Off Topic CITY SHOW THEIR CLASS -AND IT IS VERY LOW

Ferguson used to ban these twats
We need to start doing the same

 

in fairness guardiola was fairly disgusted

the best place to go with that is o courts as asking the question in public with no backing is bordering on libel/slander

 

they shouldn't be asking the manager questions like that any way, he is not responsible for the club or the finances.

and it was pretty low after the bloke has just secured a treble for them.

 

I blame guardiola for not wearing a nice suit at the fa cup final anyway.....

it's no wonder it ended up like an episode of Jeremy Kyle.

I'm surprised they didn't reveal the results of the lie detector

 

thats mondays headline

sorry bad joke

 

the whole line of questioning started before fa cup final with a deliberate line to end up where it did imo.

the only direct question they had to guardiola was if he'd been getting under the table payments. if any of the rest was there it was bait to get to it.

It would make you wonder if the hack has some documents for a world exclusive of if he was just being a pure and utter **** fishing.

 

Firstly, it was a question, not an allegation.

Seceondly, if a company if found to have made secret payments, making it illegal to ask questions about it is a #nailedon way to make corruption impossible to investigate.

 

Ask in public without any evidence at all and what are you doing?

Fishing, not journalism.

Go investigate and make a real story like real journalists used to.

 

Thirdly, he wasn't being accused of anything illegal in the first place. So long as Pep reports the payments for tax and City report them for FFP he can have multiple payments for multiple jobs.

How is it fishing to ask if previously established behaviour is still ongoing?

 

I suggest you listen back then look up mancini payments

 

City deny any wrongdoing over Mancini, so why should Pep be upset about being asked if he has similar arrangements?

 

circular arguement

 

Nope, Pep and City just need to #sorttheirstoryout

 

#bbcsalford could learn a lesson

 

Also, turns out Rob Harris has been asking City about Mancini/Pep payments since November.

City and Pep have refused to comment on it since then, even to issue a simple denial. Same as Pep yesterday, lots of tears but definitely careful to not put a "no" on record.

If you think Pep was actually upset and not just using it to skirt the issue for the 7th month in a row then you probably believe politicians too.

 

http://apne.ws/HxnIMSn

The only shadow came from the investigations by soccer authorities into leaked documents that allegedly show the game’s costliest squad was assembled thanks to mechanisms employed to try to circumvent spending regulations.

A 6-0 rout of Watford on Saturday, delivered by goals from four players who cost more than $200 million in transfer fees, ensured the FA Cup joined the Premier League trophy, League Cup and Community Shield already in City’s possession.

Leaks of internal correspondence published by German outlet Der Spiegel last year showed how City used companies linked to the Abu Dhabi ownership to boost revenue in an attempt to curb losses and comply with UEFA regulations. City hasn’t disputed the authenticity of the documents.

The Football Leaks group also published details showing how Roberto Mancini, who managed City from 2009 to 2013, received more pay from a team Sheikh Mansour owns in Abu Dhabi to work as a consultant than from the Manchester club.

Mancini was the last City manager to win the FA Cup in 2011. City hasn’t responded to questions sent by The Associated Press in November asking if Guardiola had any similar arrangements to Mancini, and the manager was infuriated to be asked Saturday if he received any payments from Abu Dhabi.

Guardiola is yet to provide an answer. City did not respond to a follow-up text message on the issue.

 

they don't need to do anything, courts or whatever scenario this will end up in is where these questions will be challenged, a journo asking a manager after a cup win is a bit low by anyones standard.

 

Why? Would it be acceptable to ask the question if they had lost the game?

Should Juventus fans complain it was "a bit low" for journalists to expose their referee scandal when they were enjoying those titles?

 

ffs really astro!!

pep doesn't need to respond to any questions to do with the finances of city, if there is an issue with them there is a time and place for that ****e, this was not it.

i hope they get hung drawn and slaughtered like the rest of us, as they are obviously living unfairly above their means, or if not its done on very dodgy grounds.

 

The question is directly relevant to the manager and if they cared about the "time and place" they had already been given 7 months to offer any comment on the issue.

Was it also wrong to ask Pep about the "battered" song?

They had their celebration on the pitch. There were fireworks and everything. Press conferences are for the press not the Man City PR team.

Pep could have even said "No, next question". Two seconds to move on. But he's probably been briefed by City and his lawyers to not give anything that can be taken as an actual answer, so instead we had to watch his little drama show.