PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[citymad]

I would expect our bottle job press team to at least say no questions about the allegations, football matters only.

 

[KS55]

And Yasser Arafat, apparently....

Yasser Arafat was a blue?

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Didn't ratboy put his hat in the ring, think he wants to be mayor of Manchester too.
Snake in the grass that ****.

He is neither relevent or qualified for any position other than chat what he does.

Couldn't give a fuck about him, although he did say much the same which gives him a dot rather than a full tick on the positive side.

 

[marco]

Due to the leanings of the accusers (we know!), City cannot expect a fair judgement.
For this reason alone the charges should be dismissed.
The fact that the accusers and the defence are the same group of people is Tommy Cooper - esque, to say the least!

is there room for complaint on conflicting points of interest regarding the hearing members of the PL

 

[halfcenturyup]

He should fuck off from our club, go and take up bowls you weak ****.

Taking it up the bowels is too extreme a punishment.

 

[MillisleBlue]

Due to the leanings of the accusers (we know!), City cannot expect a fair judgement.
For this reason alone the charges should be dismissed.
The fact that the accusers and the defence are the same group of people is Tommy Cooper - esque, to say the least!

Expect the Independent Panel to be a rag, a red-scouser and another gooner. That sounds fair and will be swept under the carpet or fully justified by their client journalists.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Well apparently they can trawl back through our books as far back as they want. Any other club and it’s time barred

Mancini straddled FFP. He joined us in 2009 and FFP kicked in 2011. Hence why if we did do anything wrong with his contract, it couldn't be to dodge FFP.

 

[John Wayne]

He's spelled "bull shitters" wrong. I'm speaking to Ian in a couple of hours for his vlog by the way.

It's a long way for many of them to come to be told "no comment".

 

[BeerIsTheBest]

To be honest, I'm still enjoying seeing giddy fuckers thinking we're gonna get relegated or suffer a punishment of that ilk. I suspect they'll be crying about the end result eventually.

Suspicion without hard evidence is normally not enough to charge someone. Unfortunately the PL rule book was conveniently rewritten to embrace the concept of reasonable suspicion. I looked last night for comparators… like people chucked out of golf clubs for all allegedly cheating. The EPL is a cosy golf club in my view. There are one or two cases where folk have gone to court but I can’t follow the trail as things were probably settled out of court. This is not a golf club and the stakes are immeasurably higher. This is uncharted territory.

 

[halfcenturyup]

But isn’t it basically true. They are alleging that the City board, it’s auditors it’s sponsors and their auditors have deliberately lied on the accounts.

No they aren't. At least that isn't clear from the charges and the breaches.

 

[wolviedinho]

I’m hoping that players take no notice of all this. It might make us more attractive to agents who think there might be a bit of corruption in it for them. Maybe.

Haha.

That is a refreshing positive view.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Anyone know who City's cyber security provider was post takeover? If they had done a better job then no hacked emails and this shit never happens. Liverpool would also not have been able to hack our scouting database.

It would not surprise me to learn that Swales had awarded a 30 year IT contract to his nerdy nephew who had a ZX Spectrum in 1982.

And this is probably the reason we had to settle with Liverpool instead of taking them to the cleaners for illegally accessing our scouting system. We ourselves could have been punished by the Information Commisssioner for our poor data security. My guess is there was a culture of password swapping in the team and the former employee was still able to log on after he started working at LFC. That scouting data is sensitive information because it involves hundreds of young players. We were supposed to have security in place.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Yeah, that is something Simon Jordan and others have said: if you've not got anything to hide why don't you show us? But for a major corporation to basically hand over all its emails and communications is just something no one is going to ever do gladly. And like you say, City and Liverpool obviously hate it each other at a boardroom level. The more I think about it the more I think there is something very similar to CAS happening.

City absolutely hating LFC at every level is something I fully support.

We don't need the cunts as friends - they are much better kept as clear and obvious sworn enemies and never trusted under any circumstances.

When they stop passively defending their feral supporters and admitting what fucking scum they actually are, would be a start .

 

[wolviedinho]

Jackie got her tits out again?

 

[Blueknows]

This is exactly what I think will happen, Just look at the CAS decision and how that was percieved.

Time barring: Everyone states that the only reason we won was that the evidence was time barred, well it was UEFA who put in the rules in place and then decided to ignore them. It's just like HR are work, you have legislation to abide by and then the Company (Uefa) has a contract with the employee(City). If an employee takes a company to a court the main thing that is looked at is did the company follow the process as set out in their procedures. If they haven't then they are fucked.

As Uefa didn't the evidence was rejected, however the shadow of doubt was not removed.

Likewise with the £10 million fine for not co-operating, well on a weekly basis we were seeing leaks to the press we had no trust that by handing over paperwork that it would be secure and not passed on to other interested parties. It's like the police knocking on the door and investigating you with a crime and then asking you to give them a smoking gun as they don't have it. Nobody in there right mind would do this, if you are accusing us then give us the evidence you have and we will give you the evidence to support our side.

As our chairman said at the time we submitted our accounts on time for uefa who then changed the rules , we had no option other than to accept the fine , not a chance in hell our owners are going to get stitched up again they will fight this to the end and clear our name

 

[Dribble]

Yeah, that is something Simon Jordan and others have said: if you've not got anything to hide why don't you show us? But for a major corporation to basically hand over all its emails and communications is just something no one is going to ever do gladly. And like you say, City and Liverpool obviously hate it each other at a boardroom level. The more I think about it the more I think there is something very similar to CAS happening.

It's the only logical conclusion. How can our direct competitors, (4 of which are bitter enemies) be expected to fairly adjudicate over City?

In no other walk of life is this allowed to happen for obvious reasons. This is why the PL wants their league to remain a closed shop, & why City favour independent regulation...

 

[bluealf]

A gathering of gash

It was meant to be cornucopia and now you have preserved my error by quoting me, bugger lol

 

[Blueknows]

Expect the Independent Panel to be a rag, a red-scouser and another gooner. That sounds fair and will be swept under the carpet or fully justified by their client journalists.

One of the 3 has links to arselona how is that independent ?

 

[JewelZee]

If anything this investigation would encourage potential new owners.

If you’re buying into an industry with a load of rules and regulations, you would want to know those rules are enforced.

Would you? Even if you knew those rules favored a select few members while restricting your own ability to grow? Not me...

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Ian Cheeseman's tweeted that the "big hitters" are at Pep's press conference at 1.30. Does this include Ferran? Khaldoon?

I think he is referring to himself!