PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[remember arthur mann]

Parker always like to be centre stage.

Not forgetting he left before the Aguero moment, true loyalty.

 

[Salford_Blue]

But will they pass to Haaland?

Get banning City ffs.

I read this two ways

;)

 

[woody1968]

An Independent Regulator is imperative for the sake of any integrity in football, the PL having shown it's clear and obvious failings and bias towards certain teams it is supposed to represent.

Supporters should be pushing for this imo, instead of allowing those in charge of their clubs sucking up to the PL/PiGMOL alliance.

Are fans of other clubs happy to know that the future of their club is determined by the likes of the rags, dippers, gooners who clearly have sold out to the corruption of the PL , and have fuck all intention of ever helping the underlings to become successful to the point of presenting a challenge to their own ambitions.

Agreed-The PL seem to have signed their own death warrant they are either not fit for purpose due to negligence or not fit for purpose due to incompetence. Not the brightest buttons in the box.

 

[M18CTID]

I'm not sure there's many on here, If any, who have said our trophies will be tainted if we are found guilty. Something he seems to say willingly.

True that - I was referring to his other comments

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

After the bombshell being dropped, and having now nearly a week to reflect and take everything in...it is very plain to see that there are many games being played out here and that our club is being put centre circle

We have the PL not wanting an independent regulator to run the game - so before the white paper was due to be released they throw the charges (rushed it out) to somehow show that they can in fact regulate on there own. The white paper has now been delayed by 2 weeks - so the question here is why don't the PL want an independent regulator to govern? Are they in fact hiding major wrong doings that have gone at other clubs and been swept under a very big grubby rug

If that is the case then fingers crossed we will bring up past accounts of others that the PL have never held to account

Then we have the supposed takeovers of the rags and dippers...are the PL trying to stop the running by an independent regulator so that these 2 can infact be bought out and signed off by the PL?

I honestly think the PL don't want any independent regulator to takeover because they are afraid they won't be able to no longer protect the cartel clubs and they are also afraid of what may be uncovered and found in the locker

Can’t agree more with that last paragraph & the delay got me thinking, we are supporters of new governance, am I right in thinking the only 1 of the big 6 ? and there doesn’t or hasn’t appeared to be, a good reason for the delay ? So I just wonder if those behind the White paper are re-drafting it to cover in more detail ffp, the process of appeals, and other related issues, which may in turn benefit us legally. There’s no doubt these charges where rushed out ahead of the publication of the white paper, but the PL may have snookered themselves

 

[Bluemanc100]

After the bombshell being dropped, and having now nearly a week to reflect and take everything in...it is very plain to see that there are many games being played out here and that our club is being put centre circle

We have the PL not wanting an independent regulator to run the game - so before the white paper was due to be released they throw the charges (rushed it out) to somehow show that they can in fact regulate on there own. The white paper has now been delayed by 2 weeks - so the question here is why don't the PL want an independent regulator to govern? Are they in fact hiding major wrong doings that have gone at other clubs and been swept under a very big grubby rug

If that is the case then fingers crossed we will bring up past accounts of others that the PL have never held to account

Then we have the supposed takeovers of the rags and dippers...are the PL trying to stop the running by an independent regulator so that these 2 can infact be bought out and signed off by the PL?

I honestly think the PL don't want any independent regulator to takeover because they are afraid they won't be able to no longer protect the cartel clubs and they are also afraid of what may be uncovered and found in the locker

You are Sherlock Holmes and I claim my £5

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

I suspect that many on here share your opinions of him, which is no doubt why he was asked by to comment by the BBC - an organisation desperate to stick the knife into City.

An alliance of cunts , one might say ?

A gaggle of gonads

 

[KS55]

The biggest mistake our owners/board made was following our expenditure from 2008-10, we had to balance the books within a 1 year period.This was impossible,who knows what actions the owners took. All done for the greater good of the club, to invest in players and facilities.
we should of challenged the elite cartel of clubs then instead we chose not too, and we played softball with them. Detrimental to ourselves these red clubs had their own agenda, to stop us at all costs. We are guilty of increasing transfer fees and players wages, we we’re playing catch up against clubs that were used to getting their own way, breaking transfer records every year, cherry picking the best young players from lesser clubs.
Whatever happens now will last at least 2-4 years, we may well plead guilty to some of the lesser offences and get fines, but we will plead not guilty to the most serious charges.
The whole process should be challenged back to the days of its inception if possible.
We won’t be losing titles or cups, definitely fines or point reductions I’m sure. However if they did relegate us to a lower division, then I hope it’s division 2, why?? Because that would be a greater story to follow and our/my loyalty will never change to a club that has been part of my life for 59 years. CTID.

They can expel us from the PL, but they cannot relegate us. See PL Handbook Section W. (From memory; correct me if wrong)

 

[dubblue]

Man invests to build his business just like every other business in competition with him. Only the competition didn’t have to adhere by any financial rules when doing so. I’ve read and heard City fans say we should be severely punished if found guilty. As a business owner,when I started up,if my competitors decided to implement rules saying I couldn’t invest in my OWN business I’d have done everything to circumnavigate those rules. Severe punishment?..just fuck off. We did what we had to do to compete with a cartel of clubs who have carved up everything in their favour for over 30 years.

 

[PDBLUEMOON]

Time for a change within the OSC too!!

Know this lad, who would be perfect, knows his stuff! He’s called Khaldoon

Time for a change within the OSC too!!

i know this lad, knows his stuff and would be perfect. I call him Khal you can call him Al

 

[Blueto]

We're going up
We're going down
We're going up
We're going down
City's going down with a billion in the bank

No better time to sing this than on Sunday
LOUD AND PROUD

 

[remember arthur mann]

Imagine if we're the club that brings the Premier league crashing down. And all the lies and corruption with it. The juices are flowing.

Now I'd get giddy at that.

 

[Eccles Blue]

I don't think he's said anything that many fans on here haven't said - that he trusts what the club are saying but IF it's proven otherwise then it wouldn't be a good look. The trouble is, it's one thing saying that on here but another saying it to the media because it gives them an opportunity to twist things so I think he's being a little naive there. Back in 2020 when we had the UEFA ruling, in the run-up to the CAS appeal 1894 did a photo shoot at the stadium with the anti-UEFA banner that they originally planned to display at the Real Madrid home game but weren't able to due to the pandemic and lockdown. Sky Sports News came down and interviewed various people about it. Everyone interviewed said they trusted the word of the club but didn't go any further than that. It's best to give them fuck all opportunity to twist things!

I do understand about the media, in two of my other roles before retirement I had a lot of dealings with them. :-)

However so has Kevin Parker and I just feel he should also know how to deal with them by now. You are correct when you say he has been a little naïve and just feel that he should be experienced enough by now. However we just have to accept that these things come to try us I guess!! :-)

 

[City Mike 1969]

I read that in three months, Sept to Nov last year, he earned £500k. on one case alone.

... which is less than £400K/wk obviously - different rates are applied when the cases are lengthy. I know where I am, the 4 partners have charge out rates of £275 per qtr of an hour - but its very rare a client gets charged £1,100 for an hour of their time.

 

[bluealf]

A gaggle of gonads

A cornucopia of quim

 

[Del_Bosque]

If they let Pep be the first one to face any questions/statements on this(even if it's no comment), to external or in house media, then they are a bunch of shithouses at exec/board level and there should be major changes.

Edit: I think we will get off with everything bar non co-operation and the Toure/Mancini stuff so it's not a question of guilt, they shouldn't be hiding behind him.

 

[bobmcfc]

So 4/5 years to charge us then another 2/4 years to convict us Lol surely we have grounds for harassment here ?

 

[lancs blue]

My memory lets me down here, can anybody confirm the following?
There was a time gap between the agreement with Sky by the Sky 4/Sky 5 and the beginning of the premier league. Were we not in div2 when that agreement was signed??

The usual suspects first approached ITV with the idea of the breakaway but didn't reach agreement, Sky came along later. Not sure why you think we were in Div.2, we were founder members of the PL!

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

I'm not sure there's many on here, If any, who have said our trophies will be tainted if we are found guilty. Something he seems to say willingly.

True that - I was referring to his other comments

Absolutely. What eleven men do out on the pitch in winning the league or Cup cannot seriously be put in doubt.
By way of banter (and because I like to wind them up) I like to refer to Liverpool's title win — you know, that recent one after decades of not winning it — as being not valid because it was during Covid and so was played out in empty stadia.
But let's have it right, that's bollocks. They were the best team by a country mile that year, Covid or no Covid.
(Still annoys me though that our last goal against them was ruled out because Phil had the temerity to be fouled by a Liverpool player…)

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

After the bombshell being dropped, and having now nearly a week to reflect and take everything in...it is very plain to see that there are many games being played out here and that our club is being put centre circle

We have the PL not wanting an independent regulator to run the game - so before the white paper was due to be released they throw the charges (rushed it out) to somehow show that they can in fact regulate on there own. The white paper has now been delayed by 2 weeks - so the question here is why don't the PL want an independent regulator to govern? Are they in fact hiding major wrong doings that have gone at other clubs and been swept under a very big grubby rug

If that is the case then fingers crossed we will bring up past accounts of others that the PL have never held to account

Then we have the supposed takeovers of the rags and dippers...are the PL trying to stop the running by an independent regulator so that these 2 can infact be bought out and signed off by the PL?

I honestly think the PL don't want any independent regulator to takeover because they are afraid they won't be able to no longer protect the cartel clubs and they are also afraid of what may be uncovered and found in the locker

Yeah, there's nowt like a steaming laundry where the sheets are full of shite and someone has the opportunity to ask questions.

"Could the chief exec explain why MCFC were fined for invading the pitch at the end of the Villa game, and was this 'punishment' the same one meted out when a PL game had to be abandoned at OT?"