Spanish Duo/Pellegrini Barca Rumours

[Nick]

Anyone care to enlighten me?

They better not shit on us and I hope Khaldoon is all over this. Txixi and Burgerstain should have clauses that stop them moving to our competitors for X period or it would be ridiculous

[JamieMCFC]

Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano has been banned from "managing other people's wealth" for two years in Spain over the collapse of Spanair.

Soriano, the airline's former chairman, and 10 other board members were also fined £8.5m by a court in Barcelona.

The court said the board delayed declaring the firm bankrupt for five months, leading to further losses.

Manchester City said they were aware of the case before they hired Soriano in August 2012 but had no further comment.

But it is understood the Premier League champions are convinced this rule is not binding, in Spain or the UK, as it will be subject to an appeal process that could last three years.

Whether there are any implications for Soriano under the Football Association's Owners' and Directors' Test, the official name of football's "fit and proper person" rule, remains to be seen.

Soriano runs the Abu Dhabi-owned club's executive management team but does not sit on the board.

A vice-president at Barcelona between 2003 and 2008, the 47-year-old Soriano took over as chairman of the Catalan-based airline in April 2009.

His attempts to rescue the heavily-indebted carrier seemed initially to be working, but the business folded in early 2012 when a deal with Qatar Airlines fell through. The Catalan government had already given the company an emergency loan of £8m.

Soriano and his board claim they delayed filing for bankruptcy by just 27 days, while they tried desperately to save the company.

The court appears to have partially accepted this explanation, as the £8.5m fine is considerably less than the £58m wanted by the airline's creditors, who include travel agencies and staff.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/29255943

[ruralblue]

Yup they are all off, kidd too. We're a sinking ship. Heard today the Sheik had flogged us for two camels and half a bag of Seabrooks as well.

Media tosh. City are on the up and these people are a major part of building our ship.

[Nick]

Hm not sure if the above directly relates to what I'm refferring too.

I switched on to pellers press conference and they were asking him about his future and whether he was happy and pellers didn't give much away; I was on the phone to a rag mate at the time and he said the papers were running with the fact that Barca were sniffing around our spanish duo due to the unrest there and that if the spanish duo did move they'd take pellers - But I can't find anything on here or bluemoon so assuming its all bollocks? I had a mini panic as shit like that would be disastrous at this moment in time. We should be going after barca for assets (messi etc.) if thats what we want rather the other way around!

[aristation]

nothing to do with upcoming Barca match

[Nick]

Barca can do one, hope we hammer them

[Nick]

my only panic was around the loyalties of the spanish duo and where their allegiances have always been..

[Foreverinbluedreams]

Nick, what Jamie posted is directly linked because the presidential elections are this summer. If Laporta gets back in he'll want to put his team in place as soon as, the article Jamie posted states that Soriano can't be employed in the position Laporta would want him for two years, ergo it's not going to happen.

[Piccsnumberoneblue]

Did anybody else notice that The Count straight batted back something along the lines of, "I am happy to be here this season and next". Or did I mishear that?

[DoomMerchant]

They are going nowhere. Our team works for a fucking shiek whose pimp hand is strong. Stronger than the criminals in Spain.

Absolute fucking bollox.

Cheers

[razor400]

I also heard a very worrying rumour that they are after Chappy as head of shit comidy videos, the youtube superstar has been quoted as saying "eeannnnnnnnngaa"

[razor400]

I also heard a very worrying rumour that they are after Chappy as head of shit comidy videos, the youtube superstar has been quoted as saying "eeannnnnnnnngaa"

I'm going to Barca as a English spelling and grammer specialist.

[Nick]

OK I'm happy..

.. If we get Messi on a knock down price..

[Mikhail Chigorin]

I also heard a very worrying rumour that they are after Chappy as head of shit comidy videos, the youtube superstar has been quoted as saying "eeannnnnnnnngaa"

I'm going to Barca as a English spelling and grammer specialist.

Obviously.

[Nick]

I didn't get the jist of the full article due to quotes like

But it is understood the Premier League champions are convinced this rule is not binding, in Spain or the UK, as it will be subject to an appeal process that could last three years.

[City64]

Propaganda war ? fuck me we must be playing Barca very soon and they are in political turmoil .........

Fuck Off !

[Moonchesteri]

It's all about us playing them in a month, nothing more

[Scatman]

Are we playing them soon?

When's someone going to mend the fixtures page?

[Scatman]

Are we playing them soon?

When's someone going to mend the fixtures page?

[Lev Bronstein]

The elections for Barca president have been brought forward a year, so I suspect nothing will happen re the overall management of the Club until that's sorted out.