The intricate web Man City spun to con the Premier League
I CANNOT BE THE ONLY ONE WHO SAW THIS BECAUSE OVER EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY MILLION POUNDS HIDDEN IN SPONSORSHIPS IS PURE MADNESS AND AN INDEPENDENT COMMISSION JUST FOUND MANCHESTER CITY GUILTY OF MASSIVE FINANCIAL BREACHES WHICH IS WILD BECAUSE THEIR OWNERS AT ABU DHABI UNITED GROUP ALLEGEDLY RAN A DISGUISED FUNDING SCHEME DATING BACK TO 2009 TO ARTIFICIALLY PUMP UP SPONSORSHIPS AND HIDE NINETY MILLION IN EXPENSES JUST TO BUY PLAYERS AND AVOID RECORD LOSSES AND THE RULING USES WORDS LIKE CHEAT AND DECEIVE EIGHT TIMES AND THE THING IS CITY COMPLETELY DENIES IT AND SAYS THE PREMIER LEAGUE MISUNDERSTOOD THE CONTRACTS BUT THE DOCUMENT SAYS THEY WERE LITERALLY PLUGGING SHORTFALLS RIGHT BEFORE DEADLINES. OK I AM GETTING ANOTHER ROUND, THINK ABOUT IT.
SO THEY HAVE FINALLY ADMITTED IT IN A FORTY-PAGE RULING DROPPED RIGHT IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE WHERE THE BILLIONS ACTUALLY LIVE AND IT TURNS OUT AN INDEPENDENT COMMISSION FOUND MANCHESTER CITY GUILTY OF PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING INCLUDING ALMOST EVERY COUNT OF FAILING TO COOPERATE AND THE WHOLE THING STARTED BACK IN 2009 BECAUSE ABU DHABI UNITED GROUP DID NOT WANT TO BREAK CHELSEA’S RECORD OF LOSING A HUNDRED AND FORTY MILLION POUNDS IN A SINGLE SEASON SO THEY REPORTEDLY INVENTED A DISGUISED FUNDING SCHEME TO HIDE EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY MILLION IN SPONSORSHIPS PLUS NINETY MILLION IN EXPENSES AND THE THING IS THE DOCUMENT SHOWS THEM SCRAMBLING TO PLUG A NINE POINT NINE MILLION POUND SHORTFALL IN MAY 2013 WITH LESS THAN A WEEK BEFORE UEFA DEADLINES AND CITY SAYS THE LEAGUE JUST MISUNDERSTOOD THEIR CONTRACTS. OK WAIT IS THIS OUR SONG?
An independent commission found Manchester City guilty of serious financial breaches after ruling the club disguised over £830m in owner funding as sponsorship revenue.
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