Marc Evans

#MUFC #Glazersout - Through the good times, the bad times, the hard times, the dark times, the great times I will always support

[Marc Evans @snavecram]

#GlazersRatcliffeOut #GlazersFullSaleOnly unfortunately I cannot keep watching any longer until the club gets rid of the parasite owners, I have supported United my whole life but the circus act I am constantly watching is enough. @manutd the proudness I once had is gone

[Magic hat 🎩 @themagic_tophat]

⚖️ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝗣𝗟 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆’𝘀 𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲

1., Since the charges ended in 2018, doesn’t that mean Man City won’t be punished for anything that happened afterwards?
2., What’s stopping Man City from coming straight back up the year after relegation and taking over again?
3., When will the years post-2018 be investigated?

So…

1., The illicit sporting advantage they built up over 2009-2018 didn’t just disappear. It helped them buy expensive additions to their squad, generate big broadcast revenues and justify huge commercial deals. All of that was carried forward after 2018 and addressing those illicit gains is entirely within the scope of the Commission’s sanctions.
2., The Commission can apply an ongoing sanction regime that mitigates for the accumulated illicit sporting advantage. For example, a repeating points deduction or forced reduction in spend.
3., I don’t think there’s much point in investigating post-2018 because I can’t imagine any evidence was left to be found.

But they still have all these huge, brand new sponsorships approved under the new rules! Hundreds of millions that they’ll keep receiving for many years to come. Surely any sanction they get won’t fix that?

Maybe not… but there’s another way…

Until December 2021, the Premier League’s PSR had a provision for Related Party Transactions (RPTs). All RPTs had to be reported to the PL Board and adjusted for Fair Market Value (FMV). What constitutes a “Related Party” is a matter for accounting standards, not a PL definition.

In Dec 2021, the PL updated the RPT rules to the Associated Party Transaction (APT) rules. They used their own, much broader definition to ensure clubs with powerful nation-state owners could not readily circumvent the rules.

This new rule applied to any new, renewed or amended deal that clubs entered into from Dec 2021.

Which means any deal entered into before this date and not modified, was subject to the RPT rules.

The Independent Commission found that the Abu-Dhabi-owned sponsors of Man City were Related Parties. This was never declared by Man City and the FMV test was never run.

It is my understanding that some of these deals continued to run all the way up to late 2025. In which case, Man City has continued to breach rules regarding financial reporting, good faith compliance and most likely PSR too.

In fact, by my estimations, Man City has breached another 15 rules every season for the 7 seasons 18/19-24/25. 100+ more rule breaches that Man City MUST be charged with. The PL Board has no choice in that. This time, they have the option to settle the charges (that option was not available to them before this season). But as regulator, they must charge.

At first, I did not understand why they didn’t apply the charges in this same case. It could have been because they did not make the decision to pursue an RPT strategy until late in the case prep. Regardless, they’ve been determined to be RPTs now. A fact that will be difficult to reverse.

That means Man City definitely broke rules every season post-2018 until all of their RPTs ended and were replaced with updated APTs. The RPTs were all likely heavily overstated too - FMV would have been much lower than the value of the RPTs.

And there’s the kicker for Man City. Not only will this hammer their PSR from 2018-2025. It will also invalidate all of their new APTs. The FMVs of their various APTs will have all been determined under false pretences and must be invalidated. They’ll have to repeat them… this time, in full knowledge of their cheating and damaged brand.

By waiting for this Commission to conclude and issue its findings, it lays the foundations for ensuring successful charges for 2018-2025 and invalidating their current hoard of APTs.

Game over.

[Marc Evans @snavecram]

@talkSPORT Wank

[Marc Evans @snavecram]

@FabrizioRomano Well it’s not the opinion of the premier league it was the verdict from an independent commission, the thick cunts can’t even get that right

[Marc Evans @snavecram]

Guilty as charged, cheating bastards!!

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/Muxqp4beK9

[mufcmpb @mufcMPB]

WE WANT A FULL SALE!

#GlazersOUT #FullSaleONLY

RTs appreciated! 🟢🟡

[Marc Evans @snavecram]

@ManUnitedZone @OptaJoe We knew that was going to happen, they played like school kids

[Marc Evans @snavecram]

@FabrizioRomano Carrick will be gone by end of October I’m afraid

[Marc Evans @snavecram]

@ManUtd Fucking useless yet again, we looked awful, played awful and it seems that we’re not a team who train together, we don’t look functional and a very much depleted squad

[Marc Evans @snavecram]

@BBCMOTD @5liveSport All day long

[Marc Evans @snavecram]

@footballontnt 96th minute idiots

[Marc Evans @snavecram]

@bethTmufc That was obvious when we didn’t buy enough players in the transfer window and still play shaw who’s slow and not good enough now, dalot who has never been good enough and not even having a second striker

[Marc Evans @snavecram]

@rioferdy5 Blame the owners for not backing the manager in all of the positions needed, shaw and dalot(always been poor) are not good enough anymore, we saw this last season and in the first 2 games where we should’ve got players in, unfortunately carrick will fail

[Marc Evans @snavecram]

@mark_robinson_ Yeah poss poor from the ref and our defending again, it was obvious we were going to suffer in defence especially when dalot who is always shite and shaw who has just not got the pace anymore, teams will go at us everytime and generally get goals from those areas, owners fault

[Marc Evans @snavecram]

@ManUtd Thanks to our owners who don’t put their hands in the pockets to actually buy players we desperately need, LB,RB,ST was also needed to at least compete but you gave us 5th,6th and 7th choice signings in the main area where we needed. To think we’re going to compete in all comps

[Marc Evans @snavecram]

@samuelluckhurst You are a real cunt!

[Marc Evans @snavecram]

@FabrizioRomano I’d say the ref for them adding time on

[Marc Evans @snavecram]

@sistoney67 Yeah 15 seconds after the 5 mins

[Marc Evans @snavecram]

@FabrizioRomano Again another overpriced transfer

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Name on the trophy.

Here's to you, Bruno ❤️