PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[supercity88]

The opposite will happen. You forget when we are cleared no one will decide to read or educate themselves on it. We are guilty via peoples skewed bias to their clubs. I will get shot for this comment be we offer to much to the PL for the worst case scenarios.

Thankfully least we should have Everton and Newcastle in our corner these days.

Hope we make a mockery of the PL and all the warped stupid journalists when we win our case.

I'm talking about the wider media more than rival fans. The journalists that target City every day will find some way to bemoan the decision, but the fact Everton have been found guilty is evidence that they're willing to bring charges where they see a clear breach of rules. If we're not guilty then they'll have to provide a statement confirming such. The issue with the CAS ruling is that we were fined for non-compliance which everyone took to mean that we were guilty and just got away with it on the time-barred allegations. They didn't read the report in full to see that our non-compliance was due to concerns regarding UEFA leaks which CAS did acknowledge.

 

[citizen_maine]

I'm all for it mate if it happens and we get done for.

It's inevitable anyway in my opinion..In the next 25 years we will have a global league. That's my thinking.

Yep, you're certainly enthusiastic about us getting relegated

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Least Everton will have the best stadium in the championship

I think this will galvanise Everton and their fans like it did with City. You can be sure LFC Directors have been pushing this behind the scenes with Masters just like they tried to block the new stadium with Liverpool Council.

 

[HelloCity]

Disagree. City will drag this out asap. You can never be sure which way it’s going to go.

Drag out until a proper regulator is in place...

 

[I'm Blue]

Surely only Leicester would have any case?

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Leicester failed ffp.
Might have been their promotion season (?)
Not sure they should be opening that can of worms.

 

[Asa's left peg]

Be a bit unfair if a league 1 side gets promoted and we come down and replace their position? That in itself would be a court case surely?

And in regards to the fine... i think if we got put down a few divisions, that 250m fine would be worth paying to keep us at the top so to speak?

We'd get that for Harland alone, from Speckled Jim, Todd or Perez. There's an auction right there.

 

[KS55]

She made a statement an hour ago calling for Everton's points deduction to be stayed, & for the urgent introduction of an independent regulator.

Evidently this shocking decision isn't sitting well with politicians. I suspect the government will be forced to treat football clubs as they do all other businesses.

This is the fear UEFA had with the threat of FFP being challenged in the courts. Why should a football business be treated differently to a construction company?

Her call for the regulator urgently tells you everything. She knows.

 

[tweety]

This guy on a bus sat in front of me !!! Stop reading it after that. This plonker is so desperate that he's not even living in the real world anymore ! Of you pop on the next plane to fantasy island !

Hilarious stuff, supposed man in the know on the bus. Movers and shakers don't take the bus. Anyway he can have a laugh in the pub with his mates about how many he's triggered.

 

[ganganvince]

No because the rest will argue Everton may have had an even lower points tally had they not broke the rules and overspent.

Yes but could only affect third from bottom the other 2 would still be in bottom 3

 

[blue for life]

Already dickheads are asking why haven’t we been done??? Because we haven’t been found guilty yet you tits!!!

 

[Cobwebcat]

Wouldn’t we all love to be in our next Board meeting!

Our charges are serious but much harder to prove it seems.

 

[citizen_maine]

As for a Super League. City have signed a £250m fine levy if we tried to leave again.

Not sure we'd have to pay that if they threw us out though

 

[HelloCity]

They're trying to create a 'floor' here with this outcome so that future cases can be judged against it.

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Heard an Everton fan on talkshite before saying that if we've been sanctioned to a 10 point deduction then City should be relegated to the conference for what they have done. Firstly I thought how does he know what weve done and is the allegation even true then I thought what a twat.

Your thought process is spot on

 

[citizen_maine]

"was the result of Everton IRRESPONSIBLY taking a chance that things would turn out positive"

That is curious language in the judgement. Was it really irresponsible?
£20m is approx 10 places in the league, spread over a three year period that's 3 or 4 places better off than they actually finished , which itself could be a simple as a couple of losses instead of wins.

What does this tell ambitious teams for the future?
> Dont dare to dream ?
> know your place ?
> get back in your box ?
> take zero risk ?

Precisley what the cartel wanted from FFP

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Sky sports news makings excuses for Everton and feeling sorry for them. Wonder if they’ll be like this if we get done. I think not! They’ll be popping champagne and doing the fucking conga round the studio!

We'll never find out

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Not sure we'd have to pay that if they threw us out though

We wouldn't be invited. Turkey voting for Christmas.

 

[Bluearmy]

Leicester failed ffp.
Might have been their promotion season (?)
Not sure they should be opening that can of worms.

Time barred (and well forgotten about). Leicester will go after Everton :)

 

[waspish]

It's best to avoid Twitter and social media at the moment. I've obviously looked and it's a cesspit of the usual suspects mentioning us and the thick imbecile fans of other clubs screaming for our heads.

Love it Everytime I see "what about city" it gives me a warm glow inside..

 

[KS55]

Fortunately we attach no weight to the opinions of members of the British press. Henry Winter has since contributed to the club's official website, thereby demonstrating that we spend little time fretting over what people think about our decision to pay for strong legal representation.

There are days when I think that the club should be suing people to within an inch of their lives, but whilst it annoys me that they seldom defend the club in public, deep down I think their policy is right. We will keep calm, keep our counsel, and when the time is right, we'll act accordingly.

I tend to agree with that. If we are found largely innocent, Khaldoon should call for an end to the libels. If they don’t stop, we could make an example of one of them pour encourager les autres. We won’t need to become litigious.