The Spygate Saga

[Maggie May]

3 minutes ago, carljack said:

I have not heard anybody talk about where this leaves the FAs fit and proper persons test,surely the owners of MC should be excluded from going anywhere near a Football Club in England and one could argue any business,Abramovich was made to sell Chelski.This goes far beyond Football,it stinks !

The fit and proper persons test is down to the Premier League.

[carljack]

Just now, Maggie May said:

The fit and proper persons test is down to the Premier League.

Sorry I thought the FA also had a FPPT test,but surely Fraud and/or corruption has taken place here,I am not sure it is legal to disguise payments in any UK business,how many of us have worked or do work in industries where we have to know your client and the source of their funds for any sort of financial transaction.I am sure our legal eagles can run the rule over this.OWTS !

[Toussaint]

1 hour ago, bangkoksaint said:

I have some sympathy for City fans. Like us the club have committed a rules breach and ultimately it’s the fans that suffer. 

What percentage of City fans are true, lifelong City fans? They must have a core of die hards but their fan base seems to be dominated by tourists and glory hunters? 

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

1 hour ago, Jack said:

Yeah must be terrible going from mid table dross to winning everything for a decade

Poor sods were complaining about having to travel to Wembley too often as well.

Won't somebody PLEASE think of the City fans!

[Toussaint]

Maybe it’s about time our football was run like American football or Australian rules football, salary caps, squad caps, home grown player requirements and so on, the premier league is now beyond ridiculous, the rich have got so much richer and the ladder has been well and truly pulled up. Where there are such huge sums of money there will always be corruption. 

[AlexLaw76]

6 minutes ago, Toussaint said:

Maybe it’s about time our football was run like American football or Australian rules football, salary caps, squad caps, home grown player requirements and so on, the premier league is now beyond ridiculous, the rich have got so much richer and the ladder has been well and truly pulled up. Where there are such huge sums of money there will always be corruption. 

That is a football pyramid, right?

compare us to Barnet or Bromley and see what is fair and what isn’t.

[The Kraken]

5 minutes ago, Toussaint said:

Maybe it’s about time our football was run like American football or Australian rules football, salary caps, squad caps, home grown player requirements and so on, the premier league is now beyond ridiculous, the rich have got so much richer and the ladder has been well and truly pulled up. Where there are such huge sums of money there will always be corruption. 

I don’t think a US system would have stopped this. City are guilty of over inflating sponsorship deals, and also of paying substantial sums to club staff through other companies outside of the City group, so that those wages don’t appear in PSR calculations. It’s skullduggery on an obscene level to cheat the financial rules already in place.

[trousers]

6 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

That is a football pyramid, right?

Yes, as long as you put a passive-agressive ", right?" at the end of every question...

Edited 1 hour ago by trousers

[Whitey Grandad]

51 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

That is a football pyramid, right?

compare us to Barnet or Bromley and see what is fair and what isn’t.

But a pyramid that's not set in stone. 

[hypochondriac]

1 hour ago, Toussaint said:

Maybe it’s about time our football was run like American football or Australian rules football, salary caps, squad caps, home grown player requirements and so on, the premier league is now beyond ridiculous, the rich have got so much richer and the ladder has been well and truly pulled up. Where there are such huge sums of money there will always be corruption. 

That's why the European super league could be a good thing.