PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

tolmie's hairdoo said:
Once bitten and all that?

Remember when Uefa said we could discount wages prior to 2010 for FFP and then decided to change the rules and factor them in so we were fucked.

Another example of Premier League trying to cover all the bases and having studied the CAS proceedings.
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Slightly different I think. UEFA's rules covered a three year monitoring period, so the current year the rules were changed and two previous years. I can imagine them getting away with that. Shady as fuck but not without (some) reason.

The PL can't change rules in 2023, though, and then say they apply to pre-2018, or even to requests made pre-2023, if that is indeed what they have done. I guess the club and its directors know what they are doing. The people involved just won a 440 million lawsuit from Madrid, so I think they can handle the PL.
 
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I would have thought that being part of the Premier League establishment (Chair of the Premier League Judicial Panel) was a rather more germane objection than him being an Arsenal supporter. It can hardly be an independent process if someone closely associated with one of the parties is chairing the panel.
 
domalino said:
What amazing timing for a leak.
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Ducado said:
I doubt the PL will want to take this all the way to the Courts, things can get very nasty indeed, and the potential to bankrupt the league is always there (lawyers are not cheap )

I could also imagine pressure being applied by the UK government to make this go away
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If the P/L withdraw their accusations, could CITY sue the P/L for defamation?
 
Grassland Blue said:
If the P/L withdraw their accusations, could CITY sue the P/L for defamation?
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I would doubt they would or would want to, the PL is the water we swim in

I still maintain that this whole charade is nothing but an attempt to tarnish the Club and it's achievements

My suspicion is before it gets too nasty and dirty washing is being displayed all over the place, political pressure will be applied to make this all go away, the PL is worth a lot of money to the British Economy and not forgetting the links between governments
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Once bitten and all that?

Remember when Uefa said we could discount wages prior to 2010 for FFP and then decided to change the rules and factor them in so we were fucked.

Another example of Premier League trying to cover all the bases and having studied the CAS proceedings.
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If I remember rightly the pre-2010 wages could still be discounted but UEFA's original model showed this being applied to the whole three-year reporting period. They tweaked it so that it applied to losses each year in that period rather than the aggregate - and lo and behold the accounts we'd already submitted showed a loss even after the discounting of pre-2010 wages so the discount was disallowed.
 
FantasyIreland said:
The best team this league has ever witnessed,no better advert for the Premier League brand......and these cunts still want to fuck us over.

Sad,desperate,short sighted,cunts.
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I'll be surprised if they want to. I imagine that a small number of clubs have applied significant pressure and the PL have bowed to it. Unless you were absolutely certain of guilt, taking City to task is very, very risky.
 
Grassland Blue said:
If the P/L withdraw their accusations, could CITY sue the P/L for defamation?
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It's not in our interest or theirs to do that. Neither party wants this to get messy.

I actually think this challenge by City is an open door invitation to make it all go away.

Premier League can say we did lodge charges but City didn't turn over the information and City can say we weren't obliged to turn over that information but here's our publicly issued accounts and here's all the information post rule change...

Maybe I'm blindly optimistic but there is a way out for both sides here.
 
MCFC1993 said:
It's not in our interest or theirs to do that. Neither party wants this to get messy.

I actually think this challenge by City is an open door invitation to make it all go away.

Premier League can say we did lodge charges but City didn't turn over the information and City can say we weren't obliged to turn over that information but here's our publicly issued accounts and here's all the information post rule change...

Maybe I'm blindly optimistic but there is a way out for both sides here.
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But that would be a way out for PL which leaves us looking guilty, as if we're not already in everyone else's eyes, and those on whattsapp drip-feed reminded of that suggestion every day by no-mark shit-theorists all over social media, and MSM! We need some vindication IMO...
 
train man said:
But that would be a way out for PL which leaves us looking guilty, as if we're not already in everyone else's eyes, and those on whattsapp drip-feed reminded of that suggestion every day by no-mark shit theorist all over social media, and MSM! We need some vindication IMO...
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Those who want us to be guilty will view us as guilty even if it's ruled that we're innocent.

We just want it to go away. This off-field stuff has been ongoing since the takeover.

This is the last of it.
 
Claytop said:
Probably, who cares though. We just need them to disappear so it's not in the background to every conversation about our team.
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We should care, because otherwise it won't disappear, it will be there forever, as you point out above.
We need to show that the whole fucking thing was a witch hunt and the PL were manipulated by the hatefuls to try to bring us down.
 
MCFC1993 said:
It's not in our interest or theirs to do that. Neither party wants this to get messy.

I actually think this challenge by City is an open door invitation to make it all go away.

Premier League can say we did lodge charges but City didn't turn over the information and City can say we weren't obliged to turn over that information but here's our publicly issued accounts and here's all the information post rule change...

Maybe I'm blindly optimistic but there is a way out for both sides here.
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Ending it however good that is on a technicality is only to allow the rumors of cheating to continue.

"Irrefutable evidence" get it shown and stop this crap once and for all.
 
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City should ask for Ric Parry instead. ;-)

The reigning Premier League champions are believed to be disputing both the legality of the charges brought against them and the barrister in charge of the process.

According to the Times, the dispute has arisen in relation to changes in the English top-flight's rules, with the six-time champions of the belief that they should not apply to investigations into alleged rule breaches before their introduction.

In addition to that, the club are believed to have challenged the involvement of Murray Rosen KC - a self-proclaimed supporter of City's direct title challengers Arsenal.

Rosen is the barrister at the head of the Premier League's independent judicial panel - the person in charge of appointing a chair for the disciplinary commission with rules allowing him to appoint himself.
 
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