PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[John Wayne]

What do people think the outcome will be of this hearing?

A fine for non-cooperation and maybe some small technical breaches that many other clubs would likely also be found to have committed if scrutinised to the same degree.

Relegation and title-stripping are hyperbolic nonsense being espoused by an increasingly partisan and disingenuous press.

 

[dubblue]

Man invests in his own business and allegedly moves money around to circumnavigate rules specifically designed for his business to lag behind his competitors. It’s just horrifying and disgusting in equal measure. Should have just pandered to the cartel and got a nice pat on the head every now and then.

 

[skillman]

This is brilliant. I'm writing my next missive for KOTK so have been going through the rule books to see exactly what we've been charged with, and it's clear the PL have fucked it up big time. For example, in 2011/12, they've charged us with a breach of Rule E11. That rule in the 2011/12 Pl Handbook says "Each club shall enter the FA Cup".

I've looked at a few others and it's a similar story. They've seemingly charged us against another rule which says that, except for televised games, all PL games will be played on Saturdays at 3pm.

It's an absolute fuck up.

I wish we’d have come out with this - or will come out with this - when we retaliate. Shown them for the amateurish muppets they are.

Bloating up the charging number knowing nobody will pull them up on their lies. Wankers.

Hopefully somebody does/we do.

 

[Vic]

What do people think the outcome will be of this hearing?

I think we'll have 700 pages thinking about that.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Let the cunts have it Ferrán..
You know, we know..

Don't forget that, according to Tony Evans (no friend of MCFC), the LFC Directors' nickname for Soriano is "the terrorist." That gives you a flavour of the bile which has been going on for years with these people. When you dig into any of these corporate battles you virtually always find they are driven by personal grudges and hatred.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

I like how wages are even brought up with our lawyers as well.

If he can sort our shit out and play Left back then he's worth the dough.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Seems that‘s a huge allegation that would be impossible to prove without a huge team of investigators, do you think the Premier League would be happy for this to run for another four years? Also is this three person committee or our accusers at the Premier League even qualified to carry out a forensic investigation on such a serious allegation? Seems everything is based on the hacked emails which is basically a bank got robbed when you were in town and you have a large amount of money in your account that you cannot account for but we have no evidence you robbed the bank.

It's out of the PL's hands now - it's in the hands of the commission and whatever terms that is set up with.
No further pressure on the PL will achieve anything.

The idea that they've appointed a panel who can't do the job is insane. They will call in experts to analyse stuff if needed, as well as the representatives of both sides.

 

[argyle]

I wish we’d have come out with this - or will come out with this - when we retaliate. Shown them for the amateurish muppets they are.

Bloating up the charging number knowing nobody will pull them up on their lies. Wankers.

Hopefully somebody does/we do.

City have already briefed about it to Simon Mullock.

It's amateurish but doesn't make any difference to anything.

 

[Jack74]

What do people think the outcome will be of this hearing?

We will keep all are titles/trophies am near enough certain as for the rest I have no idea ,

 

[DMA's]

Gotta say seeing kompany having our back at this time shows what kind of man he is. Easy for him to distance himself but he genuinely loves the club and I sincerely hope he is our manager one day.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Or have we suckered them in ?

That’s what I thought yesterday. The reason why we accepted a fine (I think we did anyway) is we knew this day would come and we had to have ammunition to fight back. I could be wrong, as I have no clue about law at all.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Quick couple of questions @projectriver and apologies if they've already been answered somewhere within the thread.

1) Do you foresee any chance of this being settled prior to any arbitration or hearing taking place? IE both party's - City and the PL - to reach some kind of mutual agreement or settlement?

2) If not, and the hearing/panel goes ahead, do you think it helps or hinders (or has no bearing) on our chances of a more favourable outcome given that we nor the PL can appeal the result to the high court unless there are the issues which you've described?

Thanks

 

[skillman]

It's coming to something when you have a Scottish ex Liverpool player defending our club against an ex City player.

His wife is a blue isn’t she? Or have I made that up?

Could explain why he’s always quite ‘nice’ to us with his punditry.

 

[BlueRockape]

Wonder how much and which clubs are donating extra money to the PL coffers to bring this law suit

 

[dubblue]

City have already briefed about it to Simon Mullock.

It's amateurish but doesn't make any difference to anything.

It would be spun very differently if the charges were against one of the red tops.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Wonder how much and which clubs are donating extra money to the PL coffers to bring this law suit

My thoughts also. I’d bet big money that the top six have chipped in.

 

[Jazzman]

City's accounts must be the most scrutinized ever. It seem unlikely to me that the PL will have found something which was not found by the previous investigations.

 

[skillman]

City have already briefed about it to Simon Mullock.

It's amateurish but doesn't make any difference to anything.

If they can’t be trusted to get the charges right on day 1 - with no pressure to rush them out - then how can they be trusted at all?!

 

[BlueTG]

Wonder how much and which clubs are donating extra money to the PL coffers to bring this law suit

I don’t think you’ll need many guesses to nail that it’s millions, and which clubs will be doing so.

 

[NordicMeatShield9]

I am fully convinced we have something up our sleeve.
Statement from the board saying we are glad the day finally came for something like this as we could've proved to UEFA but never got the chance due to the time barring even though we had the answers.
I personally believe you're about to see the PL get taken to the cleaners.