused. Listening to Leicester vs Wolves on the radio and the commentator keeps saying that it's "All Brighton".

 

The Guardian drives me mad sometimes, alsae... pro-Palestine or a platform fer privileged jewesses?

 

It'll be all bright-on-the-night, like.

 

Fair point - DIDNAE think o' that. He wiz a grand player, mind and, up until Christmas, the best manager we've had in eight years or more. Ah like the fact he's challenging the players, they're letting more things doon than an evil, balloon popping cloown at the mo.

 

Yep. Even mercenaries want to play Champions League. If Guardiola decides to leave it will be another blow to attracting players.

Like Hut said, hopefully PSG is next. They're even more blatant.

 

Man City stadium was sponsored by a company owned by a family who are also the Government of the Country who basically pays for all the shit. They told everyone that Etihad was making enough money by itself to pay independently for sponsorship of a club owned by the same people who owned the airline which they owned because they owned the country that owned all the stuff where they come from. Sure.

PSG is the same thing, it;s just the tribe next door.

"LOOKS LEGIT"

These people are two or three generations removed from shit kicking camel drivers. Literally.

When BCCI went looking for rich fucks back in the 1970's they lit on these Arabs and one of them was taken on a shopping trip and all he bought was a pair of dogs and he even haggled over the price of them too.

Their grandkids think Frugality is some sort of a drink made from mixed fruit.

Bazillions just slung at things.

 

Jesus some of the fans that the BBC have had on. They had these 3 Man City fans, all manner of allegations.....it's all an invention to stop City, Liverpool are part of the Cartel, It's a feeding frenzy, it's all an attack on PEP, etc....then this one guy comes on from Middlesborough and starts banging on "Ah hah-wey man dey gut what dey dasehved like, canny say it any bettuh than dat man".

 

Did the City fans bring about "but, Obama"?

 

This auld Sunderland reject's got a Maradona esque highlight reel for Boca (tip: press mute)

 

Cool video but when will the broader YT World come to understand about stupid music on videos {I acknowledge your "mute" recommendation}

By the way he plays for River Plate, Boca's main rivals.


On 30 January 2014, Sunderland completed the transfer of Scocco for €3.65 million, signing a two-and-a-half-year deal, as one of Gus Poyet's four transfer window signings.[6] Asked about Scocco in April, South American football expert Tim Vickery wrote in his weekly BBC Sport column: "He might not be a big target man centre-forward, but he has some penalty area presence and moves outside the area with fluidity and intelligence." Although Sunderland avoided relegation the one-cap Argentina international failed to score in eight appearances, all of which came from the bench.[7] He was an unused substitute as the side lost the 2014 Football League Cup Final 3–1 to Manchester City on 2 March


Another classic "let's not give him a chance and then sell him" piece of genius. Same with Salah and Cuadrado and the others except this time its a small club doing it.

 

I hope I can get the audio. It was fucking pathetic. Honestly there was absolutely no sense of reality from these people. It was like listening to plantation slaves wax lyrical about their new living quarters and how Massah was pumping the proceeds of cotton back into The Big House and how much better things were until meddlin' fedrils come on in here with their law and sheeit.

Conn wrote this morning that the prevailing mentality of City was to sue UEFA into oblivion...when one of the bigwigs at UEFA died, the response in City was "1 down 6 to go".......this is basically a family hoping to greenback the daylights out of the system and wait it out until there are no rules and no parameters and it's all just a question of $.

And this City fan, not just any fan but a former writer and a prominent bloggist, is banging on about how it's all designed to fuck City so Liverpool {who were OUT of the European Cup for 5 years} can "RUN THEIR CARTEL".

 

WHO UPLOADS SHIT LIKE THIS.

Somebody who hates United.

A YT upload of the AUDIO footage of Man Uniteds LOSS to Crystal Pal Arse back in August I think.

I mean, who RECORDED it in the first chance. He's even put in time markers so you can skip to the good bits.

"I think I will record this game in case United lose I will upload it to YT so I can reminisce later on"....listen to exclusive audio-only coverage of Palaces first goal at 31:57. Listen to a penalty being missed at 1:28:24"

Like Carl and Lenny suggesting going to Homers to look at stills of the Tyson fight.

 

You can get Wagon Wheels but fuck me if they haven't shrunk a few sizes. Cheap twats. It costs about 1p to make a Wagon Wheel.

 

Can you imagine cleaning out Fury's stables??

 

Same with most sweeties & associated crap i think- shrinkflation.