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Manchester United, Premier League, European Football, Transfers, Tactics, Football Finance ⚽💰📊 | Found on @nqatpod & @tplmufc 🎙️🎥 | sponsored by @rainbetcom

📺 🧠 🇦🇺 Sumali Şubat 2012
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🧵 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?
No Question About That@nqatpod

We still haven't had a verdict in the 115 charges against City for (alleged) financial malfeasance. City are spending more money this winter, chasing another title. Ed and Adam pick up the story. @AdamJoseph Patreon: buff.ly/hvz9uxW Apple: buff.ly/2pedwZA

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Utd-Edge🍿@Utd_Edge·
@AdamJoseph Love to see him in the future as an ambassador for the club, with the sole purpose of convincing up and coming Brazilian talents to sign for United
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Adam@AdamJoseph·
@Utd_Edge Someone posted a good tweet before (think it was @FPLfrasier maybe) about how him & Bruno G could change the way we approach signing Brazilians & what it might inspire them to do. Loved that take on it.
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Your two best players literally scrambling to beat each other out the door. It's all 'who's that team we call United' until you spend the last 24 hours getting completely humbled on & off the pitch, reminded that in fact you are only just Newcastle after all.
CentreGoals.@centregoals

🚨🚨| NEW: Sandro Tonali and Bruno Guimarães’ camps are both letting clubs know they’re open to leaving. They know only one will go, so each is trying to sort a move before the other. [@JacobsBen, @UnitedStandMUFC]

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Adam@AdamJoseph·
@Marcute22 This is why I use Twitter lists ahead of the For You page. The only way I can still use it in the way that Twitter was, instead of the way X is.
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Terry Marc@Marcute22·
Longtime users are frustrated with X because it no longer works the way it used to. Back in the early days of Twitter, your reach was simple and direct. If you had 5,000 or 10,000,20,000 followers, your posts were delivered to them in real time. It was a true chronological feed—your tweets showed up in the order you posted them, and your audience actually saw your content. The “old” Twitter (pre-2016) was built around that real-time experience. Your voice reached the people who chose to follow you, without interference. Today, that’s no longer the case. X relies on an algorithm-driven, engagement-based feed, meaning even your own followers may never see your posts unless the system decides to prioritize them. That shift—from a guaranteed audience to an unpredictable algorithm—is why so many longtime users feel frustrated and disconnected.
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UtdDistrict@UtdDistrict·
🚨 | Bruno Guimaraes is on Manchester United's radar ahead of the summer transfer window. Newcastle would only be willing to sell him for an offer between £64m to £69m. [@ESPNBrasil]
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Adam@AdamJoseph·
@litimothe 'That's not the stat that started all this & you know it' Get a clue.
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Ted@litimothe·
@AdamJoseph Is that mentioned in the quoted tweet
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Adam@AdamJoseph·
That's not the stat that started all this & you know it. Bruno Fernandes recorded 100+ goals AND 100+ assists for Manchester United in 318 appearances. Leo Messi? 319 for Barcelona. Cristiano Ronaldo? 325 for Madrid. Kevin de Bruyne for City? 372. Sit down. Be quiet.
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@Dcosta_clayton The fact it even had something that was true is a credit to them.
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@Codedgrim Trying to buy a seat at the table, shameless.
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@UtdTopCee I don't wanna slander KDB too much because he's incredible, but what I will say is this - you put Bruno Fernandes into that City team, this City team, Arsenal, whoever it is, he elevates them to a whole different level.
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@AdamJoseph If you put KDB into this banter era United he wouldn't get the numbers Bruno has ngl. But you put Bruno in that City team and see....
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@KarlChambers87 Even if that's true Karl, it doesn't change the fact of the post - your two best players can't wait to leave your club.
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@carl1707 Even if that's true, it doesn't change the fact they can't wait to leave your club.
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carl annan@carl1707·
@AdamJoseph Neither will leave Newcastle to join a team Newcastle regularly beat with ease
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@AdamJoseph I dont need to reflect - last night's 2nd half collapse was unfortunate but the reality is Barca were always favourites to advance and showed us levels. Man utd have benefitted from no europe - both teams are a similar level on the pitch.
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@nqatpod Even a partial truth is generous tbf. Should be praised.
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@KarlChambers87 Got anything reasonable & true to add, or just deflecting?
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