Can someone intelligent read through this and summarise it for me please?

[Brentwood]

http://www.danielgeey.com/manchester-city-their-97m-loss-and -financial-fair-play-compliance/ (http://www.danielgeey.com/manchester-city-their-97m-loss-and-financial-fair-play-compliance/)

[PSRB]

You could of course just read the conclusion

[Peter]

I think that is what it means

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Peter]

[Brentwood]

If Starbucks can avoid paying tax in the UK by moving money around their child-companies around the world, imagine what City's accountants could do

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

FFP is the dream that our club is clinging onto, without it we may as well give up now.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Ashberto]

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/7305/usmanov.jpg

[Luis Anaconda]

spending in the summer in advance of new regulations being brought in. Do you really think their top target in world football was Scott Sinclair?
Might not have helped us, but the inference at least from Mancini is that City couldn't go after van Persie because of a curb on spending which mays the rules may already have levelled the playing field for those renowned minnows, um, er Manchester United...

[Billy Goat Sverige]

http://thumbs.newschoolers.com/index.php?src=http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/fap.gif&size=400x1000

[Maravilloso Marvo]

Conclusion

The availability of such cost deductions for FFPR compliance purposes demonstrates that City’s latest reported loss does not automatically prevent them from participating in UEFA competition. The above reliefs will no doubt reduce the headline City loss significantly. Whether it will reduce the loss by an amount that will ensure no sanction will be imposed on the club remains a very different question.

The most important question however is not whether UEFA will sanction clubs, but what the sanction will be. Clubs that breach the rules by small margins will be less likely to be expelled from UEFA competition. The proportionality or reasonableness of the sanction will then have to be weighted against the severity of the breach. Although that may not sit too well with some, it is likely to be the way that the sanctions will be applied.

[PSRB]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[PSRB]

[Luis Anaconda]

a lot of top clubs wanted not long back. Mind you I believe Garry Barry was once literally a top talent as well

[Ashberto]

[Pat Vegas]

Wenger out!

[Pat Vegas]

[Supermac1976]

http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/Sod-ov%20Usmanov-thumb.JPG

[PSRB]

[Pat Vegas]

[Peter]

[PSRB]

[Peter]

[Luis Anaconda]

I would say - not exactly a marque signing

[Peter]

But they had just won the league. MancinI's complaints about a lack of business does seem to suggest that something was going onmthere over the summer.

We shall see. Chelsea dont seem to be holding back that much, though they would have earned a fortune form the cl win.