PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
I‘m sure he does. But, taking City down doesn’t further his cause any. Taking the PL down a peg, helps Spain hugely. I was reading some quotes by the agent of the Viking yesterday and one thing she said was that players ask for Madrid in Spain but when it comes to England, they ask for the Premier League. Many aren’t too bothered where, they just want to be here and play in it and that is what really worries Tebas.
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They'd have had a league as competitive as ours if the two greedy clubs hadn't carved up all the TV money between themselves.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
We don't consider them relevant in terms of what we can dismiss out of hand, based on the evidence we have.
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Is any of this likely to come out in the press or will that only happen after both parties have met?
If this was made public by a club statement I think that would be a good thing.
 
MCFC are a business with a turnover of hundreds of millions of pounds. So why would the Crown Prosecution Service not be involved when the PL accuses the executives of MCFC of False accounting repeatedly for over a decade. Maybe they have been in discussions with the PL and based on the evidence presented decided not pursue the case.
 
Off topic but the new "outrage" around Newcastle's ownership sounds very familiar:
Newcastle’s chairman, Yasir al-Rumayyan, was described in a US court document as “a sitting minister of the Saudi government”. It has led to Amnesty International calling for the league to re-examine the assurances given by Newcastle’s owners that the Saudi state would not have control of the club.
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Everyone accepted that the PIF was Saudi state money and that there is no legal reason why you can block it on that basis alone. How much does someone who works in the Saudi government being Chairman really change? Did they expect no Saudi's in the boardrooms or else that constitutes state control or something? It just seems so lazy, just how they try and use Sheikh Mansour's and Kahldoon's roles in Abu Dhabi/the UAE to justify their "state owned" comments.

Amanda Staveley, still seems to be the public face of it anyway, if it's an optics concern.
 
BringBackSwales said:
How sure are you about this pal?
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OP is as far as I can tell the most well-connected poster on here. Which is to say they don't always get it right 100%, but anything they do say is 99% what the noises coming out of the club are. So take what they say with a pinch of salt, but they're not a bullshitter or blagger either.
 
M18CTID said:
No doubt, but I also think he's jealous of the Premier League in general and how it's the most marketable league in the world.
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He is jealous. The Premier League has all the best coaches, managers and the best players want to play here. That used to be La Liga.
 
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The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
I‘m sure he does. But, taking City down doesn’t further his cause any. Taking the PL down a peg, helps Spain hugely. I was reading some quotes by the agent of the Viking yesterday and one thing she said was that players ask for Madrid in Spain but when it comes to England, they ask for the Premier League. Many aren’t too bothered where, they just want to be here and play in it and that is what really worries Tebas.
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All good points.
 
Chris in London said:
The only way I see it ending soon is a major climb down by the PL with us maybe accepting the non-cooperation charges and taking a relatively minor pinch on that.

Are you sensing the PL don’t have the appetite for the fight they picked?
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They never did...
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
You don’t announce major infrastructure plans and building work on the North stand if your business is about to take a massive hit from these Premier League sanctions. Think that demonstrates that the club believes it will be successful in the outcome with the mood music from their lawyers.
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Why are you injecting logic into this discussion? You do know that some on here are allergic to logic?
 
Goatmeal said:
If this was made public by a club statement I think that would be a good thing.
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Not looking to put a dampener on things and I always appreciate TH's posts on here and the transfer forum, but, haven't we already put out our official club statement saying what TH has said today?

As in, as much as I admire TH's enthusiasm and positivity on the subject, there's no new information here in terms of developments. We said at the outset that we had irrefutable evidence which would prove our innocence, TH is saying that we consider some of the charges off the table. The PL didn't and obviously still don't, so it's just reaffirming our own club's confidence on the matter and not much else?
 
Brightwell Bros. said:
OP is as far as I can tell the most well-connected poster on here. Which is to say they don't always get it right 100%, but anything they do say is 99% what the noises coming out of the club are. So take what they say with a pinch of salt, but they're not a bullshitter or blagger either.
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I absolutely know he isn’t a bullshitter and that he has as good connections as anyone in here, better in fact, hence why I asked him how sure he was
 
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