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oldironside

(1,248 posts)
Tue May 6, 2014, 08:13 AM May 2014

Manchester City face £49m fine and wage cap for financial fair play breach

Manchester City are facing Uefa sanctions for breaching financial fair play rules which would see the club limited to a 21-man Champions League squad instead of the usual 25 players next season.

City, who are still strongly challenging the settlement offer from Uefa, are also facing a fine in the region of €60m (£49m) over three years, and a cap imposed for next season to ensure there is no rise in this season's Champions League A squad wage bill.


http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/06/manchester-city-face-49m-fine-wage-cap-financial-fair-play

Amazing, so Mansour can buy the league title, and next the European Cup, and all they are going to do is fine him pocket money. The game is dead and the presumptive English champions are nothing more than a front to deflect attention away from human rights abuses in Abu Dhabi. Sickening.
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Manchester City face £49m fine and wage cap for financial fair play breach (Original Post) oldironside May 2014 OP
Bob's yer uncle (NM) Rambis May 2014 #1
And if they breach that cap next year... Ron Obvious May 2014 #2
If they breach the cap again next year... Aquavit May 2014 #3
Bitter scouser detected. Lizzie Poppet May 2014 #4
Well, for all your pathetically juvenile attempt... oldironside May 2014 #5
Ah, so you have even less reason to post bollocks. Lizzie Poppet May 2014 #6
Wooooh, oldironside May 2014 #7
No, what you're actually seeing... Lizzie Poppet May 2014 #8
 

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
2. And if they breach that cap next year...
Tue May 6, 2014, 12:00 PM
May 2014

they can expect a severe ticking off and a stern warning not to do that again, of course.

Aquavit

(488 posts)
3. If they breach the cap again next year...
Sat May 17, 2014, 11:08 PM
May 2014

They should be forced to hire Pep Guardiola! His ego will have all the high-priced players jumping ship by Christmas!

 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
4. Bitter scouser detected.
Wed May 21, 2014, 04:58 PM
May 2014

"The game is dead and the presumptive English champions are nothing more than a front to deflect attention away from human rights abuses in Abu Dhabi."

oldironside

(1,248 posts)
5. Well, for all your pathetically juvenile attempt...
Thu May 22, 2014, 07:45 AM
May 2014

at a smart alec comment, you couldn't be more wrong. I ain't no Scouser. I was born and bred in Hampshire and would no more support Liverpool than I would Man U, Chelsea or Spurs (or Arsenal for that matter).

So, up yours.

oldironside

(1,248 posts)
7. Wooooh,
Fri May 23, 2014, 12:03 AM
May 2014

I've touched a nerve haven't I.

It's also very nice to see that someone who posts in what is supposed to be a progressive forum is willing to sell out their principles for the hollow joy of pretending that the Abu Dhabi All-Stars have anything to do with what used to be their football club.

 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
8. No, what you're actually seeing...
Fri May 23, 2014, 08:50 AM
May 2014

...is someone who knows tinfoil hat bullshit when she sees it, that there's a group for that (Creative Speculation), and that it's actually prohibited in every other forum of group here. If you've "touched a nerve" (the hilariously predictable blurt of every internet forum troll ever), trust me, it's my funny bone.

I am a bad person, though: I find delusion and insane conspiracy theories hilarious. Sour grapes, on the other hand, are just pathetic.

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