PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Mr Fraser said:
I suggest you ignore ProofMCFC, clearly WUM. has come to this forum 8th Dec 2023 to be enlightened about current allegations against City. Really?
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Not sure, mate. I speak with many City fans who don’t have a clue about what’s going on, they just stick to the footie. There’s even more from other clubs and it’s good to see that when this becomes an issue, they seek out the reality rather than what the red media tell them.
 
Ric said:
It’s all obviously hypothetical, of course, but I don’t think there’s any chance the board would stand down. I do think all hell would break loose with an unequivocal guilty verdict, and the ramifications for the game as a whole would be huge. There’s absolutely no way the likes of Khaldoon would stand down though imo. I genuinely don’t think it’ll come down to that anyway.
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And absolutely right. Our custodians hold respect high in their culture and they will see this as an attack on their integrity. They have also got a multi-billion pound business to protect and no way will they step back and allow certain PL clubs bring us to our knees and beg us to be onboard ‘their’ ship.

This is where I think we are at, the PL (United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Spurs) trying to force us to submit to their supposed might, after all, they’ve had their way for so many year’s. Our people won’t play ball like the rest of the league used to as we are a giant in our own right, meaning that we will fight them all the way, knowing that we are right.
 
Ric said:
It’s all obviously hypothetical, of course, but I don’t think there’s any chance the board would stand down. I do think all hell would break loose with an unequivocal guilty verdict, and the ramifications for the game as a whole would be huge. There’s absolutely no way the likes of Khaldoon would stand down though imo. I genuinely don’t think it’ll come down to that anyway.
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I think Abu Dhabi would need them to, the allegations are so serious that Sheikh Mansour can’t be seen to be endorsing or even responsible for it by keeping in place the people who presided over it.

Khaldoon might survive because he’s Khaldoon, but Soriano, Pearce would go IMO.
 
domalino said:
I think Abu Dhabi would need them to, the allegations are so serious that Sheikh Mansour can’t be seen to be endorsing it by keeping in place the people who presided over it.
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Mansour himself is implicit in the allegations, so he’s never throwing Khaldoon under a bus as that would be an admission of guilt, and also underplays just how senior a figure Khaldoon is. Soriano could theoretically be a sacrificial lamb, I guess, but again it’d still be an admission of guilt.

As mentioned, I don’t think we will be found guilty, but even if we were then we will continue to protest our innocence and appeal the decision. We are privately owned, so the owners will be under no pressure to sack the board unless the fans turned on them en masse, which I don’t think will happen because most see this as a witch-hunt.
 
Ric said:
Mansour himself is implicit in the allegations, so he’s never throwing Khaldoon under a bus as that would be an admission of guilt, and also underplays just how senior a figure Khaldoon is. Soriano could theoretically be a sacrificial lamb, I guess, but again it’d still be an admission of guilt.

As mentioned, I don’t think we will be found guilty, but even if we were then we will continue to protest our innocence and appeal the decision. We are privately owned, so the owners will be under no pressure to sack the board unless the fans turned on them en masse, which I don’t think will happen because most see this as a witch-hunt.
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The board survived running out of chips so I can’t see the fans turning on them for this.
 
domalino said:
I think Abu Dhabi would need them to, the allegations are so serious that Sheikh Mansour can’t be seen to be endorsing or even responsible for it by keeping in place the people who presided over it.

Khaldoon might survive because he’s Khaldoon, but Soriano, Pearce would go IMO.
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You can’t say SM won’t endorse those responsible then say Khaldoon will be fine.

Pearce and Khaldoon have UAE status far bigger and much more
important than being involved in City.

City will never accept any judgement against us and Soriano ain’t gonna be a patsy when he knows where all the skeletons are buried.

Sacking any board members is accepting findings.
 
Prophet of Doom said:
You can’t say SM won’t endorse those responsible then say Khaldoon will be fine.

Pearce and Khaldoon have UAE status far bigger and much more
important than being involved in City.

City will never accept any judgement against us and Soriano ain’t gonna be a patsy when he knows where all the skeletons are buried.

Sacking any board members is accepting findings.
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We will not accept anything other than being found innocent of all charges.
 
Ric said:
Not sure that’s strictly true, tbh. As at CAS, I reckon we’d accept the non-cooperation charges if we were cleared of the more serious allegations. Not that we get to dictate these things, of course.
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That’s a given, and why it was added.
 
Ric said:
Not sure that’s strictly true, tbh. As at CAS, I reckon we’d accept the non-cooperation charges if we were cleared of the more serious allegations. Not that we get to dictate these things, of course.
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Probably what they’ll pin on us and what we won’t challenge.. just so they can say they’ve got us for something
 
chaddblue said:
Probably what they’ll pin on us and what we won’t challenge.. just so they can say they’ve got us for something
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It’s quite possibly true as well, tbf. Not convinced that we have co-operated fully, although I understand why. Idiots like Carragher will take that as a sign of guilt, but he’s either being wilfully ignorant or is thick as shit.
 
Ric said:
It’s quite possibly true as well, tbf. Not convinced that we have co-operated fully, although I understand why. Idiots like Carragher will take that as a sign of guilt, but he’s either being wilfully ignorant or is thick as shit.
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The club don't have to have cooperated fully. They only have to cooperate to the extent required by the PL rules, and the UK law on which they are based, in each of the years concerned.
 
Ric said:
Mansour himself is implicit in the allegations, so he’s never throwing Khaldoon under a bus as that would be an admission of guilt, and also underplays just how senior a figure Khaldoon is. Soriano could theoretically be a sacrificial lamb, I guess, but again it’d still be an admission of guilt.

As mentioned, I don’t think we will be found guilty, but even if we were then we will continue to protest our innocence and appeal the decision. We are privately owned, so the owners will be under no pressure to sack the board unless the fans turned on them en masse, which I don’t think will happen because most see this as a witch-hunt.
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Word.
 
ProofMCFC said:
I guess that’s aimed at me. I’m as big a city fan as the next person on this forum, 20 minutes don’t pass by without city on my mind. I have 100% belief in the owners and the board, but even on this thread you have people who are 100% confident, some are doubtful and some believe a stitch up is on the cards, so even on this forum there’s a level of confusion.

I’m not worried but all I’m trying to do is find out whether I should be.
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You are not worried but you want to know if you should be worried? Sso you just want to gaslight ? what you are really saying is you want “proof”.




btw nice username but next time be little more creative ffs
 
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