PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

pardoe said:
Whilst respecting that the person who shared is a longstanding poster, if our defence to accusations of what basically amounts to a decade of alleged accounting fraud is "but...but...referees" my gut feeling is we might be up shite creek without a paddle.

I think he's been fed some hooky information. No issue with him sharing it amongst friends, but it sounds very far-fetched, and even if true wouldn't really impact on our case.

When weighing things of this nature up I always ask myself how I'd feel if I'd read it on RAWK.
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Isn’t it likely that there’ll be many strands to our defence?
 
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That Football is Fixed Twitter account is absolute gobbledegook. I know we all want muck to sling, but look at the reach of their tweets, the language used, the following to followers ratio. If you believe that sort of stuff you'll be out demonstrating against 5G masts next. It's a load of bollocks, sorry.

We can do a lot better than buying into this sort of shite, surely?
 
Football is Fixed is a run by a mentalist.

If you you want to believe his post from this morning ( which is just pulled from this thread ) then presumably you believe that John Stones is a match fixer - cause that’s what he has been saying recently.

Or that football agent John Colquhoun is the master of all corruption that manipulates the whole of world football.

All absolute tripe.

Why not start quoting David Icke Matt LeTissier shite as well.
 
Ric said:
Again, I might be talking bollocks but I think that might be a cumulative thing. I.e. if your accounts in, say, 2012-13 were falsified then each subsequent year’s accounts are therefore also wrong as a result. Don’t think they have “evidence of malpractice” for every individual year per se, as you put it.
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Maybe but, more likely the PL’s case is as weak as UEFA’s and this is more about throwing shit and damaging a brand. You have to think there was a pre calculated degree of sensationalism in issuing a dictate of 100+ crimes… to date we haven’t seen a shred of evidence and it’s really not this ‘Shower of shits‘ modus operandi not to leak stuff to their mates in the media.
 
WRicko said:
I carnt quote the rule I saw it mentioned somewhere someone mentioned it I think it was Colin on the video blog with Ian Cheesman. As I am not sure it is even a rule just a principle clearly there would be something otherwise players wouldn’t get a weekly wage for playing football they would get 100% of there income via image rights and avoid the NI in fact they would probably avoid income tax by having it paid to a company and reducing how much they receive and receiving it as dividends.

Also the reason for the sale is irrelevant to this point but the reason for the sale is obvious
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Clubs are required to adhere to the convention ( if that’s the right word) agreed or allowable under HMRC regulations.Image rights have been the subject of a number of tax tribunals. In terms of HMRC they really didn’t get a clear direction until 2019

As long ago as 2109 over 44 professional clubs and 177 players were under investigation following issues around payment of image rights.It used the be the case that there was an acceptable % paid by way of image rights but the approach now is that the image rights payments are valued on a player by player basis.Such valuations are independent.

Under both FA rules and indeed copied into the PL rule book (I can’t find such restrictions in either FIFA or UEFA rule sums payable have to be paid by the club or from a subsidiary company within the group.I am not sure that’s an historical rule but suspect the wording in older FA versions would have said something along the lines all payments have to be made by the club.

As the image rights have to be included in the players standard contract they can not be paid by a third party

It is allowable to pay the image rights into a UK registered company but payments to an offshore company are considered to be remuneration and subject to both PAYE and Class 1 NIC.

My understanding is that when Bohley and his associates purchased Chelsea issues with taxation apparently part of which revoked around image rights was an issue and Chelsea seemingly made a voluntary disclosure.
 
Prophet of Doom said:
Football is Fixed is a run by a mentalist.

If you you want to believe his post from this morning ( which is just pulled from this thread ) then presumably you believe that John Stones is a match fixer - cause that’s what he has been saying recently.

Or that football agent John Colquhoun is the master of all corruption that manipulates the whole of world football.

All absolute tripe.

Why not start quoting David Icke Matt LeTissier shite as well.
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They are certainly very specific in their 'analysis'. Didn't Colquhoun sell his agency some years ago?
Maybe they are so loony they aren't worth taking legal action against.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Isn’t it saying that the cartel is led by LFC rather than specifying which other Club’s Board we met with. It’s not very clear.
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Only thing I can think is if the rags get bought out by Qatar Liverpool be in the shit with the no buyers at the moment stuck with FSG who love taking money out! If Qatar can have two clubs also maybe Liverpool hoping someone from Abu Dhabi buy them!
 
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