BOF Posted March 10, 2017 Moderator Share Posted March 10, 2017 Clickety Quote Manchester City earning millions from image rights after telling Uefa FFP investigators they had sold them Exclusive: Despite claiming they were forfeiting the income to help comply with Uefa's Financial Fair Play rules, The Independent understands the club are still making millions City are still making millions Getty Manchester City are making millions of pounds from image rights deals, three years after saying they were forfeiting that income to secure a lump sum to help comply with Uefa’s Financial Fair Play rules, The Independent understands. The club sold its players’ image rights to a third party for £24.5m lump sum, which on paper helped it record 2012/13 financial results that fell within the limit of acceptable losses under FFP rules. The club has never been willing to disclose the name of that company, though The Independent has established that it is Fordham Sports Image Rights Ltd, whose Companies House listing reveals to have a close attachment to City. The club’s senior legal officer Simon Cliff and non-executive director John Macbeath are both listed as directors. Guardiola refuses to concede Premier League title to Chelsea Uefa took a dim view of the way City claimed the £24.5m as income and claimed another £22m by selling their branding, football and other expertise to their own women's and New York City FC teams. The £46.5m the club earned from the two arrangements allowed them to produce financial results which they thought would see them comply with FFP. But Uefa effectively accused City of artificially inflating their own income, insisted that they could not only record the sale of image rights once, and found them in breach of FFP. City fans have booed the Champions League anthem in recent seasons (Getty) City were furious when Uefa deemed them in breach – a judgement which in part has contributed to fans’ refusal to acknowledge the Champions League anthem, to this day. The club insisted that the sale of image rights to the anonymous company - now known to be Fordham – was a genuine transaction undertaken for good corporate reasons. But Fordham now seems to have no active purpose. The individual who set up and ran the company – former Manchester City Partnership Sales Manager Francisco Lampreia –is not listed as a director on the Companies House record. Two sources have independently indicated to The Independent that Fordham is no longer earning the substantial sums which come with players the club is now buying. Manchester City said that Fordham still holds image rights for some of their players but had "chosen not to take up image rights of more recent ones." A key figure in the generation of image rights income is the Spaniard financier Esteve Calzada, who has negotiated image rights deal for Kevin de Bruyne, among others, and who has no attachment to Fordham. Calzada told The Independent that he was aware of Fordham but had always worked for the club itself when “helping with image rights.” “I’ve always been working on a commercial arrangement with the club,” Calzada said. “We help the club bring in deals. There has been a company called Fordham but I don’t know the ownership arrangement.” Sergio Aguero, the Manchester City striker, walks off the pitch after Wednesday's draw with Stoke (Getty) FFP regulations require clubs to show all their income is 'real' and not 'artificial' revenue from benefactors or related companies. But as well as the image rights and intellectual property deals, independent assessors found a win-related bonus of more than £5m was paid to City by a Middle East sponsor for the 2013 FA Cup final despite the club losing the match to Wigan. Two other City commercial contracts from UAE-based partners, Aabar and Etisalat, were above market rates, the assessors felt. After agreeing to a wage freeze and a £49m transfer market cap in the summer of 2014, imposed for the FFP breach, City have subsequently eased into profit, boosted by growing commercial and TV revenues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 GOod luck to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 15, 2017 Author Share Posted March 15, 2017 no exaggeration but Stones would struggle to get into a Championship team. I see nothing to suggest he is even better than Clark, Baker, Elphick, Chester or even Okore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 He is a better footballer than all but maybe Clark though! That was crap from city. They need to sacrifice one of the Sane, De Bruyne, Silva or Sterling and bring Toure on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Czechlad Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Put a DM in front of City's back 4, and they will look good. Their defense is under too much pressure constantly. All the best clubs play with a true DM except city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Abysmal approach to the game. That high line It's like us in the FA Cup final, but with even shitter centre backs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 15, 2017 Author Share Posted March 15, 2017 Guardiola brilliant as usual from the football guru I suppose his excuse will be that he didnt have Lewandowski, Muller, Messi or Iniesta to help him 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Chances second half though! I thought Sterling was crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Another glorious Guardiola campaign in the champions league I see.... I know cups are random and all that but pretty poor Pep hasn't won it since 2011 considering the teams he's managed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Just now, Zatman said: Guardiola brilliant as usual from the football guru I suppose his excuse will be that he didnt have Lewandowski, Muller, Messi or Iniesta to help him He needs another 5 or 6 transfer windows and a billion pounds before he can be judged... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 (edited) Brilliant. £200m spend on a CL semi final team and Pep takes them backwards. Sane did a great job at the back for Monaco second half, breaking up City's play. Edited March 15, 2017 by kurtsimonw 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Shaun Wraheem-Sterling 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Could one of the mods change the title to "Lets all laugh at Manchester City!" plz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Guardiola yet again exposed for the fraud he is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 8 minutes ago, VillaChris said: Another glorious Guardiola campaign in the champions league I see.... I know cups are random and all that but pretty poor Pep hasn't won it since 2011 considering the teams he's managed. I didn't expect him to win it this year tbf but I did expect him to get past Monaco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 He tried to be clever by dropping De Bruyne to a centre back position in the second half, possibly one of the worst decisions i've seen. City under Pellegrini for me was still *the* team. I've just not been impressed by Guardiola even if it supposedly long term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 15, 2017 Author Share Posted March 15, 2017 De Bruyne was absolute garbage tonight, most games I see him this season he has done **** all I sort of feel bad for Stones his last 2 moronic managers have the defensive instinct and mindset of Micah Richards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Really should give Monaco some credit too. They are by far the most free scoring, attacking team in Europe and was always going to cause the City defense huge problems. Not really surprised at all that they beat them over 2 legs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Just now, sne said: Really should give Monaco some credit too. They are by far the most free scoring, attacking team in Europe and was always going to cause the City defense huge problems. Not really surprised at all that they beat them over 2 legs. Absolutely. Top of Ligue 1 for a reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 15, 2017 Author Share Posted March 15, 2017 3 minutes ago, sne said: Really should give Monaco some credit too. They are by far the most free scoring, attacking team in Europe and was always going to cause the City defense huge problems. Not really surprised at all that they beat them over 2 legs. well deserved but Monaco dont have the man that will revolutionise English football in charge so all criticism is warranted at this stage 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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