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Poe
Slashman X
Poe
Slashman X
Ninja
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.
Poe
Poe
If they've spent the same amount of money as you lot have on players I'd be very surprised.
Slashman X
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
Doesn't matter, at least we tried to adhere to FFP, they just gave themselves a fuckton of money just to hide it. City only failed due to those "network" payments (about 20m I think). PSG still failed with a free €100m cash injection (at least)
City should be punished yeah, but PSG should be punished a helluva lot more
Ninja
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.
Slashman X
Lopes, Huws (maybe Boyata and Rekik if he stays), will be called up. Pellegrini has always wanted 2 top players for every position RB and CB are the 2 areas we don't have cover. Keeping those players just cos they're homegrown would be stupid, cos they'd want stupid money
Poe
Slashman X
30m per year for 10 years for Stadium, Shirt, training ground + academy sponsorship vs €200m a year for 4 years for "Tourism partnership" which was backdated a year. Bit different, and definitely not "disguised"
Etihad deal was cleared, nothing wrong with it
Poe
Slashman X
It wasn't cleared, it was reduced to "fair value" of only €100m a year
Poe
Slashman X
Poe
At least PSG were semi-competitive before the massive financial takeover, City were useless.
Slashman X
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
Ninja
Or what you both got was a fairly standard first time offence punishment for clubs of your stature?
Slashman X
"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
Ninja
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.
Slashman X
Did the other 7 clubs get the same?
Ninja
'of your stature'
Slashman X
Ninja
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.
Slashman X
True, it's just the fact that PSG were so blatant that has me peeved
Poe
Without their mass transfer spending they were midtable at best - they're now one of the best teams in the world.
Since 2008 City have spent 639m - that's absolutely ridiculous
Poe
Slashman X