Media thread 2022/23

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I didn't say that!

Don't try to put your own slant on this. The club have hired a top guy because they expect, know, or presume that the charges are unlikely to be minor.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
I suppose the point is Lavinda, why even mention it? Of course they're going to have an excellent legal team - goes without saying. Like making the assumption HRH has a nice motor car.
 
Spurs talking about spending money, who remembers when they started spending big on Klinsmann and half the Romanian team that did well in USA 94. If it was that easy how come Spurs mustered the square route of fuck all during that time. Look at our chums in Stretford spent more than anyone and the only things they have to get excited about are league cup finals and Thursday nights against Barcelona.
The same Spurs who are the only club in the history of the PL to be found guilty of and fined for financial irregularities.
"Have you ever seen Tottenham win the league?"
 
The same Spurs who are the only club in the history of the PL to be found guilty of and fined for financial irregularities.
"Have you ever seen Tottenham win the league?"
Didn’t Alan Sugar tell Sky what ITV had bid for the PL when he was chairman at spurs? Think he made a mint selling satellite boxes.
 
Didn’t Alan Sugar tell Sky what ITV had bid for the PL when he was chairman at spurs? Think he made a mint selling satellite boxes.
I wouldn’t put it past him.
He did make a mint selling his Amstrad boxes back in the day which every household needed to pick up Sky broadcasts whilst the club he owned were one of the self-appointed "big five" that drove the formation of the EPL.
Sanctimonious twats the lot of them.
 
I didn't say that!

Don't try to put your own slant on this. The club have hired a top guy because they expect, know, or presume that the charges are unlikely to be minor.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

The charges aren’t minor but their evidence may be minor / circumstantial.
 
Just read that vile hitjob from a Spud writer in The Athletic saying our success 'came easily'. Only caved and took out a sub at Christmas and within two days I knew a pound a month was too much. So many journalists there hate us, the readership are convinced the'yre good little liberals but clearly despise Arabs, until we ran into bother we were lucky to get one story a week out of them, and no, I don't want to chat about the game with non-blue Sam Lee. They are having an absolute field day over there, even playing 'Fantasy City's fucked' with a piece about which of our players would be drafted to which club.
Can you cancel now on principle, even though you’re on the £1 12 month offer? I would, just to make the point - and to save your sanity mate.
 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.

City wouldn't appoint a £50/80k a day brief if they think the charges / allegations are minor. They're clearly not

Put it this way... If the charges don't stick, City should absolutely wipe the floor with the PL and sections of the media. There would be no reason whatsoever for the City Group not to.

That said, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for them to do it if we 'win'.

Football at the 'elite' level stinks across the board.
City are THE top club, having their reputation dragged through the mud by the powers that be. They have rich owners. Such people and organisations hire the best - like Guardiola, and Khaldoon. If you have the temerity to challenge them, expect them to fight back hard via the absolute best lawyers available. That's what top, rich people and organisations do. Money talks, especially in the law. If you've got deep pockets, you hire the best available. That's what City have done as far as possible since the takeover. City value their reputation very, very highly.

You are talking about Lord Pannick - world renowned as one of the very, very best, and he will be surrounded by an excellent team of juniors below him, also on absolute top dollar. Moreover, he's been briefed by City on this type of matter before and excelled against the challenge. He knows exactly what the arguments are going to be, and is one of the most brilliant barristers in the UK - a modern day George Carmen.

As to £80k a day, this is probably his rate in court, or at a hearing. He doesn't get paid £80,000 a day for the next 5 years, just when he's involved. Whether it is £80k a day, I have no idea - only City and his "Clerks" will know what's been agreed, but it's probably not far off the mark, given the multi million, or multi billion value of the issues involved in the case. Chances are, he's being paid a retainer and his actual fee for the court/hearing won't be agreed until much nearer to any hearing date.

That's how it is when you challenge City.......... and Sheik Mansoor.
 
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