PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

It is a Witch Hunt, end of story.

As a previous poster said very apt, this is a case of "throw a load of shit at us and hope some will stick".

Where were these bastard when Rags etc were all doing those shady behind the scenes deals with Agents and paying off third parties who actually owned the players, millions going out of the game. Didn't give a fuck then. Even though it was illegal .Big Clubs giving families sweetener's etc. Real full on endemic corruption in the game.

They brought all these rules out specifically to destroy us. And that is what they are trying to do.

White American spends half a billion, hardly a peep in MSM.

If our Arab owners had spent that. We would have never herd the end of it. Chelsea Circumventing FFP by amortising contracts over 7 years, We had done this, all Hell would have been let lose. "Circumventing FFP etc"

Bastards all of them.

I have no doubt this will ultimately end in the High Court. And seen for what it was a malicious, vindictive Witch Hunt by jealous Clubs.
 
None of the charges nor their wording implies any law breaking at all, only Premier League rule breaking so I don’t know how you’ve worked that out.

the charges are that City knowlingly concealed payments to managers and players and hid this information from the league and by association hid this from accountants and auditors.

The charges also say we inflated our profits.

These are serious financial crime allegations. If there was truth to it then there would be serious investigations by government agencies?
 
We cooperated fully with CAS. The original UEFA investigation was supposed to confidential and they were leaking stuff to certain scribblers in the cabal, who were obviously putting spin on it. We told CAS we were not going to supply anything to those corrupt bastards and they understood our reasons. At this point we stopped cooperating with UEFA and waited for the CAS hearing. We were guilty of non cooperating - they were guilty of breaching the investigation conditions - the same will happen again. I suppose. I thought all this was reported at the time?
Have I remembered it incorrectly.
 
Hang on a second - are you talking about the media approach or these specific allegations? I would agree that we have been too passive with the media, but in terms of the content of statements relating to specific allegations, I'd say we've worded them just fine.
Have City replaced Vicky Kloss yet. The next 18 months will need an experienced professional covering that brief
 
A couple of questions...

IF they had something on us from 2009 ( or slightly more recently even), then why have they waited a decade for this?

Has any new 'evidence' miraculously appeared?

If not and they've had evidence of our wrongdoing for a long time, wouldn't they be duty bound to do something about it at the time rather than just carry on as if nothing was going on? Firstly to protect other clubs and secondly so we could address anything we were doing wrong and correct ourselves?
 
We really are the cash cow for the media and world football aren't we. It's been a payday for all of them again today hasn't it. One thing is for sure though, I have complete confidence and faith is our structure, model and ownership to get us through this once again.
 
No, on the contrary I suspect that in the end it benefits neither the league, its brand, nor City for the sanctions to be of any real significance. I'm just guessing btw and have no professional insights or anything like that, but I can see it being a points deduction which maybe means a season out of the CL, and a slap on the wrist. But not much beyond that.

The wider damage to the club's reputation is now done. We've gone from old titles being questioned to literally every season up to and including the 100 point one being in breach of PL rules. Whether we win or lose from here, the damage is done.
The uk media have had a hate campaign against us for well over 10 years now. This latest thing, although out of the blue, isn't surprising in a way, as it's been every year for as long as i can remember, but i really do believe it is racially motivated and the cheerleaders are the yanks at the red gobshites without a shadow of doubt.
This is all about timing. And they have absolutely dropped a huge bollock going after us.
 
None of the charges nor their wording implies any law breaking at all, only Premier League rule breaking so I don’t know how you’ve worked that out.
Thats why I was looking for input from other posters who are more knowledgeable than me on the subject. I don’t profess to be an expert on anything/everything.
 
So, City were cleared by CAS, but the PL are now saying City breached UEFA FFP regulations.

Get to FUCK!

A fair article from the BBC in my opinion.

What have City been charged with?

In a statement the Premier League said City breached rules requiring them to provide "accurate financial information that gives a true and fair view of the club's financial position".

This information covered club revenue, which includes sponsorship income and operating costs.

Further alleged breaches relate to rules requiring full details of manager remuneration - from the 2009-10 to 2012-13 seasons, when Roberto Mancini was in charge - and player remuneration between 2010-11 and 2015-16.

The Premier League said City breached rules related to Uefa regulations, including Financial Fair Play (FFP), from 2013-14 to 2017-18, as well as Premier League rules on profitability and sustainability from 2015-16 to 2017-18.

In 2020 European football governing body Uefa ruled that City committed "serious breaches" of FFP regulations between 2012 and 2016.

City were not given advance warning of the Premier League statement. They were called at the same time the statement was published.

They also note the timing of the statement given the white paper on football governance is about to be published. It is felt that bringing this case it likely to be used by the Premier League as evidence of them being able to deal with governance issues itself.


 
I’m reacting to what has happened like everyone else on here. None of us know the truth. If you have anything more informative maybe post it instead of pointing out flaws in others posts.
No information at all - like everyone else so I remain optimistic that our club know the truth. So I don’t post things like:


IF we have done wrong then we need to take our punishment as long as it is fair and fits the crime.
 
Whatever happens and im not sure anything will.We are all blues and if u followed us through the 80s and 90s then you will never stop following the boys.The younger element who have known nothing but the good times may struggle.
I thought that when we beat Newcastle in 76 and finished runners up to the dippers in 77 iy would always be like that.As another poster said though prem football is big business Dippers,Arsenal and Everton would have failed so called ffp if they had qualified for europe.Corruption is rife as anyone who can see with var its bent.Webb even said Ratboys goal would be disallowed now.Scudamore we need a new winner every few years not good for business utd being shit.
Wire up the fuckers so we can here the bent decisions.The money it generates corruption is inevitable.The only way to stop it is ala NFL all teams get an equal share of all monies generated couldnt see the dippers,scum and arse going for it though.
 
Sky Sports have the finance expert saying he doesn’t expect anything this season and that exclusion would be very extreme and very unlikely. He also doesn’t think stripping titles is at all likely and punishments for the future are much more likely.
 
I rarely venture onto this thread. It being alot safer staying in the Liverpool & "Off Topic" sections.
Have to say today I turned off TS on the way in to work as Jim Shite was really at his weasel worst. He really did seem to be loving it all.
My simple line on this is....
Innocent until proven guilty....
&
Let him without sin cast the first stone.
I'm pretty sure that if they look close enough they can find issues with all clubs.
 

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