PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

daveyboybluemoon said:
Section 3

3. In respect of each of Seasons 2013/14 to 2017/18 inclusive, the Premier League Rules applicable in those Seasons requiring a member club to comply with UEFA’s regulations, including UEFA’s Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulations, namely:
(a) for Season 2013/14, Premier League Rule B.14.6; and
(b) for Seasons 2014/15 to 2017/18 inclusive, Premier League Rule B.15.6.
The third section of the statement deals with alleged breaches of Premier League rules requiring clubs to comply with UEFA financial fair play (FFP) regulations, which were in place between 2013-14 to 2017-18.
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So we’re being charged for being charged by UEFA’s kangaroo court that got thrown out by CAS?
 
Blu1 said:
This has fired fans up more so hopefully this all backfires on the prem league.

I see plenty of support for the blues now regardless how poor we have been.

Time to go on a run city & smash everybody in front of us.

We are now the 12th man till end of the season blues
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Yes. It’s us against the world now. Pride in battle. Up the blue moon
 
Why are reports saying that we can’t go to cas as part of process? Is it because they have seen it all before and already slung it out?!
 
geek24601 said:
Again fucking ready my posts. I don’t know if we are guilty or innocent just like everyone else on here. All I am saying is a massive IF we have actually done anything this bad that heads need to roll and we will be correctly punished. I hope more than anything that we are innocent but this is a hell of a lot of smoke and we could be in big trouble.
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Yep, massive trouble.
 
flook said:
Don't conflate what i am saying with footballing success, you're fully aware what I was talking about. At no point have I said or intimated I don't trust the club, I have been and remain, critical of the manner in which we have failed to respond to years of unsubstantiated rumour-mongering, false reporting, libellous and slanderous comments and institutional bias (if not racism).
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what do you want them to do? they won at CAS.

they can't go after every failed journalist that says stupid stuff on twitter.

though if/when they put to bed all the financial cheating nonsense then they will.

other fans will always say stupid shit stuff saying another team is cheating. the rags got it with Howard Webb etc.
 
Mr Edward's shoe mirror said:
It's a 4 year long investigation, so they might have former players, managers and agents who have given statements to explain how they ended up with more money in their accounts, than what the club officially offered up to the investigation. A third party company that pays players and managers under the table for image rights, commercial bonuses etc etc...

They seem very confident of the facts around the Mancini payments. So if the club are saying that he was paid 4 million, but the bank of Zurich are saying 8 million, then there is clear proof that stuff has been going on off the books. And that is just one manager. When you consider all of the players who have come and gone in the last 14 seasons, then the scale of it starts to make your knees knock.
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No bank and especially Swiss ones would revel details of any transactions unless required to by the courts I also doubt that the other actors are going to revel anything
 
mcfcpride said:
Soriano particularly needs to speak up now!
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He won't though... as Bobby Manc pointed out, he should have stuck to running an airline. All I've seen during his tenure is aloofness and an increasingly hostile attitude to rank and file supporters
 
Gordyola said:
There was no "passive approach" with the last UEFA charges that we took to CAS

The club have said it with the final line of their statement
"As such we look forward to this matter being put to rest once and for all"
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But there was in all the build up to the case, and even after the case, there was no response to the element we were guilty of (failing to provide etc) when we are all aware the reason we didn't provide was earlier leaks from the UEFA side. This was once again just let slide.

Still the accusations continue, despite our being cleared of all but the most minor issue, the agenda is still that we somehow pulled a fast one and got off on a technicality, not that we were innocent.

So explain, how is this passive approach working?
 
Greenjob said:
It seems that the PL are hell-bent on making an example of City irrespective of previous investigations. Like the ole saying goes: "throw enough shit at it and eventually it will stick"!!
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ffs what a way to start the week. im not an expert but the amount of nitpicking and hostility from the pl tells you all that you need to know. Its an organization at service of the "legacy clubs" and always was, that is reflected every weekend on the pitch by the refs. I just hope we can retool the squad in the summer and procede to destroy all those cunts on the pitch
 
Rumour has it the bulldozers are on a minutes notice to move into the ground and demolition the lot. And are owners strung up for upsetting the red clubs
 
As a conspiracy theorist maybe we have infiltrated the FA and have this all sown up and use as a boost to yesterdays defeat :-) ok maybe not lol
 
argyle said:
Will say again for the PL to prove that we concealed payments to managers and players and that we inflated profits they must have solid proof. I can't see that they have it.

For this kind of evidence HMRC, the National Crime Agency, the UK Financial Intelligence Unit etc, would all have to be involved. This would also involve which ever organisations we used for our accounts and auditing.

And yet there is no such evidence that any of these agencies and organisations are involved, even though government agencies leak like a sieve.

I do however expect the PL to find us guilty on non-compliance with the investigation though I doubt that will be on all 30 charges.
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This is what I have been trying to get at and understand. You look at the wording of the clauses we have been charged with and it reads like something well above the PL pay grade. If they thought it was the case, surely this morning would have played out slightly differently, with CFG being raided by police rather than a statement on the PL website? Much like Juve were.
 
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