PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

twosips said:
Thank you mate. I don't think some people realise how hard it is! Ha. They're all people who are paid to talk for a living so naturally very good at sticking the knife in. Plus I know millions watch it so the pressure is on big time. Tried my best though to get across a lot of things lots of us have wanted to say for a while!
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You came across really well mate. Well done, can’t have been easy in that room.
 
flb said:
All this shit heightened when the spiegel shit came out, has anyone considered why we let Liverpool off so lightly with the database hack ? Are City about to blow the lot up ? Keeping our powder dry maybe?
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I hope you're right.
 
flb said:
All this shit heightened when the spiegel shit came out, has anyone considered why we let Liverpool off so lightly with the database hack ? Are City about to blow the lot up ? Keeping our powder dry maybe?
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I doubt City will do anything.
 
flb said:
All this shit heightened when the spiegel shit came out, has anyone considered why we let Liverpool off so lightly with the database hack ? Are City about to blow the lot up ? Keeping our powder dry maybe?
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I hope we have something.
 
Seems to be two conflicting theories, as far as I can see:

1) the American anti-brown collective have mobilised to stiff City in a very very big way, and by extension the middle Eastern ownership

Vs

2) the PL have timed this to delay the UK Gov independent regulator white paper for a few weeks this allowing a Qatari based investment time to get their shit together and get United bought, and reinstate United back at the top of the tree (especially financially).

Seems to me that you can't have both. Are the Americans really so up for a racially motivated fight if the top 2 American protagonists, United and Liverpool, are both up for sale?

Which would mean the second, more coincidentally timed narrative seems more realistic? But why would Qatar wait until the 11th hour with a gov paper on the horizon and not just bid a while ago? Why wait for this?

I understand the bit about the PL wanting to be seen to be regulating itself though.

On City, it doesn't look like there's a way out of this without some sort of showy slap on the wrists at minimum.
 
It’s just the big green eyed monster. We were the country’s “my second favourite team” and that was how they thought we would always be. Now we are many peoples most hated team but that hatred brings a bit of a war time spirit out in people which will make us stronger in the team as well as us fans. As Corporal Jones said “They don’t like it up em”
 
Fuzzy80 said:
PB this is something I have been thinking.

If and it’s if as of course I have no idea we have inflated, hidden or whatever and they prove it.

This may be something that allowed us to not breach CL FFP and if these can added on we do…

However was PL a lot more easier to pass and as such even with these on we could still have passed PL FFP.

Is this a possibility?
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Yes.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Sanctions available to the PL include unlimited fines, points deductions or, in extreme cases, expulsion from the PL. The PL has no powers to relegate us, strip us of any trophies or enforce a transfer ban.
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Do you mind me asking what the source for that is? Not doubting you, of course, just interested in where you’ve read that as I keep seeing people claim that transfer bans, relegation and the stripping of titles are options available to the PL.
 
Eoiyflem said:
STOP COMPARING US TO RANGERS!!!

Rangers were investigated by HMRC for tax fraud essentially, they went bust due to no revenue and a huge litany of unpaid debts (including a face painter of all people!), they had to liquidate the entire company and re-register as a new company. This was entirely of their own volition and through decades of baffling and systemic mismanagement and asset stripping by a series of idiots and mercenaries. It's only by a very unusual quirk in the world of football that they were even allowed to re enter the Scottish professional league (realistically they had to or Scottish football was fucked).

IT IS NOT THE SAME
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Absolutely right. It just isn't. FFS.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Sanctions available to the PL include unlimited fines, points deductions or, in extreme cases, expulsion from the PL. The PL has no powers to relegate us, strip us of any trophies or enforce a transfer ban.

f this is about image rights, which were about £17/18m a year I think, and we were found guilty, I'd say a very hefty fine would possibly be our punishment. If we were found guilty of deliberately concealing, say, £50m a year, then we'd likely face a points deduction, would be my guess. But that's purely a guess.

If we could show that the amounts involved made no material difference to our position under FFP or the PL's rules, then that's a completely different kettle of fish to a sum that would materially impact those.
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Would expulsion from the PL not be the same as relegation?
 
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