Good on the Liverpool owner and Wenger for questioning this deal, let's see what happens.

Easy Jet > Etihad

If this deal goes through it will make a mockery of the concept and regulations of FFP.

The whole thing stinks too high heaven.

Great article and congratulations to wenger and john w henry for speaking out.United please follow suit!

Sadly curruption and dishonesty often come with Arab cash. Give me the dodgy Abramovich any day. This Man City story is a very sad state of affairs.

Easy Jet - Flying slags all over Europe.

Oh aye..........Good read as well.

I said it first...

Where does it say Uefa are to examine it?

It's all speculation.

They're all rotten to the core. There's no chance at all that anything will be done about it. It all boils down to money and enough of it will end up in the right pockets.

The Qatar World Cup was the most obvious manifestation of it. How could anyone possibly suggest that that was the best bid? It's a joke.

It all filters down.

I predict that in a few years, the entire sport will be torn apart by corruption. The whole thing is a massive racket and there's too much money in it for it to be fair and impartial. What a shame.

The good thing is that this allows Chelsea to do the same and now that 40m/year has been set we should be good for 80M because we have twice Citys income.
It's great having owners not after taking money out the club.

CarefreeLuka,

Said with the true modern Chelsea spirit

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If ice learned one thing from this article it's that Arsenal got royally screwed with thir deal. 6 mil a year for both shirt and stadium? hilarious!!! No wonder Wenger is so bitter.

And for what it's worth, I don't think the city deal is so bad. B

So for Warrior Sports your allowed 25m per year.

For a shirt sponsorship, stadium naming rights, belle vue racing track, public sports complex, sports science complex, sixth form school, 50m training centre, call centre, casino, numerous restaurants and bars, reserve stadium naming rights at 40m its too much. ye good luck with that bin dippers.

Forgot to mention the new RFU team. My bad

"City have not disclosed the breakdown of their 10-year deal "

Exactly, City will reveal the details if and when UEFA ask them, until then the figures are not in the public domain. Until then it's pure speculation by misinformed papers and jealous club chairmen.

True Boris, but if this is allowed to pass unchallenged then the FFP Rules may as well be put in the bin. I predict a fudge whereby £350m of the £400m is allowed be be counted or something similar.

People have forgot we were speaking with Uefa before we signed the deal

City, as a club are expected to get £20m a year for the naming rights and shirt sponsorship (part of which comes from Umbro) The rest of the money is to be spent on one-off construction projects round the stadium which are all in partnership with either the city council or other private investors.
There seems to be a misconception that the Abu Dhabi government are going to give City a cheque for £400 Million just to spend on players.

Speaking to them and getting their agreement are a long way from being the same thing. If it goes through then Chelsea will be "sponsored" by one of Abramovic's companies for a similar amount, as will Paris St German and Malaga by the Qatar foundation. So Platini's beloved FFP Rules go in the bin. City will be a test case and no-one will know for another year at least what will happen. Looking around Europe, more of the big clubs are currently set to fail the test than pass it so it is a gamble for UEFA if they enforce it. The top clubs (and I don't include City in this) could just break away and form their own competition.

Does Abramovitch own an international airline, serving every continent, that also sponsors an F1 Grand Prix, a RU team and a huge stadium in Australia?

No but he could in the blink of an eye.

oh and Boris, are you admitting that your owners also own Etihad, because that is a prima facie breach of the rules so be careful.

No, ADUG and Etihad are stand-alone companies that just happened to be based in Abu Dhabi. The fact that Shiekh Mansours' extended family numbers about 70 people means that there will always be some connections.

The only comparisons between City and Chelsea is that they both have rich owners who are willing to put their own money into their respective clubs, their motives are very different though.

The only comaprisons between C

So what was the point of this then ?

"Does Abramovitch own an international airline, serving every continent, that also sponsors an F1 Grand Prix, a RU team and a huge stadium in Australia?"

It appears that neither club's owners have an airline.

I am sure Abramovic has pleny of Russion oligarch friends through whom he can launder money so it finds its way to Chelsea through some dodgy sponsorship deal. Similarly the Qataris will do the same thing.

The whole point of these new rules is to keep the nouveau mega riche clubs in their place and maintain the status quo otherwise they wouldn't have been drafted in the way they are.

Spending no more than you earn is good business practice but these rules are there to prevent subsidy from an owner which cannot possibly harm the club concerned but it would affect the old order.

Don't under estimate the power clubs like Madrid, Barca and Juve have and they influenced the drafting of the rules to stop these newly funded clubs from coming to the trough that is the Champions League and beating them at their own game.