PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

eyalluvitt said:
Today I got “you were a nothing third division club before the cheating Arab money came in” in our 120 years istreee,we have been in the highest division of English football for 94 of them.
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Ask them if they are aware 2008 was nine years after 1999. And when they say "yes" ask why they are so happy to exhibit their stupidity so publicly.
 
John Wayne said:
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.
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Agreed. The process will play out.

Sorry. I just get riled by all these people trotting out the 115 charges story as if it's some sort of proof of an enormous body of evidence against us. It isn't, as you know. It's just for the know-nothings to get their knickers wet about. People on here should be better than that. You were just the one that, wrongly, I took aim at. Apologies again.
 
Ric said:
I’d be very surprised if there wasn’t some diplomatic pressure being applied from the UAE, tbh. This has gone a bit beyond just City now, with the likes of Khaldoon and Mansour himself having their integrity so publicly questioned. It seems unthinkable that the recent investment plans won’t be used as leverage imo.
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It could even backfire on the PM with the government setting up an independent body ASAP. Their first remit being to look at the charges against us.
 
Eds said:
Why the fuck has Kevin Parker made his views public. We aren’t guilty of anyone, nothing will be tainted. He is either very naive, needs his ego boosting or both. Absolute stupidity. Why, just why?
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Im not going to give my opinion of that bloke but I know there are loads of blues who feel exactly the same way about him that I do! Not surprised at all he has commented as he feels the need to stay relevant, he doesn't represent me and he doesn't represent the views and opinions of the vast majority of City fans.
 
paulchapo said:
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.
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Well hopefully it will get the message over. And don't go calling people names just cause they disagree with you.
 
domalino said:
He's against City because he thinks we broke the rules. The rules he (presumably) was having to run his club by during the same period. He's got good reason to think we broke the rules as well, the emails look damning, the PL has enough evidence to charge us.

That's why this judicial process is important to everyone.
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Emails may look damning but they have little cogency unless there is other evidence that the substantive action referred to in the emails actually took place.
Furthermore, the emails have been substantially manipulated, for example by suggesting that one mail is the response to another when, in fact, they were sent several years apart.
CAS discounted them: “There is no evidence that…..”
P.S. I have sent you an email confessing to my passionate affair with Julia Roberts.
 
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tolmie's hairdoo said:
Something nagging?

If the Premier League have us bang to rights, why do they even need an independent commission to seal the deal?

Why extend us that courtesy, is it the chain of rule book procedure?

I don't understand why the Premier League would want to run the risk of their own findings being dismissed out of hand?

Especially so, when City are the ones who have been pushing for four years for our name to be cleared by an independent panel?

Something doesn't smell right, I had the same sense prior to CAS that a piecemeal arrangement had already been weighted in our favour?
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Plausible deniability when it goes tits up? They can go back to their redshirt puppetmasters and say ‘we tried our best but it was that independent commission who let them off?’….
 
Chappie said:
Sorted Shads,last night I instructed a local firm from Collyhurst "Bodgit and Scarper" and they've taken it on, "no win no fee" .
If it goes to appeal,I will bear you in mind.
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Bodgit and Scarper are at least better than Slime E Basterds and co…
 
It may have been mentioned and discussed at length, so apologies for beating a potential dead horse but...

Are there many difference between UEFA's FFP rules and the PL's FFP rules that add weight to the accusations? Because if there aren't and the accusations are similar to the ones CAS cleared, isn't this a huge waste of time and a huge image tainting attempt?
 
M18CTID said:
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
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Surely even the PL can't charge us under someone else's regulations? :)
 
threadkiller said:
You asked for an opinion...
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I didn't ask for an opinion I posted the flag picture, said I thought it looked great and apparently it would be ready for Sunday. Obviously when you post people will comment but I didn't say, "Hey what's people's opinions on this?" Like it was being entered in some flag competition. I hope all the miserable fuckers stay away from the ground as we don't need them at this time.
 
halfcenturyup said:
Agreed. The process will play out.

Sorry. I just get riled by all these people trotting out the 115 charges story as if it's some sort of proof of an enormous body of evidence against us. It isn't, as you know. It's just for the know-nothings to get their knickers wet about. People on here should be better than that. You were just the one that, wrongly, I took aim at. Apologies again.
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Yeah, no worries at all mate. I, too, get irritated by the '115 charges' narrative but it is something that everyone outside of City has seized upon to condemn us to hell. My own view is that this really only essentially comes down to the Der Spiegel hack with a bit of image rights/Fordham and Mancini/Al Jazira thrown in for good measure. The ignorant mob see it as a four-year investigation that took as long as it did because we committed 115 wholly separate offences.
 
eyalluvitt said:
Today I got “you were a nothing third division club before the cheating Arab money came in” in our 120 years istreee,we have been in the highest division of English football for 94 of them.
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Don't bother with it, mate. We get these know-nothing cretins and we've been getting this brain-dead sniping for years. It will now go up a notch. Personally, I have no time or breath to waste on these morons.
It is interesting, though, isn't it, how the words “cheating” and “Arab” are always associated? And I mean always. It is, as I have said elsewhere, the unthinking racism that dare not speak its name.
 
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