PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Who elects general secretary of supporters club and can we not sack him . Remembering him taking piss out of peps comments. Loves to be in limelight looks like.
 
paulchapo said:
I didn't make the bloody thing, typical City fans always ready to criticise, it's short for because I'd guess, try fitting everything onto a banner. Do one your fucking self.
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Piss off. You wanted an opinion and you got one.
The wrong word almost puts it on a par with the famous "Man United the religon" banner from a cup final many years ago.
They hate us. Cause: they ain't us. Might make some sense.
 
halfcenturyup said:
Not this 115 charges again.

There are only a handful of issues to actually consider, not that I think the process will just be dropped. It will play out and we will be fined for non-compliance and maybe a few administrative breaches. I doubt they have enough to even consider a points deduction, but we will see.
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I'm well aware that this revolves around five issues with the cumulative effect of rounding up to more than a hundred charges. If the intention was for the PL to make it as optically bad as possible by identifying and highlighting as many breaches as they have, then they must realise that the optics of dropping 100+ charges would make them look ridiculous. I can't speak for what diplomatic pressure may or may not be applied, but this almost certainly goes to the independent commission.
 
Luca1894 said:
On no here we go again !!! ...

Breaking News...

The European Super League have just announced they are charging Manchester City FC with numerous breaches of the leagues disciplinary code including:-

Rule 1a : All member clubs MUST complete the formal application forms using BLACK ink.
Rule 2a: All member clubs MUST complete the formal application forms using the date format DD/MMM/YYYY
Rule 4a: All member clubs MUST complete the formal application forms before 01/JAN/2023

In the latest shocking revelations revealed in DER SPUNKER investigative journalists have stolen emails in which officials of MCFC openly discussed completing application forms using Blue ink pens provided by a Middle Eastern stationery manufacture. The applications forms sent by MCFC also contained willful use of alternative rogue date formats. This was done in a willful attempt to deceive the Super League. There is also documented evidence that the application form was not received by the ESL until 5mins past the specified deadline.

if found guilty, there are NO limits to the punishments that MCFC can receive. These could include the demolition of all the Ethihad Campus including the associated ASDA superstore. All supporters of MCFC could face re-possession of their homes and have there passports revoked. Its also possible that a £500 million fine could be applied.

In response MCFC have published the folllwing statement:-
"We are baffled by these allegations made by the ESL disciplinary commitee as we havent sent any application forms to join the ESL"

This denial by MCFC has been meant with deep skepticism, former LFC player and Sky Pundit Jimmy Scouser commented "They must be guilty and should be thrown out the ESL before it starts, the ESL must be seen to be applying the rules - apart from those related to computer theft, falsifying player medical records and the attempted destruction of any opponent's team bus"
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Using the wrong coloured pens is a serious offence and immediate closure of the Etihad Campus is imminent.
 
Hope Pannick sits right next to Pep in the presser today. and also Pep gets this big white wig:
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Keeper! said:
Exactly are your going to risk a billion dollar investment for a couple of million quid?

I am simply not accepting that, the Etihad deal is iffy but again UEFA and CAS as soon as the big boys in Abu Dhabi got involved backed off very, very quickly.

If we are found guilty the implications of serious criminal fraud are enormous, and basically Abu Dhabi will be in the dock of the highest courts in England, that's one hell of a situation the PL puts itself in and the implications not just for the PL but the UK would be enormous.
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Nah, as has been pointed out efore in this thread, the club aren't accused of any legal wrongdoing, just breaches of PL rules.
 
mexico1970 said:
My opinion for what it's worth is that City will be offered a deal to not go to the high court, a slap on the wrist if we accept guilt of some kind.

If we do accept that and fall into line I wont have anything more to do with the club, but if we adopt a scorched earth policy I am off to the club shop to stock up on scarves, the decision is theirs to make.
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I suspect City could have cut a deal four years ago if they wanted to. Khaldoon won’t take another unfair pinch so this is going all the way in my view.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Not quite. He was manager in 2011/12 and the following season, the first two under FFP.

But this isn't about FFP. It's about 'hiding' some of his remuneration using this Al Jazira consultancy contract. I suspect they're saying that we should have paid him that £1.5m through our accounts, so have understated our expenses.

But that amount makes sod all difference. If it had been £10m then that's probably something to worry about but not £1.5m. It's just not material.
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Sorry Col - I was referring to Premier League FFP which came in in 2013. Obviously UEFA FFP had been around for a while longer.

Anyway, as you say it's not really a FFP issue and like others I'm not sure whatever has gone on with Mancini's wages that it's much of a smoking gun
 
Something that I'd like our legal experts on here to give an opinion on, if they would.
I've understood that in this case there is no court of appeal, as such. There is no CAS. At the worst, City can appeal the decision and then a second commission made up of different members would be constituted by the PL.
Moving on to a whole other ball park, can City in fact bring a civil suit against the PL in the courts for something like defamation of character (it obviously wouldn't be the term used) if they want to up the stakes?
(By the way, I'm not saying I think it would be a good idea. Just wondering if it's possible.)
 
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East Level 2 said:
Piss off. You wanted an opinion and you got one.
The wrong word almost puts it on a par with the famous "Man United the religon" banner from a cup final many years ago.
They hate us. Cause: they ain't us. Might make some sense.
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I didn't want an opinion I said it was a good banner someone made for Sunday. Somebody made an effort but all he gets is some prick like you picking fault you miserable dick.
 
Hung said:
If this turns as toxic as it could and probably will, the journo’s coming to City will probably need to take additional care from a personal safety point of view. It can’t be long before photo’s with names attached are put out there on social media. It would only take one fan that’s been ‘unhinged’ by this situation which has been fuelled by the press who are now on a wankfest of biblical proportions, to do something unpleasant. I certainly wouldn’t want to be a journo coming to City over the next year or so, particularly those with a track record of throwing shit at the club.
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Something similar to this actually happened in the early years of the takeover. Photos of journalists who had slagged us off with their "ruining football" type comments were circulated in Mary Ds before one of our home games and fans were being encouraged to give them stick as they arrived at the ground.

I certainly don't approve of physical attacks but any journalist guilty of spouting unsubstantiated bollocks about us deserves to be called out on it
 
blueinsa said:
I’m no lawyer but I don’t buy any of this “private club and no recourse in the courts” narrative.

This will 100% end up in the courts as nothing and no one operates outside of the law.
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I think the problem is that private clubs can make rules that might be a bit strange but are accepted if they don't break the law of the land. So you can't have a private club with a rule saying new members have to kill someone to be a member. I'm not sure a rule stating "Member clubs are not allowed to make the cartel of cry-baby clubs cry" is contrary to the law of the land.
However I doubt the PL would get away with having people linked to the rags, dippers and arse acting as prosecution, judge and jury.
 
Hung said:
If this turns as toxic as it could and probably will, the journo’s coming to City will probably need to take additional care from a personal safety point of view. It can’t be long before photo’s with names attached are put out there on social media. It would only take one fan that’s been ‘unhinged’ by this situation which has been fuelled by the press who are now on a wankfest of biblical proportions, to do something unpleasant. I certainly wouldn’t want to be a journo coming to City over the next year or so, particularly those with a track record of throwing shit at the club.
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Are you trying to goad me into doing something?
 
Shads said:
The only reason to risk it is that if they know their fate is already sealed. Having been involved in the results of several white papers as an interested key stakeholder I can Tell you for certain that PL already know exactly what it will say and that makes the risk they are taking much more understandable if they know that they are being replaced as a regulator. It also fits into the conspiracy theory that City have driven this to give themselves the chance to finally prove that they are straight shooters and have done nothing wrong. I am Not a conspiracy theorist, but it does fit a narrative of sorts.
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It does look like the last throw of the dice for the PL as a regulator. Football is just too big globally not to be properly regulated. It is the same with European football.
 
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