PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

dajd1984 said:
Now that we’re here, I’d love to actually know how much we could get a sponsor for now. If we didn’t have Etihad, compared to the other top clubs, I wonder if a company would give us a competitive deal. Or would it just be Thomas Cook or first advice!

I still feel like we can’t generate the same kind of legit revenue than the global teams. We probably can’t sell as many corporate seats, and I’m not sure I want us to. And if we have to accept the consequences of that, then I’m fine with that. A few years of cheating to beat the reds a bit, and then a few years playing lower leagues again. Fine by me. ‘my football journey’ as someone once said.
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Disagree with most of this but you're entitled to your views.

For me, people need to get rid of the notion, that how many seats you fill(we do much better on that than they make out also) or even how many overseas fans a club has is the only measure a sponsor values a club at. That reeks of Liverpool fan talk.

I'd still ask if you paid attention to which club who toured the USA in the summer had the biggest attendance? Anyone saying they were "probably there to see Bayern" needs to revisit that game and notice that Blue shirts vastly outnumbered Bayern colours.

Challenging, winning, having the best players, playing the most CL games, being one of the most watched teams in the world(nobody can argue they aren't) for over 10 years matter just as much if not more. Just look at the years Liverpool's revenue increased by the biggest percentage and try and work out why that was.

City were apparently already looking for a different shirt sponsor until COVID impacted the world economy. No doubt the UEFA and PL mud that's been slung at City will have effect on which sponsors would be interested now but that's after the fact. So, they can't use that as an argument why City's sponsorships are inflated before that damage was done, because that would be disingenuous/bad faith. UEFA never made that claim themselves because atleast one of their approved auditors said otherwise, even after the increase to £67m in 2014. That was before Pep arrived and took things to the next level.
 
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BBC United Headline after City were cleared by CAS.

Look at the first part of the headline. Then flip it with the 2nd part of the headline as it should have been.

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BertTrautmann'sParachute said:
The PL have made a huge gamble here. They don't want to be regulated by the government, thereby letting another bunch of corrupt individuals muscle in on their own corruption. Consequently, they've made a play to keep the government out of their affairs by sacrificing us on the altar of their sheer greed. This is as existential for the PL as it is for us. Thankfully, they don't seem to be very bright given the mistakes made in their initial press-release today which leads me to believe that given a fair wind we'll bury the cunts. It's being given a fair wind that has me worried.
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Sorry if it has already been discussed, but enlighten me on the mistake they made
 
The allegations against City can be as serious as the PL wants, it's proving it that is the problem for them.

I don't see how they can prove off book payments were given to managers and players or that we have cooked the books?

If evidence of cooking the books existed this would be a matter for HMRC and other agencies rather than the PL?

I do think they'll find us guilty on not cooperating with the investigation but not on all 30 charges. So I expect a heavy fine for that.
 
Manchester_lalala said:
Mental how much influence these red clubs have.
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It's those 2 yank owned shits, never get investigated for all their misdemeanours and there are many, yet allowed to wage a war against us cos they're skint and not top dogs.

Fuckin Bullshit after Bullshit from them, meant to be so popular and both for sale but no fucker is interested, too greedy that's why, price too high and milked every last penny already.
 
Kazzydeyna said:
I like this post very much. I’m not going to have a go at any City fans panicking a bit tonight, for obvious reasons, as this has been a stressful enough day already for all of us, but I do wonder how so many have already forgotten the tales of doom and woe from the uefa shitshow only a few years ago.
Month upon month of seeing, every time I opened twitter, some “expert”, most often in the media or an ex-player, Proclaiming with absolute, cast iron, 100% certainty, that “City are bang to rights on this one“ , “they’ve only appealed to delay the inevitable, the ban will be upheld and may even be increased” , “City will be stripped of titles and trophies” , “Player X,Y, and Z have demanded to leave”. Over and over and over again.

We know how it actually turned out, once the actual, irrefutable, evidence was presented. Complete and total exoneration.

I fully expect the same outcome here.

Some of my belief comes from being a fan, I won’t deny that. But most comes from the common sense knowledge that the people running City have known from the very earliest days of their reign that the FA, Premier League, PGMOL, most other clubs, Uefa, the entire G14, every solitary media outlet, every radio station in the world, every sports broadcast business in the world, and 95% of fans from every football team in Europe have been absolutely, gut-wrenchingly, butt-clenchingly, desperate to find something, anything, to hang on City. That we have the single most examined set of accounts in the entire history of sports, and the highest level of scrutiny of any professional organisation in the world and have had every day since the takeover. Every single day.
And so I believe, most fervently, that they would have to be monumentally, criminally, insanely stupid, arrogant, or both to have left a trail of breadcrumbs leading to anything that could be used against us. And as we all know, with the evidence of our own eyes and ears, the people running City are not stupid. They are intelligent, resourceful, innovative business people, who carry the reputation of their proud nation on their shoulders. That’s been half the problem. They are so far ahead of the game that the authorities and all the people I mentioned earlier simply cannot fathom how they can have Turned City into what they are today by legitimate means. They cannot compute it and so they rush to judgement. Again. As their belief that we are bent is a comfort to them as the alternative is to admit that we have simply hoist them by their own petards.

There is a day of reckoning on the horizon. And it will truly be a sight to see. Be glad that we will soon witness it and enjoy the rage and the incredulity as City hand them their arses publicly. Once again.

But please mate, stop referring to the police as Dibble. No idea why, but it triggers me

And relax. We’ve got this. And truly it will be glorious.
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very well said mate.

The crux of these allegations are that we have submitted fraudulent accounts to them.

We employ the world's leading accountancy firms to undertake and manage our financial affairs. In essence the accusations by the FA are in fact slanderous towards these firms. I don't think they will take this very well, to say the least.
 
ScottSinclair said:
Sorry if it has already been discussed, but enlighten me on the mistake they made
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They got some of the rules wrong

Northblue said:
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Premier League statement

For all the latest Premier League information including news and stats, visit the official website of the Premier League.
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That's the original statement this morning

The errors that have been ammended are in section 1.d through 1.h the B's are missing before rule numbers.

Original on the left - updated on the right:
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