PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Kinkybyname said:
you have to ask where would that leave the PL hierarchy?
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You have to remember that the owners of the two main protagonists in all of this will have sold up and be long gone when it finally gets resolved. So they don’t give a fuck what happens to the PL afterwards. They can’t lose. Bring us down - they win. Lose and it’s no longer anything to do with them. Why wouldn’t you do it?
 
Not sure if this been has mentioned in a thread which has had more activity than the messi transfer thread ever had. But will CFG be taking legal action against any of the media outlets or sports news social media pages, where headlines do not use the word allegedly and simply use a headline “where we’re you when city we’re breaking rules” etc.
I ask because these “news” pages posting these clickbait articles is in my non legal trained brain libel. And more importantly any member of the independent panel that sees these types of headlines/articles would surely not be able to be impartial on a subconscious level as they have seen the words guilty, cheats, rule breakers without the prefix. Allegedly.

On a completely separate not I’m taking 2 of my kids to their first city game on 22nd of March. Can’t wait.
 
marco said:
on the other hand it would be less humiliating than if they lost the hearing,i think we get our paperwork in within the next few weeks, they may look at it and think fuck this
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Unfortunately I think PL have crossed the line now -can’t see them going back now,looks like war
 
chaddblue said:
Ha Ha.. imagine the suits all looking at each other thinking ohhhh shit.. what the fuck have we done!!??
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This is more or less what I posted 200 pages back,, I asked if it was plausible that on the 23rd when we answer our charges, the PL look at it and think,, right fuck this if we loose were fucked

So the statement goes" we have looked at MCFC evidence and we are happy there is no case to answer, but we have given MCFC stern warnings about cooperation in the future "

In other words" were going nowhere near that
 
BlueMoonz1977 said:
Insufficient not good enough.....club have stated said 'clear our name'
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I wouldn’t read too much into the clubs statement, we would completely take that.

If ever you have been unlucky enough to be involved in litigation, you will know ever message is delivered with total confidence, outrage at the other party.

It is a message you want to protray.

FWIW no offence to the poster who posted and I hope they are right, but it sounds like BS.

The PL is not planning on dropping these charges it will go to their independent commission.
 
Metalartin said:
I'm not sure I understand the Mancini stuff. Maybe I am oversimplifying it but it seems to me that if he did consultancy work for Al Jazira, then that should not show on City's accounts. What they chose to pay him is none of the PL's business. If there's nothing stopping Mancini doing consultancy work while manager of one club, why would there be anything to stop City's finance department employees assisting in the process. They are essentially Sheikh Mansour's employees. Like I said, I'm not sure I understand the legalities of this and I'm not sure those getting worried about it fully understand it either.
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if that’s such an issue - what about when players or managers work for Sky Sports ? Is that illegal?
 
LucahArchie10 said:
Question for the in house lawyers or people who are right on this shit!!

Not if but when we come out of all this shit with another win will CFG go Absalutely balls deep & take every slimy cnut who has caused our club nothing but shit since 2008, please tell me we will??
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No
 
Kippax1973 said:
This is more or less what I posted 200 pages back,, I asked if it was plausible that on the 23rd when we answer our charges, the PL look at it and think,, right fuck this if we loose were fucked

So the statement goes" we have looked at MCFC evidence and we are happy there is no case to answer, but we have given MCFC stern warnings about cooperation in the future "

In other words" were going nowhere near that
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Even though that makes them look a bigger bunch of dickheads than they already are ?
 
Gaylord du Bois said:
Any appeal would be within those appeals procedures outlined by the Premier League.
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Surely, and I’m no expert, if sanctions are imposed they have to be justified in a court of law if we go down that route? which is when the arbitration case can be the rabbit in the hat due to the environment???

A civil matter could and would destroy any negative ruling and cripple the FA; which points towards a compromise down the line!
 
wolfie1988 said:
Any idea where this talk of a whistleblower has come from? I read that it was Sam Lee on Twitter but read his article and there is nothing about whistleblowing in it.
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It was a fake Twitter account linking an alleged The Athletic story. It was fake, there is no ex employee whistleblower.
 
prestonibbo_mcfc said:
I do wonder how much time of those 4 years were actually spent delving.
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Has it taken them the same four years we have not cooperated to investigate?

Are they pissed because the things they wanted we were not prepared to give them as we are not cooperating with a skewed, bias, agenda driven entity? Just like we were not prepared to do with UEFA?

We submitted our accounts just like everyone else and the PL have put 2and 2 together with the Rui pinto stuff and thought we want answers! Even though we’ve been through the same stuff with UEFA. City have then thought fuck off you’re just looking, fishing for excuses. We won’t be scrutinised forever and a day. After all no one else is. So we will see you in court with an independent non bias, agenda driven panel, show our evidences to prove our defense, make you look like the fumbling amateurs you are, shove your 2 bob bird and bird cowboys and we will talk to a real legal expert of good standing and moral compass. Whilst makin absolute mince meat out of your case that has more holes than a sieve.
 
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meltonblue said:
Because we can’t really argue they’re not a related party if we did.
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Al Jazira Club were never a sponsor of Manchester City Football Club though. Al Jazira and Man City can be related parties all they like, but it doesn’t make Man City responsible for their expenses.

The CFG clubs are a lot closer relations than Al Jazira is, but it doesn’t mean that Vidosić, Cushing, Muscat, Itthuralde, Michel, Lobera, Buckingham, Bould, Kisnorbo or Corini are our expenses as a club!
 
citizen_maine said:
So basically, we did a bit of admin for him?
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In the same way most PL managers do after dinner events and functions - that are paid by third parties and I bet their personal assistants do all the work including the invoicing…. The PL are potentially making allegations that the other 19 clubs cannot comply with anymore than we can.
 
MillsyTheMosher said:
Fuck it - here goes…

Prediction based on conversations today with people ‘in the know’.

Give it six months of litigation and the PL will drop all charges against City due to insufficient evidence.

Don’t shoot the messenger.
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You know people at the Premier League? ;-)
 
Can anyone shed any light on how the hearing will proceed? The three man PL panel will hear the charges. Then deliver a verdict. Will City have anyone present whilst the charge sheet is presented?
 
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