Dave Corless

LFC20❤️ JFT97

[Dave Corless @davec0506]

@LfcShaunjudge he can sit next to Trent next year

[Dave Corless @davec0506]

@eddiegibbs Spot on again and god forbid Virgil picks up an injury

[Sky Sports Football @SkyFootball]

Stop what you are doing and watch this goal from George Evans! 👏

[Anthony Fowler @afowler06]

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[Adam @AdamJoseph]

🧵 THREAD: Manchester City, the charges, the evidence, & how justice was delayed.

Manchester City weren’t charged because rivals complained or because they 'spent big'. They were charged because evidence shows a decade-long system designed to hide owner funding, inflate revenue & deceive & obstruct investigations.

The Premier League’s case didn’t appear overnight.
It began in late 2018, triggered by Football Leaks documents - internal emails, invoices, contracts - that contradicted what City had been telling UEFA & the Premier League for years.

Those emails are the backbone of everything that followed. At the centre of the case is a simple allegation: Manchester City repeatedly disguised owner funding as commercial revenue.

FFP rules require sponsorship income to be real, independent, and market value. What the emails suggest is that City’s biggest 'sponsors' weren’t paying what City claimed - Abu Dhabi was.

Take Etihad as an example. Leaked emails show City executives discussing Etihad paying only a fraction of headline sponsorship deals, with the shortfall quietly topped up by Abu Dhabi government-linked entities.

One email explicitly references ensuring funds 'come through the correct channels' so they are not detected as separate sources of funding. That is the definition of disguised equity. This wasn’t a one-off.

Emails show Etihad deals where shirt sponsorship, stadium, training kit & campus naming rights were all inflated wildly out of line with the market at the time - later confirmed in the actual contracts, not just drafts.

The numbers in the leaks weren’t hypothetical. They were real. UEFA auditors suspected this as early as 2013–14.

They found £47m of 'intellectual property' sales boosting income, a £5m 'win bonus' paid for an FA Cup final City lost & sponsorships from Aabar and Etisalat above market value.

City were fined & restricted - but crucially, UEFA never saw the full records. Why? Because City refused to provide them. This becomes a pattern.

When UEFA charged City again in 2020, they imposed a two-year Champions League ban. City appealed to CAS & had it overturned. City fans shout 'INNOCENT', shared out of context screenshots. They're wrong.

CAS did not rule that City were innocent. CAS ruled that UEFA could not meet the burden of proof - largely because City did not co-operate. City were fined €10m specifically for obstructing the investigation.

Even City's own expert witness was denied access to key information that could have disproved disguised funding. 'No evidence' doesn’t mean nothing happened. It means the evidence was withheld.

CAS explicitly stated that disguised equity funding could not be excluded - only that neither side could conclusively prove their case. That vagueness was entirely engineered.

After CAS, new emails emerged suggesting Simon Pearce, a senior City executive & Sheikh Mansour adviser, had given misleading testimony under oath. City declined to comment. Again.

While all this was happening, the Premier League had already been investigating City for years. City’s response? Delay. Delay. Delay. Obstruct. Litigate.

Court filings later revealed City challenged the legality of the investigation itself, filed repeated procedural applications, refused to hand over documents, forced arbitration, then challenged arbitration & tried to keep the entire process secret.

A High Court judge called it out in 2021. “It is surprising, and a matter of legitimate public concern, that so little progress has been made.” That’s legal spiel for stonewalling.

This obstruction accounts for 35 of the 115 charges alone & that’s before we get to the secret payments.

City declared Roberto Mancini's salary as £1.45m per year. On the same day he signed with City, he also signed a “consultancy” deal with Al Jazira - a club owned by the same man who owns City - worth £1.75m per year. That deal was explicitly marked confidential.

Emails show City executives arranging the payments. Same signatures. Same people. Same day. The allegation is obvious: City paid Mancini off the books.

Leaked documents allege undeclared payments for Yaya Touré, including via third parties. These aren’t rumours. They’re contracts, emails, invoices. This is why there are 14 charges relating to manager and player remuneration.

Then there’s image rights. City told UEFA they sold player image rights for a £24.5m lump sum to comply with FFP. Later, they quietly resumed earning millions from image rights again.

The buyer? A company whose directors included City’s own senior legal officer. Independent journalists couldn’t even establish its genuine commercial purpose.

All of this feeds into the core allegation across 54 charges: City failed to provide accurate financial information in good faith. Not once. Not twice. But repeatedly, over nearly a decade.

Now add politics. UK government departments discussed City’s charges with the British embassy in Abu Dhabi. Those communications are sealed - because releasing them could 'damage relations with the UAE'. City insist they are not state-backed. Then why is the state involved?

Yet still, the delays continue. A 12-week closed-door hearing. Half a million documents. Years of silence. City remain 'innocent' - not because the evidence disappeared, but because the verdict hasn’t landed.

This is why the case matters. If City walk away with a fine, it tells every club to cheat cleverly, obstruct endlessly, spend on lawyers, not compliance.. & the rules collapse.

This isn’t about jealousy. It isn’t about success. It’s about whether financial regulation in English football is real - or optional for the richest club in the league.

The evidence exists. The emails exist. The delays are documented. Now only one question remains, do the rules apply to City or not?

[Dave Corless @davec0506]

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[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Our lad from Portugal. Forever ❤️

[Dave Corless @davec0506]

@eddiegibbs Always a good read Eddie 👍

[Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs]

Dear Caoimhin,

There is something profoundly dignified in how you’ve carried yourself through these years, the understudy whose performances belied the prefix. In an era where patience is mislabelled as passivity, you proved that waiting for your turn can be a triumph in itself.

You arrived at #LFC as a boy, one of those quiet investments that clubs hope might flourish but rarely depend upon. What followed was the emergence of a goalkeeper of such clarity and composure that Anfield grew comfortable in the silence you brought to your penalty area. You gave us clean sheets and clear consciences when Alisson was absent. More than that, you gave us belief that the standards would not drop.

Some might measure your legacy in minutes played, in transfer fees not met. But that would be to miss the point. You embodied a principle that Liverpool once made its calling card: readiness. When opportunity knocked, you were already at the door, gloves on, boots laced, nerves settled.

It is easy to discuss your move in financial terms, and some will. But those who watched you will not remember £18 million. They will remember you standing unshaken in the Carabao Cup finals, your penalty heroics, your shoulders squared in moments that could have overwhelmed lesser men.

You are not leaving because you are unwanted. You are leaving because you were too good to wait forever. And in that, there is nothing but admiration. Football at its best is not a story of endless possession but of the graceful letting go, and you depart not as a backup, but as a man determined to claim the future you have earned.

#Brentford are not just signing a goalkeeper. They are inheriting the discipline, the humility, the steel that Liverpool fans came to revere. Should you ever return to Anfield in opposition, expect warmth - before and after, you will be saluted as one of our own, as a man who rose on your own terms.

Thank you, Caoimhin. You were ready. You always were.

With gratitude and respect,

YNWA

#Caoimhin #Kelleher 🙏

[Pie Sports Booze 🔞 PARODY @piesportsbooze]

Tottenham vs. Man Utd in the Europa League final...

[Pie Sports Booze 🔞 PARODY @piesportsbooze]

The Man Utd team visited an orphanage in Manchester today. "It's heartbreaking to see their sad little faces with no hope," said Ben, age six.

[Dave Corless @davec0506]

@sarajcox Wife was helping her sister, who’s a primary school teacher, by putting pics up in classroom. Stapled thru wire, alarms went off, fire brigade came and school evacuated 😂🚒

[Dave Corless @davec0506]

@TheAthleticFC @EliasBurke @anantaajith @gillikas No they haven’t

[Samuel @SamueILFC]

A few results won’t change how grateful to have you as my manager for 9 years. You came in when the club was on its knees, and you brought life back into the club and won every trophy possible, even the PL title. A dream I did not think I’ll ever see. I couldn’t thank you enough.

[Anthony Fowler @afowler06]

Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Hillsborough tragedy, my thoughts are with the 97 fans who will never be forgotten, and everyone effected 🙏🏻

YNWA

#JFT97

[Dave Corless @davec0506]

@trussliz I can’t forget YOU killed my pension , cheers Lizzie 🥂

[HENRY MORRIS @mrhenrymorris]

Morning! Superb from @GreenJennyJones, as she calmly states blindingly obvious truths that alarmingly few other politicians are willing to.

[Dave Corless @davec0506]

@trussliz @CPAC not bizarre, you’re the threat

[Dave Corless @davec0506]

@ladbible Industry, Deceit, Night Agent, Bloodlands, The Golden Hour

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@darrengrimes NO