Quelle suprise! Bigger suprise will be if anything is done about it (spoiler alert, nothing will happen)
they will simply reapply the last tactic. delay until the investigation period times out. This was known to be dodgy 6 months ago and still nothing.
It's like they're not even trying to hide it I'm convinced their doing something dodgy with ticket sales too; records show is a sellout but there are always thousands of empty seats. I reckon the owners are buying them up.
The ticket 'sales' is more of the same - paying themselves with their own money and calling it revenue.
oh 100% their revenue figures are utterly ridiculous and its absolutely barefaced. please log in to view this image As we can see over time since the "inviestigation" and ban (in 2016) they successfully appealed (and held up unitl 2020) Match day revenue was flat, very hard to fake it. Broadcasting revenue up 92% "commerical" revenue up 50% In 20/21 man city shot form 6th in the table to 1st over taking real madrid, every other english club dropped in revenue... due to covid. its projected to be another 60 or 70mil higher again this year. Now I ignore LFC in these things but when a club with 54k stadium can shoot that far ahead of a team with an 83k capacity in a couple years when said club didn't win in Europe etc then it can only be sponsorship deals As i have said a few times. I can only conclude that city are paying their taxes on this revenue somewhere and can't be touched by UK revenue. OR uk revenue doens't want to know. We are seeing serious efforts to block Newcastle doing the same type of deals but why block one and not the other? thats as dodgy if not more dodgy in my mind as I could excuse the city stuff as being useless but to attack one shows the authorities can police it if they feel like it but for some reason chose not to with city. aka rampant corruption.
depends on how they are doing the figures as Arsenal regularly had "sell outs" despite lots of empty seats and it was because they counted ticket sales rather than bodies and lots of season ticket holders weren't turning up .
at Arsenal most of the empty seats were from season ticket holders not turning up so cannoy see how club could buy them without it becoming known .
I'd say they have 120% take up some weeks on corporate boxes. aka they've sold them to themselves then sold them to actual humans who want to see an actual game. same as airlines hoping not everyone turns up.
not really as if they were spending money buying tickets of season ticket holders couldn't make it i fail to believe it wouldn't end up in the public domain where as the sponsorship issue is all in house .
Who mentioned season tickets? If it's a genuine sellout, all is good. If they only sell 70%, they buy the remaining 30% to make it sellout (plus extras) and top up the funds. They could easily employ someone (off Man City books) to create a list of fake buyers. Not that they're bothered, they dodgy dealing in broad daylight 20,000 empty seats at £100 each is £2m in the kitty. Over nineteen ladies games, that's £38m, or Harland's wages.
because as i said some clubs count the bodies entering stadium and others ticket sales (which includes season ticket holders ) hence you can legitimately have a club announcing a sell out despite empty seats if people don't turn up .
Don't forget concessions. Can charge another 100 a head on beer and pizza. The minor fact no food was actually ordered in is even better cos expenses are then lower.
I understood what you meant mate, but I never mentioned season tickets. I think Man City buy all the empty seats before each game and count ticket sales for attendance figures.
All the mancs going mad about ronaldo.... they were warned. Juve didn't want rid for nothing All the reasons to go nowhere near were easily visible, from the massive wage to the elbowing out of the door. What an absolutely massive error and waste 500k a week... madness.
Seems an easy solution to me; club don't want him, he didn't want to be there, shake hands and go separate ways. By time the season resumes, the transfer window will be open anyway
Money talks. See how desperate he is to leave if he’s willing to rip up his contract and move somewhere on far less wages. or go to USA and coin it in.
