The Manchester City Thread

Cos they were so blatantly disregarding all the FFP rules (back dating a €200m a year sponsorship ffs). Whilst City actually invested a lot of money in the "community". The whole point of FFP is to stop a situation where a club is fucked if the owners decide to just pull out. City's owners' investments in new stadium, academy, community work etc should at least show that they're there for the long haul

Can someone explain the sense of the Sagna rumours to me now please.

Why are you being (strongly) linked to a £100,000 a week, back up right back, who is non-home grown (even though he is actually good)? Surely is one of the last positions you'd be wanting to actively increase your wage bill.

If they've spent the same amount of money as you lot have on players I'd be very surprised.

We need top class cover for Zaba, not hard to understand. Barry, Lescott and Richards off the wage bill. Mancini plus 7 staff off too, wage bill is not a problem

3 home grown players off the wage bill to be replaced by one non-home grown. Still not making a great deal of sense to me.

Didn't your chairman somehow inject 300m into your club but disguise it as sponsorship?

If their deal was cleared then there's also nothing wrong with it then.

They've been punished more though if they've had that payment knocked down by 50%?

At least PSG were semi-competitive before the massive financial takeover, City were useless.

Exact same punishment regarding fine, transfer/wage caps, CL squad limitation etc. The fine should at least be bigger, but I'm guessing they're taking the €100m as a "fine". That deal is still way overpriced at €100m a year

Or what you both got was a fairly standard first time offence punishment for clubs of your stature?

"Fairly Standard" It's a brand new rule/legislation, there is no "standard" punishment. Just don't see why PSG didn't get a harsher punishment

You know what I meant.

The fact you both got the same indicates thats about the sort of punishment that Uefa are handing out for breaching the rules the first time round.

Did the other 7 clubs get the same?

Maybe, but I'd be amazed if they treated anyone else of a similar stature and financial clout particularly differently from now on.

Also, I know City (and by extent you) are probably of the opinion you've 'failed' on a technicality rather than failed, thats probably not an opinion that Uefa share hence the similar punishments.