PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

You may well be right, we will have to wait and see.

But the PL rules do finally allow for arbitration. I have attached the relevant rules concerning the process, its place in law, the acceptable reasons for arbitration, and the selection of the arbitrators below. So there is recourse, in the circumstances set out below, for arbitration with arbitrators not associated with the PL. But, our legal guys on here say that there is next to no chance the club will go to arbitration claiming that, for example, the independent commission and the appeals board hadn't applied their minds properly to the facts of the case.

I am fully prepared to be blasted again, but I would imagine, as part of the preparation for the independent commission, there are some expensive lawyers considering right now on what grounds the club can appeal first to an appeals board and then to a really independent arbitration panel.

My loins are girded.

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One can assume then that we already have x4.5 in mind given our irrefutable evidence?
 
One can assume then that we already have x4.5 in mind given our irrefutable evidence?

That would be one hell of an allegation to make against KCs and other professionals even if they are all effectively appointed by the PL, but the ability (no matter how small) to take the process to a really independent arbitration may provide some comfort to those who think we may get stitched up by working to keep the minds of the "independent" commission and the appeals board, should it get to that stage, focused.
 
That would be one hell of an allegation to make against KCs and other professionals even if they are all effectively appointed by the PL, but the ability (no matter how small) to take the process to a really independent arbitration may provide some comfort to those who think we may get stitched up by working to keep the minds of the "independent" commission and the appeals board, should it get to that stage, focused.
I'm sure the people chosen will be professional but it does beg the question to wonder why the independent panel is/was restricted to members only.
 
I'm sure the people chosen will be professional but it does beg the question to wonder why the independent panel is/was restricted to members only.

"Independent" panel. Yes, I get the point about the professionalism of KCs (and their counterparts) and their presumed lack of bias, but it is pushing the definition of independent when the PL appoints someone who is solely responsible for selecting all the members of a judicial panel, a disciplinary panel and an appeals panel, and then even chooses which members of those panels sit on which cases.

This doesn't mean I think the panels will be at all biased, but it is another example of poor optics from the PL to put alongside almost everything else they do. It's a bizarrely opaque and closed organisation, more reminiscent of a secret society than a members' club, imho.
 
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Could the likely change in UK government have an influence on our case?

There have been suspicions from the UK media that the UAE may be trying to putting political pressure on the UK government regarding foreign investment?

The likely incoming UK government at the time of the PL decision will be Keir Starmer's Labour government.

According to the Labour Parties blurb: "Keir was obsessed with football and still plays every Sunday with friends... A lifelong Arsenal fan, he has a season ticket at the Emirates, where he attends with his children." Starmer also "believes football itself could become a manifesto issue for the next election, where his party would push for a “fairer” game."

The UK media portray City as unfairly sportswashing oil revenue. City have dominated the PL recently. Starmer might regard it as a popular domestic move for a significant downfall of our status to occur with his government in power?
 

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