PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Dribble said:
On reflection, I'm starting to see Aspirin's remarks a little differently.

Knowing the British press & considering the Torygraph is fighting against an Abu Dhabi backed takeover, it seems Aspirin's quotes have been rearranged, had leading questions omitted, & journalistic licence added, which gives a wholly different context to the interview.

EG:

Possible Missing Question - "Why did you go ahead with your 2014 tribunal & find City guilty, when shortly after CAS found that most of the alleged breaches of Financial Fair Play regulations were “either not established or time-barred”? Why did CAS arrive at such different conclusions to UEFA on these points?"

Aspirin - "We know we were right. We wouldn't decide (to go ahead) if we didn’t think we were right."

Then Aspirin rounded up with: "You just simply have to respect in a serious democracy the decision of the court."

This suggests he accepted UEFA's appeal loss & accepted the decision of CAS.

Aspirin then goes on to say he doesn't really want to comment on the PL's ongoing case, because he doesn't really know what's going on.

On reflection, this piece seems like bullshit mischief making by the Torygraph, meant to cause further reputational damage to City, in a week where fans & onlookers are starting to seriously question FFP/PSR because of what's happening to Everton & Forest.

More & more people are also questioning why Newcastle (the richest club in the world with zero debt), aren't allowed to bolster their playing staff, & are facing Everton levels of sanctions, unless they flog half their squad.

FFP/PSR is unravelling & the Cartel Clubs aided & abetted by their client media are coming out swinging for dear life, to save themselves & the control they wield over the Premier League.
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My thoughts exactly
 
Dribble said:
On reflection, I'm starting to see Aspirin's remarks a little differently.

Knowing the British press & considering the Torygraph is fighting against an Abu Dhabi backed takeover, it seems Aspirin's quotes have been rearranged, had leading questions omitted, & journalistic licence added, which gives a wholly different context to the interview.

EG:

Possible Missing Question - "Why did you go ahead with your 2014 tribunal & find City guilty, when shortly after CAS found that most of the alleged breaches of Financial Fair Play regulations were “either not established or time-barred”? Why did CAS arrive at such different conclusions to UEFA on these points?"

Aspirin - "We know we were right. We wouldn't decide (to go ahead) if we didn’t think we were right."

Then Aspirin rounded up with: "You just simply have to respect in a serious democracy the decision of the court."

This suggests he accepted UEFA's appeal loss & accepted the decision of CAS.

Aspirin then goes on to say he doesn't really want to comment on the PL's ongoing case, because he doesn't really know what's going on.

On reflection, this piece seems like bullshit mischief making by the Torygraph, meant to cause further reputational damage to City, in a week where fans & onlookers are starting to seriously question FFP/PSR because of what's happening to Everton & Forest.

More & more people are also questioning why Newcastle (the richest club in the world with zero debt), aren't allowed to bolster their playing staff, & are facing Everton levels of sanctions, unless they flog half their squad.

FFP/PSR is unravelling & the Cartel Clubs aided & abetted by their client media are coming out swinging for dear life, to save themselves & the control they wield over the Premier League.
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Last throw of the rotten dice. City as always caught in the crossfire.
 
Semper aggressus said:
What will it take for the club to have had enough playing nice and start hanging every one of these gobshite lying cheapskate hack motherfuckers out to dry?

The one and only thing I hate about our club is that we seem like a soft touch.

The shit we constantly get, instigated by the rags, scousers and cockneys and peddled through the media, yet we say and do nothing. How about we attack all of these cunts, find shit on all of them from somewhere and drag it out in the media.

When you have the money and connections that Sheikh Mansour and Khaldoon have there must be people they can pay to find all sorts of interesting ‘evidence’ against the rags and shithouse journalists just waiting to surface …
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I reckon Omar Berrada will start spouting shit & calling us all sorts & I reckon at first it will get a lot of copy, the media will lap it up, we’ll stay quiet & win everything & he’ll be sacked within 3 years.
 
The coverage city get is unreal. If you compare it to the club that murdered 39 or the Italian clubs that actually bribed refs and were demoted and titles stripped to Barcelona and the dodgy ref scenario and their magic levers or Madrid who get bailed out by the government or Munich who may as well be state owned! None of it get any scrutiny on our level. It’s quite a thing to witness. It must be a social media thing.

But hey, no one cares about city! Right? -:)
 
cheekybids said:
I reckon Omar Berrada will start spouting shit & calling us all sorts & I reckon at first it will get a lot of copy, the media will lap it up, we’ll stay quiet & win everything & he’ll be sacked within 3 years.
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He would be a fucking idiot to do that, he might but then he better deliver at the swamp , he’d be unemployable after that if all goes tits up there.
 
If we have so much irrefutable evidence then why are we putting up with this shit ? Our hierarchy seem quite happy for our fans to take the brunt of all this crap , the club can respond without revealing our hand , they need to make a statement regarding UEFA and Cerefin and our disappointment in his comments and request and unequivical apology , we have put up with enough of this garbage its about time our club grew a pair.
 
cheekybids said:
I reckon Omar Berrada will start spouting shit & calling us all sorts & I reckon at first it will get a lot of copy, the media will lap it up, we’ll stay quiet & win everything & he’ll be sacked within 3 years.
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He would be sued or may even get jail. You can’t go spouting shit to the media about previous job roles but then again we live in strange times.
 
bumbleblue said:
He would be a fucking idiot to do that, he might but then he better deliver at the swamp , he’d be unemployable after that if all goes tits up there.
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I’d only heard of him before because he used to tweet piss take comments about our rivals. No one else from our hierarchy would do that.

It will happen, he’s a Salesman & opportunist & nothing else.
 
jimmygrimblesboots said:
If we have so much irrefutable evidence then why are we putting up with this shit ? Our hierarchy seem quite happy for our fans to take the brunt of all this crap , the club can respond without revealing our hand , they need to make a statement regarding UEFA and Cerefin and our disappointment in his comments and request and unequivical apology , we have put up with enough of this garbage its about time our club grew a pair.
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I feel the same but infairness we don’t know what the club are or are not doing. It looks like we are taking it up the backside alright. I do hope we aren’t but it all comes down to trust in the custodian especially khaldoon.

Our lads have a lot of dignity and respect and maybe that is their downfall when it comes to football and the media. Snakes nest.
 
wolviedinho said:
He would be sued or may even get jail. You can’t go spouting shit to the media about previous job roles but then again we live in strange times.
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No one is getting sued or jailed if he says our fans are shit & we’ve got no history, throw in a bit of a shithouse innuendo for good measure.

The Rags will lap it up, it’s been done before by Rags & Dippers with ex players.
 
wolviedinho said:
The coverage city get is unreal. If you compare it to the club that murdered 39 or the Italian clubs that actually bribed refs and were demoted and titles stripped to Barcelona and the dodgy ref scenario and their magic levers or Madrid who get bailed out by the government or Munich who may as well be state owned! None of it get any scrutiny on our level. It’s quite a thing to witness. It must be a social media thing.

But hey, no one cares about city! Right? -:)
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They basically got a one year European ban for killing 39 people. The rest of the English clubs had to serve their sentence for them, they just got a year on top, you know for being the actual fucking murderers.

And even then the cunts wouldn't admit it. They blamed Chelsea and the NF, and this is somehow a club that is the bastion of all that is good about the game?

They can fuck off, the sanctimonious, hypocritical twats.
 
City set the football doomsday clock in 2008. FFP followed and now football is on its last legs. Corruption is rife and journalistic integrity is gone. Decent fans have lost all sense of reality. Now we are bombarded with fake news and lies everywhere we look. You could compare it to the dodgy email from Nigeria looking a bank transfer. In 2024 the scammers are a lot more sophisticated. The lies look real and it’s hard to decipher fact from bias fiction.

Where is George Orwell when you need him? -:)
 
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WRicko said:
However if the money came from our owner (it didn’t ) but they are saying it did then the true value is the amount paid by the sponsor even though that is below market rate plus I suspect the money coming from our Should have been accounted for in a different way (equity) also whilst I don’t believe Etihad etc are related and this is not the definition of related but a non related party wouldn’t allow themselves to be used in this way proof to me it didn’t happen but if proven to have happened then another problem
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Nope. The true amount from the point of view of the audited accounts is the amount in the contract between the two parties, as long as it is at fair value, the one party has provided services to the value of the contract and the other party has paid in full. How the paying party is funded, is irrelevant to the accounts in my view.

The only reason this is an issue is because of the PL rules. The annual accounts don't have to take the PL rules into account.

Don't get me wrong, the allegations can meet the legal definition of fraud, but imho the accounts give a true and fair view just as they are. And the alleged misstatement of the accounts is the most serious allegation by a long way.

All in my opinion as an accountant, not a lawyer, so I am quite happy to be blasted again.
 
wolviedinho said:
City set the football doomsday clock in 2008. FFP followed and now football is on its last legs. Corruption is rife and journalistic integrity is gone. Decent fans have lost all sense of reality. Now we are bombarded with fake news and lies everywhere we look. You could compare it to the dodgy email from Nigeria looking a bank transfer. In 2024 the scammers are a lot more sophisticated. The lies look real and it’s hard to decipher fact from bias fiction.

Where is George Orwell when you need him? -:)
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Ignore everything
Turn all forms of communication off !!
 
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ninjamonkey said:
Complete nothing story as per usual that will get blown way out of proportion.

How else is he going to answer that?

Does anyone expect him to say, we were wrong and shouldn't have charged city in the first place? which would then bring up a whole load of questions as to why they did it? Obviously he's going to say he/they believed they were right. CAS told them they weren't.
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Not sure it's a nothing story
 
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