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Pinching myself to be hosting the Full-time fallout on @talkSPORT this season.
When I left teaching a few years ago, I never thought I’d be in this position. Honoured to be hosting on the station this season, doing this, the social, hosting live games and the talkSPORT daily pod.
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😫 "We're much better than the points we've got!"
@MaxBScott cannot believe #NFFC fans are questioning Glasner's future at the club already! 😳
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Another game where #nffc are left ruing missed chances. Whether it’s Wood, Delap, Murillo..
But I haven’t come away from that feeling pessimistic about the future. Not by any stretch of the imagination.
We were organised, cohesive, created enough chances to get something from the game.. and limited the champions to just one shot on target.
I thought Delap was fantastic, bar a goal. A constant nuisance and a real force going forward for us, winning aerial duels and beating defenders.
Macatee continues to shine. Diomande looks fitter. Hudson-Odoi a threat off the bench.
Yes, psychologically it’s never nice being in the bottom 3, but the players are to blame for not being clinical enough.
Despite that, I still see the ingredients of what can become a real strong side.
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Excellent reporting from @JacobsBen who broke this story.
Long read but well worth it. Exposing some significant contradictions in City’s ‘irrefutable evidence’
Manchester City will argue the so-called 'tagged' sponsorship payments (totalling £830m) came from the Abu Dhabi Government not their owner (ADUG). This applies to State-controlled entities such as Etihad and Etisalat. Yet Etihad has previously refuted AD Government funding as "false".
City can point to an internal report written for the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi in 2010 which concluded the Abu Dhabi Government did indeed cover the sponsorship of Manchester City. The report was not intended for external publication.
In their UEFA case, City denied the Etihad (or any other) sponsorship funds came from any other source other than a direct payment. Sheikh Mansour provided a letter which read: "I have not authorised ADUG to make any payments to Etihad, Etisalat or any of their affiliates in relation to their sponsorship of MCFC."
In 2015, the 'Partnership for Open and Fair Skies' wrote to the US departments of Commerce, Transportation and State arguing Etihad gained a competitive advantage due to receiving huge sums from the Abu Dhabi Government. They allude to the internal report referenced above, which appears to confirm this.
Yet Etihad's response was: "The assertion that the Abu Dhabi Government paid for Etihad’s sponsorship of English Premier League football club Manchester City is equally false.
"In 2011 Etihad and Manchester City entered into a 10-year sponsorship agreement, which included naming rights for Manchester City’s stadium. Etihad funded this sponsorship from its own liquidity. It is not uncommon for airlines to have sponsorships with sports teams and their venues."
Etihad's denial the Abu Dhabi Government helped pay for their sponsorship goes against City's core argument, according to the verdict, that "AD Sponsors had from time to time applied for financial assistance from the AD Government towards their liability to pay the Recorded Sponsorship Fees."
Due to redacted names, multiple sponsors, and the phrase 'from time to time', City could make a case for other sponsors, but Etihad's on-record denial doesn't help the club's position, according to multiple legal sources spoken to.
Worth also reiterating, the panel, having reviewed the evidence already provided, already concluded any notion the Abu Dhabi Government not ADUG paid the tagged sums was "concocted well after the event".
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Manchester City will argue the so-called 'tagged' sponsorship payments (totalling £830m) came from the Abu Dhabi Government not their owner (ADUG). This applies to State-controlled entities such as Etihad and Etisalat. Yet Etihad has previously refuted AD Government funding as "false".
City can point to an internal report written for the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi in 2010 which concluded the Abu Dhabi Government did indeed cover the sponsorship of Manchester City. The report was not intended for external publication.
In their UEFA case, City denied the Etihad (or any other) sponsorship funds came from any other source other than a direct payment. Sheikh Mansour provided a letter which read: "I have not authorised ADUG to make any payments to Etihad, Etisalat or any of their affiliates in relation to their sponsorship of MCFC."
In 2015, the 'Partnership for Open and Fair Skies' wrote to the US departments of Commerce, Transportation and State arguing Etihad gained a competitive advantage due to receiving huge sums from the Abu Dhabi Government. They allude to the internal report referenced above, which appears to confirm this.
Yet Etihad's response was: "The assertion that the Abu Dhabi Government paid for Etihad’s sponsorship of English Premier League football club Manchester City is equally false.
"In 2011 Etihad and Manchester City entered into a 10-year sponsorship agreement, which included naming rights for Manchester City’s stadium. Etihad funded this sponsorship from its own liquidity. It is not uncommon for airlines to have sponsorships with sports teams and their venues."
Etihad's denial the Abu Dhabi Government helped pay for their sponsorship goes against City's core argument, according to the verdict, that "AD Sponsors had from time to time applied for financial assistance from the AD Government towards their liability to pay the Recorded Sponsorship Fees."
Due to redacted names, multiple sponsors, and the phrase 'from time to time', City could make a case for other sponsors, but Etihad's on-record denial doesn't help the club's position, according to multiple legal sources spoken to.
Worth also reiterating, the panel, having reviewed the evidence already provided, already concluded any notion the Abu Dhabi Government not ADUG paid the tagged sums was "concocted well after the event".
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From Etihad Airways 60-page submission to John Kerry, US Department Secretary of State, Antony Foxx, US Department of Transportation Secretary and Penny Pritzker, US Department of Commerce Secretary on May 31, 2015
#MCFC’s key defence in its appeal over the Premier League guilty verdict was denied by its own title sponsor Etihad Airways in an extensive submission to the US government in 2015
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Just had an incredibly compelling chat with @StanCollymore about Premier League procession and the financial regulations strangling the game..
Very apt in light of this seismic Man City case.
Putting the world to rights & articulating what Forest, Villa, Newcastle and other fans feel
Catch it on today’s @tSHandJ podcast out later this afternoon
This could have been 50!
Five iconic things that should make immediate comeback in modern football | @maxbscott
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Pep Guardiola speaking as if he’s some sort of omnipresent ethereal spirit.
I want every single @ManCity fan to know I am here; more than ever. I am, always have been, always will, be behind my club, my owner, my chairman, Ferran, the players, staff, Enzo and you, our unique supporters.
Let me be clear: we will get through this together.
I love you all 🩵
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“My owner”
I want every single @ManCity fan to know I am here; more than ever. I am, always have been, always will, be behind my club, my owner, my chairman, Ferran, the players, staff, Enzo and you, our unique supporters.
Let me be clear: we will get through this together.
I love you all 🩵
Any City fan trying to characterise their state-owned club as some sort of freedom fighter challenging the establishment ‘Red cartel’ is living in some sort of Orwellian dystopia: ‘rejecting the evidence of their eyes and ears’
And the idea this collective and outraged reaction from the football world is ‘virtue-signalling nonsense’ doesn’t stick.
It’s a genuine release of fans feeling a sense of vindication that a club who’s revenue was hundreds of millions more than this countries biggest clubs, was clearly, blatantly and brazenly cheating.
‘Sham’ - something that is fake, false, or not genuine and is meant to trick or deceive people.
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SIMPLE Guide to Man City's charges 🔥 📻
🤔 Breakdown of charges
😳 When is the verdict?
😬 Who are the victims?
A simple guide to all of Man City's charges with @KieranMaguire and @maxbscott on the talkSPORT Daily! 📻
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Diluting and softening sanctions to avoid losing top players like Haaland is absurd to me.
If guilty, City have obtained those players precisely because of the fraudulent behaviour the PL have charged them for and paid millions in legal fees doing so.
To soften any sanction because ‘it might damage the PL’s image’ would be another example (like Chelsea’s soft touch sanctions) of a two-tier system, where clubs deemed more valuable to the PL are given preferential treatment over others.
Premier League will suggest Manchester City punishment to independent panel
Deciding on penalty may be difficult as relegating club would remove stars like Erling Haaland from competition. Plus, Roberto Mancini says charges aren’t his issue
✍️@Lawton_Times, @martynziegler
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