PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Judge Roughneck]

I have have just read lots of comments on that video and I must state that the interview has made many fans understand the allegations against City. Many non City fans also agree that if these allegations are correct, then it would be impossible to prove.

I don't think most neutral supporters are that bothered about what happens to City.
It's the supporters of the North London clubs, that lot just outside Manchester and to some extent Chelsea. But most of all, the weird cult at the end of the East Lancs. They and their owners are the driving force.
I don't think most other fans give a hoot either way. They know it will only mean the above clubs vieing against each other again to be top and spurs 1 place nearer winning a title in colour. Get it bottomed once and for all and their whining will be white noise.

 

[levets]

Well it's not like it all went away after the CAS verdict, is it? Nope, every journalist in the land decided to wilfully misunderstand it and report that we got off on a technicality and weren't complete exonerated of the original accusations.

Surprisingly apart from Marcotti..

 

[Kippax77]

Because there are so many nice comments, I feel the need to say thanks again for the kind words and comments. Really quite overwhelming level of feedback and mostly positive (really very few negative things even on Twitter from non-City fans). Even my wife likes me today.

As has been said it has been one Talksport's fastest growing videos ever with very many knock on reports so there has definitely been a level of cut through (for good or bad I guess).

Obviously, I've pissed off Everton fans but thats because I actually read the IC decision as they should. They have been let down by their club.

The one thing that struck me after watching it last night was how much positivity you have created on here with your appearance on the show.
A lone voice, talking sense about the situation was so refreshing for most of us on here after days, weeks, months and years of gutter press bile and hatred being fired at the club.
I slept like a log last night pal.
Thanks for that

 

[slbsn]

She's going to be a lawyers wag.

I'm a lawyer's HAB

 

[Inter Me Nan]

Because there are so many nice comments, I feel the need to say thanks again for the kind words and comments. Really quite overwhelming level of feedback and mostly positive (really very few negative things even on Twitter from non-City fans). Even my wife likes me today.

As has been said it has been one Talksport's fastest growing videos ever with very many knock on reports so there has definitely been a level of cut through (for good or bad I guess).

Obviously, I've pissed off Everton fans but thats because I actually read the IC decision as they should. They have been let down by their club.

Stefan as you suggested relegation is a reality if we're found guilty, what could happen if we're found innocent (which I think will happen) because as you stated in the talksport video this is a very serious accusation?

 

[slbsn]

Stefan as you suggested relegation is a reality if we're found guilty, what could happen if we're found innocent (which I think will happen) because as you stated in the talksport video this is a very serious accusation?

I suspect nothing at all.

 

[Inter Me Nan]

I suspect nothing at all.

Cheers.

 

[lonestay]

I want us to say absolutely fuckall and leave all the bitter fans and the red cartel media with nothing, not even one sentence.
It would show all the cunts who have tried to drag us through the mud that they mean absolutely nothing and that their smear campaign was a complete waste of time.
Yep, no statement, no nothing, fuck em, they deserve nish from us.

Yep say absolutely nothing, then after say 6 months have passed start picking the journalists off one by one. Harris gets a writ against him and dragged into court sort him out, then randomly pick on another. Jordan next say, put some fear into them about who will be next in City's sights !!

 

[waspish]

Because there are so many nice comments, I feel the need to say thanks again for the kind words and comments. Really quite overwhelming level of feedback and mostly positive (really very few negative things even on Twitter from non-City fans). Even my wife likes me today.

As has been said it has been one Talksport's fastest growing videos ever with very many knock on reports so there has definitely been a level of cut through (for good or bad I guess).

Obviously, I've pissed off Everton fans but thats because I actually read the IC decision as they should. They have been let down by their club.

Wasn't Everton owner advised also to no to buy players because they were in the brink of ffp? That was when the primer ffp advisers left them to it?

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

I think he's an arrogant tosser who thinks he knows better than most because he used to be a premier league chairman although he nearly destroyed Crystal Palace

I work in academia so believe me when I say I know the type. He's a smart and articulate man who thinks he is a very, very, very smart man and therefore thinks he knows better than anyone even when there are smarter or more knowledgeable people in the room. Dunning-Kruger running wild.

 

[Utter bobbins]

Because there are so many nice comments, I feel the need to say thanks again for the kind words and comments. Really quite overwhelming level of feedback and mostly positive (really very few negative things even on Twitter from non-City fans). Even my wife likes me today.

As has been said it has been one Talksport's fastest growing videos ever with very many knock on reports so there has definitely been a level of cut through (for good or bad I guess).

Obviously, I've pissed off Everton fans but thats because I actually read the IC decision as they should. They have been let down by their club.

Do ever get any feedback from the club itself

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

I suspect nothing at all.

Stefan do you think the libellous claims by Nick Harris in recent days (including the assertion that we “cooked the books”) will be addressed by the club’s legal department if we are exonerated?

 

[CPPSC]

Because there are so many nice comments, I feel the need to say thanks again for the kind words and comments. Really quite overwhelming level of feedback and mostly positive (really very few negative things even on Twitter from non-City fans). Even my wife likes me today.

As has been said it has been one Talksport's fastest growing videos ever with very many knock on reports so there has definitely been a level of cut through (for good or bad I guess).

Obviously, I've pissed off Everton fans but thats because I actually read the IC decision as they should. They have been let down by their club.

Thanks a lot for an excellent summary of a very complicated situation. I have no idea how you put up with the responses on Twitter. Though I note you are as good as Ruben at blocking. Cheers.

 

[Paladin]

Because there are so many nice comments, I feel the need to say thanks again for the kind words and comments. Really quite overwhelming level of feedback and mostly positive (really very few negative things even on Twitter from non-City fans). Even my wife likes me today.

As has been said it has been one Talksport's fastest growing videos ever with very many knock on reports so there has definitely been a level of cut through (for good or bad I guess).

Obviously, I've pissed off Everton fans but thats because I actually read the IC decision as they should. They have been let down by their club.

Thanks for setting the record straight. It was a very informative piece.

Talksport taking that headline matters not a jot. The real message was perfectly clear to everyone who took time to listen, as the subject is shrouded in mystery. TS might have given the item a clickbait heading, but they will have noticed the number of views, and hopefully this will be the catalyst for some changing attitudes within football. It's a shame you've alienated yourself from the whole of Merseyside in the process though.

 

[mancboy]

Thanks for setting the record straight. It was a very informative piece.

Talksport taking that headline matters not a jot. The real message was perfectly clear to everyone who took time to listen, as the subject is shrouded in mystery. TS might have given the item a clickbait heading, but they will have noticed the number of views, and hopefully this will be the catalyst for some changing attitudes within football.

It's a shame you've alienated yourself from the whole of Merseyside on the process though.

Having an iq in double dights and a legal source of income had already done that tbf

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

It’s impossible to say without photos mate, you know the rules.

It's 3bn wasted then as his image to idiots like Jordan hasn't changed

If it was just about image he could have paid a PR company and opened a few hospitals. This is the bit idiots like Jordan don't understand. Sheikh Mansour wants to make money. He invests across the globe in tech, financial, education, and sports sectors. If he can enhance his reputation at the same time that's great (not image washing). That is the way every succesful business in the world operates. Elite tootball in the digital era is a licence to print money. That's why people are queuing up to buy PL clubs.

 

[Dodge]

This is a very important point. We all argue in here about whether the charges are about fraud or not (spoiler: effectively, they definitely are) but we should welcome the accusation. I remember @petrusha telling me in a previous blasting (and he was right of course) that the PL now has to own that allegation and prove with much more cogent evidence than it would have had to if we were just accused of some normal rule breaches. Or more humanly, the panel will be thinkng "are we really going to find these people guilty of fraud on this evidence?". I get that @projectriver has to be balanced when he is before the press for professional reasons, but I don't :) It isn't going to happen. Full stop.

That's pretty much the conversation I had in Madrid with a finance guy who is on the board at Altrincham FC, but also does some work at City.

He obviously couldn't say much to some random Blue on a Chumps League jolly, but simply stated that our books are public record and matter of fact...the charges are not. Our accounts are audited, checked, double checked and audited again, before publishing. The PL charges were not even proof read before being put in the public domain, as was evident with incorrect dates, paragraph references and included charges that were time-barred by their very own regulations.

The comments above from @halfcenturyup pretty much reflect his view. Forget the accounts, they are bombproof. These jaw-dropping accusations, directly questioning the honesty and integrity of some of the most well respected people on the planet, will have consequences well beyond the confines of the PL kangaroo court.

We will take our accusers to the fucking cleaners, of that there is no doubt.

 

[Chi-town blues]

Clearly I wasn't suggesting relegation for non-cooperation. You can't really believe that is what I said, meant or that people interpreted.

Fantastic job! I think some people misunderstood you completely. What you were trying to explain was the “ threat” that comes with theses changes and the end result.
If only you had more time to explain and not get interrupted by a white turtle neck with massive windshield glass . Credit to you for being calm and composed coz that glass was giving me anxiety and would’ve sprayed bear spray through my web cam in self defense.

 

[Bald fraud]

Not sure the club will be accepting non-cooperation this time. Maybe a fine for acting in bad faith.

All the “evidence” they have was obtained by hacked emails. But we’re the ones who have acted in bad faith.

 

[Hoghead]

If the suits throw the book at us and we get expelled from the PL, then surely the club will have to start at the bottom of the pyramid ie Conference League or lower, unless the EPL takes pity on us.