PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

I think we all would, but the non-cooperation ones are likely to remain even if the rest fall apart.
I’m basing this on very little, but I disagree.

If the substantive charges are so weak they are dropped and don’t even make it to tribunal (a huge ‘if’ at this point) then it renders the whole case redundant and I can’t imagine any of the lesser charges proceed.

FWIW I think all of the charges will go to tribunal but will be found in City’s favour.
 
What high court judgement ?

The one where the Daily Mail took City and the pl to court demanding that the process couldn’t be kept confidential. The judge ordered that it was in the public interest that the case wasn’t confidential but also told the PL to get on with it.
 
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Manchester United's squad last year were the "most expensive ever assembled" in football, says a Uefa report.

The European Club Finance and Investment Landscape report says United's players at the end of their 2023 financial year cost 1.42bn euros (£1.21bn) in combined transfer fees.

The 2020 Real Madrid squad were previously the most costly at £1.13bn.


But yet it's debtless City who're apparently the FFP/PSR cheats ruining football. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠⊙⁠_⁠ʖ⁠⊙⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68274866
Comments section turned off - if this had of been City it would have been turned on and fully encouraged !
 
I’m basing this on very little, but I disagree.

If the substantive charges are so weak they are dropped and don’t even make it to tribunal (a huge ‘if’ at this point) then it renders the whole case redundant and I can’t imagine any of the lesser charges proceed.

FWIW I think all of the charges will go to tribunal but will be found in City’s favour.
You may well be right. We just don’t have the info to know anything for sure.
 
Just to add that I know @Manchester33 outside of this forum and he’s 100% genuine. While I wouldn’t want to go cracking open the champagne until such a time as the verdict is announced and it’s gone our way, this is now 2 totally different sources in the space of a little over 24 hours hinting at the same thing.
Must have missed this post, what did it say?
 
If the charges are dropped there's no way City will accept non co-operation, that would still suggest we were holding something back.

I don’t think it would, it would just suggest we haven’t been as forthcoming with some things as much as the PL rules state we should be.

It’s not that much different to CAS in that if we’ve provided evidence post the PL investigation that we didn’t provide before, then non co-operation would be a hard thing for us to argue against.

It’s all speculation still though.
 
If it came to that and we got a small fine, I think City would likely accept that rather than appeal. It’d be the same as CAS.
I'd hope that we get a different result from CAS. I can see why City were fined, as they had openly stopped cooperating, and with CAS saying that the evidence they provided eventually may even have seen UEFA dropping the case, it's essentially a warning not to waste CAS's time.

If City are arguing that they've always cooperated here, then surely there's more hope that the bar for non-cooperation isn't met.
 
I'd hope that we get a different result from CAS. I can see why City were fined, as they had openly stopped cooperating, and with CAS saying that the evidence they provided eventually may even have seen UEFA dropping the case, it's essentially a warning not to waste CAS's time.

If City are arguing that they've always cooperated here, then surely there's more hope that the bar for non-cooperation isn't met.
CAS have nothing to do with this case
 

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