PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[MCFCFanTX]

I want City to embrace the "villain/heel" persona so bad. We've been a "take the high road club" for too long. Start banning shit journalists, threaten legal action to tabloids, use our financial might in transfers, unsettle other club and their players, etc.

 

[creditunionhero]

Tbh, he's actually decent off camera. I know that's not what people want to hear, but he chats to eveyone and says hello. I can't lie he's been pretty nice to me and actually apologised after being a bit rude to me on one of the overlaps once. He just wants to be the funny guy in the room...

Never turn your back on the one who wants to be the funny guy in the room, it will be you he's trying to take the piss out of.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Perhaps this will open the eyes of many Blues who still won't have it that there is an agenda against us?
Since Sky's formation and the beginnings of their hand-in-hand relationship with the Pisscan and his cohorts, they have made no attempt to hide their dislike of all things Man City. But so many people accused me of rampant paranoia I began to have doubts myself. But this whole business confirms my long-held suspicion that certain high-profile figures within the game DO have an agenda against us.

Remember the morning when we won at CAS? The sly sports studio was like a funeral, it was a mixture of shock and disappointment that we had won.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Never turn your back on the one who wants to be the funny guy in the room, it will be you he's trying to take the piss out of.

He’s about as funny as treading on a wet turd in your bare feet

 

[Agueroooooooooooo]

Here's another prize cnut

Pep Guardiola's press conference delusion shows he is now immovably bonded to Man City

Guardiola was speaking for the first time since City were charged with more than 100 breaches of the Premier League's financial regulations

inews.co.uk

 

[remember arthur mann]

I wondered why you spelt defence in the American spelling. Have a good day and thanks for your insight

Ffs ! You forgot y'all.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Remember the morning when we won at CAS? The sly sports studio was like a funeral, it was a mixture of shock and disappointment that we had won.

And fucking great to watch for a change !

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Didn’t sound like pep would take that deal today.

No but it's nothing to do with Pep is it? And neither he nor Khaldoon has any say if the PL drop the charges.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Through all the drama, let’s just remember we have broken no laws and have not been involved in the creation of ffp or any sort of match fixing. Owner investment! It’s laughable.

And they even can’t prove that.

Sometimes it is worth having a double take. The PL, one of the biggest global brands in the world, frowns upon an owner investing in his product but accepts someone borrowing hundreds of millions from foreign banks and living off the dividends. Think about it a British business sector that hates external investment (you can only spend what you earn) when the country is crumbling because of a lack of investment. It is a parallel universe.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

And that would be fine wouldn't it? Then everyone can say there was pressure on them via Abu Dhabi and we therefore must have something to hide.

We can win battles but we can probably never truly win this war. I think I'll be crying all the way to Wembley and our trophy parades.

I don’t want them to drop the case, I want City to provide the documents that show the Etisalat deal wasn’t being funded by ADUG. None of time barred excuse, I want us to be fully cleared.

 

[Blueknows]

Prestwich blue explains it excellently

 

[marco]

And the media ignores the real whistleblowers:

i remember this coming out,i may be wrong but was he put under a gaging order or something to do with losing money and he went very quite

 

[waspish]

Here's another prize cnut

Pep Guardiola's press conference delusion shows he is now immovably bonded to Man City

Guardiola was speaking for the first time since City were charged with more than 100 breaches of the Premier League's financial regulations

inews.co.uk

He is being disingenuous by bringing up the settlement we take the pinch punishment pep was talking about the cas

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I don’t want them to drop the case, I want City to provide the documents that show the Etisalat deal wasn’t being funded by ADUG. I want us to be fully cleared.

Exactly. Which is why it would be a bad thing.

 

[PhdWave]

I read through the entire CAS award today and I really think they lay out everything we need to know about this case.

Specifically, CAS asked what evidence Mr Lindsay, UEFA’s financial witness would need to prove their allegations. And he replied -

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"[...] that exercise requires extensive access to accounting records that - - I talk about reviewing contemporaneous emails, relevant documents, board papers, where in essence it would have to be a very wide-ranging review to try to determine whether or not these payment mechanisms happened or not and it would require access not only to the books and records of the Club, of which I've seen very little, but more importantly it would require access to the books and records of both of the sponsors​

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There is simply no way that the Premier League have been rooting through the accounts and bank records of the other parties involved here. Whether that’s sponsors, or Mancini, or Fordham, or players.

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It would require police powers to find City guilty of these charges.

I mean logically this has to be the case isnt it? City accounts are simply going to show x amount of money from the sponsors. Whether the sponsors themselves got the money from somewhere or not is simply a different route. Even the higher ups at city like Ferran and Txiki will not know the trial if Khaldoon arranged something with the Etihad (hypothetically). Why/how could they know?

As others have mentioned, if a whistleblower player/manager steps forward and shows his back account receiving money from UAE related account every year (and he has to have some kind of evidence that this money is coming from city's owners) it seems impossible.

 

[twosips]

Never turn your back on the one who wants to be the funny guy in the room, it will be you he's trying to take the piss out of.

Oh almost certainly. Think he's like that with everyone. Just a clown.

 

[ScottSinclair]

And that would be fine wouldn't it? Then everyone can say there was pressure on them via Abu Dhabi and we therefore must have something to hide.

We can win battles but we can probably never truly win this war. I think I'll be crying all the way to Wembley and our trophy parades.

As far as I am concerned, if we win this case the war is won. The media, the people and akk their opinions will be as irrelevant as they have always been

 

[East Level 2]

From a mate (I am only a messenger!):

"Spoke with an MP mate who I won't say (there are some good ones BTW). The Dept of Culture, Media and Sport (think current sports minister is Lucy Fraser) are incandescent with the PL's antics and the push for the independent regulator is being accelerated. Furthermore there are lots of shit stick stories on the horizon about the PL, backhanders etc, going to come out in due course inc monopoly corruption in regards to tv revenues and access. Bottom line is they are supporters of City as a catalyst for change".

It's interesting from the point of view that independent regulation could come in before our hearing takes place. If that happens, our charges could well be reviewed and even dropped.

I'd love that to be true but we've heard about corruption stories about to hit the fan for a long time and nothing public has happened. The loss of face for the PL if they drop the charges would be so severe they would have to lose their executives and advisors.

 

[schfc6]

She’s quoting Guardiola, in what world is that even remotely close to being libellous?

It’s annoying, it’s a bit childish and she’s got an awful voice, but you can’t claim everything you don’t like is libel.

I think her voice is sexy as fuck..

It’s not libellous agreed. It’s inflammatory and feeds into the media frenzy. But she’s simply proving Pep’s point..

 

[Shads]

But the PL panel is NOT court, and we have no idea what, if any legal standard of proof, or even evidence

We do. It’s in the PL rules. One of the other posters went through it in detail in response to this post. It’s somewhere between Balance of probabilities and beyond a reasonable doubt.