PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Keeper! said:
I would expect nothing less, it's a very frank no nonsense reply but I say again, if we are so innocent this would have stopped long ago.

We all know there has been a vendetta against the club and owner, my long term worry has always been why the club allowed that narrative to go on for so long.

The abuse the Nation of Abu Dhabi has received is appalling, why no fight back at any time?
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You need to save this for when the independent panel concludes. The PL still has to prove its case.
 
Keeper! said:
If we have cooked the books, it must have serious consequences for HMR Customs and revenue along with our investors like Silverlake.
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Begs the question why Silverlake bought into this shit show. Did they not carry out due diligence? Are they also culpable as part owners?
 
Taken my mind off the loss - seething.
wheels off - if were getting shit, we batter them all and take them with us - we all know
clubs that spend more way more than us.
 
BerkshireBlue said:
Not in the UK they haven't. Any evidence gained illegally is not permissible
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I don't know what your legal background is, but I'm pretty sure you're wrong here.

In civil proceding all evidence is allowed in as long as it's relevant. The legal precedent comes from a case called XXX vs YYY [2004] where a nanny used illegally obtained video recording to prove her employer made sexual advances and fired her when she rejected them. It got appealed all the way and the precedent was set that as long as it's relevant to the case, the court will admit it and any penalties for how you got the evidence are dealt with separately.
 
Having read the club statement in response, I'm disappointed but not surprised by the passivity of it. It would be nice if just once the "professionalism" slipped and the club let go with both barrels, and followed it up with an immediate legal response to all potentially libellous or slanderous comments from the media and other clubs.

Given our continued understated manner of dealing with these relentless attempts to undermine everything achieved in the last decade has obviously had about as much success as the scum have enjoyed in that period, surely a different approach is long overdue
 
Keeper! said:
I think these charges have made this a lot more serious than anyone thought.

No one expected this to go any further, this is a shocker today.

As said earlier, if we are so squeaky clean why have we let it go on for so long?
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City are not responsible for how the Premier league act or what they say. We can only control what we say and do.
Why have we let it go on so long?
It's not City's fault the Premier league have taken 4 years to decide to drag City's name through the mud.
Consider this. These financial rules only came in when City started winning. Would City be held to account if we weren't winning anything? These new 'rules' are because the old cartel don't like to lose in a fair and square way so they have moved the goalposts. And when City won at the court of arbitration they moved the goalposts again. That's why there needs to be an independent body and not one (the Premier league) where other clubs are making the decisions...because they have a vested interest in City failing and their own clubs winning.
 
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