PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

LongsightM13 said:
And still there are a handful of flat earthers on here who insist there is no co-ordinated agenda against our club
The football equivalent of those poor Japanese fellas living under bushes on some remote godforsaken island in the pacific and still thinking they were at war 5 years after Hiroshima
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Off topic:
It was 29 years
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jrb said:
Mike Keegan and the Daily United shit stirring again.

Link added this time.

10 years old!

According to a 2020 UEFA report obtained by the makers of a YouTube film, the Treble winners took two £15m payments from an Abu Dhabi-based individual in 2012 and 2013, sums that should have come from a club sponsor.

UEFA's financial control body concluded that the payments, meant to have arrived from UAE-owned telecoms firm Etisalat, were actually 'disguised equity funding'. It alleged the money actually came from City's Abu Dhabi-based owners, which was a breach of their rules.

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Manchester City 'were paid £30m by a mystery figure from the UAE'

MIKE KEEGAN: According to a 2020 UEFA report, City took two £15m payments from an Abu Dhabi-based individual in 2012 and 2013, sums that should have come from a club sponsor.
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Again, not doing their homework.

City acknowledge that the payments were made by Mansour on behalf of Etisalat in 2011/12 and 2012/13. Mansour was reimbursed in 2015 by the company. It's documented in the books of Etisalat, MCFC and ADUG. The Etisalat chairman rejected in person any idea that the company received a rogue payment. They are a publicly listed company, audited to rigorous standards. How shit are these journalists? Seriously.
 
LongsightM13 said:
The irony of a film accusing City of using a mysterious hidden investor, made by mysterious hidden producers, is too glorious and hilarious for words
McGeehan’s involvement pretty much rules out Qatar and points to Americans and the WhatsApp group
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Shadowy I think he said at one point. There was zero facts In the revelations.

David Dein has gone up in my estimation. He wanted no part of it.
 
Fuzzy80 said:
I would assume they can go back 5 years from the point they make the charge not open the investigation.

However PL rules maybe different to others.

Ultimately it’s not going to court but to a PL independent panel (I can tell you now no panel is independent if they are being paid by one of the parties, not suggesting foul play but that they will likely start with the PL statement of case as the facts with City having to disprove (making it an uphill battle)).

I think they are likely to accept it and explore it.

They will stick us with something but UEFA was the one. Very good chance what we alleged did, if we did was to get through UEFA FFP, Prem FFP we would be a lot more likely to pass anyway.
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The Premier league have to have evidence for each of the 115 charges they have brought against City.
City do not have to disprove anything.
The burden of proof in this country is on the accuser and not the defendant.
 
John Wayne said:
Isn't this completely covered by the attachment?
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If I am reading that correctly then the PL would need a miracle proving against that? City, ADUG, Etisalat and EY all have shown the transaction to be above board. There’s no new smoking gun, it’s a rehash of something that based on that screenshot the club would surely have had little problem talking through had it not been time-barred?
 
LongsightM13 said:
And still there are a handful of flat earthers on here who insist there is no co-ordinated agenda against our club
The football equivalent of those poor Japanese fellas living under bushes on some remote godforsaken island in the pacific and still thinking they were at war 5 years after Hiroshima
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Honestly, anyone who can’t see what our enemies/rivals are doing is beyond fucking hope. It’s glaringly obvious.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
It's not true that time barring doesn't exist under Premier League rules?

Under English law it still remains to be five years?
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This is only a guidance and not a rule though. If the evidence is compelling enough then a judge can still choose to hear the case. I’d like to think the clubs evidence is strong enough that this won’t have to be used as a defence. If it is our defence then we’re up shits creek without a paddle
 
It’ll never stop until firstly pep clears off,and eventually our owner decides to cash in,if he even at any time even considers it,as for these shambolic farcical charges once this is eventually all cleared up it’ll be something else ..
 
John Wayne said:
Interesting that UEFA didn't even present transactional evidence to contradict MCFC, ADUG, E&Y, or Etisalat. Moreover, they didn't even allege anything improper about the source of Etisalat's funding.

This really doesn't get off the ground at all. Good luck to the PL trying to attack Etisalat's operational activity.
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They did allege about the source of etisalats funding, it just wasn’t adjudicated upon as it was considered time barred.

It’s hard to think they wouldn’t have concluded the same as they did for the Etihad deal though given pretty much the same evidence was given as a rebuttal.

Personally I’ve always thought the etisalat one was the dodgy one though. There is a difference between it being dodgy and it being provable still though.
 
Chappie said:
The Premier league have to have evidence for each of the 115 charges they have brought against City.
City do not have to disprove anything.
The burden of proof in this country is on the accuser and not the defendant.
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That’s in a court of law. This is not a criminal trial.
That’s the worry.
 
Sleeping_Easy said:
This is only a guidance and not a rule though. If the evidence is compelling enough then a judge can still choose to hear the case. I’d like to think the clubs evidence is strong enough that this won’t have to be used as a defence. If it is our defence then we’re up shits creek without a paddle
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I’m not convinced that time-barred is our case. I think the media have spun it that way since the CAS result, because they had been writing for months how we were fucked and we were going to be banned blah blah blah. When the result came in, they were looking for anything save face. Time-barred stuff was their get out of jail free card, because they knew fine well, that are large portion of their readership were likely too lazy and/or too fucking stupid, to spend a few mins reading the actual report.
 
Cobwebcat said:
Investors must come to the UK now and think it’s being run by Monty Python.

I look at that show and feel so sorry for Khaldoon having to deal with this level of incompetence which, by the way, some will believe is true.

What has happened to this country? I know the World is a crazy place with social media but we must be near the top of the tree when it comes to stupidity now. It’s like we are actively trying to ruin ourselves.
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Ahem, I’ll pass on that one.
 
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