PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

This has really done me in this week, way more than I ever could’ve predicted.

I’ll never be ashamed of supporting City no matter how much our detractors try, in fact I’ll never be anything other than proud, but the orchestrated hate, ridicule, xenophobia, and trial by media is fucking exhausting.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
One thing is abundantly clear, the burden of proof is so high for the Premier League, I fail to see how the panel reaches it.

They would need to physically have former players waiting outside in the corridor to give evidence against us.

And if they had that, we would have known it in the four years we have dragged it out and it would never have gone this far.

It's a final Hail Mary, yet still predicated on non-compliance and when we are comfortable showing the supporting documents.

BDO will stand with us, as will all our sponsors and investors.

And that's before we discuss in essence, the temerity to put Khaldoon in the dock and him supposedly complicit in mass financial fraud.

The damage to his reputation alone and the boards he sits on would necessitate him to personally seek legal recourse.

It's a can of worms.
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I love your thinking regarding the burden of proof and also the voracity of the proof beyond a reasonable doubt. However those who know can correct me if I’m wrong, but this is not a criminal court where the burden of proof for the prosecution is very high. Indeed the greater the charges, the greater the definition of reasonable doubt.
This is a boys club inquest, is it not. Probability percentages of doubt in a civil court are as low as the tipping of a scales, 51% to 49%.

Do we know in all honesty what to expect from what could be a kangaroo court? With no recourse to arbitration other than another kangaroo court.

However if we manage to get this into the high court, it becomes a different matter. But that must be a lifetime away while we are persistently branded as cheats by all and sundry.

Somebody please tell me I’m wrong. I really hope I am.
 
Metalartin said:
Noticed Cheesey has dropped a video on this 20 minutes ago. Thing is, I feel like I've watched hours worth of these discussions already. Still loads we don't know and I'm already getting bored of thinking about it. I'll probably still end up watching it later.
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Some of the ones ive seen just show people with even less of an idea than us on here, complete waste of time
 
bellsouth said:
If we were expelled from Premier League, we would be free to play in ESL, correct? We could be playing Crewe on a Saturday and Real Madrid on the Wednesday
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Every cloud! Then all Sheikh Mansour needs to do is invite others to join knowing full well the money grubbing cunts will come running.
just look at the Saudi fold thingy.
 
Brendan110_0 said:
Will the womens team be facing sanctions? If not, why?
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Disabled team, youth academy, movement between CITC, links with live events other than football, corporate hire for 5a side etc. All blurry if they want it to be. That money from the vegan sponsors who have a hut that is seldom open. All contributions towards Mancini's sons who were paid and went. The more they scour, the more desperate they are. The public who don't support City have already chosen their sides. Few will change opinion.

Damage of reputation has been intended to be initially at a maximum as many fans were plugged to the news to see about that alleged white paper. The blue and white news hit hard. Right on Munich memorial day. Every fan of our rival was watching the news. Liverpool fans love twitching their curtains and they have been dancing on tins of polish since.
 
meltonblue said:
If the leaked emails are true, then we were involved in later negotiations and were also approving and processing m the transactions to him rather than Al Jazira.

I’m assuming that’s where the charges against not declaring related parties comes from too.
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Thanks. Big IF though.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
One thing is abundantly clear, the burden of proof is so high for the Premier League, I fail to see how the panel reaches it.

They would need to physically have former players waiting outside in the corridor to give evidence against us.

And if they had that, we would have known it in the four years we have dragged it out and it would never have gone this far.

It's a final Hail Mary, yet still predicated on non-compliance and when we are comfortable showing the supporting documents.

BDO will stand with us, as will all our sponsors and investors.

And that's before we discuss in essence, the temerity to put Khaldoon in the dock and him supposedly complicit in mass financial fraud.

The damage to his reputation alone and the boards he sits on would necessitate him to personally seek legal recourse.

It's a can of worms.
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Or a snake who left and gave Liverpool our log in details amongst others
 
bluemoon32 said:
Some of the ones ive seen just show people with even less of an idea than us on here, complete waste of time
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Outside of PR and PB there’s not much else of interest, unless it’s a law professional, even then they hedge their bets. There was one I watched for a couple of minutes at the height of CAS, one of the blokes kept saying can’t we just tell them to fuck off…
 
Myteam said:
it is no coincidence that the premier league charged City the same day as the government were going to announce legislation to appoint an independent scrutineer to ensure that football clubs behave properly. So to divert attention from themselves the knee jerk response is to suggest that all the problems are the fault of City. And the only “evidence” they have is the email hacker that sold his rubbish to a German newspaper. All this just after Chelsea have spent 600 million in six months. The owners of the other big clubs are trying to steal the moral highground but it won’t work. We have appointed top lawyers and if necessary we can fight this for years. Let’s adopt a siege mentality and fight this by playing top class football every week.
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I think Pannick has a foot injury. Not available this week.
 
StillBluessinceHydeRoad said:
There seems to a great deal of worry that we may not be allowed to appeal to the High Court. If we win we certainly will not be interested in appealing to anyone: if, however, we are found guilty of fraud I suspect we would be investigated by the fraud squad and if they considered there was a case to answer we'd be in the High Court if we liked it or not. If we were acquitted the PL would be in the mess, not us. Maybe we don't need to concern ourselves with appeals procedure!
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Ironically we would probably get a fair hearing in a criminal court and it would happen in public unlike a private three-person panel appointed by the people who investigated us!
 
Metalartin said:
Noticed Cheesey has dropped a video on this 20 minutes ago. Thing is, I feel like I've watched hours worth of these discussions already. Still loads we don't know and I'm already getting bored of thinking about it. I'll probably still end up watching it later.
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Its a drug.
 
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