PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

KS55 said:
Speculative scenario.
1. The PL’s brief asked them to clarify certain matters, but was not satisfied with their response.
2. The brief concluded that they have no chance of winning the main charges and advised them not to proceed. (PL leaked this to several”friends”, hence the rumours that @tolmie's hairdoo has heard.)
3. They decided to carry on with some of the lesser charges such as Mancini’s contract.
4. The tribunal will go ahead and they will find against us in minor matters plus “non co-operation”.
5. As the tribunal is secret, they preserve face by telling City they cannot say what happened but can comment on the outcome.
6. An avalanche of boiling piss engulfs football and the haters confirm that we got away with it by having expensive lawyers.
7. Khaldoon lets rip but, being a gentleman, is kinder to the haters than they deserve.
8 This thread acquires another 1,000 pages.
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What a load of bollocks..... 8 will be much more than than another 1,000 pages.

Edit: Sorry, already been done. :(
 
Mcfc1.9.8.0 said:
Wasn’t it him that reported we got off at CAS hours before the verdict came out
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A few days before IIRC. Plenty refused to give him credit for that, instead saying it was either a lucky guess or he should keep his mouth shut. My guess is that he was tipped off about the verdict - he wasn't the only one as rumours then proceeded to surface from other sources - but I wouldn't like to comment on his post the other week about the current case. On the face of it, it sounds promising but it could be just a re-hash of how confident the club are rather than anything more than that.
 
Dribble said:
Added to the fact the Red Top Mafia & Spuds have never voted against the Premier League to anyone's knowledge, it shows who's truly behind the steering wheel.

What's happening to PL football now is shocking. The saddest part about it is how long it's taken several PL clubs to finally begin to understand what City have been warning against since 2010.

The even sadder part is there's still club owners who must realise this, but who don't care as long as they retain their PL status.

They know they've little chance of ever landing honours, let alone the title, so their model is based solely on PL survival, & stopping an ambitious Championship club with a minted owner getting into the PL & threatening their place near the bottom of the PL trough.

With the Cartel clubs' client media spinning their anti-City narrative, the unwitting football masses who support the also-rans are blissfully unaware of the reality of the situation. As someone pointed out, Reading voted against City & for PL FFP/PSR. Now look where they are? \0/
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Many home truths in your post.

The ambition of many club owners has been solely to access the financial rewards of the Premier League by hanging on to the coat tails of the "red top mafia". The difference in monies from the PL and the Championship and leagues below is night and day. This has filtered everywhere. The MSM is in their thrall and the influence and the self-interest of these self-serving clubs pervades everywhere. (similar in Europe)

I can see the likes of Simon Jordan being seduced by easy money when buying Crystal Palace. He is in awe of the likes of the rags whom he has described as a money making machine. He failed but is not old enough to remember the pre Ferguson, pre Shankly or pre Chapman days of buying success.

Too many are incapable or unwilling to look beyond their personal bank balance as seen in the mismanagement of several clubs and going bust at all levels that FFP was meant to address.

Those early days of the PL have gone where the "legacy elite" could pick off the best players from clubs trying to "grow organically" without external investment. Chelsea and now City have disrupted the cartel. Success generates revenue and Manchester City have dominated over the past 10 years. The days of red shirt hegemony are over as their American business model has been overtaken and they have lost the new generation of fans coming through.

Back to Khaldoon saying City cannot be responsible for other football clubs shortcomings. Increasingly the FFP charges, PL and other rules are shown to be desperate measures. FSG, hedge fund and other partners have given up investing long term leading to Klopps departure. The Glazers selling out makes seeing the scale of their demise clear with scruffy Jim thinking he can pick up the pieces by buying in know-how whilst turning a blind eye to the scale of investmet needed. The Arse for all their pleas of poverty are owned by a scion of the richest family in the USA (previously with Russion oligarc Usmanov) and the spuds for all their obfusication cannot hide links to Joe Lewis recently found guilty in USA courts of insider dealing.

These people are not leaders to preach morality or fair play. They have been found out. Their cheerleaders are trying to save face by defending the indefensible. Whilst it would be foolish to predict the outcome of the PL charges, the burden of proof lies with them.

I'd guess that the charges are irrelevant for most football fans in England, apart from the usual suspects. Those overseas will not know or give a stuff. They do see the excellence of MCFC and CFG. The operation and credibility of the PL has increasingly come under scrutiny with the appointment of an independant regulator becoming increasingly likely. My money is on City to prevail.
 
johnevans said:
Agree with your sentiment..

..but wonderful as this outcome might be, it would, in my humble estimation, still rank below the example set by the 1937 Champions of England when lining up in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin to play an exhibition match against a German select XI, with each and every City player refusing to perform the Nazi 'Sieg Heil' salute before the game started (cf the England team a year later, told to comply by the craven FA..)

Telling Nazis to 'get to f**k' in their own backyard will always be the greatest, bravest moment in our entire history, bar none!
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Don't be daft we don't have any history.
 
mimicmickmickdoyle said:
Ian Cheeseman stated confidently 3 or 4 weeks ago that City would be found not guilty, I would expect he as sources in the circles he mixes with, here's hoping.
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He told a group during a tour at the Etihad, that Pep was joining City after his stint at Bayern. This was before Peo had actually managed his first Bayern game.

So he does seem to have decent contacts
 
Chi-town blues said:
I want to see him on flint stone type clothing while raising the spikes .
Full on medieval .
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'Spikes'? Blimey Charlie, you'll be letting them have colour TV and connubial visits in their cells next, with your 'Woke Mediaeval' ways.. (!!)

Full on 'Revenge of the Blood Red Eagle' as in Ivarr the Boneless's response to the killing of his Dad, Ragnar Lodbrok, that'd be more like it!

'Dark Ages Justice'.. them were the days!
 
eastlandsblue said:
He told a group during a tour at the Etihad, that Pep was joining City after his stint at Bayern. This was before Peo had actually managed his first Bayern game.

So he does seem to have decent contacts
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I imagine at that point he had many contacts within the club. He no doubt still has his ear to the ground but probably not to the extent it once was.

I suppose you only need one though,
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Correct. Directly from a source at another Club. They expressed their personal opinion on the outcome also.

The Club isn't a million miles away.

Read a few commentaries recently suggesting it is on the verge of collapse and might not even reach the big day.

I doubt that very much!
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Other club: “How come you’re charging us before you’ve charged City? It’s not fair and Sean cant wrap his big, fat gravelly head around it.

PL: “Yeah, don’t concern yourself with City lads.”
 
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