PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Why is everyone so confident we will be cleared??, have I missed something in the last 5 thousand odd posts that I can't be arsed reading back on??

No one knows how this will go from the outside but look at the mood music that’s out there. If City’s execs did what they did in mass industrial strength fraud surely this is a criminal matter and the top people in the company would be seeing inside of a court room. Our COO over much of this period City are accused of is soon to be the new CEO of United. It would be extremely negligent of United to hire someone as CEO who could be implicated in a criminal investigation, if City were up to it Omar Barata knows where all the bodies are buried.

Do City look like a club preparing for life in the national league? You don’t go ahead with spending £300 million on a new stand and hotel, Mansour has money but he won’t throw it away paying for things that won’t see a return.

Then you have Etihad floating as a public company, if they didn’t want to see the paper trail of Mansour shoving money in at the other end why would they risk that by going down the PLC route.

The Premier League concluded its investigation in Feb 2023, which included payments to Mancini from a football club in the UAE. Mancini himself after the charges were made highlighted that no one had been in contact with him asking about how he was paid. Why haven’t the PL asked Mancini about how he was financially compensated as he would be a key witness in that aspect?

 

[chesterbells]

What have we missed?

We?

 

[lefty goldblatt]

Goldbridge, Harris, White and Jordan, Carragher, Ziegler, Delaney, Ronay, Aldridge, Panja, Herbert, Syed, Sweeney Collymore, Roan, Piers Morgan, Conn ,Howson , Stone, liew, Glendenning, Neville

You missed out

"Can you hear me" to start with, and

"Your boys took one helllllll of a beating" to finish

 

[Chris in London]

You missed out

"Can you hear me" to start with, and

"Your boys took one helllllll of a beating" to finish

“dicpic Glendenning, can you hear me?”

 

[Brooklands Blue]

Is it Brookalnds Blue?

Definitely not me bud.

 

[Indaparkside]

Collymore was at it the other day about our champions league win was not worth anything because we cheated his words, now here’s one woman beating **** I’d love to see sued

And the twat Aldridge hope he ends up like poor Kenny samson was sleeping in some bushes the deluded big nose prick

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Definitely not me bud.

Your namesake’s predecessor. :-)

He was quite the character.

 

[manimanc]

Updated

Then you throw in who employs these gobshites.
Sky.
The BBC.
Talksport.
The Daily Mail. The Guardian. The Times. The Sun. The Mirror.

Nothing would please me more than seeing an envelope land on the mat of these anti city wankers on Monday morning saying anymore accusations and we're having you.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Why is everyone so confident we will be cleared??, have I missed something in the last 5 thousand odd posts that I can't be arsed reading back on??

Someone onn Twitter says our owners might be taking relevant parties (In the media) to court for defamation or whatever. It might mean we are cleared, it might mean we are not. Personally I never believe someone on Twitter but in this case it is Tolmie's Hairdoo. Nonetheless I am not believing anything off of Twitter :)

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

The reaction from media/press over the next few days will be very telling.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

The first home game of next season with a full stadium rendition of “Stick your charges up your arse”.

Can’t wait.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

you can sue both author and publisher, but the the publisher is the one who actually imparted it to a third party so would be primary target

True but a lot of the freelance authors are also the publishers so will face consequences

 

[117 M34]

The first home game of next season with a full stadium rendition of “Stick your alleged breaches up your arse”.

Can’t wait.

 

[vincent]

Collymore was at it the other day about our champions league win was not worth anything because we cheated his words, now here’s one woman beating **** I’d love to see sued

And the twat Aldridge hope he ends up like poor Kenny samson was sleeping in some bushes the deluded big nose prick

And I bet he has said nothing about Forest and their charges. He probably said those charges are unfair.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Why is everyone so confident we will be cleared??, have I missed something in the last 5 thousand odd posts that I can't be arsed reading back on??

Over the last few months, people are beginning to realise it is very unlikely that the club has actually done what is alleged, and even if the club has done what is alleged, it is just as unlikely the PL will be able to prove any of it.

More recently, @tolmie's hairdoo has engaged in some top level shithousery about the club creating a list of people to sue when this is all over. Personally, I find it hard to believe but it is, at least, having the desired effect of consolidating support on here and causing some pant-pooing among some of the likely targets. So hats off to TH for that.

Edit: I forgot to mention that Masters came out with another stupid comment about the case "resolving itself" in the "near future". Notwithstanding the fact the fact that the "near future" means nothing at all, some people have taken the "resolving itself" comment positively. Personally, again, I just take it as an indicator that Masters is absolutely hopeless.

 

[jim tolmies perm]

Updated

Big banner at Wembley with all their names... juxtaposed with
"Not cheats, just better"

 

[sickboybloo]

Does this mean City have been told that the we will be cleared? Will the legal team also go after the red cartel for pushing the premier league into announcing these charges originally?

 

[Centurions]

Let's hope they never see the matchday thread, there'll be a few shaking in their boots.

In the real world, please, please let this be true. It would be in the public interest to name and shame them obviously.

 

[SilverFox2]

Needs to be done.
No taking anything on the chin from now on.
This is war.

I seem to remember that the former Chelsea owner Mr Abr. used legal stuff at the slightest hint of any media threat.
Our owners have taken a different route by concentrating just on making money.
However perhaps they choose now to warn people enough is enough or advise all they have a dossier.

 

[Centurions]

Does this mean City have been told that the we will be cleared? Will the legal team also go after the red cartel for pushing the premier league into announcing these charges originally?

It was the Daily Mail(?) who forced it at court as being in the public interest, you can't sue a court for agreeing. (probably)