PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Blue_Lightsaber said:
Think its time City took this clown to court and forced a court decision of cease and desist upon him:

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We won’t take him to court. Unfortunately it would only take a nudge to send him over the edge. He clearly has severe mental health problems, and he’s been through some bad times in his personal life. Just not sure taking out your frustrations on a football team to such an extreme way is the way to go.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
When you look at Masters, how he conducts and presents himself, how he responds to questions, his demeanour and command of the room - the whole thing makes more sense.

He’s hopelessly out of his depth and this is brought into even sharper relief when you objectively assess the quality (relative and absolute) of senior management at City.
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Masters fits in well at the PL, don't forget the PL were forced to correct multiple errors in their announcement of the charges levelled against City.
 
Nick Harris has only got a few months left before he fades into irrelevancy when this case dies out. What will he do then? Beg for attention another way by attacking Newcastle? Speak on City with a tinfoil hat? Not looking good so he can get as many threads off as he wants. Hope it’s worth his time.
 
argyle said:
What's quite frustrating and 'shocking' is just how many people don't understand the legal process.

They confuse charges with being found guilty.

They believe the amount of charges points to guilt.

They believe all other charges and legal investigations should stop for our hearing to be held first.

The worst is some think it's on City to show everyone they're innocent and don't understand why if we're innocent we don't just release all the evidence now... showing a serious lack of understanding of innocent until proven guilty. It's not on us to do anything, it's for the league to prove things.
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It's even worse. They are not even charges. A sporting organisation has accused City of breaching its accounting rules and referred the case to an independent panel. The PL is essentially acting as a private members' club. The headlines about "115 charges" are absurd.
 
CC1 said:
This is the best report from journalists about city & the situation that I’ve ever heard. It needs sending to Holt, Winter, Twitter, the daily Fail etc

Love it
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Was thinking exactly the same. But we know the media need clicks with negative news but at the same time they would garner just has many if not more if it was a positive news for us.
 
Blue_Lightsaber said:
Think its time City took this clown to court and forced a court decision of cease and desist upon him:

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Totally absurd comments posted at 1am. FFP rules didn't even apply till 2013 so any club could do as much "accelerated investment" as they wanted in 2010. That is just sound business practice. Chelsea, United, Real Madrid, Barcelona had been doing "accelerated investment" for decades.
 
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halfcenturyup said:
They know it already, but it doesn't generate the clicks.
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You know, I’m really not sure they DO know because their narrative is just what is being circulated in social media - &, come on , they don’t exactly come across as being very bright
 
halfcenturyup said:
To be fair to him, I think the 2014 investigation and settlement was largely about the ability the club had to increase sponsorship revenue from the UAE effectively as required and, when that wasn't sufficient, the creative accounting around intangible assets, both of which, I suppose, could be called accelerated investment, or even, colloquially, "cooking the books". Various paranoid and xenophobic players around UEFA were worried about City's rise and were determined to stop it, though. Hence the late change to wage deductions to ensure the club failed FFP and the settlement-imposed restrictions on the share of sponsorship the club could take from the UAE and the effective reversal of the IA sales (iirc) as well as the fine and squad limitations.

That was my take on it at the time, at least.
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My recollection was that the punishment was for failing FFP, which City’s books didn’t attempt to conceal. The change in allowable pre-FFP wages which UEFA applied retrospectively meant we couldn’t avoid being penalised for this.
 
Eric Hitchmough said:
Last time I made this point about Nick Harris my post was deleted, but here goes.

I sympathise with anyone who suffers a bereavement but I’ve never understood the notion that it gives him a free pass to relentlessly attack our club, call us cheats, accuse us of being criminals and basically call for our abolition.

Bereavement is horrendous but it is something that sadly, and inevitably, we all experience.
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Eric Hitchmough said:
Last time I made this point about Nick Harris my post was deleted, but here goes.

I sympathise with anyone who suffers a bereavement but I’ve never understood the notion that it gives him a free pass to relentlessly attack our club, call us cheats, accuse us of being criminals and basically call for our abolition.

Bereavement is horrendous but it is something that sadly, and inevitably, we all experience.
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There is no point City taking action against Harris because: it would cost us money; he would get the sympathy vote; and we could actually send him over the edge. Any legal action should be confined to the big Media organisations who have deep pockets and are worth suing. The BBC, the Daily Mail, and the Guardian, would be a good starting point. We have got bigger fish to fry.
 
Eric Hitchmough said:
Last time I made this point about Nick Harris my post was deleted, but here goes.

I sympathise with anyone who suffers a bereavement but I’ve never understood the notion that it gives him a free pass to relentlessly attack our club, call us cheats, accuse us of being criminals and basically call for our abolition.

Bereavement is horrendous but it is something that sadly, and inevitably, we all experience.
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Eric Hitchmough said:
Last time I made this point about Nick Harris my post was deleted, but here goes.

I sympathise with anyone who suffers a bereavement but I’ve never understood the notion that it gives him a free pass to relentlessly attack our club, call us cheats, accuse us of being criminals and basically call for our abolition.

Bereavement is horrendous but it is something that sadly, and inevitably, we all experience.
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From the ice-age to the dole-age
There is but one concern
I have just discovered
Some Mods are bigger than others.

You are however correct.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
It's even worse. They are not even charges. A sporting organisation has accused City of breaching its accounting rules and referred the case to an independent panel. The PL is essentially acting as a private members' club. The headlines about "115 charges" are absurd.
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We were guilty according to the media as soon as it was announced
 
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