PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
Interesting that Everton were charged with breaches after City, also that the specifics haven’t been laid out where every man and is dog is salivating about 115 charges for us. Everton do actually have a hearing date pencilled in for October, why is there not one for City yet? Are they not confident of what evidence they have to fuck us over with?
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I think you are correct
If the PL had much on us they would have set the wheels in motion by now.
(See my earlier posts).
 
petrusha said:
As noted a couple of posts above, about ten weeks ago, the President of the UAE "with the approval of the UAE Federal Supreme Council, ... [appointed] Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Minister of Presidential Court, as UAE Vice President, alongside His Highness Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai".

The Abu Dhabi newspaper The National says that Mansour will now be working with the President and the other Vice President. I haven't researched what he'll be doing, but on the face of it it seems like a big step up from his previous role.
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They haven’t said what he will be working on. Not sure if this new post carries any executive power.
 
argyle said:
As if someone on twitter would know such stuff.

Whoever told him that, heard it from someone else, who heard it from someone else...

Sounds believable because it echos things said on here but don't believe things just because you want it to be true.
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A bit like rags and dippers thinking 'next year is their year.....'
 
bluenova said:
I always think this kind of thing is overplayed - the World is full of respected businessmen who are up to all sorts of shenanigans. From what I can see, especially those with British honours, who work closely with the Government.

But I do see your overall point - there is far too much made of the City ownership, and I suspect a huge amount of that is simply because this country is full of Liverpool and United fans (because anyone who is over 18 grew up with one or the other as the team to follow if you wanted "your" team to win trophies).
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It’s all they can really have a go at tbh - apart from the tired empty seats jibes. I agree the point about respected businessmen who definitely have to “push the boundaries” at the very least. On the point regarding British honours/Government, I spent a few years involved in large infrastructure developments in various Countries and in terms of “shenanigans”, projects in South and East Asia and Africa were on an eye-watering scale! The UK is well towards to very top end of Countries ranked by low levels of corruption. Our Sheikh has known nothing other than fabulous personal wealth and wouldn’t involve himself in anything grubby. Definitely overplayed.
 
Rory Bluelow said:
It’s all they can really have a go at tbh - apart from the tired empty seats jibes. I agree the point about respected businessmen who definitely have to “push the boundaries” at the very least. On the point regarding British honours/Government, I spent a few years involved in large infrastructure developments in various Countries and in terms of “shenanigans”, projects in South and East Asia and Africa were on an eye-watering scale! The UK is well towards to very top end of Countries ranked by low levels of corruption. Our Sheikh has known nothing other than fabulous personal wealth and wouldn’t involve himself in anything grubby. Definitely overplayed.
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I am sure he's a stand up bloke, but not sure that's an argument that wins based on past history of fabulously wealthy people ;)

I prefer to keep it simple:

Cheating = spending as much as United and Liverpool?

Sportwashing = given that this is likely to be raised by someone frothing about human rights (with very little knowledge), ask them how they think the whole sportswashing thing is going?
 
blueyorkie said:
I don’t think we were found guilty of anything image rights related (as per @Prestwich_Blue ). However we closed down Fordham pre 2018
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Where did I say WE were found guilty?
We weren't, but like lots of of othe PL clubs we could see Image Rights were/are an issue that HMRC would not let allow clubs/players take out of general taxation, so we got rid of our arrangements before we got investigated and paid back tax and interest accordingly.
 
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all of a sudden i feel very very confident these charges are now going to be dropped and a massive lawsuit hitting the red tops and premier lg for defamation, even possible 'and i think it has' gone political behind the scenes, get the cheque books out manure and dippers we need a couple of signings, sit back and light a big cuban up and watch it all unfold
 
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blueyorkie said:
I don’t think we were found guilty of anything image rights related (as per @Prestwich_Blue ). However we closed down Fordham pre 2018
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UEFA held discussions with us in 2015 about the Fordham arrangements and they ended in 2018. I assume we reported all image rights payments after 2015. If there was any issue, UEFA would have charged us in 2019.
 
marco said:
all of a sudden i feel very very confident these charges are now going to be dropped and a massive lawsuit hitting the red tops and premier lg for defamation, even possible 'and i think it has' gone political behind the scenes, get the cheque books out manure and dippers we need a couple of signings, sit back and light a big cuban up and watch it all unfold
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Dream on pal. This is going the distance and, as usual, we'll suck it up, put make-up over the bruises and come back for more.
 
bluealf said:
My straight answer is...

HH Sheikh Mansour is vice president and deputy PM of the UAE, he is also a respected businessman around the world, why would he feel the need to be cheating, on top of that, their culture is one of honour and to be caught cheating would be hugely shameful for him and Khaldoon as well.

The other thing that gets me about 'sports washing' is the things that they decide are or are not 'sports washing' I mean take horse racing for example, the Arab input into UK racing was seen as a huge plus and in fact, a saviour of the whole racing scene but buying Manchester City is most assuredly 'sports washing'.

It is odd that Sky sports goes down this route so much, considering the fact that one of HH Sheikh Mansour's companies partnered up with BSB to form Sky News Arabia

He owns the Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation (ADMIC) which partnered with British Sky Broadcasting to establish Sky News Arabia – a new Arabic-language news channel headquartered in Abu Dhabi.

I mean, you are either against Arab business or for it, unlike Sky who seem to want both slices of the cake.

He is also an Honorary Knight Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire since 2013, so again ok to get a British honour but not okay to buy a sports business in this country.

Anyways, I've rambled on too much lol

Not Guilty, M'lud is the expected call.
Pal
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Thank u that's a gr8 reply
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Dream on pal. This is going the distance and, as usual, we'll suck it up, put make-up over the bruises and come back for more.
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You're normally more positive than that PB - I'm feeling less confident now if you think we're going to be 'bruised' as opposed to wiping the floor with the corrupt PL representatives
 
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