UEFA Champions League 2019/2020

[Alex de Large]

There is always a surprise team, last year Ajax and Tottenham for ex.

 

[Glass box]

This is a (another) great example that the law is not made for everyone.
I think everyone on this forum has examples in their country on how powerful people/organisations evade the law. That's life I guess....

The law is literally invented for a purpose: not to serve everyone. It serves to crush the weaker and solidify the richer even more.

If you steal, steal big: you buy everyone off and you are respected. If you steal a little, they create an example of you to show how "justice" has been done.

 

[Il Drago]

The most infuriating, and hilarious at the same time, thing of this saga was Guardiola asking from City rivals to apologize about what they have said about the club regarding FFP.

 

[CafeCordoba]

He did say that?

 

[delaurentis]

The most infuriating, and hilarious at the same time, thing of this saga was Guardiola asking from City rivals to apologize about what they have said about the club regarding FFP.

Could it be that he is influenced by whoever pays his salary....

 

[Il Drago]

He did say that?

Pep Guardiola: Manchester City manager says club deserve an apology

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says his team deserve an apology after the club successfully overturned their ban from European club competitions.

On Monday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) cleared City of committing "serious breaches" of Financial Fair Play regulations between 2012 and 2016.

On Tuesday Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho called it a "disgraceful decision".

"What we have done is right. Jose and all the managers should know that we were damaged," said Guardiola.

"We should be apologised (to).

"[I'm] incredibly happy for the decision, which shows what all the people said about the club was not true and to defend on the pitch what we won on the pitch..

"Like I said many times, if we did something wrong we would accept the decision of Uefa and Cas because we did something wrong. We can defend ourselves. We have the right to defend ourselves when we believe what we have done is correct."

Uefa had issued Man City with a two-year ban in February.

But Cas cleared City of "disguising equity funds as sponsorship contributions" and cut the club's fine from 30m euros (£26.9m) to 10m euros (£9m). They said City did "fail to cooperate with Uefa authorities".

In this year's Champions League, City face Real Madrid in their last-16 second leg at Etihad Stadium on 7 August. They lead 2-1 from the first leg and will face Juventus or Lyon if they progress.

When asked about his future with last season's Premier League champions, Guardiola said he was "happy" but added "now is not the time" to discuss a new contract. His current deal runs until the end of the 2020-21 season.

"We have made a step forward in 10 years. We invested a lot of money, like a lot of clubs. We did it the right way. We have not been banned because we followed the FFP rules. If we hadn't we would have been banned," Guardiola added.

"We showed it was not true. That's why people have to be happy or should at least accept it.

"I would love to say, 'look in our eyes and say something face to face and go out onto the pitch and play as rivals and after if you beat us, we will shake hands and congratulate you'."

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/53403339

Meanwhile, according to Athletic Man City are willing to spend 300m pounds on transfers this summer.

 

[KevinB]

FFP, what a joke.

Teams like PSG and City will always evade it while in meantime Inter, Bbilan and Roma get fucked royally Everytime. Not to speak of Turkish teams.
Can't even remember City ever selling a player for big money, but they have spent over a billion euros since pep is there.

 

[.h.]

just checking over their last few years, tey make a huge amount of plusvalenza from their academy - thats one big difference tbh.

 

[Adriano]

FFP, what a joke.

Teams like PSG and City will always evade it while in meantime Inter, Bbilan and Roma get fucked royally Everytime. Not to speak of Turkish teams.
Can't even remember City ever selling a player for big money, but they have spent over a billion euros since pep is there.

imagine if someone like sir alex got to abuse even half the money as pep has throughout his career, ridiculous

 

[.h.]

to be fair, its not like fergie didnt have budget. He signed Veron, he signed Van Nistelrooy. Of course money is at a different scale now, and you see much higher star concentration than when Fergie was working, but like the money they threw at Ferdinand, Veron, Van Nistelrooy, was pretty immense, relatively speaking.

 

[Howl]

PSG might actually be fucked. Mbappe got injured in the cup final and limped off the pitch crying then was seen later with crutches. Without him they won't stand much of a chance.

 

[monster09]

to be fair, its not like fergie didnt have budget. He signed Veron, he signed Van Nistelrooy. Of course money is at a different scale now, and you see much higher star concentration than when Fergie was working, but like the money they threw at Ferdinand, Veron, Van Nistelrooy, was pretty immense, relatively speaking.

We were not even biggest spenders in league when Fergie was manager, even Newcastle outspent us at one point.

 

[Kramerica Industries]

PSG might actually be fucked. Mbappe got injured in the cup final and limped off the pitch crying then was seen later with crutches. Without him they won't stand much of a chance.

I feel for Kylian, but if they don't stand much of a chance with all the money invested in that squad even besides him, well, can't say I feel sorry for them.

 

[Il Drago]

RAC1: Chaos in Barcelona: Arthur is still in Brazil and doesn't want to return to Barcelona due to the lack of minutes and play time. He also hasn't showed up for the coronavirus test.

 

[thatdude]

Juve may have just signed a cancer, we can only hope

 

[Harpsabu]

Juve may have just signed a cancer, we can only hope

Apparently he partied flat out this year. OK at barca when he is rotational but at juve that will not be tolerated. I hope this is a disaster. Lots of concerns about his discipline

 

[brakbrak]

I feel for Kylian, but if they don't stand much of a chance with all the money invested in that squad even besides him, well, can't say I feel sorry for them.

Yet people still feel sorry for inter ;p

 

[CafeCordoba]

I think Arthur is just pissed to his still current employer for treating him like a piece of meat. They practically forced him out of the club because the directors can't count and they needed to fix the financial problem.

Barcelona can't do much about the issue since what they gonna do? Sue him? Freeze him out of the squad? They can surely stop paying his salary but it's like one month.

 

[thatdude]

I think Arthur is just pissed to his still current employer for treating him like a piece of meat. They practically forced him out of the club because the directors can't count and they needed to fix the financial problem.

Barcelona can't do much about the issue since what they gonna do? Sue him? Freeze him out of the squad? They can surely stop paying his salary but it's like one month.

Either way it shows a lack of professionalism on Arthur’s part.

 

[Ed.]

Either way it shows a lack of professionalism on Arthur’s part.

it's not lack of professionalism. he is just adapting to his new club.