PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

The thing I find hard to except is why only City. The fact that we are the only club with a 4 year investigation or more going on. Surely for the pl to be seen as honest and above board all pl clubs should be investigated to the same depth. If not than its clearly a witchhunt.
 
evidence is irrelevant in this case, it was never about right or wrong it was purely a fishing expedition put in place by the pl at the behest of its favourite clubs to show that they could govern themselves and didnt need an independent regulator, all they sought to do was reputational damage to the club to mitigate the fact that they couldnt do things as well as us, they couldnt have an upstart club like us overtake them by being just purely well run and doing things the right way, nah couldnt have that so they had to make it look like we were the bad guys to mitigate their own failings, its a tale as old as time in some respects but much worse these days, it is the go to these days that instead of looking at your own failings its so much easier to blame someone else.
 
give it to gordon said:
Why would the pl risk their reputation and their brand in going after City being cleared by CAS ?

Personally I believe City are 100% innocent but for the life of me cant understand why the pl would risk coming after City

Reading what's going on with other clubs and possible failing of the ffp soon all clubs will be under a 4 year investigation, starting with rags, arsenal, Chelsea, forest, etc.

The pl will run out of money having to employ all these financial experts and lawyers
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It's amazing what people will do to cover their own backs. Who would have thought that the Post Office would launch a witchunt against a group of innocent postmasters to cover up flaws in their systems. Never underestimate how stupid some people can behave when put under pressure. The PL is facing an existential threat to its role as regulator and some people are going to lose highly-paid jobs. They want to be seen to be doing something. Why do you think we are suddenly seeing FFP action taken against clubs like Everton, Forest, and apparently even United when nothing has happened over the last ten years?
 
give it to gordon said:
The thing I find hard to except is why only City. The fact that we are the only club with a 4 year investigation or more going on. Surely for the pl to be seen as honest and above board all pl clubs should be investigated to the same depth. If not than its clearly a witchhunt.
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Those hacked emails started it all of and we won at cas but the red shite clubs from that cas case thought we were hiding something so premier clubs got together and told the premier to investigate us..
 
waspish said:
Those hacked emails started it all of and we won at cas but the red shite clubs from that cas case thought we were hiding something so premier clubs got together and told the premier to investigate us..
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I think all this is a little unfair on the PL. I can't blame them for starting an investigation to get to the truth after the leaks (CAS said UEFA had no option but to investigate as well) and, once started, it has to be carried through to the end. You can't just drop it halfway through. Where I am critical is that they should have waited until the UEFA/ CAS issue was finished and then taken that into account in determining the scope of the investigation. That would have been much more sensible, imho.
 
halfcenturyup said:
I think all this is a little unfair on the PL. I can't blame them for starting an investigation to get to the truth after the leaks (CAS said UEFA had no option but to investigate as well) and, once started, it has to be carried through to the end. You can't just drop it halfway through. Where I am critical is that they should have waited until the UEFA/ CAS issue was finished and then taken that into account in determining the scope of the investigation. That would have been much more sensible, imho.
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It ended at cas but premier clubs started the new Investigation not the premier
 
halfcenturyup said:
I think all this is a little unfair on the PL. I can't blame them for starting an investigation to get to the truth after the leaks (CAS said UEFA had no option but to investigate as well) and, once started, it has to be carried through to the end. You can't just drop it halfway through. Where I am critical is that they should have waited until the UEFA/ CAS issue was finished and then taken that into account in determining the scope of the investigation. That would have been much more sensible, imho.
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That's the point though, isn't it? The leaked emails were the only evidence. Why start the investigation when UEFA had already done so, unless undue pressure was being put on them from the cartel?
 
the tagline will be that city beat it on a technicality because of their high price legal team rather than the actual truth which is there no was case to answer and the charges were spurious at best, the pl effectively overplayed their hand because they had become so used to people just accepting whatever they said and accepting a slap on the wrist and they assumed that this would go the same way and they could go to the government look we can regulate ourselves.

They didnt anticipate any club outside of their favoured few saying no we arent going to take it, you are wrong and we are going to be pushed around and now they are scrambling like crazy to find theyre way out of it while saving face and not pissing off the favoured few and i quite frankly dont think they can do it.
 
waspish said:
It ended at cas but premier clubs started the new Investigation not the premier
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Spot-on. It was always driven by certain clubs who hold all the influence. No wonder three highly qualified candidates walked away from the PL CEO position and it ended up with Richard Masters. Who wants a job where you are just a puppet? It also clearly shows that football needs properly independent regulation (if it actually exists!). You can't allow a situation where a group of businesses can gang together to try and put their main commercial competitor out of business.
 
give it to gordon said:
The pl must have significant evidence to charge us.

The pl have found that City broke 115 rules hence the charges or I am missing something ?
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Significant enough not to do anything about it?

There was certainly significant accusatory pressure and rumour - but no actual hard evidence. I imagine they are wishing they never opened this one up.
 
MCFCTrick said:
We can be cleared of all charges, and any hint of wrongdoing. However, our haters, or even the neutrals wouldn't stop either screaming, or at best still muttering 'fix' or 'no smoke without fire' etc. And in that, the job of sullying our name and achievements is still done. Cnuts.
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And when it happens I will just laugh in their faces and agree. That upsets them more.
 
manimanc said:
Look at all these huge headlines about the rags and the possibility of failing FFP.
It's on every news bulletin, all the WhatsApp group on twitter are tweeting it, sky sports news have it as their main story...

As if.
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Links to a palace player though are out there
 
citizen_maine said:
That's the point though, isn't it? The leaked emails were the only evidence. Why start the investigation when UEFA had already done so, unless undue pressure was being put on them from the cartel?
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That is a point. Will be interesting to see if that is discussed in front of the panel.
 
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