I know the feeling mate. Oh well, it gave a few of us a good laugh at least.Fuck sake. As I get older, my brain farts are becoming a daily occurrence.
I'm not going to edit it, I'm going to leave it there out of shame.
I will do better next time.
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As I said to Shady it means we can take a similar amount of risks as the money clubs because we are on a similarly level footing. now at least.
And it just so happens that now we have an opportunity with Klopp leaving, and all other ground shifts going on.
Yeah, I know.... He dead!
How about;
"Can you hear me David...?
show us a sign if you have a hardon...?"
That kinda thing, yeah?
Abso fucking lutely
The reasons why we couldn't compete have lifted now.
The opportunity to compete has also presented itself to us again.
This season? In the EPL?
Not by my definition, no.
Another good point.
Can't believe our team isn't fully clicking after 6 months with a new manager and completely new manager.
Why does it matter?
It's a great thing if those riches are utilised to build a trophy winning football team rather than to finance other off the field activities.
It's all about priorities. And this football club seems to have It's priorities arse about face.
Hence this
Coinciding with this
Your making me sound impatient... I'm not sure why.
I see we've reached the stupid part of the debate where once again you're just arguing the toss so let's leave it there shall we.
You’re not entirely wrong, but it’s still a slightly ignorant summary of their UEFA case.
Essentially, UEFA’s main allegation against City was that they were concealing profits made by the club as money from their sponsorship, as opposed to money injected directly from their owner.
City refuted this and brought the case all the way to the CAS.
CAS found that although some of the more minor infractions brought by UEFA against City were time barred, they found no evidence to substantiate any of UEFA’s major allegations, namely that City were disguising revenue as sponsorship funds.
The only thing City were found guilty of by CAS was failing to co-operate with UEFA’s investigation, however, City’s rationale for this was they were refusing to co operate with an investigation that was instigated on the back of allegations stemming from stolen emails published in a German tabloid paper, Der Spiegl.
I know you have a long standing hatred of City and if they are indeed the dirty cheating bastards every fan is preying they are then hopefully the PL’s case is far more watertight, because UEFA’s was proven to be very flawed.
That’s not exactly what happened though.
There was found to be no evidence to substantiate any of UEFA’s major claims by CAS.
I don’t think anyone has any idea what exactly the PL’s case entails, but one would hope it is far more water tight than UEFA’s.
I see we've reached the stupid part of the debate where once again you're just arguing the toss so let's leave it there shall we.
is there any reason we can't compete financially with the other money teams?
You are so right.
All those years we were watching Arse, Liverpool, United, Chelsea et al winning trophies doesn’t seem so depressing now because WE are now the FFP kings!!
Who’s laughing now, eh??
Well, there’s a £150-200m revenue gap between us and the Manchester teams per season.
If spent properly, as City (at least) do, that’s a lot of gap.
Not quite.
Last season we were in CL so I'd expect us to see club record revenues when accounts to 30 June 2023 are published in the next month or so - and that would put us above Woolwich and Chelsea which is excellent news, but still behind both Mans clubs and Liverpool
But we are not in CL this season so when accounts to June 2024 are published, we will have circa £100m less than this year and back far closer to Woolwich and Chelsea
So we need a couple of years in CL to accumulate some wealth.
We have a very decent first team in place and a number of players capable of being squad players but we'd all agree that we can improve on a number of players in the squad (not necessarily where to improve) and we'll improve again in summer 2024, but we will still want another summer of two to upgrade the squad - and obviously the more wealth we have accumulated, the more can go into the squad. And whilst spending big does NOT guarantee success, being able to spend is a great help in signing up the next players that we want/need.
Although we'll certainly find the usual suspects saying - oooh we are rich, why aren't we signing Osimenh for £150m and why not just spend big on every player. Usually they have never been allowed outside their mothers basement for their own good !
You are so right.
All those years we were watching Arse, Liverpool, United, Chelsea et al winning trophies doesn’t seem so depressing now because WE are now the FFP kings!!
Who’s laughing now, eh??
Standard twisting comments nonsense from you as per.