PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Jesus H Gabz]

Could we have a whip-round to buy Utd? Give the Glazers £10bn in recognition of their services to football. Then run the club into the ground but slowly, a slow lingering demise over the next 15 years would be nice.

does raise a valid question, what if entities from Abu Dhabi where to bid, Can you imagine the outrage, yet it’d be perfectly fine for the good old USA to own multiple clubs, same for the Qatari’s if they are successful (with their links to PSG). I believe the entire football collective would come together to prevent it, even if only tedious links to our owners were proved

 

[RodneyRodney]

Just buy it then close it down, why wait.

The same reason a cat doesn't kill a mouse instantly, but toys with it , until it gets bored . . .and then

 

[GRB]

Can anyone send that picture of pep as superhans?

 

[SJT]

At least the parking will be better when we're in the Scottish 3rd division

 

[Kippax77]

At least the parking will be better when we're in the Scottish 3rd division

It's a nightmare around Station Park Forfar

 

[KS55]

Surely any buyer would also want to see the debts hidden in the cayman island accounts?

We don’t know what is in the data set provided to bidders.
Any debts impacting on the balance sheet of what is for sale would have to be declared.

 

[johnevans]

You can read the discussion here ...

Fan-led Review and Football White Paper

– in the House of Commons at 4:32 pm 20 February 2023

www.theyworkforyou.com

Luke Evans, Conservative MP for Bosworth can get to fuck, the smarmy prick.

"

Luke Evans Conservative, Bosworth​

The Minister is a diligent man, and I am pleased that he has taken the time to look into the system and is coming forward with a White Paper next week. He cannot comment specifically on the Manchester City issue, but the fact that there are more than 100 charges—particularly about not co-operating —does raise questions. Will he confirm that the independent regulator will have the power to compel clubs to co-operate with the Premier League and the authorities when they are dealing with such important issues?"

Perhaps someone at Westminster could point out out to Luke Evans MP (btw, no relation.. I joined the Labour Party as a student in 1973 and remain to this day) that:

(a) charges laid are not evidence of actual events and actual behaviours, even when the volume of charges appears to be 'high'
(b) being charged with 'non-cooperation' by CAS and PL is a nonsense, given the right of any organisation in any field of operation to refuse access to its documents/records without specific charges being laid (to prevent 'fishing expeditions')
(c) of the latest iteration of English footballing power, the 'Big Six', only one of those clubs has voted in favour of the PL accepting the independent regulatory oversight Luke Evans is in favour of, namely Manchester City
(d) probably 99.9% of City supporters agree with the club's stance on point (c)

Yet another grandstanding, bandwagon-jumping Tory twunt who doesn't know what he's talking about..

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Made me laugh that...........

 

[nmc]

Made me laugh that...........

A bit tame…. don’t you think.

 

[jockblue]

I see Miggles has released one of his greatest hits rehash of his work on our CAS hearing, explaining why it was all wrong and that we will get a ban when the PL are finished with us. So tedious. Not going to link to it but it’s in the independent…

 

[madloaf]

I see Miggles has released one of his greatest hits rehash of his work on our CAS hearing, explaining why it was all wrong and that we will get a ban when the PL are finished with us. So tedious. Not going to link to it but it’s in the independent…

Don't bother reading it. Here is a summary.

 

[nmc]

Perhaps someone at Westminster could point out out to Luke Evans MP (btw, no relation.. I joined the Labour Party as a student in 1973 and remain to this day) that:

(a) charges laid are not evidence of actual events and actual behaviours, even when the volume of charges appears to be 'high'
(b) being charged with 'non-cooperation' by CAS and PL is a nonsense, given the right of any organisation in any field of operation to refuse access to its documents/records without specific charges being laid (to prevent 'fishing expeditions')
(c) of the latest iteration of English footballing power, the 'Big Six', only one of those clubs has voted in favour of the PL accepting the independent regulatory oversight Luke Evans is in favour of, namely Manchester City
(d) probably 99.9% of City supporters agree with the club's stance on point (c)

Yet another grandstanding, bandwagon-jumping Tory twunt who doesn't know what he's talking about..

An ignorant Tory…. There’s a thing.

 

[cheekybids]

I see Miggles has released one of his greatest hits rehash of his work on our CAS hearing, explaining why it was all wrong and that we will get a ban when the PL are finished with us. So tedious. Not going to link to it but it’s in the independent…

I’ll pass

 

[LeonardoDaVnci]

Don't bother reading it. Here is a summary.

The more I read that type of faecal smear masquerading as journalism the more confident I am that MCFC will prevail. There are only two questions. Did Etisalat Telecoms provide sponsorship funds to MCFC ? Did Etihad Airways provide sponsorship funds to MCFC ?. In both cases the answers is Yes. I believe this is the irrefutable evidence the club has stated it possesses. The 6 stolen emails presented at CAS did NOT provide ANY evidence to the contrary. The whole thing is just about reputational damage.

 

[Blueboy73]

I see Miggles has released one of his greatest hits rehash of his work on our CAS hearing, explaining why it was all wrong and that we will get a ban when the PL are finished with us. So tedious. Not going to link to it but it’s in the independent…

I'd rather shit in my hands and clap than read anything that wanker Delooney has written.
Fair play to you for not posting the link.

 

[halfcenturyup]

The more I read that type of faecal smear masquerading as journalism the more confident I am that MCFC will prevail. There are only two questions. Did Etisalat Telecoms provide sponsorship funds to MCFC ? Did Etihad Airways provide sponsorship funds to MCFC ?. In both cases the answers is Yes. I believe this is the irrefutable evidence the club has stated it possesses. The 6 stolen emails presented at CAS did NOT provide ANY evidence to the contrary. The whole thing is just about reputational damage.

Etihad is clear I think, Etisalat is a little trickier although I would imagine the club has more proof that what they did was reasonable, than proof the PL has that it wasn't. Other sponsorships small. Mancini no serious problem, Fordham a common business practice with good reason. Would be my assessment.

Fine for non-cooperation and a few warning words about Etisalat would be my likely outcome. No chance of proving accounts weren't true and fair, maybe some minor regulation breaches we don't know about.

 

[petrusha]

I see Miggles has released one of his greatest hits rehash of his work on our CAS hearing, explaining why it was all wrong and that we will get a ban when the PL are finished with us. So tedious. Not going to link to it but it’s in the independent…

Life's too short to devote time to reading something that I know before I start will be an uninformed heap of badly argued shit. Reading Delaney on the business/legal aspects of football is a more futile exercise than would be poring over a 10,000-word analysis by Richard Madeley of Immanuel Kant's critique of the ontological argument.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Life's too short to devote time to reading something that I know before I start will be an uninformed heap of badly argued shit. Reading Delaney on the business/legal aspects of football is a more futile exercise than would be poring over a 10,000-word analysis by Richard Madeley of Immanuel Kant's critique of the ontological argument.

Richard Madeley the renowned 19th century philosopher?

 

[Kakhaber The Great]

I see Miggles has released one of his greatest hits rehash of his work on our CAS hearing, explaining why it was all wrong and that we will get a ban when the PL are finished with us. So tedious. Not going to link to it but it’s in the independent…

 

[johnevans]

Life's too short to devote time to reading something that I know before I start will be an uninformed heap of badly argued shit. Reading Delaney on the business/legal aspects of football is a more futile exercise than would be poring over a 10,000-word analysis by Richard Madeley of Immanuel Kant's critique of the ontological argument.

Quite.. but I would suggest a few fellow Blues might gain insights by engaging with Kant's 'Ontological Argument' (and indeed Hegel's later stance on these matters), especially with regard to the position taken by Kant on the 'Barm vs Muffin Argument' (I gather he was firmly a 'Muffin Man')