Can't see Lampard staying a full season for City. It would be too much of an obvious FFP scam, NYC paying his wages for him to play for City would stink so much that UEFA would have to notice.

Nothing surprises me anymore in this game...

NYC FC released a statement today, for what it's worth, that Lampard would not be staying at Man City beyond Janaury

Nothing surprises me anymore in this game...

We say that every year yet we always get surprises. The beautiful game.

I saw that on the mailonline, It was made by a Spurs fan, Thought it was worth sharing boys.

Miss of the century

 

 

Must be so devastating for this player to see a video of him missing from close range go viral on the internet and have the Bundesliga post it on their youtube page with an "EPIC FAIL!!" graphic on it

Edited September 25, 201411 yr by Butterhampton FC

Apologies if already posted.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29356406

 

Liverpool under Uefa Financial Fair Play investigation

Liverpool are one of seven clubs being investigated for possible Financial Fair Play breaches, Uefa has confirmed.

Under Uefa rules, clubs competing in Europe must limit their losses to £35.4m over two seasons.

Monaco, Inter Milan, Roma, Besiktas, Sporting Lisbon and Krasnodar are the other clubs being investigated.

Manchester City and Paris St-Germain were fined in May and had a limit put on their spending and squad size after breaking FFP rules.

A Uefa statement read:  "The Club Financial Control Body has opened formal investigations into seven clubs as they disclosed a break-even deficit on the basis of their financial reporting periods ending in 2012 and 2013."

The clubs must submit "additional monitoring information" in October and November before Uefa decides on any punishment.

What are Uefa's Financial Fair Play regulations?

The Club Financial Control Body was set up in June 2012 to oversee the application of the Uefa Club Licensing System and Financial Fair Play regulations

Clubs cannot repeatedly spend more than their generated revenues and clubs will be obliged to meet all their transfer and employee payment commitments at all times

Higher-risk clubs that fail certain indicators will also be required to provide budgets detailing their strategic plans

Teams participating in Uefa club competitions have had their transfer and employee payables monitored since the summer of 2011. The break-even assessment covering the financial years ending 2012 and 2013 will be assessed during 2013-14

Despite losses of £49.8m in 2012-13 and £41m in 2011-12, Liverpool are confident they did not breach FFP regulations, having signed a series of lucrative commercial deals over the past 18 months.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said: "It's obviously something that will be dealt with by the directors.

"It's something we're comfortable with because we're great advocates of Financial Fair Play. It's ongoing with the club."

Money raised commercially can be offset against the £90m losses, which can be reduced further if Liverpool show they have invested in youth development, infrastructure and community projects.

Last season 76 clubs were deemed to be "at risk" of breaching FFP, but only nine were punished.

Manchester City and French champions PSG were fined £49m each by Uefa and handed restrictions on transfer spending and a reduction in their squad size for the Champions League.

Uefa also announced on Friday that five clubs involved in the 2014-15 club competitions have had the payment of their prize money temporarily withheld.

Turkey's Bursaspor, Romania's Cluj and Astra Giurgiu, Montenegro's Buducnost Podgorica and Lithuania's Ekranas for making late payments to other clubs, employees and/or tax authorities."

At least when Chelsea and City spend money we win something.

He'll be gone in January / Feb at the very latest. I think he'll have a desire to move on to the role he already agreed.

I honestly don't think Frank would have wanted to come to City if he knew beforehand. I think he was cornered in a way via the City Group. They are sneaky, scheming bar stewards

Woah woah

First off city are extremely transparent which is why FIFA have been able to pick on us in the past. If you look at the similarities between city and Chelsea we have a very close trajectory. City are not a dirty team like the rags that spend 150 million and no one at fifa bats an eye. There's some real crooks out there not us.

Edited September 25, 201411 yr by Koppins

Koppins I'd love to defend you but this Lampard loan does have a sneaky bar steward feel about it, The more I look at it, The more I think it's some ploy by Pellegrini to use it as a tool to try and wind up Mourinho with. All of this nonsense that he is playing at City to keep fit isn't fooling anyone, You have to remember both of our current CEO's are ex Barcelona men and their relationship with Jose isn't great also, The way Pellers has been talking about the Lampard situation in the media is starting to make it a bit fishy to me.

 

Every time Pellegrini gets asked about Lampard he says 'Chelsea didn't want him', That's fair enough but Chelsea thought he was going to NYCFC and another thing, Why couldn't we loan Lampard to Melbourne City and loan David Villa to City??? We sold Negredo and are short on strikers in comparison to last year, Tell me why didn't we loan David Villa to City and loan Lampard to Melbourne? We are stocked with central midfielders. As Zola put it, There is a hint of sneaky bar stewards about this Lampard loan, The reason he joined us is more of a marketing and mind games ploy in my opinion, The more I hear Pellers talk about him, The more I see him trying to wind Chelsea and Mourinho up, I don't agree with it.

As on older City fan, I think the boys at the top running City should ignore Mourinho and give Chelsea the club the respect they deserve from us, Forget the fact they are our current rivals, This is the club that f**king helped us stay in business, Not that any fair weather new City fans will know. If Chelsea pulled the plug on the Shaun Wright Phillips transfer we were bankrupt mate, Stuart Pearce said the club shop was being sold off and whilst Chelsea did want to sign him, Negotiations between the two clubs hit a wall at an early stage, If Chelsea didn't give us that £20 million odd, We were toast.

 

It's going take a lot more than Jose mocking my manager for me to start hating Chelsea fans, Not to mention they f**king saved the football world last year, If they didn't beat Liverpool, We wouldn't have the won the title, Let's not beat around the bush.

Good points Kinkladze Villa to you would have been a more logical choice. But it doesn't really matter now if Pellegrini's intention was to wind up Jose as I don't think its really worked if that is the case.

There's no way Frank would have signed a contract with NYC without knowing what the exact nature of the relationship with Man City was. He'd have known that City could loan him, his agent would have known the finer details. I don't think it was Frank's intention to do us over or anything, you could see from his emotions on Sunday that he felt really uncomfortable with everything that happened. Apparently the initial talk was of him going to Melbourne City, but once that fell through and the City proposal came up, being the competitive professional he probably thought that the environment there would be a good one to train in over the autumn and also to play a few minutes here and there. He'd hardly have to move and I'm sure he didn't think he'd be starting at this point; I mean, he wouldn't if Fernando was fit. But this is Football, things change very quickly.

He won't be staying for the whole season, he has a contract with NYC whose season starts in February/March.

This will sound warped but I hope he is at City when they come to the Bridge! He will get the sending off he deserves! Chelsea supporters will give him the Super Frank song the entire match! Perhaps even more warped, I actually enjoyed the fact he scored against Chelsea last Sunday! Gave him the record for scoring against more Premier Clubs than any other at 39. When he scored I was bewildered with massive confusion but it was classy and a typical Lampard goal. He as well as the away supporters were extremely classy but I expect nothing short of that! Frank at the Bridge even in a City shirt would get the proper send off the club failed to deliver on. Just my opinion! Let's keep the criticism to my comments G rated will ya!

As on older City fan, I think the boys at the top running City should ignore Mourinho and give Chelsea the club the respect they deserve from us, Forget the fact they are our current rivals, This is the club that f**king helped us stay in business, Not that any fair weather new City fans will know. If Chelsea pulled the plug on the Shaun Wright Phillips transfer we were bankrupt mate, Stuart Pearce said the club shop was being sold off and whilst Chelsea did want to sign him, Negotiations between the two clubs hit a wall at an early stage, If Chelsea didn't give us that £20 million odd, We were toast.

It's going take a lot more than Jose mocking my manager for me to start hating Chelsea fans, Not to mention they f**king saved the football world last year, If they didn't beat Liverpool, We wouldn't have the won the title, Let's not beat around the bush.

I wonder if Lamps being English was a major decision as well. However I agree with much of what you said.

 

Lmao quality, and for some scary reason Di Maria fits perfectly on Rodney.

Torres no longer holds the record for the worst miss in history now.

The ball took a bobble to be fair but still..

Torres no longer holds the record for the worst miss in history now.

 

So I see when Van Persie made the same type of miss everyone forgot

I see a dozen misses worse than Torres's every season, he was sprinting away from goal to catch up to the ball, while it was bobbling, and had to try and cut it across on his weak foot.

I saw that on the mailonline, It was made by a Spurs fan, Thought it was worth sharing boys.

 

Was kinda hoping it was from a Liverpool fan but then the world would probably implode from the sheer weight of irony.

This will sound warped but I hope he is at City when they come to the Bridge! He will get the sending off he deserves! Chelsea supporters will give him the Super Frank song the entire match! Perhaps even more warped, I actually enjoyed the fact he scored against Chelsea last Sunday! Gave him the record for scoring against more Premier Clubs than any other at 39. When he scored I was bewildered with massive confusion but it was classy and a typical Lampard goal. He as well as the away supporters were extremely classy but I expect nothing short of that! Frank at the Bridge even in a City shirt would get the proper send off the club failed to deliver on. Just my opinion! Let's keep the criticism to my comments G rated will ya!

 

I don't think we have failed to give him a proper send off. He is still playing football for a start, maybe when he has retired we can give him a testimonial.

I always thought lampard was a bit inflated based on his amazing ability to score. He never really broke out and was world class like a xavi or ronaldinho. Top class player mind you reminds me a bit of Dennis Wise in his cult appeal.

I always thought lampard was a bit inflated based on his amazing ability to score. He never really broke out and was world class like a xavi or ronaldinho. Top class player mind you reminds me a bit of Dennis Wise in his cult appeal.

You having a laugh not top class like Xavi or Ronaldinho?

Lampard finished behind Ronaldinho only in 2005 and look at the amount of goals scored and don't forget set up, add to that his MOTM awards where he's been making amazing/incisive passes and that comment looks ridiculous.

I always thought lampard was a bit inflated based on his amazing ability to score. He never really broke out and was world class like a xavi or ronaldinho. Top class player mind you reminds me a bit of Dennis Wise in his cult appeal.

 

You're telling me you think it was inflated even though he was 'amazing' at one of the most important aspects of the game? Ok then

Edited September 26, 201411 yr by Stim