PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[chris8910]

Time to roll out another big fucking banner at the next home game 1894 Group. How can I donate?

 

[Fordyboy46]

This will all be forgot about in a few days time

 

[Newman Noggs]

In all the noise about these new allegations, we should take a moment to stop and remember that the FFP rules we are alleged to have broken, were corrupt to the core in the first place.

Utterly ridiculous that any owner should not be allowed to invest in order to build their business.

This is the point that gets consistently lost. I would assume that City will now chalkenge the whole FFP charade as being an anti-competitive illegal construct introduced in bad-faith by a cartel.

 

[HaalandEffect]

What amounts to misconduct in football and who can be disciplined? - Saunders Law

The FA’s rules can be found in The FA Handbook (section 10) (‘the Rules’). Rule E deals with misconduct. A participant involved in an incident may be investigated and disciplined...

www.saunders.co.uk

 

[kun]

Are any of them subject to individual legal action for fraud etc? Not sure Soriano can run the club from a jail cell.

I think the worst he is accused of is breaking PL rules, not UK law.

Also seems like the most serious allegations pre-date Soriano.

 

[SWP's back]

it's money laundering basically

You don’t have the faintest fucking clue what money laundering is.

I do wish people would stop posting shite about things they don’t understand.

Look up money laundering.

What in these charges relates to the “process of illegally concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source.”

 

[Ajm1985]

For example this

The Cas panel of three European lawyers decided by a majority 2-1, however, that it would not consider the legitimacy of those Etisalat payments, because they were made more than five years before the CFCB charges were brought in May 2019, so were “time-barred”.

I am not enjoying any of this and I am properly pissed off. I am actually shocked that these fuckers did it after 4 years of being investigated and we are literally on our own. The very fact they've done in a month when Chelsea new owners are spending like £600mil on transfer and the PL teams spent more on transfer in this winter window than other four European league put together is telling me we are fighting for our lives here.

What you are arguing there is 2 different things (although it may be irrelevant anyway) - by saying that CAS had stated we had committed a murder etc, you implied that CAS was stating the payment was illegal but wouldn't be looked at due to being time-barred; but the actual statement, as you quoted, is they voted not to look at the legitimacy of it due to being time-barred. The latter implying that they wouldn't look and then determine whether legitimate or not.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Well it beats reading your cutting remarks.

Cunting more like!

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

At least they haven’t included the underreporting of the crowd for the Charlton game in 1985.

Yet!!

 

[City Hobgoblin]

This probably explains the uneven performances and Pep / players seeming a bit distracted recently?

 

[jrb]

How much did the last set of Lawyers cost us against UEFA? Wasn’t it millions?

 

[KS55]

Ffp didn’t exist then ???

No, but you have to make accurate returns about contracts and remuneration.

 

[aguero93:20]

Does anyone actually understand what the charges are? If so, can someone translate into English please

Beating the rags and dippers to multiple titles.

 

[Wardley Blue]

I’ve never been one for the corrupt camp in terms of decisions against us but it does make you wonder.

I think the timing of this tells you all you need to know. The fact that a few days ago the government says that a new independent person is going to be put in charge of it all. This is going to take years to complete and it will cost the Premier millions in legal fees. They might regret trying this on with an opponent with very deep pockets.

 

[IrishBlueSince92]

So this is why we were selling off our players to make record transfer gains in a window in the summer.
Make it look like we're not guilty

 

[steviemc]

Unfortunately...MATE..I know quite lot about this. I just called my wife who is a corporate solicitor (and fucking WHU supporter) to book an hour tonight for a little talk how much shite we are in. She just giggled and said 'you are allowed to be creative until you are not'.

You do realise that your corporate solicitor wife, unless she works for our club, would not be privvy to ANY of the background regarding these allegations. You'd be spending an hour with her speculating about 'potential' ramifications for 'potential' improprieties, just like everyone else. So yes, the OP was entirely correct when he suggested that you know very little about this.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

FC City of Manchester

 

[City1969]

Nothing will happen. A fine at the most. And let’s be honest whatever the financial penalty is, it won’t have any impact on us.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Bet the Newcastle Saudis are seeing this for what it is.

 

[woody1968]

Obviously we are the only club in England who use “creative” accounting - I think we should be banned from everything, stripped of everything and Pep n Khaldoon made to walk the walk of shame naked through every city in England and then both of them should be deported to Albania. Oh and change our name to Little Manchester City so we never forget our place again.