PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Lavinda Past]

FA to do with the FA

Amended

 

[Stoned Rose]

Just things like saying it won’t alter our transfer policies or contract positions.
How confident we are.
Announcing Pannick etc.

Thanks mate appreciated

 

[Lavinda Past]

Great days but I’d sooner not go back to them

I will if I must. Happily. Going to football was much more fun in those days.

 

[OB1]

Am I right in thinking that some of the Financial stuff is so severe that realistically HMRC would be knocking on the door for the accounts they have already gone through

HMRC are only concerned if there has been too little tax paid but that is unlikely. City’s tax losses are probably and genuinely large enough that HMRC wouldn’t be remotely concerned.

 

[Mid Wales blue]

I swear people on there eat crayons.

I like the green ones! They taste like granny smith’s apples.

 

[John Wayne]

If they were going to do that, surely they'd have done it after the CAS decision, when the same information was available?

They'd have done it at the first suspicion of fraud. They haven't done it yet. That tells me they have no suspicions. This tells me that the first charge of not providing accounts in "the utmost good faith" is very serious, but unsubstantiated.

 

[JustAnotherCityFan]

20 point deduction but then go on to finally win the Champions League feels very City.

 

[Manc Born & Bred]

I was there

So was I. Pretty sure there was some trouble after that game.

 

[chesterbells]

Has Martin Samuel not done a piece on it yet?
Would be keen to see how he views it.

Can’t find anything on The Times app, though I know he briefly discussed it on Talksport this morning.
Odd, cos there was a Winter ‘throw the book’ article up there pdq…

 

[Fred_Quimby]

20 points appears to be the maximum allowed so we would be better off nit happening this season and its iver and done with

I don’t think we will accept any penalty whatsoever. We will go the whole hog and as far as we can take it if they try.

 

[BamberBridgeBlue]

As a fan of another team, I find this very interesting. But what strikes me after reading a lot of this thread is that there's a lot of blame-game going on here. I've read a lot of blame towards other clubs, the FA and PL, but very few, if any, are talking about the real case and the substance in the accusations. If there's done something wrong, which the enquiry will find out, surely there has to be consequences?

Do you mean done something wrong as in broke rules placed for us to break due to the bleating of those clubs you mention us blaming? Funny that innit. Nobody gives a fuck about those rules. Barcelona and Real Madrid break them on an industrial scale ever since I can remember and I’m in my 50’s.

Shove your invented rules out there for Manchester City and only applied to Manchester City up your Fleksnes arse. ;)

 

[the blue panther]

20 points appears to be the maximum allowed so we would be better off nit happening this season and its iver and done with

Think about it; there's no way it's happening this season.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Fleksnes = Norway = Liverpool presumably. Nuff said?

You missed out moose shagger.

 

[Indaparkside]

20 point deduction but then go on to

Win the league by 20

 

[the blue panther]

Can any penalties, fines, points deductions or whatever be enforced before any high court appeal takes place?

Very very doubtful as that would cause us actual damage, and then, if we went on, later, to win an appeal, our position can't be recovered - at least as far as points deductions are concerned.

 

[Metalartin]

I was thinking about that utterly powerful speech delivered by Maarva in Andor today, that has stuck with me ever since I saw it(great series btw). For me, the cartel are the equivalent of the empire in football. That's all I'm saying(no spoilers), rivals will say it's the opposite but how on earth can you say City are the ones in control of anything. Who is it who's making their own unfair laws up, making huge efforts to eradicate threats to their control by any means necessary, as well as being the ESL initiators(taking things off planet?) etc?

 

[Lavinda Past]

I like the green ones! They taste like granny smith’s apples.

The brown ones taste like sheep shit. Lovely Mun.

 

[chaddblue]

Can any penalties, fines, points deductions or whatever be enforced before any high court appeal takes place?

Imagine if we're relegated to league two then 5 years down the line the supreme high court decide we were innocent after all

The claim for damages would bankrupt the premier league

 

[nmc]

I see Dan Roan still finds it impossible to refer to our owner by using his name. He seems happy to use a racist trope of "Abu Dhabi owners" with no reference to the US firm (Silverlake) who own 24 per cent of CFG. City "owned by Abu Dhabi" is inaccurate but also a dehumanising phrase which avoids using Sheikh Mansour's identity. Is Roan bigoted or just very stupid?

From someone (not me) who works at the BBC he’s officially a ****.

 

[Chippy_boy]

I didn't mean endgame for the club! I meant endgame for the charges consistently levelled against us which to date haven't really affected us. This feels different and it seems likely they will get us for something this time which will affect match going fans.

Sorry I misunderstood.

Personally however, I think NOTHING in these charges will stick.

The people running our club are super competent, and in the case of Khaldoon IMO probably a genius. I can believe we may have done some things which are a bit iffy. But I would be staggered if we did so in such a way that the PL could, one day, easily prosecute us for it. IMO It will either be above board or so well disguised as to be impossible to prove otherwise.