Barca-gate

[CTID]

The creme de la creme of European football as viewed by UEFA. UEFA the designers of Financial 'Fair' Play rules, to protect football clubs from their owners overspending (LOL).

The Barcelona ownership model frequently cited as a glowing example by City critics as The Perfect Role Model. Barcelona is a members-owned club, with over 144,000 members, and fans are encouraged to become members. This means that Barcelona is not owned outright by a single individual and decisions regarding the future direction of the club are made by the members. Unfortunately it also means that a few strong football political grouping (small p political) control what is going on, who becomes their president, the board members who are elected and results in in-fighting between these groups, hence "Barca-gate" and financial meltdown due to overspending (yes overspending on players transfer fees, players wages, and I would suspect directors and board member expenses). Resulting in players having to bear the brunt through massive wages cuts and payment delays to spare Barcelona bankruptcy {which no doubt if that had happened the government and UEFA would have found backdoor means to fund them again and save the club}. All this despite FFP regulations and rules, how could it happen, what went wrong with FFP rules that it did not pick up on this and prevent this shambles and scandal that requires police intervention?

Police arrest Josep Maria Bartomeu after raid on Barcelona's Camp Nou. Operation reportedly relates to ‘Barça-gate’ allegations.

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[gavin]

What has that twot Tebas had to say??

[Paddy]

where there is mega money and power you will no doubt find missuse and corruption.....

[KunDB]

What has that twot Tebas had to say??

Probably Barca-gate arrests explain why Tebas has been bad mouthing City again in the last few days.

[KunDB]

Guess what?

Time for Tebasto clean up his own shit show instead of making false claims about City.

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"It has not been a good week for Javier Tebas.

The outspoken La Liga president had barely closed his mouth following his latest tirade about the way he feels Arab-owned clubs Manchester City and Paris St Germain go about their business when the European Union's top court ruled that Real Madrid, Barcelona, Athletic Bilbao and Osasuna were guilty of being handed illegal state aid.

The European Court of Justice today ordered the quartet to pay back millions after hearing how they took advantage of a system that enabled them to pay five percent less tax on profits than rival clubs for more than 20 years.

The arrangement contravened EU law â€" and is a huge embarrassment for the holier-than-thou La Liga chief Tebas.

He has been unable to disguise his contempt for City and PSG for years, whilst turning a blind eye to some of the underhand financial practices that clubs under his watch have been employing."